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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 412 Collections and/or Records:

Nisbet estate plans of the Ker family., 1784, 1807.

 File
Identifier: MS.5460
Scope and Contents

(i) 'A plan for the improvement of Nisbet, the seat of Miss Carr. By Thos. White, 1784.'

(ii) 'A Design for the Improvement of the Grounds of Herdmanston, the seat of the right hon. Lord Sinclair. By T. White, jun., 1807.'

Dates: 1784, 1807.

Papers chiefly concerning building at Yester House and Tweeddale Court (Edinburgh), and various household inventories., 17th century-1910, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14551-14553
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates: 17th century-1910, undated.

Photographs and silhouettes of members of the Paul family., 1645-1848, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.5147
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.Annotated envelope (folio 1) containing miniature portrait photographs of: W Paul (folios 2-5); R Paul Junr (folios 6-7); unidentified sitters (folios 8-11); annotated wrapper (folio 12) containing five miniature portrait photographs of the same unidentified sitter (folios 13-17).Annotated paper bag (folio 18) containing a photographic copy of a published portrait of Charles Williamson (folio 19).Silhouette, 1848, of T...
Dates: 1645-1848, undated.

Photostat of a plan of Burntisland, with sailing-directions, by John Elphinstone, Master of Elphinstone, Practitioner Engineer, in the British Museum., 1745.

 File
Identifier: MS.2975, folios 116-120
Scope and Contents

Accompanied by notes by the donor and Harry R G Inglis on John Elphinstone and his map, to which the date 1745 is given.

Dates: 1745.