Bombay (inhabited place). Asia - India - Mahārāshtra - Salsette Island. Longitude: 72.8500. Latitude: 18.9333.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Bombay Port Trust gas lightship., 1904.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10706/600 [Map Library]
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
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:
1904.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
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Plans, diagrams and drawings of lights, beacons and other related matters, including experiments carried out by Robert Stevenson and Sons.
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Diagrams and drawings of lights and related apparatus.
Copy, undated, of the printed text of Helen Bannerman, "The Story of Sambo and the Twins", with pencil sketches for illustrations.
File
Identifier: Acc.8884
Scope and Contents
With sketch book of Bannerman and copy of E H Aitken, "The Common Birds of Bombay" (1900), with four letters of Aitken to Mrs Bannerman who did part of the illustrations.
Dates:
1900 and undated.
Diary of Lieutenant Robert Burn Anderson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7492
Scope and Contents
Describing his voyage from Southampton to Bombay.
Dates:
1853.
Magnetic and meteorological observations from Bombay., 1842.
File
Identifier: Acc.10069/112
Miscellaneous postcards, including views of Bombay, Vienna, Belgrade, Istanbul, Stratford-on-Avon, Brussels, Liège and Salonika and of Italian medieval works of art., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8695/225
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.
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Postcards, mostly depicting locations in mainland Europe.
Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, photographs and proofs of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13681
Scope and Contents
1). Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, press-cuttings and proofs, 1896-ca.1960, undated.i. Postcards, 1896-1903, undated.ii. Christmas card, early 20th century.iii. Typescript verse of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, undated.iv. Press-cuttings, 1949, undated.v. Proofs, 1956, of `Literary Landmarks of Scotland`, articles by Isobel Wylie Hutchison for the `National Geographic` magazine.2. Photographs, ca.1900-1962,...
Dates:
1896-1962, undated.
Register of thermometer and pluviometer readings from Bombay, by an unknown observer., 1826-1828.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10069/110
Two notebooks containing descriptions of a voyage to Mumbai via the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal and observations concerning the commerce, history, landscape and architecture of Mumbai and surrounding areas., Circa 1892.
File
Identifier: Acc.12680/9
Scope and Contents
Probably written to accompany a lantern slide-show. Possibly not in the hand of Isabella Plumb.
Dates:
Circa 1892.