Visitors' books.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books, usually of printed forms, in which visitors may write their names and addresses, and sometimes comments.
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Assorted other papers of and concerning Patrick Leigh Fermor., 1913-2011, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13338/540-549
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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:
1913-2011, undated.
Attendance and guestbook of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians: Women's Club., 1935-1946.
Item
Identifier: MS.21625
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
1935-1946.
Attendance and guestbook of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians Women's Club., 1947-1958.
Item
Identifier: MS.21626
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
1947-1958.
Attendance and guestbooks of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians: Women's Club., 1935-1958.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21625-21626
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
1935-1958.
Book of signatures of visitors to the Féill of 1907 and some later events. , 1907 - 1935
Item
Identifier: Acc.13695/62
Scope and Contents
The volume was created for the Great Fèill of 1907, and collects signatures of visitors to stalls under calligraphic headings. In the following it was used for signatures of visitors at the Rothesay Mòd (1908), a Clan Donald meeting (1911), the 'An Clachan' exhibition in Glasgow (1911), the Mòd held in Glasgow (1911), the Fèill at Edinburgh (1917), a Clan Stewart meeting (1913), and the Mòds held in Oban (1934) and Edinburgh (1935).
Dates:
1907 - 1935
Cash received from visitors book., 1874-1875.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5043/5
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The Kirkliston Reading Room was opened for the inhabitants of Kirkliston and district in 1904.
Dates:
1874-1875.
Glenquoich Visitors` book, 1846-1863, and twenty-two letters, 1837-1867, to Edward Ellice of Invergarry from various correspondents.
Series
Identifier: Dep.356
Dates:
1837-1867.
List of `Persons who called during November and December 1838 to enquire` inscribed `19 Atholl Crescent Jan 4 1839 J. Borthwick`., 1839.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13699/20
Log book and visitors` books of Glen Brittle Post Office, Skye.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12050
Dates:
1912-1980.
Microfilm of dinner book and visitor book of the Scottish Mountaineering Club.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1289-1290
Dates:
1885-1993.
Microfilm of dinner book of the Scottish Mountaineering Club., 1889-1993.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1289
Microfilm of log book and visitors’ books of Glen Brittle Post Office, Skye.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1958-1960
Dates:
1912-1980.
Microfilm of visitor book of the Scottish Mountaineering Club for Sligachan Hotel, Skye., 1885-1905.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1290
Microfilm of visitors’ book of Glen Brittle Post Office, Skye., 1912-1945.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1958
Microfilm of visitors’ book of Glen Brittle Post Office, Skye., 1946-1980.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1959
Microfilm of photographs of the leaves of the Glenquoich visitors' book containing the names of friends and relatives who visited the Ellices' estates at Invergarry during the late summer and autumn of each year from 1846 to 1863.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.568 (formerly Mf.MSS.13)
Dates:
1846-1863.
Minto visitors' book., 1869-1881.
Item
Identifier: MS.12511
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1869-1881.
Minutes, correspondence and visitors` books of Wardie Bowling Club, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12000
Dates:
1969-1998.
Miscellaneous notes, articles, financial records and other papers., 1801-1986, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9533/306-337
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
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:
1801-1986, undated.
Miscellaneous records., 1885-1977.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12235/149-160
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:
1885-1977.
Papers and audio recordings produced as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe show "All Back to Bowie's".
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13585/1-26
Dates:
2014
Papers and photographs of Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st viscount Haldane, and of the Haldane family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13595
Scope and Contents
Papers and photographs, 1858-1937 and undated, relating to Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane (1856-1928), politician, lawyer and philosopher, and to the Haldane of Cloan family.
Dates:
1858-1937
Papers concerning the lands of Kermuck and Ellon, and the family of Gordon of Ellon.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.274-is now Acc.12804
Dates:
1495-1959.
Papers of Sir James Stewart Lockhart, including papers concerning his daughter Mary (Mrs Betty Joel).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12695
Dates:
1868-1997.