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:
Caledonian Railway. Carstairs and Dolphinton Branch. Plan of ground taken off the property of Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart... Parishes of Carstairs and Dolphinton., 1867.
Item
Identifier: MS.27835
Caledonian Railway. Plans and sections of the proposed Carstairs and Dolphinton Branch Railway. Parishes of Carstairs and Dolphinton., 1862.
File
Identifier: MS.27833(1)
Caledonian Railway. Property belonging to Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart, Baronet, in the parish of Carnwath., 1848.
Item
Identifier: MS.27818
Caledonian Railway. Property belonging to Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart, Baronet. Parishes of Covington and Thankerton., Late 18th century-early 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.27829
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 20th century.
Calla Bank. Brick Cottages. No. 3. Plans, section and elevations., 1881.
File
Identifier: MS.27728
Carnwath Estate. Arable Portion of Weston Farm. Parish of Carnwath., 1869.
Item
Identifier: MS.27707
Carnwath. Gamekeepers cottage etc. Plans, elevations and sections. Parish of Carnwath., 1884.
File
Identifier: MS.27724
Carnwath Gasworks. General plan and sections etc. of Proposed Gasworks for Carnwath, No.2 plan, sections and elevation. Section of Purifier House and Retort House and elevation of condenser. Parish of Carnwath., 1857.
File
Identifier: MS.27719
Carnwath Gasworks. Plan and sections of condenser and purifiers etc. No. 4. Parish of Carnwath., 1857.
File
Identifier: MS.27721
Carnwath Gasworks. Plan and sections of Retort Bench No. 3. Elevation and sections. Parish of Carnwath., 1857.
File
Identifier: MS.27718
Carnwath Gasworks. Plans and sections of gasholder. No. 7. Parish of Carnwath, 1857.
File
Identifier: MS.27722
Carnwath Gasworks. Purifier Detail. Parish of Carnwath., 1857.
Item
Identifier: MS.27720
Carnwath Old Jail. Alterations. Mr Lind, tenant. Parish of Carnwath., 1874.
Item
Identifier: MS.27783
Charters, other formal documents, and plans, from the Richards and Ashburner papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15475-15500
Scope and Contents
These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.
Dates:
1777-1908, undated.
Copies of an index and inventory of letters and other papers concerning works of civil engineering in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Acc.3325
Scope and Contents
Papers include letters, plans and other papers concerning bridges, canals, roads etc.
Dates:
1782-1841.
Copy of 'Estimates, plans, and specifications for work proposed to be undertaken at West Point', Hong Kong, from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service at the East India Station., 1845.
File
Identifier: MS.2414A
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1845.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
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'Admiralty Enclosures' from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, including correspondence regarding the Malay Archipelago, Hong Kong, and the attack on the stockade of a chief in New Zealand, 1845-1846.
Correspondence, accounts and papers of Robert Macadam, baker.
File
Identifier: Acc.11127
Dates:
1836-1907 and undated.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver., 1921-1944, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24656
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Correspondence, 1921-1944, undated (folio 1);
(ii) Miscellaneous papers chiefly on climbing, with notes for Peter Roderick Oliver's articles on mountaineering, 1936-1942, undated (folio 16);
(iii) Plans, mainly of Himalayan mountains, and drawings of mountaineering scenes, 1930-1936, undated (folio 79);
(iv) Miscellaneous military papers and plans, 1936-1945, undated (folio 103).
Dates:
1921-1944, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, literary papers, and photographs, of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver, 1921-1944, together with diaries and miscellaneous papers of his mother, Elizabeth Oliver, wife of Major Edward Oliver, Veterinary Advisor to the Indian government, 1905-1946, undated.
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Papers of and concerning Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver.
Correspondence and newspaper-cuttings relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle., 1891-1893, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1738
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The undertaking was financed by William Nelson the publisher, and the architect was Hippolyte Blanc, to whom most of the letters are addressed.
Dates:
1891-1893, undated.
Correspondence and papers concerning schools in Minto and Ashkirk., 1792-1897.
File
Identifier: MS.13329
Scope and Contents
The correspondence and papers concern Minto School, 1792-1897 (folio 1), Clarilaw School, Wilton, 1884-1885 (folio 215), and Ashkirk Female School and Ashkirk School Board, 1873-1875 (folio 234).
Dates:
1792-1897.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents
The correspondence consists of letters to Hutton from various correspondents, many of whom were parish ministers to whom he had written asking for information; the papers consist of transcripts of charters and other formal documents, extracts from cartularies and other registers, and descriptions, sketches, plans and elevations of monasteries and other religious buildings. The greater part of the collection is dated between 1788 and 1790, and between 1809 and 1822 (many of the...
Dates:
1785-1823, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 1: Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtownshire., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(i)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence consists of letters to Hutton from various correspondents, many of whom were parish ministers to whom he had written asking for information; the papers consist of transcripts of charters and other formal documents, extracts from cartularies and other registers, and descriptions, sketches, plans and elevations of monasteries and other religious buildings. The greater part of the collection is dated between 1788 and 1790, and between 1809 and 1822 (many of the...
Dates:
1785-1823, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 2: Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(ii)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence consists of letters to Hutton from various correspondents, many of whom were parish ministers to whom he had written asking for information; the papers consist of transcripts of charters and other formal documents, extracts from cartularies and other registers, and descriptions, sketches, plans and elevations of monasteries and other religious buildings. The greater part of the collection is dated between 1788 and 1790, and between 1809 and 1822 (many of the...
Dates:
1785-1823, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 3: Peebles., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(iii)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence consists of letters to Hutton from various correspondents, many of whom were parish ministers to whom he had written asking for information; the papers consist of transcripts of charters and other formal documents, extracts from cartularies and other registers, and descriptions, sketches, plans and elevations of monasteries and other religious buildings. The greater part of the collection is dated between 1788 and 1790, and between 1809 and 1822 (many of the...
Dates:
1785-1823, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 4: Peeblesshire., 1785-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(iv)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence consists of letters to Hutton from various correspondents, many of whom were parish ministers to whom he had written asking for information; the papers consist of transcripts of charters and other formal documents, extracts from cartularies and other registers, and descriptions, sketches, plans and elevations of monasteries and other religious buildings. The greater part of the collection is dated between 1788 and 1790, and between 1809 and 1822 (many of the...
Dates:
1785-1823, undated.