Leith. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.1667. Latitude: 55.9500.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.
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Identifier: Acc.13650
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1828-1847, undated.
Copies of registration books and related documents of three Merchant Navy seamen.
File
Identifier: Acc.11555
Scope and Contents
Papers mostly document work for shipping companies based or registered in Leith.
Dates:
1937-1981.
Design for a store-house built at Leith for the Honourable the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses., 1825.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10706/348 [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:
1825.
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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Maps and plans of civil engineering works and projects of Robert Stevenson and Sons.
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Plans, elevations, sections and drawings of lighthouses.
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Miscellaneous designs and drawings for lighthouses and related structures.
Drawing - Granary Dock; new dry dock - Edinburgh, Leith., 1874.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (83)
Dates:
1874.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing - Mr Rennie's plan for Leith - Edinburgh: Leith - surveyed by M S., 1824.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (68)
Dates:
1824.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing - Plan and section of part of building yard - Edinburgh, Leith - surveyed by R Stevenson., 1837.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (74)
Dates:
1837.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing - Plan of proposed wharf wall - Edinburgh, Leith., 1838.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (71)
Dates:
1838.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing - Proposed town of Leith - Edinburgh: Leith - surveyed by Captain Greenvile Collins., 1820.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (65)
Dates:
1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing - Sections of proposed walls - Edinburgh, Leith - surveyed by R Stevenson., 1837.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (75)
Dates:
1837.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing - Sketch plan in relation to Leith Harbour - Edinburgh: Leith., 1828.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (69)
Dates:
1828.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing - Survey of part of river and harbour - Edinburgh: Leith - surveyed by Robert Stevenson., 1882-1883.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (67)
Dates:
1882-1883.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing - Track of the Polly of Leven into harbour - Edinburgh: Leith., 1814.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (64)
Dates:
1814.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing, undated - Leith Street to foot of Leith Walk - Edinburgh, Leith., ?19th century.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (94)
Dates:
?19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing, undated - Mooring paul and fender on pier - Edinburgh, Leith., ?19th century.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (85)
Dates:
?19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing, undated - Pier - Edinburgh, Leith., ?19th century.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (87)
Dates:
?19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Drawing, undated - Sections of Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway - Edinburgh, Leith., ?19th century.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (89)
Dates:
?19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Engraving, undated - Ground on east side to be laid out for building - Edinburgh, Leith., ?19th century.
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Identifier: MS.5848 (95)
Dates:
?19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Ea-Edinburgh, Leith, Water of.
Legal papers concerning property in Newhaven and Leith belonging to Marion Evanson and her Paterson descendants.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6978
Dates:
1733-1848.
Legal papers of the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.
File
Identifier: Acc.9323
Scope and Contents
Concerning Leith Links.
Dates:
1803-1805.
Letter of John Ellington to Thomas Pengelly in London.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10685
Scope and Contents
Concerns ships in Leith.
Dates:
1667.
Log of the barque 'Emily', including a record of expenses, for a voyage from Leith to San Francisco and South America.
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Identifier: Acc.14185
Dates:
1853-1855.
Manuscript resolution of Leith workmen against Incorporation of Weavers.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5670
Dates:
1745.
Papers concerning persons named Thomson.
File
Identifier: Acc.4310
Scope and Contents
Comprising marriage contracts, 1690, 1781, bond, 1690, and two other papers, 1798, 1804 (Leith and Musselburgh).
Dates:
1690-1804.