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Photographic archive of Paul Shillabeer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9139
Scope and Contents

Principally concerning the Edinburgh International Festival, to which Shillabear was official photographer from 1948 to 1973, but also concerning Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland, craftsmen and artists at work and portraits.

Dates: 1920-1973.

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.

Plans of Edmonston House and grounds.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10081
Scope and Contents

With notes concerning a proposed new garden wall, and inset a section of wall with notes and measurements approaching the house from Dalkeith Road.

Dates: late 18th century to early 19th century.

Priscilla Chueng-Nainby and Citadel Youth Centre, Referendum creative weave.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13621
Scope and Contents

Material produced by the Citadel Youth Centre, Edinburgh, relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014. Includes photographs, promotional material and workshop content from a ‘Creative Weave’ event led by Dr Priscilla Chueng-Nainby, held on 18 July 2014, in conjunction with Edinburgh’s Active Citizens Group. Also includes a copy of 2013 Annual Report of the Citadel Youth Centre.

Dates: 2014.

Records of Newington Ward Liberal Association.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13565
Scope and Contents

The records consist of a minute book, 1955-1964, and papers, 1958-1996, of the Newington Ward Liberal Association. They chart the evolution of Liberal politics in this area of Edinburgh.

Dates: 1955-1996

Resolution of the Edinburgh National Society of Women`s Suffrage in favour of Charles Cameron, MP.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13474
Scope and Contents

The resolution was made in favour of Charles Cameron, MP for Glasgow, to acknowledge his work on municipal suffrage. The document was signed by Priscilla McLaren, president of the ENSWS, Eliza Wigham, Emily Rosaline Masson and Elisa Kirkland, secretaries.

Dates: 14 December 1881

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

Six unrelated Scottish historical documents.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11955
Scope and Contents Contents:1 Copy of document setting up the Christian League, 1585 (with 19th century transcript)2 Losses of Aberdeen in the Civil War period, presented at the Convention of Royal Burghs, 16953 Reply to the Western Remonstrance, 1650, Perth4 Protest of the Supplicants against the Privy Council, 16375 Account of the Scots Corporation, ca.16956 Account of celebrations in Edinburgh on the anniversaries of the King`s birthday...
Dates: circa 1585-1695.

Sketchbook of `Pencil sketches to commemorate my journey to Scotland in the summer and autumn of 1846.`

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13646
Scope and Contents Julius Jacob the Elder (1811-1882) was a German Jewish artist born in Berlin who lived in London between 1844 and 1855. He is known both for his landscapes and society portraits.The sketchbook contains more than 150 pencil sketches of a tour in Scotland from August 1846 to February 1847. Almost all the sketches are dated and identifed. The earliest sketch is of the Isle of Arran. He then moved on to Greenock, Loch Long, Loch Lomond, Inverary, Loch Awe, Fingal`s Cave and Staffa,...
Dates: 1846-1847

Sketchbook of Thomas Henry Graham of views recording a tour in Scotland and northern England

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13510
Scope and Contents Thomas Henry Graham`s sketchbook provides a visual record of a tour in Scotland of 1812. The sketchbook opens with several drawings of views of and near to his home Edmond Castle, in Cumbria. Graham travelled to Scotland via Northumberland and there are drawings of Newcastle, Alnwick, Belford Castle, Bamburgh Castle and the Farne Islands. Drawings in Scotland include views of Dunbar, Edinburgh, the firth of Forth, Holyrood House, Leith Harbour, Glasgow, Dumbarton Castle, the Cairndow Inn at...
Dates: 1812

Sketchbooks of Frank H. Young, Civil Engineer, Edinburgh.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13270
Scope and Contents

Four of the five sketchbooks contain humorous pen and ink drawings of domestic, street, railway and sporting scenes. There are several drawings of scenes on a visit to Ballater and Braemar of July 1890. One sketchbook is devoted entirely to scenes outside and inside the Music Hall, Edinburgh.

Dates: 1889-1895, undated

Sketches of Edinburgh and environs by the Rev William Paget.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12209
Scope and Contents

Includes sketches illustrating the great fire of Edinburgh in November 1824.

Dates: 1824.

The Melrosian Annual, 1888

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13258
Scope and Contents Manuscript volume consisting of essays, short stories, anecdotes and verse contributed by past and present members of staff of the firm of Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers. Many of the contributions are reminiscences of the shop and its customers including Professor John Stuart Blackie, f.198, Edinburgh and society. The volume is illustrated with a few pen and ink drawings.Inscribed W.R.M. on inside front cover. With note at the front affirming that this volume...
Dates: 1888, 1917

Tours of Scotland and England by A L.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10285
Scope and Contents Locations include: Edinburgh, Stirling, Glasgow, Loch Lomond, the Clyde canal, the English Lakes, via Hawick and Langholm and the Highlands.Account of 1785 tour to Edinburgh and around Glasgow begins at Berwick. The author travels with Mr Heron. Account of 1786 tour of the English Lakes accompanied by Mr Heron, Mr Ruddock and Mr Wilson, begins at Berwick.Account of the 1788 tour to the Highlands begins at Alnwick. The author travels to Edinburgh where he...
Dates: 1785-1788.

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Drawings. Visual works. 15
Travel journals 13
Glasgow. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Glasgow. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 55.8833. 10
Photographs. 10
Diaries. 8
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Letters. Correspondence. 8
Manuscripts. 8
Albums. 7
Legal documents. 7
Typescripts. 7
Maps. Cartographic materials. 6
Notes. 6
Histories. 5
Leith. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.1667. Latitude: 55.9500. 5
Perth. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Perth and Kinross. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.4333. Latitude: 56.4000. 5
Plans (orthographic projections). 5
Account books. 4
Accounts. 4
Oban. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute. Inhabited place. Longitude: -5.4667. Latitude: 56.4167. 4
Photocopies. 4
Poetry. 4
Stirling. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.9500. Latitude: 56.1167. 4
Dumbarton. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - West Dunbartonshire. County. 3
Dundee. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Dundee. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.0000. Latitude: 56.4667. 3
Lomond, Loch. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. Lake. Longitude: -4.6000. Latitude: 56.0833. 3
London. Europe - United Kingdom - England - Greater London. Inhabited place. Longitude: -0.1667. Latitude: 51.5000. 3
Minute books. 3
Photograph albums. 3
Politics. 3
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 3
Reports 3
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 3
Sketches 3
Speeches. Documents. 3
Aberdeen (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Aberdeen. Longitude: -2.0667. Latitude: 57.1667. 2
Booksellers and bookselling 2
Certificates 2
Commonplace books. 2
Copies. Derivative objects. 2
Correspondence. 2
Edinburgh Castle. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh - Edinburgh. Castle. Longitude: -3.2000. Latitude: 55.9500. 2
England. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -2.0000. Latitude: 53.0000. 2
Ephemera. 2
Europe. Continent. 2
Fliers. Printed matter. 2
Highland. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. Region. Longitude: -5.0000. Latitude: 57.6667. 2
Instructional materials. 2
Iona. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute . Island. 2
Journals. Accounts. 2
Katrine, Loch. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. Lake. Longitude: -4.5167. Latitude: 56.2500. 2
Labels. Identifying artifacts. 2
Lists. 2
Montrose. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Angus. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.5000. Latitude: 56.7167. 2
Perthshire. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. County. Longitude: -3.1967. Latitude: 56.5833. 2
Prospectuses 2
Songs. Musical compositions. 2
Staffa. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute . Island. Longitude: -6.3333. Latitude: 56.4167. 2
Trossachs. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. General region. 2
Abbotsford House (historic house). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. 1
Administrative records. 1
Airdrie (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - North Lanarkshire. Longitude: -3.9833. Latitude: 55.8500. 1
Annual reports. 1
Arran, Island of. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - North Ayrshire. Island. Longitude: -5.2500. Latitude: 55.6000. 1
Arthur's Seat. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Hill. Longitude: -3.1667. Latitude: 55.9333. 1
Articles. 1
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Ayr (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - South Ayrshire. Longitude: -4.6333. Latitude: 55.4667. 1
Bathgate (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - West Lothian. Longitude: -3.6333. Latitude: 55.9000. 1
Burntisland (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Fife. Longitude: -3.2333. Latitude: 56.0500. 1
Caricatures. 1
Charters 1
Commentaries. 1
Culloden Moor. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Highland. Moor(s). Longitude: -4.0833. Latitude: 57.4667. 1
Cumberland. Europe - United Kingdom - England - Cumbria. County. 1
Dalkeith. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Dalkeith. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.0667. Latitude: 55.8667. 1
Daybooks. Bookkeeping records. 1
Declarations. 1
Devon. Europe - United Kingdom - England. County. Longitude: -3.8167. Latitude: 50.7333. 1
Digital photographs. 1
Discharges. Legal Documents. 1
Drafts. Documents. 1
Dryburgh Abbey. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Ruins. Longitude: -2.6667. Latitude: 55.5667. 1
Dunbar. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - East Lothian. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.5167. Latitude: 56.0000. 1
Dunblane. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.9833. Latitude: 56.2000. 1
East Lothian. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. Unitary Authority. Longitude: -3.0833. 1
Egypt. Africa. Former nation/state/empire. 1
Egypt. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 30.0000. Latitude: 27.0000. 1
Essays. 1
First World War (1914-1918). 1
France. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 2.0000. Latitude: 46.0000. 1
Genealogies. 1
Glencoe. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Highland. Valley. Longitude: -5.0833. Latitude: 56.6667. 1
Golf. 1
Greenock. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Inverclyde. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.7500. Latitude: 55.9500. 1
Hamilton. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - South Lanarkshire. inhabited place. Longitude: -4.0500. Latitude: 55.7500. 1
Handbills. 1
Hawick. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.7833. Latitude: 55.4167. 1
Iceland. Europe - Iceland. Island. Longitude: -18.0000. Latitude: 65.0000. 1
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French 2
 
Names
Chueng-Nainby, Priscilla , Dr (academic.) 2
Maitland, William, historian and topographer, c 1693-1757 2
Paget, William, Vicar of Gatton, Surrey, fl 1793-1824 2
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 2
Allan, David, painter, 1744-1796 1
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Anderson, Ada Jack, photographer, fl 1922: photographer 1
Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers 1
Armstrong, John , Artist and Author, d. 2003 1
Bieganska, H, Uniwersytet Slaski, fl 1974 1
Blackie, John Stuart (Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Bonar, James, of East Warriston, Edinburgh, fl 1835 1
Boyd, James Robert, Principal of the Black River Literary and Religious Institute, 1804-1890 1
Bruce, Sir William, 1st Baronet, of Kinross and Balcaskie, c 1625-1710 1
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) 1
Cameron, Charles, first baronet, newspaper propietor, MP for Glasgow, 1841-1924: recipient 1
Campbell, Cecilia, wife of Arthur, of Catrine, Writer to the Signet, née Cleghorn, d 1906 1
Campbell, Maria Susan, daughter of Arthur, of Cleghorn, Writer to the Signet., fl 1866-1875 1
Charles II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1630-1685 1
Christian Fellowship of Healing (Scotland), 1952-2012 1
Chrystal, Francis M, member of the Old Edinburgh Club, d 1944 1
Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board 1
Cleghorn, Frances Madeline, daughter of George, of Weens, d 1870 1
Craig, Abraham, Edinburgh, fl 1835 1
Cummine, Margaret, Edinburgh, fl 1801 1
Donaldson, Alexander, Missionary 1
Edinburgh Active Citizenship Group. EACG 1
Edinburgh City Mission 1
Edinburgh International Festival 1
Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1867, women's suffrage society 1
Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1894–1972 1
Evanson, Marion, Edinburgh, fl 1733-1800 1
Fairley, John A, local historian, fl 1900-1929 1
Free Church of Scotland 1
Free Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Committee 1
Fyfe, Christopher Hamilton, historian, 1920-2008 1
Gairdine, John, Edinburgh, property owner, fl 1591 1
Gairdine, William, son of John, Edinburgh, property owner, fl 1591: recipient 1
Geddes, Sir Patrick, Knight, sociologist, 1854-1932 1
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877 1
Gilray, John, Edinburgh, socialist, fl 1884-1909 1
Graham, Elizabeth Susannah, author, wife of Thomas Graham of Edmond Castle, Cumbria, née Davenport 1
Graham, Thomas Henry (of Edmond Castle, Cumbria) 1
Grant, Janet, sister of John, Major, fl 1797-1798: recipient 1
Grant, John, Major, fl 1797-1798 1
Gray, Effie (teacher) 1
Hall, James, painter, 1800-1854 1
Hamilton, Janet, co-writer of "Edinburgh Nonsense", fl 1939 1
Hamilton, John, co-writer of "Edinburgh Nonsense", fl 1939 1
Hardiman, George, Lieutenant-Colonel, fl 1820-1880 1
Harvey, Ada Margaret Leech, wife of Charles Harvey, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Bristol, fl.1882-1891: author 1
Harvey, Charles Octavius (wine and spirit merchant, Bristol) 1
Henderson, Donald, Edinburgh, builder, fl 1890: recipient 1
Henry Raeburn and Co, Leith 1
Hill, David Octavius, photographer, 1802-1870 1
Howell, John, writer and inventor, 1788-1863 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
ILAB 1
Irving, Washington, American Author, 1783-1859. 1
Jacob, Julius, artist, the elder, 1811-1882 1
James II, King of Great Britain and Ireland 1
Johnson, Thomas, surveyor, fl 1778 1
Kirkland, Elisa, campaigner for women's rights, secretary of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, fl. 1881 1
Kirkwood, R, cartographer, fl 1851 1
Law, family 1
Lindsay, David Alexander Robert, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres, 1900-1975 1
Lindsay, Patrick, politician, c 1686-1753 1
Lockhart, John Gibson, biographer of Scott, 1794-1854 1
Lucy Elizabeth, Bagnall (née Sherwood, daughter of Henry Sherwood of Lower Wick, Worcestershire) 1
Macdonald, Agnes Margaret, Editor of "Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary", fl 1951-1983 1
Mackintosh, family 1
Maitland, John, Duke of Lauderdale, 1616-1682 1
Masson, Emily Rosaline, campaigner for women's rights, secretary of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, fl 1881 1
McAll Mission, Paris 1
McLaren, Priscilla Bright, campaigner for women's rights, president of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, née Bright, 1815-1906 1
McVey, William, wright burgess, fl 1729-1735: recipient 1
Meadmore, C, Cornwall, fl 1940-2000 1
Mears, Norah, Lady Mears, wife of Sir Frank C., Architect, nee Geddes, 1887-1967 1
Milton, John, poet, 1608–1674. 1
Nasmyth, Alexander, painter, 1758–1840 1
National Library of Scotland 1
National Printing and Kindred Trades Federation 1
Newington Ward Liberal Association 1
Nixon, William, cartographer, fl 1843 1
Ord, Robert, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1700-1778 1
Paolozzi, Sir Eduardo Luigi, Knight, sculptor and printmaker, 1924-2005 1
Pratt, John Scott Boyd, author of "Ancestors of Thane and Boyd Pratt", Junior, b 1892: transcriber 1
Raeburn, Sir Henry, Knight, painter, 1756-1823 1
Ramsay, Allan, Edinburgh, fl 1710: recipient 1
Richardson, Mary, Carlowrie, Kirkliston, fl.1894-1895 1
Riddell, family 1
Scottish Liberal Party, political party 1
Shakespeare, William, playwright, 1564-1616. 1
Shaw, C, York, fl.1826-1865: collector 1
Sheet Metal Workers' Union, Edinburgh Branch 1
Shillabeer, Paul, photographer, fl 1948-1973: photographer 1
Somerville, Nancy 1
St Colm's College, 1894-2010 1
St. Bernard's Ward Unionist Association 1
Thomson, James, poet, 1700-1748. 1
Todd, George (bookseller, of York.) 1
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