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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 74 Collections and/or Records:

Papers concerning Lanark water supply.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8354
Scope and Contents

Including letters, documents and a plan.

Dates: 1854-1885.

Papers concerning the harbour of Greenock.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11648
Scope and Contents

Includes plans, report and correspondence of Thomas Telford concerning an early proposal for its improvement (1830).

Dates: 1826-1889.

Papers concerning the Roxburghshire Estate of the Minto family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10912
Scope and Contents

Includes title deeds, 1492-1956, to lands which came into the possession of the Minto family in Roxburgshire and one deed, 1781, concerning land in Fife. With other papers, 1751-1975, on the administration of the family`s estates, family trust and settlement papers, bonds, inventories, valuations, probate records and plans.

Dates: 1492-1975.

Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5510-5721A
Scope and Contents After serving his apprenticeship as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at the courts of Munich, Ratisbon, Berlin, Turin and Madrid, Robert Liston was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid in 1784.After leaving Madrid he was the British Representative at Stockholm, Constantinople, Washington, The Hague, and again at Constantinople.Within each regional section there are two main categories, official and personal. The first contains documents, with instructions or...
Dates: 1756-1832.

Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates: 1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.

Photocopy of plans by William H Playfair for the Advocates Library.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9631- This accession is kept with FR.136

Plan of Luss estate by Charles Ross.

 Item
Identifier: Dep.153- is now Acc.4988.