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Photograph albums.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Albums made up of mounted photographs, with or without identifying information.

Found in 183 Collections and/or Records:

Album containing photographs of South African scenes., [Circa 1900.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.10485
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: [Circa 1900.]

Album containing photographs of the voyage to, and scenes in, South Africa during the Boer War., [Circa 1900.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.10486
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: [Circa 1900.]

Album containing snapshots of landscapes., ?Late 19th century-?Early 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10484
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: ?Late 19th century-?Early 20th century.

Album entitled Bird Life I compiled by John P. Ritchie., 1930 - 1966

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13663/1
Scope and Contents

Album, 1930-1966, consisting largely of photographs taken by John P. Ritchie on St Kilda in 1930. Topics include the island`s residents and bird life. There are also photographs of John P. Ritchie at showings of his film of St Kilda and of family and social events.

Dates: 1930 - 1966

Album of Charles Murray of photographs of Alford, Aberdeenshire., Early 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.27277
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.

Dates: Early 20th century.

Album of Evelyne Radford, daughter of Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, Walthamstow, Essex, relating to country house parties in England and at Kildonan Lodge, Sutherland, to a cruise and a holiday in the South of France.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13196
Scope and Contents The album is a record of the weekend and holiday social life of the Radford family, friends of the Drummond family, the Viscounts Strathallan. Evelyn Radford was the spinster daughter of Mrs and Mrs Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, near Walthamstow, Essex. Places visited include: Swaylands House, Penshurt, Kent; West Garty Lodge and Kildonan, Sutherland; Hale End Manor, Essex; Alderwasley, Matlock, Derbyshire; Fornham Park, Bury St Edmunds; The Briars, Byfleet, Surrey; Cranborne Hall, Windsor...
Dates: 1893-1898.

Album of Jean Meldrum Barns-Graham containing photographs recording family life in Craigallian, Stirlingshire, and her family's emigration to New Zealand.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14112
Scope and Contents

Photograph and scrap album containing c.250 snapshots and fragments of poetry, and covering life at the Barns-Graham family's estate; the emigration of several members of the family to New Zealand in 1896; and life on the North Island, where the Barns-Grahams established the 'Strathblane Sheep Station' with the Guthrie Smith family.

Dates: 1896-1898.

Album of photographs of illuminated manuscripts by Phoebe Anna Traquair

 File
Identifier: Acc.13537
Scope and Contents

The compiler of the album is unknown.

Dates: Undated, late 19th century

Album of photographs of the burial cist near Midgard opened by John Hamilton Anderson., 1896.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13843/11
Content Description From the Collection:

Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers

Dates: 1896.

Album of photographs of the McLellan family, from Gusset House, Wellgate, Lanark., 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26460
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.

Dates: 19th century.

Album of photographs taken during 'A summer cruise in the Arctic Regions' by the ship ‘Erik’., 1876.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9505
Scope and Contents The album also contains a "Sketch of the Erik's Log . . . May 2 to Oct 30 1876" (folio 17).The album was presented to George L M Gibbs in 1877 by the (unidentified) gunner of the ship, who presumably compiled it. Excerpts from the 1871 log of the ‘Erik’ were published by R W Gray in an article entitled 'The Peterhead whalers' [no. XII] in the ‘Buchan observer’, 12 March 1929 (MS.9504, folio 77). The ‘Erik’, which was at that time a Dundee ship, was subsequently owned by Gray's...
Dates: 1876.

Album, undated, of Sir Charles Darlymple consisting chiefly of unidentified photographs probably of family and friends., Late 19th century-early 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25669
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

There are also photographs of Militia camps at Ayr attended by Sir Charles Dalrymple, Scottish and English churches and cathedrals, Oxford and Cambridge colleges, Eton, Harrow, Edinburgh, Inverness, and Stirling. With views taken in Devon, the Isle of Wight, the Lake District, and also in Europe, North America and Canada.

Dates: Late 19th century-early 20th century.