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Administrative Records of Russell Productions and Thames & Clyde Productions
Series
Identifier: MI.4/12
Dates:
1943-1963
Administrative Records of the Films of Scotland Committee
Series
Identifier: MI.4/11
Dates:
1954-1989
Administrative records, reports, general correspondence and papers of the Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13272/1-61
Dates:
1980-2010, undated.
African diary, 1885, and copies of letters, 1885-1886, of Dugald McFadyen.
File
Identifier: Acc.11247
Scope and Contents
Diaries and letters concern the African Lakes Corporation`s trading station at Mandala, British Central Africa (Malawi). Includes a photograph of McFadyen, undated.
Dates:
1885-1886 and undated.
Album compiled by Florence Bankes of watercolours and photographs of Italy, Scotland and Cornwall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13733
Scope and Contents
This album consists largely watercolours of places visited in Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, Devon and Cornwall between 1910 and 1924. Many are signed Florrie Bankes, or F.B. Places depicted include Loch Laggan, Loch Achray, Loch Katrine, Ackergill Tower, Balmacarra, the castle of Eilean Donan and Loch Duich, Taynuilt, Loch Etive, Ben Cruachan, Glenfinnan, Loch Shiel, the road to Mallaig, Gruinard, Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Lochaillort, Loch Feochan.The album also includes a number of...
Dates:
1910-1924, 1955.
Album concerning Thomas Carlyle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10484
Scope and Contents
Includes press cuttings, photographs and a portrait of Carlyle.
Dates:
late 19th century.
Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in; together with a collection of autographs chiefly concerning the 1st Duke of Wellington, which were tipped in or loosely enclosed in the album, but have now been removed and are kept separately.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15351-15352
Dates:
19th century.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Dates:
1898-1902.
Albums of photographs of Highland Railway locomotives, compiled and annotated circa 1950.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19984-19985
Dates:
19th century, 1920-1929.
Albums relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13649
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905. The scrapbook includes: Mossman`s commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Edinburgh City Volunteer Artillery, 1893; 17 letters, 1902-1905, of Mossman to his father and `Isabella`, concerning his journey and experiences on board ship, destinations on his journey including Kngstown in Ireland, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, Port Stanley, the South Orkneys and Buenos Aires; a letter of William...
Dates:
1893-1938
Annotated New Testament belonging to Prof Henry Drummond.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9197
Scope and Contents
With photographs.
Dates:
circa 1873-1897.
Anonymous album of a visit to Scotland entitled `Oban, 1919`.
File
Identifier: Acc.13169
Scope and Contents
This album records a visit to Scotland by three women, Winnifred, Joan and Mona in August 1919. The friends visited Oban, Dunollie, Dunstaffnage, Staffa, Glencoe and Edinburgh. The album consists of photographs and postcards with observations on their experiences.
Dates:
1919.
Approximately 120 glass slides used for advertising purposes at the Corn Exchange Cinema, Alnwick.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.281
Dates:
Circa 1918-1953.
Archives concerning Polish students at the University of St Andrews.
File
Identifier: Acc.12374
Dates:
1941-1950.
Autograph album of Jacca R A McLaren Hay
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Identifier: Acc.13578
Scope and Contents
Autograph album of the composer and accompanist of singers Jacca R A McLaren Hay, who lived in Stirling. Dated entries range from 1926 to 1986, and include photographs, signatures, drawings and some letters. Among those who signed are American pianist Martha Baird Rockefeller, the English contralto Clara Butt-Rumford, the English composer and pianist Percy Benedict Kahn, the Scottish tenor Joseph Hislop, the German mezzo-soprano singer Elena Gerhardt, the English pianist Ivor Newton, the...
Dates:
1926-1986
Awards, artefacts and related papers and photographs of Muriel Spark.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13071/1-17
Dates:
1957-2006, undated.
Baptismal certificate of Prince Charles Edward Stewart.
File
Identifier: Acc.9493
Scope and Contents
With a photograph of the Ghezzi`s painting of the event.
Dates:
1720.
Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9458
Scope and Contents
With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.
Dates:
circa 1859-1907.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22130-22133
Scope and Contents
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Book of United Presbyterian hymn tunes of the Rev. Dr Hugh Aird, Brechin, with associated material.
File
Identifier: Acc.13951
Content Description
Book of hymn tunes, with a label reading "Hugh Aird 1839" pasted onto the inside front cover. The book contains ca. 80 tunes, without texts, of the United Presbyterian Church. The tunes are arranged for four voices, and a contents list is found at the front. Paginated by the scribe 1-100, followed by 19 blank pages. With a photograph of the Rev. Hugh Aird, ?ca. 1890, and a printed obituary entitled "In Memoriam. Rev. Hugh Aird, M.A., D.D., Brechin."
Dates:
1839-1895
Bound copy of the acting text of "The Satire of the Three Estates", prepared by Robert Kemp for production at the Edinburgh International Festival.
File
Identifier: Acc.10112
Scope and Contents
With stage photographs, sketches and signatures of the actors, musicians and singers.
Dates:
1948.