Photographs.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. (AAT) This heading was used in the NLS typescript manuscripts catalogue for all types of photographs, and for documents relating to photography. (NLS).
Found in 2852 Collections and/or Records:
Records of Brunswick Cricket Club, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9106
Scope and Contents
Includes minute books, three photographs, a scrapbook and address book.
Dates:
1915-1973.
Records of the Amalgamated Slaters` Society of Scotland.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.124- is now Acc.4707.
Dates:
1913-1963.
Records of the Edinburgh and Leith Consular Corps.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13348
Scope and Contents
Records, 1949 - 2011, of the Edinburgh and Leith Consular Corps, comprising correspondence, agendas and minutes of committee meetings and annual general meetings, ephemera, photographs and two floppy disks.
Dates:
1949 - 2011.
Records of the Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13305
Dates:
1881-2011.
Records of the Edinburgh People's Festival.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14155/1-42
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh People’s Festival (EPF) was founded in 2002 by Colin Fox as a ‘more accessible and inclusive cultural alternative’ to the Edinburgh International Festival. It presented a series of plays, lectures, concerts, pageants, ceilidhs, and art exhibitions in different venues around the city of Edinburgh in August and throughout the year until 2018. The EPF was established in part as a tribute to the festival of the same name organised by the Edinburgh Labour Festival Committee,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1954, 2003-2020.
Records of the Franco-Scottish Society of Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14396
Content Description
Agendas and minutes of Annual General Meetings and Council Meetings, with mounted photographs of former directors of the French Institute and former Presidents of the FSSS.
Dates:
1996-2019.
Records of the Royal Highland Yacht Club
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14054/1-8
Content Description
Minutes, correspondence, lists of members, newsletters and journals.
Dates:
1970-2021.
Records of the Scots Club, London.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9943
Scope and Contents
Includes:
four minute books, 1911-1930, 1936-1938
sketches, including one by James McBey
ten letters of J M Barrie, and two of Viscount Haldane
a cartoon and a photograh, 1911, depicting members
two letters, 1961, of James Bone, concerning relics of the Club.
Dates:
1911-1961.
Records of the Scottish Association for Mental Health and its predecessor bodies, containing minutes, organisational correspondence and other related papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7170/[Boxes] 1(1)-26(4)—[Volumes] 1-37
Dates:
1921-1976, undated.
Records of the Scottish Home Guards: East Scotland District, part II: Midlothian; West Lothian; Peeblesshire; Angus; Dundee; Perthshire; Kinross-shire Independent Company; Fife (including Kinross-shire); Number 1 Transport Column., 1940-1945.
File
Identifier: MS.3821
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The records consist partly of histories and statements composed after demobilization and partly of original war-diaries, orders, etc.
Dates:
1940-1945.
Records of the Scottish Home Guards: general account of the whole organization, orders from Scottish Command Headquarters, and press-cuttings relating to the various districts., 1940-1945.
File
Identifier: MS.3816
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The records consist partly of histories and statements composed after demobilization and partly of original war-diaries, orders, etc.
Dates:
1940-1945.
Records of the Scottish Home Guards: North Highland District, Orkney and Zetland: Ross; Caithness; Inverness-shire (including Nairnshire); Hebrides; Moray; Banffshire; Aberdeenshire (including Kincardineshire); Orkney; Zetland., 1940-1945.
File
Identifier: MS.3817
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The records consist partly of histories and statements composed after demobilization and partly of original war-diaries, orders, etc.
Dates:
1940-1945.
Records of the Scottish Working People`s History Trust.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13547
Dates:
c. 1990s-2013
Records of the Scottish Youth Hostels Association
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13372
Scope and Contents
Annual Reports, minutes, correspondence, reports, property records and photographs, 1931-2012, undated, of and relating to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.Following preliminary meetings in 1930s, the Scottish Youth Hostels Association was formed in Edinburgh in1931at a public meeting chaired by Lord Salvesen ‘To help all, but especially young people of limited means living and working in industrial and other areas, to know use and appreciate the Scottish countryside and...
Dates:
1931-2000
Red photo album containing postcards and photographs, mostly of Scottish scenery., 1956-1997, undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14602/348
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some postcards are of or to Alasdair Gray but most are blank on the reverse, or are of unrelated correspondents and were presumably purchased second-hand.
Dates:
1956-1997, undated.
Red ring binder containing photographs featuring public and business activities of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/53
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Professional and business correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, containing some material on overseas travel.
Red ring binder with pre-war photographs of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, or illustrating his hawking and ornithological interests., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/33
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, and the Buchan family.
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Photographs and drawing of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Rehearsal script, programme and photographs relating to a production of 'Daphne Laureola', by James Bridie, at Pitlochry Festival Theatre., 1988.
File
Identifier: Acc.13182/41
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The productions covered in this section should not be taken as a comprehensive listing of every play in which Miss Macarthur performed – this is far from being the case.
Dates:
1988.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of and concerning Edith Macarthur, actor, including playscripts, production photographs, press cuttings and programmes.
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Programmes, photographs, scripts, press cuttings and other papers concerning the career of Edith Macarthur in theatre.
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Papers relating to productions of the 1988 season at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).
File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6);
(ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48);
(iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11);
(iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50);
(v) A...
Dates:
[1893, or after]-1918.
Replica cast in wax of the medal for sealing wax awarded to George Waterson and Sons at the Great Exhibition of 1851; with six photographs, undated, of this medal, the 1756 silver medal and another awarded in Paris., [1851], undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.12235/471
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:
[1851], undated.
Reports, with photographs, of engineering work in Nigeria., 1938.
File
Identifier: Acc.3617/15
Dates:
1938.
Research notes, lecture notes, correspondence, and other academic and professional papers of Francis Ian Gregory Rawlins, physicist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10067/1-68
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks and scientific and personal papers.
Dates:
1916-1975.
Research papers of Dorothy Dunnett, relating to 'The house of Niccolò' novel series., 1974-2001, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12135/179-319
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates:
1974-2001, undated.
Research papers of John McGill.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13532
Scope and Contents
Research papers of John McGill primarily related to his research for his books `A History of the House of Loudoun and Associated Families`, 1995 and `On Pursuit of William Wallace`, 1999.
The collection consists of copies of original documents, various typescripts, correspondence with a wide range of heritage institutions and several files of photographs of places in Scotland associated with William Wallace.
Dates:
1996-2003 and undated.