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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 186 Collections and/or Records:

35mm slides and negatives of the security suite of George Waterston and Sons., 1990s.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12235/253
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates: 1990s.

A box of colour slides of the funeral of John Mackintosh., [1978].

 File
Identifier: Acc.13476/319
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: John Pitcairn Mackintosh (1929-1978) was a political scientist, professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and a Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian (1966-1974, 1974-1978). He was pro-Europeist and pro-devolutionist and campaigned in favour of a yes vote during the 1979 Referendum on a Scottish Aseembly.The material consists of the personal and academic papers detailing Mackintosh’s political and academic career. The papers document his many academic ventures including his...
Dates: [1978].

A framed miniature, watercolour on ivory, of an unidentified man, thought by Major P I C Payne to be Sir Walter Scott; including two photographic slides of the miniature., Early 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12092/90
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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: Early 19th century.

Black and white and colour photographs, colour negatives and slides of factory machinery and plant of George Waterston and Sons., 1970-late 1990s.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12235/259
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates: 1970-late 1990s.

Box, annotated "Items for 'A life in pictures' - to be scanned for reproduction", containing slides and negatives of artworks, mostly by Alasdair Gray, with some printouts and copies of artworks and posters., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13950 Box 4
Scope and Contents

Further annotation on box lid reads '115 slides, 23 black [and] white negatives and 12 colour negatives [both in brown envelope], 1 colour transparency in white envelope, 5.1.06'.

Includes slides labelled and arranged according to their previous deposit with the library as TD.3190/1-5.

Dates: Undated.

Box of 68 glass slides largely of images of or taken by members of the Ladies Scottish Climbing Club during Meets and climbs., 1908-1951, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14612/5
Scope and Contents This box contains 68 glass slides by various photographers, including Lucy Smith and Mabel Jeffrey. The slides have been subdivided within the box by the Club and labelled as the following categories:'1. Munro Tables (Ben Lomond etc)' [5 slides]'Section 3. (Lawers etc.)' [9 slides]'Section 5 (Nevis etc.)' [2 slides]'Section 7 (Saddle etc)' [2 slides]'Section 8 Kintail' [1 slide]'Section 10 (Torridon)' [2...
Dates: 1908-1951, undated.

Box of 73 glass slides largely of images of or taken by members of the Ladies Scottish Climbing Club during Meets and climbs., 1908-1959, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14612/6
Scope and Contents This box contains 73 glass slides by various photographers including Lucy Smith, Ruth Mabel Raeburn and Mabel Jeffrey. The slides have been subdivided within the box by the Club and labelled as the following categories:'21 Ancient Club History 1908' a continuation of the subdivision started in the previous box (Acc.14612/5) [10 slides - some are dated later than 1908]'22 Ancient Club History 1909 to 1914' [9 slides]'23 Ancient Club History 1915 to 1920'...
Dates: 1908-1959, undated.

Box of slides of photographs of cats., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13950 Box 2(3)
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: Includes slides, transparencies and photographs of artworks of Alasdair Gray and some of his friends and contemporaries, as well as audiovisual and digital material. The photo albums of images of Hillhead and the west end of Glasgow were likely collected to act as source materials for the Hillhead SPT subway mural.Many of the slides, transparencies and photographs found here were collated for use in 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009), and some were previously deposited with...
Dates: Undated.

Boxes of ** 35mm slides mostly of Scottish libraries., Mid 20th century.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13656/103
Scope and Contents

Two boxes of 347 slides are of the interiors and exteriors of libraries in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Banff, Dumbarton, Lanark, Orkney, Renfrew, Airdrie, Stirling, Dumfries, Falkirk, Dunfermline, Hamilton, Kilmarnock, Kirkcaldy, Argyll, Paisely, Peterhead, Rutherglen, and Dounreay.

One box of 26 slides contains mostly artworks and engravings

Dates: Mid 20th century.