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Plans (orthographic projections).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to drawings, sketches, prints, computer graphics, or works in other media depicting a building or any object viewed from above, geometrically represented as projected on a horizontal plane. The term is particularly used to refer to drawings or other images showing the relative positions of all the parts of a building, or of the parts of any one floor, roof, or other part of a building in horizontal section; it is thus distinguished from vertical sections or elevations. The term can also be used collectively to refer to sets of drawings or other images for a project, including plans per se as well as other drawings, such as sections. For general reference to depictions or photographs showing structures or sites seen from directly above, use ""plan views""For representations of portions of the Earth's surface use ""maps"" or ""plans (maps)"" .

Found in 486 Collections and/or Records:

Printed and other miscellaneous material, chiefly relating to military matters., 1834-1863, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2877, (i)-(xix), (xxi)
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) ‘Proclamation for a Tournament’, held at Corfu, 1834, in Greek, English, and Italian.(ii) Proclamation relating to the Rebecca Riots in Brecon, 1843.(iii) ‘Rules and Regulations to be observed on the occupation of cells of approved construction’, issued by the Adjutant-General, November 1844.(iv) ‘Exercise with Heavy Shot, as a means of enforcing a sentence of hard labour’, undated.Numbers (iii) and...
Dates: 1834-1863, undated.

Prints. 2 copies. - Extension and sewerage, plans and sections - Edinburgh - surveyed by D and T Stevenson., 1884-1885.

 File
Identifier: MS.5849 (99)-(100)
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: 1884-1885.

Records of the Royal Burgess Golfing Society.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13674
Scope and Contents

Annual Reports, accounts, reports, plan, fixture cards, menu cards and Order of Service, 1985-2015.

Dates: 1985-2015

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

Rentals, plans, and lawyers' accounts, 1805-1834, for the estates of Strowan, Cowgask, and Cultybraggan, and legal papers, 1786-1883, and miscellaneous estate receipts, 1808-1835, undated, for Strowan estate., 1786-1883, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10913
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1786-1883, undated.

Rough copy of the plan of the barony of Minto with the farms of Newlands and Wellridge by Mathew Stobie (MS.13426)., 1766.

 Item
Identifier: MS.13427 [Map.Rol.c.40]
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: 1766.