Postcards.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Cards on which a message may be written or printed for mailing without an envelope, usually at a lower rate than that for letters in envelopes.
Found in 397 Collections and/or Records:
Papers concerning Francis Darwin: mostly letters of publishers, printers, etc., to John Murray, publishers, concerning Francis Darwin`s works. Also included are papers concerning Francis Darwin`s interests in the works and in the copyright of his father, Charles Darwin., 1885-1899.
File
Identifier: MS.40312
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The incoming correspondence consists of letters of individuals and companies sent to John Murray, publishers, mostly relating to the business, but also including private letters. The correspondence largely covers the period from the 1760s to the 1920s. Where enclosures exist, they have been kept with their original letters. This series contains most of the extant letters received by the publishing house up to the 1920s, but others are to be found throughout the archive. One...
Dates:
1885-1899.
Papers concerning Scottish football.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9979
Scope and Contents
Includes:
"Scottish Football Annual, 1875-6"
"Constitution and Rules of the Scottish Football Association" (1873), with manuscript notes
five notebooks, 1867-1903, of Sir George Graham, on Scottish football
21 postcards, 1904-1912, of Scottish football teams and players
typescripts and newspaper cuttings, 1931-1933 and undated, on Scottish football
Dates:
1867-1933 and undated.
Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8695/1-336
Scope and Contents
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:
1786-1983.
Papers formerly loosely enclosed in MSS.21072-21095: Diaries of John Chisholm., 1889-1925.
File
Identifier: MS.21096
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of diaries of John Chisholm for January-March 1908, December 1908-January 1909, 11 November 1918, and June-September 1925; a translation of Horace, 'Odes' III 30, 1889; a postcard, 1915, of Walwyn Tyson from internment in Germany; a photograph of Jedburgh Abbey; two sketches, one dated 1920; and press cuttings, 1889-1928, chiefly obituaries.
Dates:
1889-1925.
Papers mainly relating to Andrew Haig Hamilton and bowling., 1901-1950
Series
Identifier: Acc.14614/1-4
Scope and Contents
The papers here demonstrate the international regard which Hamilton achieved within the bowling community. The series includes correspondence, photographs and postcards.
Dates:
1901-1950
Papers of Ben Shaw.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6471/1-2
Scope and Contents
Including letters, 1894-1903, of J Keir Hardie, J Ramsay Macdonald, Robert Blatchford and George Bernard Shaw to Ben Shaw.
Dates:
1893-1922.
Papers of Elizabeth S Haldane., 1879-1937, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20224-20229
Dates:
1879-1937, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane, preceded by correspondence of and papers concerning his mother, Mrs Mary E Haldane and his maternal uncle, Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and followed by notebooks and other papers of his sister Elizabeth S Haldane.
Papers of George Mackay Brown, including letters, postcards, and Christmas cards.
File
Identifier: Acc.14439
Dates:
1961-1968.
Papers of James Ramsay Macdonald and Bailie George Kerr of Glasgow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13461
Scope and Contents
The papers provide an insight into the personal and political relationship between James Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937) and Bailie George Kerr of Glasgow (fl.1860-1942) over a period of nearly three decades. They also illustrate the development of the early Socialist movement in Scotland, trade unionism and Glasgow local politics. As well as letters of James Ramsay Macdonald, the archive includes correspondence of prominent Socialists such as John and Katherine Bruce Glasier and leading...
Dates:
1895-1970s.
Papers of John Rennie concerning various bridges in places beginning Cr-W., 1768-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.19772
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Cramond, report, 1821 (folio 1);
(ii) Datchet, memorandum, 1801 (folio 3);
(iii) Glasgow, correspondence and reports, 1768, 1798-1799, 1817 (folio 4);
(iv) Kelso, correspondence and reports, 1797-1803, undated and photographs, 20th century; for a copy of the Daniell print of the bridge, see MS.19964 (folio 45);
(v) Kirkstall, memorandum, correspondence, and sections, 1817-1820 (folio 94);
(vi) London Bridge, correspondence, 1821, 1830-1832, with 20th century...
Dates:
1768-early 20th century.
Papers of Majorie Shaw, journalist and teacher, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.12250
Dates:
circa 1916-1977.
Papers of Patrick Balfour, 2nd Baron Kinross, and of his wife Caroline Balfour, 2nd Lady Kinross., 1893-1966, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7638/21-29
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including:
letters to John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross
correspondence of the 2nd Baron to his wife
correspondence of the 3rd Baron to his mother
with Johnstone-Douglas and Balfour family papers.
Dates:
1893-1966, undated.
Papers of Robert di Falco, St Andrews.
File
Identifier: Acc.12028
Scope and Contents
Includes field diary, memoirs and photographs concerning di Falco`s service in the Italian Army, 1918-1921. Also includes Italian war service medals (framed) and material concerning Gabriele d`Annunzio`s seizure of Fiume, 1919.
Dates:
1918-1947
Papers of Samuel Robin Spark.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13443
Scope and Contents
Family and personal papers, circa 1900-2007, of Samuel Robin Spark. Comprising mainly letters of his mother, Muriel Spark, to her son and to her mother, Sarah Camberg. The correspondence includes some letters of Penelope Jardine; also letters of Martin Stannard, Muriel Spark`s biographer. In 1981, Robin Spark began keeping copies of his outgoing letters to his mother; these are filed into the chronological sequence. With family papers, correspondence and documents gathered by Robin Spark in...
Dates:
1961-2006.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)
Dates:
1900-1977, undated.
Papers of Thomas Hannan of Maryhill, relating to his conscientious objection during the First World War, and subsequent imprisonment in Dartmoor.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13388
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the conscientious objection of Thomas Hannan of Maryhill, Glasgow, 1916-1926. Included are papers relating to his tribunal hearings and subsequent imprisonment, including a letter written from HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, a letter detailing his removal to Dartmoor prison, programmes relating to concert productions by inmates at Dartmoor, postcards sent from the prison to Hannan’s family, and his military discharge certificate. Particularly poignant are the letters between...
Dates:
1916-1926.
Papers relating to tours and expeditions of James Wordie., 1865-1959.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12559/1-95
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1865-1959.
Personal and political papers of John McDiarmid Airlie with printed papers and photographs of Robert McGregor Airlie and some printed songbooks and music.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13203
Scope and Contents
Personal and political papers, 1899-1953, of John McDiarmid Airlie (1886-19), Labour Councillor and Parliamentary candidate to Ayr Burghs, related to his involvement in the Trade Union and Labour movement.The collection includes some interesting correspondence from Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937) and from Labour Ministers of Fuel and Power Hugh Gaitskell (1906-1963) and Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (1889-1982). It also includes some printed papers and...
Dates:
1899-1960.
Personal papers, including correspondence, of Robert Blair Wilkie and his family., 1932-2001.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12765/29-42
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie (1913–1998) and his family. Robert Blair Wilkie was the curator of the Old Glasgow Museum 1965-1998 (formerly known as the People’s Palace Museum). Active member of the Scottish Nationalist movement (joined Scottish Nationalist Association under John MacCormick in 1937), in 1945 he was the SNP candidate in West Renfrewshire, and in the following year he was appointed editor of the Scots Independent...
Dates:
1932-2001.
Personal papers of James Johnston., 1939-2006
Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/384-569
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1939-2006
Photocopies of 41 letters and postcards of E M Forster to Lionel Jackson.
File
Identifier: Acc.6797
Scope and Contents
On personal and literary matters.
Dates:
1951-1961.
Photocopy of a postcard of James Leslie Mitchell to the artist, Charles Bannerman, concerning the illustration of 'Cloud Howe'., 1934.
Item
Identifier: MS.26109, folios 57-58
Dates:
1934.
Photocopy of a postcard of James Scott Skinner to Tom MacDonald.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7887
Scope and Contents
Containing a score by Scott Skinner of the tune, "The Weeping Birches of Kilmorack".
Dates:
1909.
Photograph album, photographs and postcards of Mr and Mrs John Hirons, Birmingham, of holidays in Scotland, England and North America.
File
Identifier: Acc.12505
Dates:
1952-1967.
Photographs and postcards of Andrew H Hamilton and W G Grace bowling., 1903, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.14614/2
Scope and Contents
There are three picture postcards here with images of Andrew H Hamilton and W G Grace bowling. One of the postcards is annotated stating that the images are from "the first International Contest, held July 1903.
Also included is a photograph of both men.
Dates:
1903, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, relating to Andrew Haig Hamilton largely concerning bowling, including correspondence, an illustrated bound letter of appreciation, photographs and press cuttings.
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Papers mainly relating to Andrew Haig Hamilton and bowling.