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 141 Collections and/or Records:
Poem, "Of the Late Unnatural Rebellion".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8366
Scope and Contents
Written on vellum, surrounding a coloured map of the Battle of Culloden.
Dates:
circa 1745.
Portfolio of W A Hall, apprentice cartographer at John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.
File
Identifier: Acc.11281
Scope and Contents
Includes art, calligraphy and illustrating stages of map production.
Dates:
1938-1946.
Positive and negative photostats of an estate plan of Carriden, West Lothian, by G Grey.
File
Identifier: Acc.7781
Dates:
1757.
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 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 '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.
Records of the Scottish Youth Hostels Association
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13372
Scope and Contents
Annual Reports, minutes, correspondence, reports, property records and photographs, 1931-2012, undated, of and relating to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.Following preliminary meetings in 1930s, the Scottish Youth Hostels Association was formed in Edinburgh in1931at a public meeting chaired by Lord Salvesen ‘To help all, but especially young people of limited means living and working in industrial and other areas, to know use and appreciate the Scottish countryside and...
Dates:
1931-2000
Seven plans of Cava, Tankerness, and Orphir, in Orkney; with two sketches of Stromness.
Series
Identifier: Acc.4065/1-7
Dates:
1816-late 19th century.
Three letters, 1760, of John Dundas.
File
Identifier: Acc.6264
Scope and Contents
Concerning the Casket Letters.
With:
1. plan, 18th century, of the Jacobite line at Culloden
2. bible, 1658, with manuscript genealogical information, 1694-1707, about the family of George Wilsone of Sands.
Dates:
1658-circa 1799.
Travel journals of Robert Sym WS recording visits to Paris, the Low Countries and Northern France, and Hamburg.
File
Identifier: Acc.12708
Scope and Contents
Includes a printed map of Paris and typed transcript.
Dates:
1802-1819.
Two estate maps of an area near Waterbeck in Dumfriesshire.
File
Identifier: Acc.7501
Scope and Contents
1 Plan, 1790, of the lands of Between Waters and Hotts, surveyed by Thomas Johnston
2 Plan, 1856, of lands of Waterbeck, Fultown and Gilmartin, surveyed by David W Rome.
Dates:
1790-1856.
Typescript and manuscript war diary of the Reverend David Cairns, padre with 131 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; with associated military maps, and a paper on the state of the reformed churches in Germany.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5932/1-8
Dates:
1943-1945.
Typescript of journal of Jane Blackwood Mack concerning her childhood in Australia.
File
Identifier: Acc.9754
Scope and Contents
With a map of Berry Bank estate, Victoria, Australia.
Dates:
mid 19th century.