Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500.
Found in 188 Collections and/or Records:
16 typescript descriptions of "Motoring by-ways round Edinburgh", illustrated with photographs.
19 photographs of buildings in Edinburgh, with manuscript notes of F M Chrystal.
21 documents relating to the lands of Curriehill near Edinburgh.
Account book, Edinburgh.
Including rent receipts for urban property.
Account of the Savoy Mission by Alexander Donaldson
Address signed by the Provost and bailies of Edinburgh, to the Duke of Lauderdale.
Album of drawings of `An eight week`s tour in Scotland taken by ten Douglas`s`.
Drawings made on a tour in Scotland in 1845. Places visited include Dalkieth, Edinburgh, Roslin chapel, the Trossachs, Glencoe, Tyndrum, Ballahulish, Kinlochmore, Loch Leven, Dunolly Castle, Inverary, Newbattle and Hoddam Castle.
Anonymous album of a visit to Scotland entitled `Oban, 1919`.
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.
Another version of a plan and section of proposed railway line from Edinburgh to the coalfields of Mid and East Lothian, by Robert Stevenson., 1819.
Assessments claimed in respect of the local Poor Law Acts on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Burgess ticket of Edinburgh in favour of Sir Walter Scott.
Given in recognition of Scott`s poetical talents.
Carbon copy of a typescript of a journal of a Mr Baine, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Describing a voyage to Iceland in the "John" of Leith.
Caricatures by John Gibson Lockhart, drawn in Oxford and Edinburgh.
Circa 20 manuscripts concerning Edinburgh.
Inserted in William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (1753).
Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.
This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.
Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.
Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.
Copies of photographs of John Gibson, WS.
Includes photographs of the Gibson family house in George Square, Edinburgh.
Copy of "Shaw's Diary for 1864" containing various accounts of William Green, bookseller, Edinburgh (who became macer to the Court of Justiciary in 1871).
The accounts consist chiefly of a list of books supplied to Dundee Free Library, July-December 1869 (folios 1-7), and accounts rendered (chiefly for law books), 1869-1871 (folios 1-45 inverted).
Copy of William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1753), with additional papers bound in to the book.
Additional papers include:
printed proposals for the work
printed and manuscript papers concerning alterations to the text
papers concerning defamation of James Coutts and Mrs Little of Liberton.
Copy, undated, by David Stevenson of a section of Rothemay's plan of Edinburgh, 1647., 1647.
Correspondence of the Scottish Home Rule Association with local secretaries in Edinburgh and Midlothian., Undated.
Diaries and journals of Cecilia Campbell, Frances Madeline Cleghorn and Maria Susan Campbell.
Diaries, letters and miscellaneous papers, 1944-1989, of and relating to John Armstrong.
John Armstrong studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where he was a contemporary of Eduardo Paolozzi who is mentioned in his diaries. After leaving college he worked as an artist and displays manager, then went on to work for the DHSS, Register Generals Office and elsewhere in Edinburgh. He later ran his own business. He continued painting throughout his life and also wrote fiction inspired by his bohemian lifestyle.