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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)"" .

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Drawings, photographs, maps, plans and prints, largely from the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition devised by Sir Patrick Geddes.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13319
Scope and Contents The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition was originally conceived in conjunction with the first Town Planning Conference of 1910 organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects, at Burlington House, London, to mark the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. Patrick Geddes was asked to be its Director and used it to demonstrate his method of city survey. After the conference, Geddes toured the exhibition to cities interested in learning about the latest developments in...
Dates: 1649-1919, undated

Five estate plans of areas in Lochmaben, Dumfries and Galloway.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11419
Scope and Contents

Plans by:

James Welsh, 1778

William Crawford, ? 1817

William Vernon, 1827

James Tait, 1764 and 1788

Dates: 1764-1827.

Formal papers contained in the further correspondence and papers of Sir Charles Stuart, later Baron Stuart de Rothesay.

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Identifier: Ch.15528-15530
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise: a certificate, 1828, granted by the Royal Humane Society, formerly accompanying MS.21306,f11; an undated plan of some plots of land for sale in Paris; and a printed genealogical table of the family of Guthrie of Guthrie ?1903, with additions and amendments in ink ?1904.

Dates: 1828, ?1903, undated.

Four large plans of the estate of Pitfirrane., 1764-1861.

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Identifier: MS.6510
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.A Plan of The United Estates of Pitfirrane, Knockhouse and Pitdinnies in the Parishes of Dunfermline and Carnock and Shire of Fife. By Rot. Scotland. 1764. 79 x 107 cm. Ink. Robert Scotland. (Part 1.)A Design for the Improvement of Pitfirrane, the Seat of Sir Charles Halkett, Bart., by T. White. 1801. 96 x 119 cm. Watercolour. T White. (Part 2.)Plan of Pitfirrane Policy. Thomas Carfrae, Edinburgh, Surveyor. 1838. 84 x 119...
Dates: 1764-1861.