Scrapbooks
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:
Albums relating to Robert Cockburn Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13649/1-3
Scope and Contents
Robert Cockburn Mossman was a meterologist. He became one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, when he was nominated aged 20. Mossman worked at the Glen Coe Weather Station, before being recruited to join the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition in 1902. After another expedition to the Arctic, Mossman emigrated to Argentina, dying in Buenos Aires in 1940.There are here three separate volumes relating to Robert Cockburn Mossman: a scrap book relating to...
Dates:
1893-1938
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Archives and Manuscripts
Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world., 1841-1880.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.3.14-50.5.6
Scope and Contents
The volumes reflect, in his detailed descriptions, watercolours and sketches, Campbell’s interest in people, art, science and sport. In the later journals, his interest in geology and meteorology predominates, with particular emphasis on the effects of glaciation observed in various countries.
The sketches usually occur in chronological sequence with notes below each giving the date, place and other additional information.
Dates:
1841-1880.
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Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Douglas of Cavers papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7488
Scope and Contents
1. Scrapbook inscribed `James Malcolm Palmer Douglas. This book started by his father and continued by his mother, 1948`, with pasted in letters, household accounts and bills for garden seeds, genealogical charts, invitations, menu cards, press cuttings and photographs, 1712-1948, undated.2. Plan of the Cavers Estate the property of James Douglas Esq., 19th century.3. Plan of the Cavers Estate, 19th century.4. Cavers Estate Woods, record of plantations,...
Dates:
18th century to 20th century.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Four scrapbooks and six golfing programmes of John Panton.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9752
Dates:
1933-1986.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Four scrapbooks of Admiral Lord Mark Kerr.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9527
Scope and Contents
Contains watercolours and pen and pencil sketches, mostly grotesques and cartoons but with some landscape and architectural drawings.
Dates:
circa 1815-1840.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, mostly relating to his historical research.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12488
Dates:
1933-2003.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Journal and scrapbook of John Francis Campbell combined, kept mainly during his visit to Paris at the time of the Siege in 1871, and while travelling round the west coast of Scotland which is described in letters to his family in August and September 1871., 1870-1871.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.6
Scope and Contents
Other items of interest in the volume include material regarding the marriage of Lord Lorne and Princess Louise on 21 March 1871, and on traction engines.
There are two printed pamphlets by Campbell, ‘On Current British Mythology and Oral Traditions’ and ‘Notes on Glacial Phenomena of the Hebrides’.
Dates:
1870-1871.
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Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Journal and scrapbook of John Francis Campbell in which he mainly describes his travels in Ireland from July to October 1872., 1872.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.7
Scope and Contents
The journal is illustrated with watercolour and pencil sketches, photographs and rock-rubbings. Throughout, Campbell stresses the geological aspects of the places visited, particularly with regard to glaciation, and at the end of the volume his printed pamphlet ‘On the Glaciation of Ireland’ is inserted. There are also several letters to Campbell from various correspondents, 1872, and at the beginning of the volume several press cuttings relating to Gaelic literature and the Ossianic...
Dates:
1872.
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Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Letters, scrapbooks, photographs and papers of James Scott, baker, Edinburgh, and of other members of the Scott family, of Scott`s Bakers Shop, Broughton Street, Edinburgh and Scott-Lyon Ltd, Bakers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12771
Dates:
1840-1969.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Newspaper cuttings and ephemera relating to W.B. Paton., 1926-1937.
File
Identifier: Acc.13656/107
Newspapers cuttings and ephemera relating to W.B. Paton., 1951-1967.
File
Identifier: Acc.13656/108
Newspapers cuttings and ephemera relating to W.B. Paton., 1964-1978.
File
Identifier: Acc.13656/109
Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography., 1848-1885.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.7-50.7.8
Dates:
1848-1885.
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Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Papers of and concerning Lex McLean, mostly relating to his career in entertainment.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13700/1-19
Dates:
Circa 1940-1980.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Papers of Arnold Kemp, Robert Kemp, and relating to the Kemp family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13323
Scope and Contents
Papers, circa 1960-2002, of Arnold Kemp, with papers and correspondence, circa 1851-1995, relating to Robert Kemp and the Kemp family.
Dates:
circa 1851-2002.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Papers of John P Watson and his son, both Writers to the Signet.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10501
Scope and Contents
Papers include letters, scrapbooks and notes, many concerning the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Dates:
1906-1994.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Papers of John Telfer Dunbar, costume historian.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12251
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of William Wilson, tartan manufacturer, Bannockburn, circa 1800-1840.
Dates:
circa 1940-1990.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Papers of Katie Horsman, potter.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11787/1-74
Dates:
1933-1999, undated.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Papers of Leith Franklin Cricket Club.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10361
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes, accounts, scrapbooks and an annotated presentation copy of Cicer`s "Cato Major" (1744).
Dates:
1744, 1932-1988.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Papers of Philip D Thomson mostly relating to Hibernian Football Club.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10691/1-105
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.
Dates:
1933-1993.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Papers of the Edinburgh International Festival Society, containing press cuttings and scrap books.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11518/1-152
Dates:
1967-1997.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Papers of the family of Cathcart of Cathcart, Lords and Earls Cathcart and Lords Greenock, including the papers of Major-General the Honourable Sir George Cathcart.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12686
Dates:
Late 14th century-circa 1905.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Papers of the Waldensian Missions Aid Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13298
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1865-1975, of the Waldensian Missions Aid Society, including annual reports, minutes, financial papers and glass slides.
Dates:
1865-1975.
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Archives and Manuscripts
Personal and political papers of Eustace George Willis, Labour MP and Minister of State for Scotland, with some photographs and memorabilia.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13208
Scope and Contents
Personal and political papers, memorabilia and photographs, 1911–1976, of Labour politician Eustace George Willis (1903–1987). Willis was educated at the City of Norwich Secondary School. He served in the Royal Navy from 1919 until 1930. He was a bookseller and lecturer for the National Council of Labour Colleges from 1932 until 1964. Willis was elected as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North in the 1945 General Election but was defeated in 1950. He contested again Edinburgh...
Dates:
1911-1976.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts