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Scrapbooks.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Albums containing a variety of items, especially when those items serve as memorabilia.

Found in 122 Collections and/or Records:

A scrapbook containing press-cuttings and some letters relating to Thomas Mackay Cooper's public career and publications., 1930-1937.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6188/7
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald and Sir John Simon, relating to Thomas Mackay Cooper's candidacies in Banffshire and West Edinburgh, 1931 and 1935.

Dates: 1930-1937.

Album of newspaper cuttings on a variety of subjects., 1869-1877.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14317/32
Scope and Contents

Articles mostly on Gaelic literature, poetry and song; Highland economy and poverty; and Scottish church politics.

Dates: 1869-1877.

'Art of the black-and-white artist, and the wood-engraver, with some beautiful examples, collected by John A. Hipkins.', Late 19th century-early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2931
Scope and Contents

The scrapbook contains specimens chiefly of the nineteenth century, including many illustrating the work of the deaf, preceded by a note by Miss Hipkins. Also two crayon portraits by John A Hipkins (pages 60-62); an address given by him on the achievements of the deaf in France (page 71); an original letter of Abbe Sicard (page 79 b); original studies of animals by Walter Geikie (page 84); and original paintings by Frank Maguire (page 90).

Dates: Late 19th century-early 20th century.

Battles and sieges of the War of Liberation (1813). [Small plans of towns fought over or besieged 1813, pasted into scrapbook]. , 1813

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(144)
Scope and Contents

1: Luneburg, Czenstochau, Thorn, Dannigkow, Spandau, Gr Gorschen, Bantzen, Haynau, Hoyerswerda, Luckau, Lowenberg, Goldberg, Gr 2: Beeren, Katzback, Dresden, Hegelsberg, Plagwitz, Kulm, Dennewitz, An der Gohrde, Wartenburg, Dohna, Liebertwolkwitz, Lindenau, Mockern, Wachau, Dresden, Leipzig, Freiburg, Hanau, Schonebeck, Hockheim, Modlin, Dresden, Zamosk, Stettin, Doestburg, Zutphen. 3: Arnheim, Zara, Breda, Gertrundenburg, Friedrichsort, Danzig, Torgau.

Dates: Other: 1813

Book of newspaper cuttings on Gaelic language, literature, songs, music and cultural events. , ca. 1895-1902

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13695/61
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.

Dates: ca. 1895-1902

Microfilm of Nineteenth century literary manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart. Reel 17., [?1758-?1854.] 

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1310
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:  Letters, undated, of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with several anonymous letters, verses and other fragments addressed to or collected by Scott's mother (MS.1558);   Notebooks, undated, of John Gibson Lockhart (MSS.1623-1624);    "Ladies’ Album" (Edinburgh, undated), in which are pasted caricatures of persons, some of which are probably by John Gibson Lockhart (MS.1625);   Scrap-book, containing caricatures, some dated 1813, and...
Dates: [?1758-?1854.] 

Miscellaneous papers covering Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot's political career, with a concentration on the Free Trade movements of the 1890s and 1900s., 1879-1922.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19537-19564
Scope and Contents From the Series: Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot was the second son of the 3rd Earl of Minto. He was educated privately, at Edinburgh University, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. After a brief period of practice on the Northern Circuit, he was elected Liberal M P for Roxburghshire in 1880; in 1886 he opposed Gladstone's Home Rule policy but held his seat as a Liberal Unionist until 1892. After being defeated by a single vote in 1895, Elliot was returned for Durham at a by-election in 1898. He was appointed...
Dates: 1879-1922.

Miscellaneous papers of the Johnston family., Late 18th-early 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.5811/11-21
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes biographies and histories of members of the Johnston family, and business records of W and A K Johnston, Ltd, founded in 1826 by William and Alexander Keith Johnston.

Dates: Late 18th-early 20th century.

Mòd scrapbook, covering the years 1992, 2003 and 2009., 1992 - 2009

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13695/68
Scope and Contents

Contains photographs, newspaper cuttings and programmes of Mòds and associated events, such as concerts and Gaelic church services.

Dates: 1992 - 2009

Newspaper cuttings., 1847-1936.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13898/20
Scope and Contents

Contains: (i) a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, covering 9 January 1847 to 10 May 1924; and (ii) an envelope with loose cuttings, 1934-1936.

Dates: 1847-1936.

Newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to George Forbes’s Range-Finder., 1901-1903

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/234
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1901-1903

Newspaper cuttings of events during the First World War., 1915.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13827/237
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1915.

Newspaper cuttings of events during the First World War., 1916-1918.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/238
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1916-1918.

Notebook IV, containing newspaper cuttings of anecdotes, 1910-1914

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14025/7
Scope and Contents

A notebook compiled by John Tolmie, marked "IV Notes + Comments" on the front cover, containing press-cuttings of humorous anecdotes concerning mostly Highland Scotland. They are pasted in chronological order, with each one dated. Possibly, like the next volume in the sequence, a record of notes and anecdotes submitted by Tolmie to the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch. 59 numbered pages, followed by 35 blank pages.

Dates: 1910-1914