Scrapbooks.
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins, wood-engraver, with scrap-books containing material collected by or associated with him.
The volumes, which have been arranged and provided with biographical notes and lists of contents by John A Hipkins's sister, Miss Edith J Hipkins, the painter, illustrate the cultivated life of London in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Since Hipkins himself was deaf, there is much material relating to the artistic and other activities of the deaf.
Archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach.
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.
Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.
The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.
The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.
Business books of Archibald Constable & Company, Robert Cadell & Company, and Robert Cadell.
Correspondence and papers concerning Maclean families, collected by Dr James Maclean of Glensanda, Younger.
Journal and scrapbooks of John Blackwood Greenshields of Kerse, Advocate, author of ‘The annals of Lesmahagow’.
Letter books and other administrative papers of Messrs Lindsay, Jamieson and Haldane, accountants, Edinburgh.
Microfilm of minute book and scrapbook of the Union Society of Journeyman Bookbinders.
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 3 April 1882-1884, 1862, of the Union Society of Journeymen Bookbinders of Edinburgh (Acc.4395, number 1);
Scrapbook, 1822-1874, of the Union Society of Journeymen Bookbinders, containing correspondence, rulebooks, etc. (Acc.4395, number 26).
Microfilm of the scrap books of the National Library of Scotland.
Microfilm of Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart from the National Library of Scotland. Reels 1-18 (Adam Matthew).
Papers and correspondence of and concerning William Brodie and his family.
Papers, including correspondence, press cuttings, speeches, literary and political manuscripts and scrapbooks, of Walter Elliot.
Papers, including journals, scrapbooks, press cutting books, photographs and other items of Sir Robert Heatlie Scott and Lady Rosamond Aeliz Scott.
The collection relates particularly to Sir Robert Scott's wartime imprisonment in Singapore (1942-1945), and to his period as Commissioner-General in South East Asia.
Papers of John Maxwell Geddes.
Scrapbook concerning plans to re-build the chapel of Holyrood House.
Scrapbook kept by William Trotter of Ballindean, chiefly during his period of office as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1825-1827.
The scrapbook contains pamphlets, circulars, and letters chiefly from public and charitable societies in Edinburgh and London.
Scrapbook relating to the Piercy and Bell-Irving families.
Scrapbooks and files of press cuttings on Scottish football compiled by John Weir, with related notes and programmes.
Scrapbooks of Arthur Maurice Roth, schoolboy in Callander, containing daily observations on the progress of the Second World War.
The scrapbooks cover the period from December 1943 to August 1945. They consist of 36 notebooks in which Roth has written short notes on the progress of the war, illustrated with press cuttings he had collected.
Although it is not clear why Roth began to keep a daily record of events occurring during the war, he had an interest in military history, and keeping a record of the war on a daily basis helped to develop his knowledge of geography.
Scrapbooks of Pipe Major William Ross.
Two scrapbook volumes containing newspaper cuttings and photographs of Pipe Major William Ross and his family. The volumes were compiled by Ross's wife Edith Mary, née McGregor (d. 1942). They illustrate Ross's activities and public appearances, for example at Highland games and society weddings, but also follow reports on piping more generally. Photographs of family and friends are found in both volumes, especially the second.
Two scrapbooks relating to Edinburgh International Festival.
Two scrapbooks, 1950-1952, compiled by Bruce Sharman, then a young actor and assistant stage manager with the Citizens` Theatre Company. He was involved in the Company`s Festival productions of `The Atom Doctor`, `Douglas` and `The Queen`s Comedy` in 1950, and their `Three Estates` in 1951. Bruce Sharman returned to the Festival in 1952 and 1953 with The Old Vic Company. The scrapbooks contain programmes, posters, photographs, reviews and ephemera.