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Photographs, 1917, of nursing staff and patients at 2nd Scottish General Hospital, Craigleith, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10189
Scope and Contents
Includes later photographs of views in Egypt and Palestine on a voyage in the eastern Mediterranean.
Dates:
1917 and undated.
Photographs concerning the Ironside family and its connections, especially the Grant of Rothiemurchus and the Hamilton Dundas families.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9494
Dates:
circa 1860-1875.
Photographs, maps and watercolours, compiled by Nikolai Vasilievich Poggenpol.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8563
Scope and Contents
Concerning mountaineering expedition to Digoria, Balkaria, and Bezingi, in the Caucasus.
Dates:
1904.
Photographs of Alexander Brown, taken when he was a medical missionary at Livingstonia.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9219
Dates:
early 20th century.
Photographs of buildings, grounds and interiors of Yester House, East Lothian.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7889
Dates:
1912.
Photographs of the Church of Scotland Mission in Kenya, with notes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8687
Dates:
circa 1920-1929.
Photographs of the Malcolm of Burnfoot and Palmer Douglas families.
File
Identifier: Acc.11757
Dates:
circa 1900-1950.
Photographs of views (mostly Scottish, some Welsh) by George Washington Wilson and James Valentine.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6201
Dates:
19th century.
Portraits drawn by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in pencil, ink and watercolours.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19407-19408
Scope and Contents
The portraits have been cut out of larger sheets or sketchbooks and mounted in albums. Most of the sitters are unidentified. In accordance with Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's practice (see ‘Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe’, volume i, pages 21, 40) the heads are completed in watercolours but the rest of the figure and any background are usually only sketched in pencil.
Dates:
[Circa 1813].
"Prayers and Religious Meditations", 1733-1736.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6062
Scope and Contents
With engineering notes and sketches, circa 1824, loosely inserted.
Dates:
1733-1736, circa 1824.
Presentation photo albums and papers of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, mostly relating to his role as Chief Scout.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10323/1-53
Scope and Contents
Presentation albums, some in special bindings, notebooks, papers, formal addresses and other documents, and a few letters, 1944-1968, of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan. Almost all the material is concerned with Rowallan's period as Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire (1945-1959), and many of the items were presented to him during Commonwealth tours. Included with the collection is one certificate, 1968, presented to Gwen Mervyn, Lady Rowallan...
Dates:
1944-1968, undated.
Press cuttings and typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of articles of Seton Gordon.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7018
Scope and Contents
Mostly on Scottish birds.
Dates:
1908-1912 and undated.
Press cuttings of reviews of published works of Seton Gordon.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7019
Dates:
1929-1937.
Prospectus and subscribers` letters of Alexander MacDonald edition of A Mylne, "Vitae Episcoporum Dunkeddensium".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8297
Dates:
1831.
"Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.
File
Identifier: MS.3114
Scope and Contents
Album containing.(i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.)(ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a...
Dates:
1764-1779.
Records of the Scottish Youth Hostels Association
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13372
Scope and Contents
Annual Reports, minutes, correspondence, reports, property records and photographs, 1931-2012, undated, of and relating to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.Following preliminary meetings in 1930s, the Scottish Youth Hostels Association was formed in Edinburgh in1931at a public meeting chaired by Lord Salvesen ‘To help all, but especially young people of limited means living and working in industrial and other areas, to know use and appreciate the Scottish countryside and...
Dates:
1931-2000
Score books and photographs of the Grange Cricket Club, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11270/1-18
Scope and Contents
Grange Cricket Club was formed in 1832, and takes its name from the Grange area of Edinburgh where the members first played. The club moved to its present Raeburn Place premises in 1872. Grange Cricket Club is notable as one of the oldest and most successful of Scottish cricket clubs, and also as the host of numerous international matches. In 1849, the club organised the first ‘Grand Match’ staged in Scotland when a Scotland Twenty-two faced an All England XI. Another England XI, including W...
Dates:
1864-1965.
Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21983-22014
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 20th century, undated.
"Scottish Obituaries", press cuttings of obituaries from the years 1705-1742 compiled by James Maidment, circa 1836.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8690
Dates:
1705-1742, circa 1836.
Scrapbook and photograph album compiled by David Cleghorn-Thomson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9234
Scope and Contents
Includes material concerning the Garret Studio Pictuary and to the early years of BBC Scotland.
Dates:
circa 1934-1975.
Scrapbook, photograph album and typescript magazines of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison and her siblings.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13412
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook, photograph album and typescript magazines, ca.1894 – 1900, of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison and her siblings, the children of Thomas Hutchison, Merchant, Edinburgh [b.1841]. The typescript magazines and many of the photographs relate to the Hutchison children’s childhood at Carlowrie.
Dates:
ca.1894-1900