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Membership cards.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Cards issued to individual members of an organization attesting to the fact of their membership, typically wallet-sized and carrying the name of the member and the name or logo of the organization.

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Album entitled Bird Life II compiled by John P. Ritchie., 1923-1974.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13663/2
Scope and Contents

Album consisting largely of letters, press-cuttings and printed notices on lectures on ornithology given by John P. Ritchie and letters concerning his film of the evacuation of St Kilda. With family invitations, notices and press cuttings.

Dates: 1923-1974.

Clubs and societies papers of Robert Blair Wilkie., 1945-1998.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12765/6-8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie (1913–1998) and his family. Robert Blair Wilkie was the curator of the Old Glasgow Museum 1965-1998 (formerly known as the People’s Palace Museum). Active member of the Scottish Nationalist movement (joined Scottish Nationalist Association under John MacCormick in 1937), in 1945 he was the SNP candidate in West Renfrewshire, and in the following year he was appointed editor of the Scots Independent...
Dates: 1945-1998.

Diaries and other papers of W M Docharty.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6334/1-28
Scope and Contents

Concerning his mountaineering expeditions in the British Isles, the Alps and Canada.

Dates: 1929-1968.

Further papers of Andrew Cameron.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14502/1-4

Membership card, 1951, for National Union of Foundry Workers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4571
Scope and Contents

With letter, 1963, of National Organiser of Almagamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists.

Dates: 1951, 1963.

Membership cards of Tom Weir, with invitations dinner menus, event memorabilia and business cards of others., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13059/492
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates: Undated.

Membership certificate of the `Society for Purchasing Books at Leadhills` issued to W Winning.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.5991
Scope and Contents

The paper on which the document is printed is watermarked 1805.

Dates: 2 April 1845.

Miscellaneous papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1933-?1979, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27178-27214
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.

Dates: 1933-?1979, undated.

Miscellaneous printed items., 1915-1958, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.8695/300-304
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates: 1915-1958, undated.

Papers concerning membership of the Saltire Society, including correspondence, membership lists and related material., 1947-1976, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9393/785-797
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Records of the Saltire Society including minutes, reports and correspondence. The Society's aims are the strengthening and preservation of Scottish culture and tradition, and its archives reflect its numerous activities in these fields.

Dates: 1947-1976, undated.

Papers of Ben Shaw.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6471/1-2
Scope and Contents

Including letters, 1894-1903, of J Keir Hardie, J Ramsay Macdonald, Robert Blatchford and George Bernard Shaw to Ben Shaw.

Dates: 1893-1922.

Papers of Scottish interest.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3948
Scope and Contents

Including an Edinburgh burgess ticket, 1710, to Allan Ramsay and papers, 19th century, of George Hardiman.

Dates: 17th century to 19th century.

Personal ephemera and memorabilia., 1953-1997.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13477/96-99
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection comprises school papers, 1943-1959, and material relating to his time at Edinburgh University, 1957-1962; files relating to elections, 1961-circa 1990s; political papers, 1954-1981, mainly concerning constituency politics; manuscript diary of the Lib-Lab Pact, 1977-1978; files relating to his involvement in the Scottish Constitutional Convention, 1988-1998, including minutes of meetings and related correspondence; files relating to Scottish politics, 1992-1999, including...
Dates: 1953-1997.

Photocopy of a membership card of the Shipwrights' Provident Union of Leith.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5017
Scope and Contents

Dated 17 December 1824, the date of foundation of the Union.

Dates: 1824.