Maps. Cartographic materials.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to graphic or photogrammetric representations of the Earth's surface or a part of it, including physical features and political boundaries, where each point corresponds to a geographical or celestial position according to a definite scale or projection. The term may also refer to similar depictions of other planets, suns, other heavenly bodies, or areas of the heavens. Maps are typically depicted on a flat medium, such as on paper, a wall, or a computer screen.
Found in 680 Collections and/or Records:
Print (Ordnance Survey) - Map of area - St. Monans, Fife - surveyed by Captain James., 1853.
Item
Identifier: MS.5862 (13)
Dates:
1853.
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 S.
Print. Ordnance Survey - West coast from Formby Point - Kirkcudbright., 1890.
Item
Identifier: MS.5854 (44)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.
Dates:
1890.
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 K.
Print, undated - Map of bay - Stonehaven, Kincardine., ?19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5862 (125)
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 S.
Print, undated. Ordnance Survey - Map of area - Lasswade, Midlothian., [?1815-?1816.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5855 (8)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.
Dates:
[?1815-?1816.]
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 L.
Printed and manuscript maps and plans of estates and other land areas in Scotland and Canada.
File
Identifier: Acc.10085
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Printed and other miscellaneous material, chiefly relating to military matters., 1834-1863, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.2877
Printed ‘Letter to the Honourable the Directors of the East India Company’, prepared by James Stuart., [3 July 1787.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8454A
Scope and Contents
Printed maps and documents are tipped into the blank folios at the end of the volume.
Dates:
[3 July 1787.]
Printed map of Eastern Equatorial Africa, by J H Speke, 1863, with manuscript additions by David Livingstone., 1863.
Item
Identifier: MS.10740
Scope and Contents
On the verso is a more detailed manuscript map of the same area and other notes.
Dates:
1863.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
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Maps chiefly drawn or annotated by David Livingstone.
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Maps drawn or annotated by David Livingstone.
Printed map of Persia, Afghanistan, and Buluchistan (60 miles to an inch), with later manuscript additions showing proposed railway lines., 1904.
Item
Identifier: MS.13453 [Map Library]
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1904.
Printed map of Sikkim, 1906, with manuscript annotations and markings to show the routes taken by Sir Hugh McPherson in 1908 and 1911, and by Duncan H McPherson in 1942., 1906-1911, 1942.
Item
Identifier: MS.19616 [Map.s.162.30]
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
From 1891 to 1925, Sir Hugh was in the Indian Civil Service, first in Bengal and from 1912 in Bihar and Orissa. The papers concern his career but also reflect his interest in walking and climbing in the Himalayas, an interest shared by his son.
Dates:
1906-1911, 1942.
Printed map of the lakes of Eastern Africa by Keith Johnston, with manuscript notes., [?1872.]
File
Identifier: MS.10752
Dates:
[?1872.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
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Maps chiefly drawn or annotated by David Livingstone.
Printed maps, mostly military, mostly of France and the Arkhangel’skaya Oblast, Russia., 1914-circa 1919, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.8681/11-20
Dates:
1914-circa 1919, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Military papers of Douglas Neil Wimberley, containing correspondence, speeches, printed books and pamphlets.
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Military papers of Douglas Neil Wimberley, containing correspondence, speeches and some maps, translations and other related papers.
Printed maps of North Africa.
File
Identifier: Acc.11150
Scope and Contents
Used on a journey by Michael Strachan and J Enoch Powell between Algiers and Cairo in 1943, many containing notes by the Strachan on their progress.
Dates:
circa 1943.
Printed material, including books, magazines, brochures and related letters and papers., 1878-1978, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8078/840-880
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, lectures and articles, with scripts of radio broadcasts, notebooks and correspondence.
Dates:
1878-1978, undated.
Printed memoranda on Native States in India., 1909-1910.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12624-12625
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1909-1910.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration: Home Department and related topics.
Printed papers, chiefly prospectuses and reports, of the African Lakes Corporation and the Imperial British East Africa Company, and printed maps of Africa, especially Nyasaland., 1879-1899.
File
Identifier: MS.8021
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Printed papers of the African Lakes Corporation (folio 1);
Printed papers of the Imperial British East Africa Company (folio 41);
Printed maps of Africa, especially Nyasaland (folio 50).
Dates:
1879-1899.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Miscellaneous foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Printed papers concerning foreign missions of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Printed papers concerning foreign missions of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches., Late 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8021-8022
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers are arranged as follows: MS.8012-8014. Scottish Missionary Society; MS.8015-8016. East Africa Scottish Mission; MS.8017. Madras Christian College; MS.8018-8019. Scottish Churches Mission Board. MS.8020. Arouca. MS.8021-8022. Printed papers.
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Printed 'Particulars and Plan of the Fine Residential and Sporting Estate of Bowland situated in the Parish of Stow and Counties of Midlothian and Selkirk', including a map and a few manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: MS.13600
Dates:
1889.
Printed trench map of area of Martinpuich, to scale 1:20000, GSGS Number 3236, corrected to 6 July 1916 containing marks in pencil and crayon., 1916.
File
Identifier: Acc.8681/11
Dates:
1916.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Military papers of Douglas Neil Wimberley, containing correspondence, speeches, printed books and pamphlets.
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Military papers of Douglas Neil Wimberley, containing correspondence, speeches and some maps, translations and other related papers.
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Printed maps, mostly military, mostly of France and the Arkhangel’skaya Oblast, Russia.
Prints, undated, by Neill and Son, Haddington - Map of proposed East Lothian Central Railway - Lothian, East., ?19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5855 (80)-(81)
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 L.
Provincia de la Mancha... [Madrid]: Thomas Lopez, 1765., 1765.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(3)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates:
1765.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book II: 'Toulon', containing chapters 3-5, with a map., June-December 1793.
Item
Identifier: MS.1837
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The text begins after the siege of Gibraltar (of which there is much discussion), and describes the writer's experiences at Gibraltar, 1787-1789 and later, in France (especially Toulon), 1791, in Elba and Corsica, 1793-1796, and at Naples, 1797, with intervals in England, to the battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797.Colonel Drinkwater apparently intended to publish at least the earlier part of these as a sequel to his ‘History of the late Siege of Gibraltar’ (London, 1785) (see...
Dates:
June-December 1793.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Autobiographical writings of Colonel John Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune.
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'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797., [1797, or after.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1836-1842
Scope and Contents
The text begins after the siege of Gibraltar (of which there is much discussion), and describes the writer's experiences at Gibraltar, 1787-1789 and later, in France (especially Toulon), 1791, in Elba and Corsica, 1793-1796, and at Naples, 1797, with intervals in England, to the battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797.Colonel Drinkwater apparently intended to publish at least the earlier part of these as a sequel to his ‘History of the late Siege of Gibraltar’ (London, 1785) (see...
Dates:
[1797, or after.]
'Record of Lord Kitchener's administration of the Army in India, 1902-1909' (Simla, 1909)., 1907.
Item
Identifier: MS.12601
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1907.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Printed summaries of Lord Curzon's administration.