Maps. Cartographic materials.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to graphic or photogrammetric representations of the Earth's surface or a part of it, including physical features and political boundaries, where each point corresponds to a geographical or celestial position according to a definite scale or projection. The term may also refer to similar depictions of other planets, suns, other heavenly bodies, or areas of the heavens. Maps are typically depicted on a flat medium, such as on paper, a wall, or a computer screen.
Found in 680 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2933-2953
Dates:
1540-1851.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12173
Scope and Contents
Includes titles, minutes, rentals, maps and architectural drawings. Also includes Cromartie Estate correspondence, 1887-1894.
Dates:
1823-1894 and undated.
Papers relating to James Johnston on his posting as Chief Administrative Officer of the British Army of the Rhine., 1986-1989
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/219-242
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1986-1989
Papers relating to the regimental service of James Johnston with the Royal Welch Fusiliers., 1965-1967
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/41-50
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1965-1967
Papers relating to the Territorial Force and National Reserve Movement, and to local volunteer affairs., 1913.
File
Identifier: MS.13392
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1913.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Papers concerning the Elliot family of Minto relating to local affairs.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the militia and volunteers in Roxburghshire.
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Correspondence and papers of the 4th Earl of Minto, chiefly in his capacity as Brigadier-General commanding the Scottish Border Volunteer Brigade.
Papers relating to tours and expeditions of James Wordie., 1865-1959.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12559/1-95
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
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:
Majority of material found within 1865-1959.
'Part of Aberdeen Shyre.', [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 34)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
'Part of Birss [i.e. Birse]'. , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 29)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
Part of the Back syde of Rosse.[6 rough sketchmaps of area around Lochs Maree, Torridon, Laxford, Ewe, Carron, Broom]., [?1583-?1596]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.9(4)
Dates:
[?1583-?1596]
Part of the Coast without the Harbour of Corunna. With soundings. 1808., 1808.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(40)
Scope and Contents
Title on verso.
Dates:
1808.
Passage of the 6th Division on the 13 December 1813 [near Villefranque]., 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(80)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates:
1813.
Passage of the Bidassoa and forward movement made by the left of the Allied Army on the 7th of October 1813., 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(88)
Passage of the River Douro on the 12th of May 1809 by the British Army under the command of …Sir A Wellesley, in face of the French Army, commanded by Marshal Soult. London: James Wyld, [n.d.], 1809.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(43)
Scope and Contents
"Drawn on zinc by H.C. Maguire from the original survey drawing by the late Lieut Col Sturgeon."
Dates:
1809.
Pen and ink coloured map and six architectural drawings of Grant Lodge, Elgin.
File
Identifier: Acc.8167
Dates:
1850.
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
1818-2011, undated.
Personal papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 17th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5112-5126
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Photocopies of "A Book of Maps of Finlayston Estate", 1770, and plans, 18th century to 19th century, of Ayrshire estates.
File
Identifier: Acc.4229
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Photocopies of items of David Livingstone belonging to his grandson Dr H F Wilson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10757-10765
Dates:
1854-1873.
Photocopies of plans of Argyll estates in the Inveraray district.
File
Identifier: Acc.4225
Dates:
late 18th century.
Photocopies of plans of the Ladykirk estate.
File
Identifier: Acc.4186
Dates:
circa 1830-circa 1840.
Photocopies of seven rough maps of areas south of Lake Tanganyika, south of Lake Nvasa (now Lake Malawi), and around Lake Banguelu, 1872-1873, and a facsimile of an ancient map of Northern Africa; with a list of the maps by Frank Debenham, 1954., 1872-1873, 1954.
File
Identifier: MS.10764
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1872-1873, 1954.