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Slides. Photographs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Positive transparencies in mounts suitable for projection, usually 35mm film in a mount of 2 by 2 inches. An image on film or glass, usually positive, intended to be viewed by means of light passing through the image and base using a viewer or projector.

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

12 slides of paintings and sculptures of David Morrison.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11404
Scope and Contents

Includes the following:

Sealandsong 1(4)

Sealandsong 1(7)

Sealandsong 3(2)

Sealongsong 4(3)

Sealongsong 7(1)

Stacks (Wood) 6

Woman (Wood) (8)

North Man/Woman (5)

Rocks/Sea (10)

Thrumster Scape (Gouache/Collage) 1989

Caithness Scape 32 (Gouache/Collage) 1989

Spring/Caithness (Gouache/Collage) 1990

Dates: 1989-1990, undated.

Collection of photographs relating to theatre and other performance arts, mostly in Scotland but also in England and Ireland.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11645
Scope and Contents

Photographs concern the Edinburgh International Festival.

Dates: 1980-1997 and undated.

"Comunn na Clàrsaich (The Clarsach Society) : A Summary of the Archives", by Janet Watt.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.11940
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs and slides.

Dates: 1989.

Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12092/1-108
Scope and Contents This collection consists of more than 3000 documents, dating from the 1420s to 1980s, mainly relating to the family of Skene of Rubislaw (near Aberdeen). At its centre are the papers of James Skene (1775-1864), artist and friend of Sir Walter Scott. Skene corresponded with notable individuals in the cultural circles of his day and was connected with such organizations as the Royal Institution, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute for the...
Dates: Circa 1420-1989, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, botanist, including diaries and photographs relating to botanical expeditions to Africa and the Himalayas.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9533/1-414
Scope and Contents Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates: 1792-1990.

Correspondence and papers of the Edinburgh International Festival Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11779
Scope and Contents

Includes administrative papers and photographs.

Dates: circa 1956-1998.

Financial and legal papers and correspondence relating to the works and literary estate of James Leslie Mitchell, sometimes writing as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, including some personal papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10966/1-47
Scope and Contents

Includes personal documents, publishing agreements, royalty statements and related correspondence. These papers are mostly concerned with the administration of James Leslie Mitchell's (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) literary estate following his death in 1935, firstly by his wife, Ray Mitchell, and subsequently by his daughter, Rhea Martin.

Dates: 1901-1986.

Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates: Circa 1925-2014.

Literary papers, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13289/1-109
Scope and Contents This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...
Dates: 1951-2011.

Papers of Prof George Chrystal.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10070
Scope and Contents

Includes pamphlets, maps and glass slides concerning his work on saiches.

Dates: 1879-1910 and undated.

Papers of the Waldensian Missions Aid Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13298
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1865-1975, of the Waldensian Missions Aid Society, including annual reports, minutes, financial papers and glass slides.

Dates: 1865-1975.

Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: 1818-2011, undated.

Photographc plates and slides concerning Church of Scotland missionary activity in India and Pakistan.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10590/1-100
Scope and Contents

Some of the slides are accompanied by scripts and where this is the case the information is recorded in the relevant record.

Dates: 1953-1973, undated.