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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 84 Collections and/or Records:

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

Albums compiled by John P. Ritchie and related material.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13663/1-4
Scope and Contents

Two albums of and relating to John P. Ritchie largely concerning ornithology especially of Saint Kilda. With a bronze plaque for 1st Prize in Beginners Lantern Slides, 1930, awarded to John P Ritchie by the Paisley Philosophical Institution and his inscribed copy of John Morrell McWilliam`s `The Birds of Bute`, 1927.

Dates: 1923-1974, undated.

Albums relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13649
Scope and Contents Scrapbook relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905. The scrapbook includes: Mossman`s commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Edinburgh City Volunteer Artillery, 1893; 17 letters, 1902-1905, of Mossman to his father and `Isabella`, concerning his journey and experiences on board ship, destinations on his journey including Kngstown in Ireland, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, Port Stanley, the South Orkneys and Buenos Aires; a letter of William...
Dates: 1893-1938

Annotated photograph albums of the rock climbing and mountaineering activities of Harry MacRobert.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14275/1-6
Scope and Contents MacRobert was a keen climber and a member of both the Scottish Mountaineering Club and the Alpine Club, becoming Vice-President of the latter. MacRobert also edited 'The Central Highlands' by the Scottish Mountaineering Club.The albums record climbs made in Scotland, England, Wales and the Alps.The albums include diary entries detailing the climb, people, transport and weather. Some of the entries are annotated with references to the 'Scottish Mountaineering Club...
Dates: 1898-1945.

Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Robert Murdoch Smith.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9569
Scope and Contents

Concerning Murdoch Smith`s archaeological and diplomatic activities, as used by W K Dickson in his "Life" (1901).

Dates: 1855-1902.

Correspondence and papers of John Strain.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9205
Scope and Contents

Concerning mining in Ayrshire and railways in Argentina.

Dates: circa 1880-1900.

Correspondence, four diaries, two photograph albums and other papers of Rawdon Goodier.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11178
Scope and Contents

Concerns climbing in the UK, the Alps and the Andes.

Dates: circa 1950-1983.

Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents

The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.

Dates: 1896-1977.

Drawings, photographs, maps, plans and prints, largely from the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition devised by Sir Patrick Geddes.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13319
Scope and Contents The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition was originally conceived in conjunction with the first Town Planning Conference of 1910 organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects, at Burlington House, London, to mark the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. Patrick Geddes was asked to be its Director and used it to demonstrate his method of city survey. After the conference, Geddes toured the exhibition to cities interested in learning about the latest developments in...
Dates: 1649-1919, undated