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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 226 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Colour 35mm slides and transparencies illustrating banknote and cheque production of George Waterston and Sons; with black and white prints of graphic artwork., [1970-1980].

 File
Identifier: Acc.12235/256
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: [1970-1980].

"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.

File, annotated 'Jonah', containing manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of 'The story of Jonah: a puppet play by Alasdair Gray'; with an envelope containing correspondence, 2007, between Alasdair Gray and Lynne Girdwood concerning a photograph and slide of a staging of 'Jonah'., 2007, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14602/81
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series represents the contents of two filing cabinets which sat in Alasdair Gray's study. The cabinets contained a vast array of material relating to his artistic and literary pursuits, as well his personal life, and correspondence, illustrations, drafts, financial papers, photographs and ephemera can be found throughout the files found here.

Dates: 2007, undated.