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Negatives. Photographs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Photographs in which the tones or colors are reversed from their appearance in nature, usually on a transparent support of celluloid, acetate, or on paper, intended for the purpose of producing positive prints. For finished prints in which tones or colors are reversed, see "negative prints." When a glass plate is painted or drawn on and a photographic print made from it, use "clichés-verre."

Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:

Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates: Circa 1925-2014.

Glass plate negative of a portrait of Seton Gordon., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7451 Box 24(25)
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

Dates: Undated.

Journals, notebooks and other papers of Sir James Mann Wordie, polar explorer, mostly relating to his tours and expeditions.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12559/1-99
Scope and Contents

Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).

Dates: 1865-1959.

Letters, 1841-1851, and photographic copies thereof, of the Earl of Crawford, styled Lord Lindsay, to James Dennistoun, and letters of Sir Coutts Lindsay and John Murray; with letters, 1951-1954, of Lord Crawford to Lindsay Fleming.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.5526/1-4
Scope and Contents

With photographs of Dennistoun`s letters, and 12 letters, 1951-1954, of Lord Crawford to Lindsay Fleming.

Dates: 1841-1851, 1951-1954.

Literary, artistic and personal correspondence and papers of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14602/1-431
Scope and Contents At the heart of this archive are the contents of the two filing cabinets which sat in Alasdair Gray’s study, and which have been catalogued here in their original filing order. These contain correspondence and papers relating to Alasdair Gray’s literary and artistic endeavours, as well as extensive personal correspondence and research materials.The most recent sections of the archive mainly relate to his last great work, his ‘paraphrasing’ of Dante’s ‘Divine comedy’, published by...
Dates: 1885-2019, undated.

Miscellaneous negatives, slides and contact sheets., [1950-2003].

 File
Identifier: Acc.13338/664
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous negatives, including Patrick Leigh Fermor in Hydra, [1954-1955]; and 'Spain', [1950-1975]. For related photographs of Hydra, see Acc.13338/631.Photographic slides of Kardamyli, circa 1991.Photographic slides, 1991, from the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Crete. For related photographs see Acc.13338/628.'Stereo realist' slides, [1960-1975], of Patrick Leigh Fermor and others, locations unknown.Contact...
Dates: [1950-2003].

Miscellaneous photographs, contact prints and negatives of people, including Iain Reekie, Gerard Kelly, David Hayman and Stephen Greenhorn., Circa 1990s.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12911/281
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: Circa 1990s.

Miscellaneous photographs, slides and negatives of George Waterston and Sons., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12235/267
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates: Undated.

Miscellaneous production photographs and negatives., Circa 1980-1993.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12911/280
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: Circa 1980-1993.