Photographs.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. (AAT) This heading was used in the NLS typescript manuscripts catalogue for all types of photographs, and for documents relating to photography. (NLS).
Found in 2852 Collections and/or Records:
Box containing assorted press cuttings relating to works by Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson, with some other photographs and designs., 1920-1939.
File
Identifier: Acc.8542/60
Scope and Contents
Contains:1. Album of press cuttings, 1920-1930.2. Press cuttings, 1929, concerning the David Livingstone Memorial.3. 'Country Life' supplement, July 1927, concerning The Scottish National War Memorial.4. 'Architecture', Vol V No 27 (new series), August 1927, the Scottish National War Memorial souvenir issue.5. Press cuttings, 1927–1930, concerning the Scottish National War Memorial.6. Miscellaneous press cuttings,...
Dates:
1920-1939.
Box containing drawings, correspondence, photographs and other papers relating to military statuettes., 1933, 1949, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8542/61
Scope and Contents
Contains:1. 'Statuettes details'. Folder containing drawings and correspondence pertaining to the Military Statuettes.2. 'Statuettes details'. Folder containing drawings, printed matter, photographs and correspondence pertaining to the Military Statuettes.3. Two 'progress charts' for the Military Statuettes, and a drawing of the lay out for the Military Statuettes Exhibition, RBA Gallery, London, April 1933.4. Envelope labelled 'Workers on the...
Dates:
1933, 1949, undated.
Box containing photographs from a botanical expedition to Tibet., 1938.
File
Identifier: Acc.9533/282
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates:
1938.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, botanist, including diaries and photographs relating to botanical expeditions to Africa and the Himalayas.
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Photographs, slides and negatives, mostly from botanical expeditions of Sir George Taylor.
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Photographs and negatives from botanical expeditions in Africa, Tibet and Bhutan.
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Photographs and negatives from a botanical expedition to Tibet.
Box containing photographs of Iceland., 1938.
File
Identifier: Acc.7451 Box 23(2)
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.
Dates:
1938.
Box containing slides and transparencies, used for overseas lecture tours for the British Council, and some photographs., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9271/1133
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including manuscripts, typescripts and proofs, of Professor Alexander Norman Jeffares, English literature scholar.
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Miscellaneous material including publications, slides, notebooks, typescripts, leaflets and press cuttings.
Box, containing various notes, memoranda, photographs and other related material., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/211(1-3)
Scope and Contents
Containing:
(1) photographs (including apparently proofs of Alpine Journal
illustrations)
(2) photographic notes
(3) various notes, memoranda and other papers, many incomplete
Dates:
Undated.
Box of black and white and colour photographs of Michael Roberts, including some negatives and related correspondence., Circa 1931-1949.
File
Identifier: Acc.13860/13b
Scope and Contents
Includes:Black and white photographs, 1933-1938, on holiday and mountaineering in the New Forest, Aiguille Percée, Pourri, Val d'Isere and Tignes.Black and white photographs, 1943, with family.Small brown photograph album, [1947-1948], of black and white pictures of mountaineering and walking trips in Val d'Isere and Bonnerat.Colour photograph, circa 1940s, of portrait of Michael Roberts.4 items of correspondence from photography...
Dates:
Circa 1931-1949.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, drafts, photographs and other personal and literary papers of Michael Roberts.
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Personal papers and photographs of Michael Roberts.
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Boxes of photographs and negatives of Michael Roberts, with some related correspondence.
Box of black and white photographs, mostly childhood and holiday photographs of Michael Roberts., 1900s-1946.
File
Identifier: Acc.13860/13a
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of:
Michael Roberts as a child, with family and friends, as a young man, a teacher, in the military, and in amateur theatricals.
Michael Roberts on holiday and mountaineering, including trips to St Adrien, Dipton, Stratford, Jura, Provence, Cumberland, Mont Blanc, New Forest, Tignes and Val d'Isere.
Dates:
1900s-1946.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, drafts, photographs and other personal and literary papers of Michael Roberts.
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Personal papers and photographs of Michael Roberts.
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Boxes of photographs and negatives of Michael Roberts, with some related correspondence.
Box of miscellaneous photostats and photographs.
Series
Identifier: MS.8494
Dates:
8th century-1958.
Box of photographs of Isobel Wylie Hutchison., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9713/104
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes diaries and photographs.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, containing diaries, drawings, paintings, photographs, newspaper cuttings and other related material.
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Photographs of Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
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Three boxes of photographs of Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Box of photographs of Isobel Wylie Hutchison., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9713/105
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes diaries and photographs.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, containing diaries, drawings, paintings, photographs, newspaper cuttings and other related material.
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Photographs of Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
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Three boxes of photographs of Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Box of photographs of missionaries., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.7548/F/1
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.
Dates:
Undated.
Boxes of photographs., 1970-1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.11905/161
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers concerning personal interests (town planning, left-wing politics, Mansfield Place Church, Edinburgh Central Times) and gay rights activism – especially the activities of the Scottish Minorities Group, the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group and Outright Scotland.
Dates:
1970-1998.
Boxes of photographs., 1970-1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.11905/162
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers concerning personal interests (town planning, left-wing politics, Mansfield Place Church, Edinburgh Central Times) and gay rights activism – especially the activities of the Scottish Minorities Group, the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group and Outright Scotland.
Dates:
1970-1998.
Boxes of photographs., 1970-1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.11905/163
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers concerning personal interests (town planning, left-wing politics, Mansfield Place Church, Edinburgh Central Times) and gay rights activism – especially the activities of the Scottish Minorities Group, the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group and Outright Scotland.
Dates:
1970-1998.
Boxes of photographs and negatives of Michael Roberts, with some related correspondence., 1900s-1948.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13860/13a-13b
"Bradford's photographs of Greenland, arranged as illustrations of 'Frost and Fire' [(Edinburgh, 1863)] by J. F. Campbell, June, 1871.", 1871.
File
Identifier: MS.2993
Scope and Contents
Photographs of ice formations, etc., taken by William Bradford on his visit to Greenland in the 'Panther', 1869 - see Isaac J Hayes, ‘The land of desolation’ (London, 1871) - and presented by him to John Francis Campbell, with notes by Bradford, 1871.
Dates:
1871.
Brochures, leaflets, photographs, press cuttings and price lists, of Margery Clinton, containing related correspondence., 1976-1992, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11283/47
'Bruce in progress', a photograph album containing around 60 photographs, showing the various stages of sculpting and casting the equestrian statue of Robert the Bruce, now at Bannockburn., 1961.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8542/38
Dates:
1961.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Photographs of works of Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson, sculptor, with related papers, cuttings and correspondence.
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Photographs and postcards of memorials, sculptures, statuettes and other works of Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson.
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Photographs relating to the sculpting and casting of the equestrian statue of Robert the Bruce, Bannockburn.
Buchan family postcard album, with cards mostly addressed to Alastair Buchan, with two photographs., [1904-1906].
Item
Identifier: Acc.11627/47
Dates:
[1904-1906].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, his wife Susan Buchan, Lady Tweedsmuir, his brother James Walter Buchan, and sister, Anna Buchan.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, mostly of John Buchan, with some concerning other Buchan family members, mainly relating to the First World War.
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Correspondence, photographs and papers relating to the First World War, and to Buchan family members and friends killed in action.
Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10706/1-697
Scope and Contents
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:
1636-1963.
Business records, 1694-1943, of J and G Cox, Ltd., glue manufacturers, Gorgie, Edinburgh; with miscellaneous papers, 16th century-19th century, of the Cox family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4944/1-54
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1550-1603, 1694-1943, undated.
Business records of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12235/1-522
Scope and Contents
The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates:
1752-2002, undated.
Card mounted photographs of various locations in Kenya, including Nairobi., [20th century].
File
Identifier: Acc.10472/7
Dates:
[20th century].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
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Photographic plates and prints, with scripts for talks relating to photographs.
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Photographic prints of Pakistan, India, Kenya, Zambia and Malawi.
Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.
File
Identifier: Acc.14019
Scope and Contents
Includes two autographs and one signed photograph (1937) of Harry Lauder; programme of Command Performance at Balmoral Castle, 5 September 1924; some photographs probably of W. Lockyer and members of his family.
Dates:
1923-1929.