Advertisements.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Public notices or paid announcements, especially those in print.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Advertisements for clothing, confectionary, flowers, furniture, jewellery, photographs, and press cuttings, sent to Naomi Mitchison on the announcement of her marriage.
File
Identifier: Acc.6213
Dates:
1916.
Approximately 120 glass slides used for advertising purposes at the Corn Exchange Cinema, Alnwick.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.281
Dates:
Circa 1918-1953.
Correspondence and papers concerning the claim to the baronetcy of Foveran by Arthur Forbes, 9th of Culloden.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21253-21260A
Dates:
1476-1910.
Gude Cause Archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13293/1-240
Scope and Contents
Electronic archive, digital images, sound and video recordings, and related ephemera of the Gude Cause project, 2008-2010. The project’s main objective was to celebrate the centenary of the Women’s Social and Political Union procession which took place in Edinburgh on 10 October 1909. Furthermore, in the light of a report published before the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Gude Cause sought to reenergize women’s participation in Scottish political life.The archive charts the...
Dates:
2006-2010
Letters of George Richardson and of Sir David Wilkie.
File
Identifier: MS.3812
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Two letters of George Richardson to Archbald Shiells, Inveresk, written from Rome, 1761-1762. Richardson, who complains of the harshness of Mr Adam, his master, is evidently the apprentice George who was with James Adam in Italy during those years, and may be the architect, author of the ‘New Vitruvius Britannicus’ (London, 1802-1808) - see John Swarbrick, ‘Robert Adam and his brothers’ (London, [1916]), pages 94, 142. Shiells was a patron of...
Dates:
1761-1762, 1827-1835.
Papers concerning McEwen and Company, perambulator manufacturers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5552
Scope and Contents
Including cashbook, orderbook, brass plates and advertising literature.
Dates:
circa 1891-circa 1915.
Papers concerning Thomas Jones, Edmund Morse Jones and George Sinclair Williamson.
File
Identifier: Acc.3181
Dates:
1786-1855.
Photocopy of "Advertis-ment for Burning the Articles of the Union at Dumfries", in the hand of Robert Mylne.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9531
Dates:
? 1706.
Printed advertisement for two lectures by the Reverend James Barclay.
File
Identifier: Acc.3666
Dates:
1810.
Production archive of Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13016
Scope and Contents
Includes playscripts, photographs, reviews and publicity material.
Dates:
circa 1990-2008.
Speeches and verses of various members of the Pantheon Society, an Edinburgh debating club; and papers concerning the activities of James Graham, quack doctor.
File
Identifier: MS.9834
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Speeches and verses, 1780-1792, undated, of various members of the Pantheon Society. Unlike societies of literati such as the Select Society, the Pantheon opened its meetings to non-members, charging from sixpence upwards for admission, and drew large audiences - see J A Fairley, 'The Pantheon: an old Edinburgh debating society', in ‘Book of the Old Edinburgh Club’, volume i (1908), pages 47-75, and D D McElroy, ‘A century of Scottish clubs’ (privately...
Dates:
1780-1792, undated.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Two ration cards, 1918, with other papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.5271
Scope and Contents
Including:
1. postcard of Everest Expedition, 1924
2. typescript copy, 1926, of Strike Issue no 6 of Aberdeen Evening Express.
Dates:
1918-1926.