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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Scope Note: Unpublished sets of pages, bound or loose-leaf, either intended to have, or assembled after having, material affixed to them or writing or other images made on them.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 148 Collections and/or Records:

Papers concerning "The Naturalist`s Library", edited by Sir William Jardine.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6788
Scope and Contents

Containing original drawings, watercolours, working proofs and prints.

Dates: 1833-1845.

Papers concerning the visit the Marquess of Salisbury to Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6032
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence, accounts and press cuttings.

Dates: 1882.

Papers concerning Zimbabwe.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9280
Scope and Contents

With papers, 1979-1980, on the security situation in Zimbabwe

Six albums of newspaper cuttings on Zimbabwe, with an index

typescrip of "Go Forth", a history of the Minsitry of Internal Affairs in Rhodesia.

Dates: 1979-1980 and undated.

Papers of and concerning Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson and the Royal Flying Corps.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9339
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, 1916-1917, two albums of press cuttings, 1914-1917, and a privately printed memoir, 1931.

Dates: 1916-1931.

Papers of General Sir J Aylmer L Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20247-20259

Papers of Richard Dark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3617/1-17
Dates: 1815-1st half of 20th century.

Papers of the author, Florence Marian McNeill.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26194-26259
Scope and Contents

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: 1901-1973, undated.

Papers of the Cottam and Ironside families.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6779
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

album, 1825, of Eliza Letitia Cottam

album, after 1812, of John Tatham Cottam

correspondence, 1814, 1832-1833, 1838, 1846, of Ralph Anthony Ironside, of Fennochside, including four letters of the 10th Duke of Hamilton.

Dates: circa 1812-1846.

Papers of W Oliver Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9178
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning the Scottish Nationalist movement.

Includes an essay, press cuttings, and correspondence from amongst others, C M Grieve and Sir Compton Mackenzie.

Dates: 1930-1976.

Pen and ink drawings of views in Edinburgh and vicinity.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9401
Scope and Contents

Possibly made for engraving.

Dates: 1826.

Photocopies of preliminaries and introduction by Sidney Roscoe to his and R A Brimmell`s bibliography of James Lumsden and Son, corrected by the author.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9239
Scope and Contents

With photocopies of Lumsden title pages mounted in a loose leaf binder.

Dates: circa 1980.

Photographs, maps and watercolours, compiled by Nikolai Vasilievich Poggenpol.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8563
Scope and Contents

Concerning mountaineering expedition to Digoria, Balkaria, and Bezingi, in the Caucasus.

Dates: 1904.

Portraits drawn by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in pencil, ink and watercolours.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19407-19408
Scope and Contents

The portraits have been cut out of larger sheets or sketchbooks and mounted in albums. Most of the sitters are unidentified. In accordance with Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's practice (see ‘Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe’, volume i, pages 21, 40) the heads are completed in watercolours but the rest of the figure and any background are usually only sketched in pencil.

Dates: [Circa 1813].

"Prayers and Religious Meditations", 1733-1736.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6062
Scope and Contents

With engineering notes and sketches, circa 1824, loosely inserted.

Dates: 1733-1736, circa 1824.

Presentation photo albums and papers of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, mostly relating to his role as Chief Scout.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10323/1-53
Scope and Contents Presentation albums, some in special bindings, notebooks, papers, formal addresses and other documents, and a few letters, 1944-1968, of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan. Almost all the material is concerned with Rowallan's period as Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire (1945-1959), and many of the items were presented to him during Commonwealth tours. Included with the collection is one certificate, 1968, presented to Gwen Mervyn, Lady Rowallan...
Dates: 1944-1968, undated.

Press cuttings and typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of articles of Seton Gordon.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7018
Scope and Contents

Mostly on Scottish birds.

Dates: 1908-1912 and undated.

"Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.

 File
Identifier: MS.3114
Scope and Contents Album containing.(i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.)(ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a...
Dates: 1764-1779.

Records of the Scottish Youth Hostels Association

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13372
Scope and Contents Annual Reports, minutes, correspondence, reports, property records and photographs, 1931-2012, undated, of and relating to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.Following preliminary meetings in 1930s, the Scottish Youth Hostels Association was formed in Edinburgh in1931at a public meeting chaired by Lord Salvesen ‘To help all, but especially young people of limited means living and working in industrial and other areas, to know use and appreciate the Scottish countryside and...
Dates: 1931-2000