Christmas cards.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Greeting cards that are sent or given as expressions of goodwill at Christmastime. The first Christmas cards were made in the 1840s in England. The tradition is followed in all English-speaking countries and the practice is growing in many others.
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
17 Christmas cards and letters of William McLaren, artist, to Winifred Hamilton-Meikle. Many of the cards are original artworks.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13183
Dates:
1953-1973.
Christmas airgraph received by Dr Rose M Clark, as a school girl in Rhodesia, from her aunt in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12977
Dates:
1943.
Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.
File
Identifier: Acc.13602
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.
It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.
Dates:
1989-2009
Christmas cards of Naomi Mitchison, with woodcuts of Gertrude Hermes and others.
File
Identifier: Acc.4845
Scope and Contents
With typescript and copy of memorandums on National Parks, Highland education and museums of Mitchison.
Dates:
circa 1940-circa 1969.
Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.
Dates:
1962-1976, undated.
Designers` Christmas cards received by Ruari McLean.
Series
Identifier: Dep.362
Dates:
1881, 1938-1982, 1990-2002, and undated.
Letter and Christmas cards of Edith Simon to Dr Joan Basden, with two photographs.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14192
Scope and Contents
Edith Simon [Mrs Edith Reeve] and Dr Joan Basden were housed at Mortonhall House, Edinburgh, with their husbands, Dr Eric Reeve and Eric Basden, who were attached to the National Animal Breeding and Genetics Research Organisation in the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. The folder contains five 'paper-cut' Christmas cards, 1967-1969 and n.d., handmade by Edith Simon for Joan Basden and her family; letter, 30 August 1957, on the occasion of Joan and Eric...
Dates:
1948-1969.
Letters and cards of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Christine Shaw.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12854
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of Wild Hawthorn Press books, art-works, private view cards and other papers relating to Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Dates:
circa 1992-2000.
Papers of George Mackay Brown, including letters, postcards, and Christmas cards.
File
Identifier: Acc.14439
Dates:
1961-1968.
Papers of James Ramsay Macdonald and Bailie George Kerr of Glasgow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13461
Scope and Contents
The papers provide an insight into the personal and political relationship between James Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937) and Bailie George Kerr of Glasgow (fl.1860-1942) over a period of nearly three decades. They also illustrate the development of the early Socialist movement in Scotland, trade unionism and Glasgow local politics. As well as letters of James Ramsay Macdonald, the archive includes correspondence of prominent Socialists such as John and Katherine Bruce Glasier and leading...
Dates:
1895-1970s.
Playscripts of Charles Gairdner and Ada F Kay.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11617
Scope and Contents
Includes related papers.
Dates:
1955-1962.
Poems of George Mackay Brown, including acrostic poems, and other poems included in Christmas cards.
File
Identifier: Acc.14441
Dates:
1977-1986.
Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, photographs and proofs of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13681
Scope and Contents
1). Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, press-cuttings and proofs, 1896-ca.1960, undated.i. Postcards, 1896-1903, undated.ii. Christmas card, early 20th century.iii. Typescript verse of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, undated.iv. Press-cuttings, 1949, undated.v. Proofs, 1956, of `Literary Landmarks of Scotland`, articles by Isobel Wylie Hutchison for the `National Geographic` magazine.2. Photographs, ca.1900-1962,...
Dates:
1896-1962, undated.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21248-21249
Dates:
1719, 1929-1933, undated.