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Box of miscellaneous photostats and photographs.
Series
Identifier: MS.8494
Dates:
8th century-1958.
Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10706/1-697
Scope and Contents
These papers contain the business archive of the Stevensons from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. They consist mainly of letterbooks, incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps and plans, with a large number of printed pamphlets and reports by the Stevensons and others, concerning all the civil engineering works with which the family was involved. The main interest lies in the material relating to harbours and to lighthouse construction, and to the work of the Northern...
Dates:
1636-1963.
Business records, 1694-1943, of J and G Cox, Ltd., glue manufacturers, Gorgie, Edinburgh; with miscellaneous papers, 16th century-19th century, of the Cox family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4944/1-54
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1550-1603, 1694-1943, undated.
Business records of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12235/1-522
Scope and Contents
The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates:
1752-2002, undated.
Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.
File
Identifier: Acc.14019
Scope and Contents
Includes two autographs and one signed photograph (1937) of Harry Lauder; programme of Command Performance at Balmoral Castle, 5 September 1924; some photographs probably of W. Lockyer and members of his family.
Dates:
1923-1929.
Catalogues, inventories, order books, correspondence and other business records of William Brown, booksellers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7926/1-61
Dates:
1581-1961.
Certificates, invitations and photographs of and relating to Charles Laing Warr, Minister of St Giles`, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.12228
Dates:
1927-1957.
Certificates, photograph and centenary magazine of Lawson`s Department Store, Edinburgh, compiled by Jane Malloy, shop assistant.
File
Identifier: Acc.12577
Dates:
1955-1956.
Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.
File
Identifier: Acc.13602
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.
It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.
Dates:
1989-2009
Circa 500 letters of Florence M Russell to Norman McLaren.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10639
Scope and Contents
With cards, drawings and photographs.
Dates:
1951-1976 and undated.
Circa 500 transparencies and prints of Scottish landscapes, largely the West Coast, Highlands and Aberdeenshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10537
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated.
Collection of 51 photographs by Herman Rodrigues from NLS` "New Scots" exhibition.
File
Identifier: Acc.12985
Dates:
2006.
Collection of glass slides of subjects including Ben Nevis observatory, various naval, shipping, and other maritime subjects, and specifications and examples of lifts and other manufactures, some by George Washington Wilson.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.269- is now Acc.10333.
Scope and Contents
The collection was brought together by the depositor, Jack Howdle.
Dates:
Circa 1880-1920.
Collection of items related to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Fonds
Identifier: MI.10/1
Dates:
1953
Collection of items relating to Scottish Television (STV)
Fonds
Identifier: MI.10/2
Dates:
1957-1987
Collection of photographs relating to theatre and other performance arts, mostly in Scotland but also in England and Ireland.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11645
Scope and Contents
Photographs concern the Edinburgh International Festival.
Dates:
1980-1997 and undated.
Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, etc., chiefly by James Nasmyth, the engineer, with several by his father Alexander Nasmyth and his brother and sister Patrick and Jane, and some collected by him.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3241-3243
Dates:
1796-1885, undated.
Collection of twenty-one documents relating to the Stuart family and the French royal family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.368
Dates:
1543-19th century.
Colour photograph of a pass given by General George Monck to Sir John Drummond, son of the Earl of Perth.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10666
Dates:
1651.
Colour photograph (reduced) of "Authors in Session", a group portrait by Stanley Cursiter of Edwin Muir, O H Mavor, Neil Gunn and Eric Linklater.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10253
Dates:
1950.
Colour slides of illuminations from the Hunterian Psalter.
File
Identifier: Acc.5369
Dates:
12th century.
Colour slides of the Hunterian Psalter, ff 15v and 17v.
File
Identifier: Acc.5368
Dates:
12th century.
"Comunn na Clàrsaich (The Clarsach Society) : A Summary of the Archives", by Janet Watt.
...
Identifier: Acc.11940
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs and slides.
Dates:
1989.
Copies and photographic and other reproductions of early maps in British and foreign collections.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3024-3027
Dates:
10th century-17th century, undated.
Copies of 12 songs of Meta Maclean.
File
Identifier: Acc.6730
Scope and Contents
With associated photographs and press cuttings.
Dates:
1925-1939.