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Switzerland. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 8.0000. Latitude: 47.0000.

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Album compiled by Florence Bankes of watercolours and photographs of Italy, Scotland and Cornwall.

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Identifier: Acc.13733
Scope and Contents This album consists largely watercolours of places visited in Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, Devon and Cornwall between 1910 and 1924. Many are signed Florrie Bankes, or F.B. Places depicted include Loch Laggan, Loch Achray, Loch Katrine, Ackergill Tower, Balmacarra, the castle of Eilean Donan and Loch Duich, Taynuilt, Loch Etive, Ben Cruachan, Glenfinnan, Loch Shiel, the road to Mallaig, Gruinard, Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Lochaillort, Loch Feochan.The album also includes a number of...
Dates: 1910-1924, 1955.

Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.

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Identifier: Acc.13514
Scope and Contents

Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.

Dates: 1826-1865, undated

Diary of Henry Dyce Paterson.

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Identifier: Acc.10596
Scope and Contents

Records a tour of France and Switzerland.

Dates: 1864.

Diary of John Maxwell, of Baillieston.

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Identifier: Acc.7074
Scope and Contents

Detailing travels in France and Switzerland.

Dates: 1870-1871.

Grand tour journal of Robert Campbell of Auchmannoch

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Identifier: Acc.13919
Scope and Contents

The journal covers a Grand Tour through France, Switzerland and Italy untaken between 29 June 1829 and early August 1830.

Dates: 1829-1830

Journal (in Italian) of Arabella Graham Clark.

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Identifier: Acc.6046
Scope and Contents

Documenting an expedition in Switzerland.

Dates: 1835.

Journal of a continental tour of Andrew MacInnes.

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Identifier: Acc.13701
Scope and Contents Journal of a tour to France, Switzerland and Germany by Andrew MacInnes and `Richard`. At the back of the volume are accounts of expenses on the tour, mileages and a number of Scottish songs. The notebook is bound in a larger twentieth century volume together with a full transcript and a letter of 1928 of Andrew MacInnes, Saint William, Ontario, Canada, son of the diarist, to his nephew Clayton McCall donating the journal to him. Andrew MacInnes and his companion...
Dates: 1830

Letter of R C Chilton to Richard Corbould.

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Identifier: Acc.11996
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Letter concerns Chilton`s continental travels, mentioning especially, and with enthusiasm, the scenery of Switzerland.

Dates: 1792.

Scrapbook of Lady Isobel Scott

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Identifier: Acc.13515
Scope and Contents Scrapbook compiled by Lady Isobel Scott, consisting largely of autographs, drawings and photographs of places visited. Most are country houses including Monteviot, Woodburn, Beaulieu, Newbattle Abbey, Kiplin in Northumberland, Fountains Abbey, Bishop`s House, Kennington, Boughton House, Kettering, Falconhurst in Kent, Drumlanrig Castle and Douglas Castle. In addition, there are a number of entries relating to visits to Admiralty House, Devonport, a series of photographs taken on visit to...
Dates: 1899-1904

Travel diaries, 1861, of John Cairns concerning Belgium, Germany and Switzerland; with recollections, 1866, of the Synod of the French Evangelical Church at Nimes.

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Identifier: Acc.5944
Scope and Contents

Describing journeys to Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland in 1861, and Cairns' attendance at the Synod of the French Evangelical Churches at Nîmes, 1866.

Dates: 1861, 1866.

Travel diaries of T S Thomson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6856
Scope and Contents

Concerning trips to Switzerland, 1885, Spain, 1887, Tyrol, 1890, and Egypt, 1903.

Dates: 1885-1903.

Travel diary of an unknown Scotsman.

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Identifier: Acc.8518
Scope and Contents

Describes travels through the Low Countries, Germany and Switzerland, with companion James Skene of Rubislaw.

Dates: 1802.

Travel journal probably of William Edward Baxter.

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Identifier: Acc.10382
Scope and Contents

Records a tour through France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy.

Dates: 1844.