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17 postcards of Stansmore Dean Stevenson and Jean Stevenson to Elise Pruvost, their housekeeper in France.
File
Identifier: Acc.14471
Scope and Contents
The postcards, all except one written in French, were formerly part of the family album of Elise Pruvost and her daughter Christiane Lavoger. They date from the period when Stansmore Dean Stevenson and her husband, the painter R. Macaulay Stevenson, and step-daughter Jean Stevenson, stayed in Montreiul-sur-mer, France. The collection also includes a photograph of Elise Pruvost and the Stevenson family on a visit to London, c.1925.With biographical information, in French, compiled...
Dates:
1910-1926.
Papers of and relating to the artists Beatrice Huntington and William MacDonald.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14369/1-39
Scope and Contents
Beatrice Huntington was born in 1889 in St. Andrews to Dr William Huntington, surgeon, and Charlotte Huntington, née Bowles, daughter of Joseph Bowles of Quebec City. She was educated in St Andrews before attending art schools in Paris and Munich between 1906-1911. She began exhibiting in 1916 and became an active member of the Dundee Art Society and the Society of Scottish Artists. Influenced by Modernist art styles, she experimented with Cubism in her portraits, including 'A Muleteer from...
Dates:
1864-2015.
Photographs relating to the Cook family.
File
Identifier: Acc.14393
Scope and Contents
Collection of 44 photographs and prints relating to the Cook family - a prominent Edinburgh and Fife family of lawyers and churchmen.The photographs include images of various members of the family at St. Anne's in North Berwick, Mossfennan House near Biggar, St. Andrews, Edinburgh and London. Also included are photographs of staff and the (Rugby) Football team of Ardvreck School, staff and pupils at Sedbergh School, Cumbria, and staff and students of Magdalene...
Dates:
1860s-1930s.
Two letters of Jacob Wainwright written while in England after accompanying the body of David Livingstone from Africa, and giving an account of its preservation and transport, and also describing his own time in England.
File
Identifier: Acc.12444
Scope and Contents
Includes a carte de visite photograph of Wainwright.
Dates:
1874.