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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 2843 Collections and/or Records:

Ten letters and a postcard of Leonora Blanche Lang, née Alleyne, to her niece Margaret Munro and her husband William. With a notebook and photographs.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13025
Scope and Contents

Notebook contains series of sketches titled "Country Conversations"; photographs of Leonora and Andrew Lang.

Dates: circa 1880-1933.

Ten photographs and two index photos including photographs of Donald Dewar at education events in Dundee and Glasgow., 1999.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14406/24
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Minutes, accounts, correspondence and other related material for Connect and its predecessors.

Initially the organisation was the Council of Parent and Parent-Teacher Associations of Scotland, but was renamed as the Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC) in 1976. It was further renamed as Connect in 2018.

The organisation promotes family engagement in education.

Dates: 1999.

`The Bass Rock and Reminiscences of Days spent on it with Harold Raburn [sic] By William Douglas, 1929`.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13446
Scope and Contents

At the back of the volume, are notes on the history of the Bass Rock. A letter of Ruth Raeburn to William Douglas, 1930, press cuttings and articles are pasted in or loosely enclosed.

Dates: 1929 - 1929

The Scottish Library Association (SLA) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) Archive.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13656/1-129
Scope and Contents The archive contains the minutes, correspondence, committee papers, working group papers and reports produced by the Scottish Library Association (SLA) from 1912-2005, before it became the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) in 2005. Also included are photographs from various SLA conferences, video cassette tapes and CD-ROMs produced by the AV Scot Archive which is the Scottish branch of the Library Association Audio Visual Group. The...
Dates: 1912-2006.

Thirty-five black and white photographs and a sketch for 'The house of Elrig', by Gavin Maxwell., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10555/37
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: Undated.

Thirty miscellaneous black and white photographs., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10555/70
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: Undated.

Thirty-seven photographs and a letter relating to 'Raven seek thy brother', by Gavin Maxwell., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10555/55
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: Undated.

Thirty water-colours and drawings by John Harden., 1809-1810.

 File
Identifier: MS.8866
Scope and Contents

The majority of the water-colours and drawings are landscapes, chiefly executed in the Edinburgh area or in Aberdour, Fife, during an extended visit to Scotland in 1809-1810, but there are also two drawings of fishwives, perhaps at Newhaven, and another entitled 'Bottling Whiskey' (see MS.8872).

Nine black and white photographs of landscapes now in the National Gallery of Scotland are also included.

Dates: 1809-1810.

Three group photographs of employees of George Waterston and Sons., 1899, 1943, 1956.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12235/275
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: 1899, 1943, 1956.

Three identical photographs, taken in Melbourne, Australia, of an unidentified man, probably James Lorimer, eldest son of Professor James Lorimer., 1880s-1890s.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8695/146
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates: 1880s-1890s.

Three large format photographs relating to George Waterston and Sons., 1899, 1970s, circa 1990.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12235/282
Scope and Contents

Contains photographs of:

Waterston staff group, 1899. Craighall Road, mid-1970s. Press at Warriston, circa 1990, taken by Brian W Turnbull.

Dates: 1899, 1970s, circa 1990.

Three letters of George Tancred of Weens tipped into a copy of his ‘Rulewater and its people’ (Edinburgh, 1907), presented by him to J Lindsay Hilson.

 File
Identifier: MS.9044
Scope and Contents

The letters are tipped in on guards inside the front cover. On one of the letters is pasted a signed photograph of George Tancred of Weens.

There is a presentation note, 1907, on the flyleaf of the book.

Tipped in inside the back cover is a cutting from the ‘Jedburgh Gazette’, dated 11 January 1908, containing a review of the book.

Dates: 1907-1909.

Three photographic portraits of Laurence Oliphant; with a photograph of a room in Oliphant`s house in Haifa, Palestine., ? 1860s-? 1880s.

 File
Identifier: MS.42515
Scope and Contents

Each photograph has an annotation on the verso :

(f.) "Laurence Oliphant" taken by "Herbert Watkins, Photographer, 215, Regent Street" ;

(f.) "Enlarged from C. de V. photograph of Laurence Oliphant" [copy];

(f.) "Laurence Oliphant" [copy]; and,

(f.) "Laurence Oliphant`s house at Haifa, Palestine. Rev. Haslett Smith seated".

Dates: ? 1860s-? 1880s.

Three photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and unidentified groups, possibly relating to the Honfleur conference 'pour le Paix'., 1920s.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8695/170
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates: 1920s.

Three photographs relating to South Africa., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8695/140
Scope and Contents

Contains:

One photograph, undated, possibly of James Lorimer, eldest son of Professor James Lorimer, who settled and died in South Africa in 1898.

One photograph, undated, of Bathurst Street, Grahamstown, with its war memorial.

One photograph, undated, of another war memorial in the cemetery in which James Lorimer was buried.

Dates: Undated.

Three photographs, two of oriental vases, one of Imperial robes., 1902.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9872/155
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Containing the correspondence, accounts and papers of three Caithness families, the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower. The papers span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The bulk of the papers relate to the Ulbster estates in Caithness, under the Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Williamson's and Captain David Henderson's respective factorships. There are letters relating to The Caithness Fencible Regiment and the Caithness Highlander...
Dates: 1902.