Human hair.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any hair of humans (Homo sapiens), particularly the hair grown from the scalp of humans. Human hair is a cylindrical tube composed mostly of keratin. The shaft is covered with thin, flat scales and the central core often contains pigments of red, black, or brown. Commercially, human hair has often been used for wigmaking and brushmaking.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Diary of Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland as a Captain of the 93rd Regiment, in India., 1855, 1858.
Item
Identifier: MS.2234
Scope and Contents
The diary, recorded in "De La Rue’s improved Indelible Diary and Memorandum Book, 1855", describes the March through Fatehgarh, Cawnpore, and Unao to Lucknow, with the capture of the Martinière and the Begum's Palace in Lucknow.The diary is held in a leather travel writing set in the form of a wallet, produced by Thomas De La Rue and Co., London, which contains: a blotting pad, an ink bottle, a pen, pen-nib box and 2 spare pen-nibs, read sealing wax, 6 unused envelopes, an ivory...
Dates:
1855, 1858.
Further papers of the Douglas of Cavers family.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13845
Content Description
Annotated envelopes containing hair of members of the Douglas and Malcolm families and book plates of William Elphinstone Malcolm of Burnfoot.
Dates:
1775-1834.
Letters mostly of Marion [May] Lyon Guild to James Harrower [Harry] Guild., 1875, 1906-1909.
File
Identifier: Acc.14531/18
Scope and Contents
Mainly correspondence, but also includes an envelope containing hair labelled 'Harry's hair when first cut October - 1875'.
Dates:
1875, 1906-1909.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Guild family, including correspondence, business copy letters and bound illustrated transcriptions.
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Correspondence between various members of the Guild family.
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Letters between James Harrower [Harry] Guild and Marion [May] Lyon Guild.
Letters of David Barnett, Lady Stair`s House Museum, Edinburgh, to May Merkley, Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada, on matters relating to Robert Burns.
File
Identifier: Acc.12119
Scope and Contents
Includes a lock of the hair of Burns`s widow Jean Armour and a copy of the deed relating to the Glenriddell Manuscripts.
Dates:
1918-1936, undated.
Miscellaneous letters and notebooks of various Forbes family members including calling cards and locks of hair., 19th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/311
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Miscellaneous Papers of the Forbes Family.
Notebook, hair and dance card for Lady Clinton., 1880-1889.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/175
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1880-1889.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Papers of the Trefusis Family.
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Papers of Jane Hepburn Stuart Forbes Trefusis, Lady Clinton.
Pocket diary, 1825, of Joan Glassel, printed sheet on 'Free Church tactics on the Island of Tiree', 1895, and locks of hair of George Douglas Campbell, eighth Duke of Argyll, 1823-1881., 1823-1881, 1895.
File
Identifier: Acc.8508/50
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers, 19th-20th century, relating to the family of the 7th and 8th Dukes of Argyll especially the circle of Joan Glassel, second wife of John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, and her children and grandchildren.
Dates:
1823-1881, 1895.
Two copper plates, early 19th century, engraved in Hanover for George Graeme, and a lock of hair, circa 1854, probably that of George Graeme, wrapped in an account of tidal phenomena at Campbeltown., Early 19th century-[circa 1854.]
File
Identifier: MS.19599
Dates:
Early 19th century-[circa 1854.]