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Albums.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Unpublished sets of pages, bound or loose-leaf, either intended to have, or assembled after having, material affixed to them or writing or other images made on them.

Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:

Album of caricatures by John A Hipkins: '5. The Ladies. M.D's. Colonials'., 1879-1918, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2923
Scope and Contents

The caricatures are especially of Mrs Edwin Edwards (with a note on her and her husband), Julia Sandeman, and Robert Russell and John Robertson of Durban. There are also some holiday sketches.

Dates: 1879-1918, undated.

Album of caricatures by John A Hipkins: '6. Musicians'., 1876-1929, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2924
Scope and Contents

The caricatures are preceded by a letter of Sir George Henschel enclosing a poem written by him on the death of John A Hipkins, 1933.

Dates: 1876-1929, undated.

Album of caricatures by John A Hipkins: '7. Literature. Art. Music'., 1871-1926, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2925
Scope and Contents

Contains caricatures of the Hueffers, John Sliegh (see MS.2930), Thomas Nelson MacLean, and others; also the Hipkins family on tour.

Dates: 1871-1926, undated.

Album of caricatures by John A Hipkins: '8. The artist at different periods. Sketches from nature ...The wood-engravers ... My relations', etc., 1870-1932, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2926
Scope and Contents

Contains caricatures of colleagues of John A Hipkins at Harral's wood-engraving studio, his family, servants, friends, and unknown persons; preceded by portraits and photographs of the artist.

Dates: 1870-1932, undated.

Album of Elizabeth Johnston containing drawings and verses by her friends., 1842-1871, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26259
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1842-1871, undated.

Album of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, of press-cuttings relating to the National Library campaign, its establishment and the subsequent site debate., 1913-1937.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25272
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This section of the Hugh Pattison Macmillan papers is concerned with the campaign to create a National Library of Scotland on the basis of the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, 1913-1924; the Scottish National Library Endowment Trust, and Sir Alexander Grant's benefaction, 1923; the drafting and passage of the National Library of Scotland Act, 1925; and the business and administration of the two libraries, 1914-1937.

Dates: 1913-1937.

Album of letters and parts of letters of celebrities of the late 18th century and the 19th century., Late 18th century-19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.740
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The letters are unconnected except some addressed to the editor of 'Good Words' and others addressed to Professor George Buchanan, Glasgow.

Dates: Late 18th century-19th century.

Album of letters and parts of letters of celebrities of the late 18th century and the 19th century., Late 18th century-19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.741
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The letters are unconnected except some addressed to the editor of 'Good Words' and others addressed to Professor George Buchanan, Glasgow.

Dates: Late 18th century-19th century.

Album of newspaper cuttings concerning 'The miracle at Cardenrigg' by Tom Hanlin., 1949.

 Item
Identifier: MS.27425
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Tom Hanlin worked as a coalminer at Armadale, West Lothian, until 1946 and much of his fiction is set in Scottish mining communities.

Dates: 1949.

Album of photographs, autographs, press cuttings and other memorabilia concerning the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., [Circa 1896]-1950.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21617
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: [Circa 1896]-1950.