Posters.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notices intended to be posted to advertise, promote, or publicize an activity, cause, product, or service; also, decorative, mass-produced prints intended for hanging. For small printed notices or advertisements intended for distribution by hand, use ""handbills"" .
Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:
Papers collected by the Scottish Music Hall Society concerning the history of music hall.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11446
Scope and Contents
Includes posters, programmes, photographs and scripts.
Dates:
20th century.
Papers concerning the Old Glasgow Museum (formerly the People's Palace Museum)., 1944-1978.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12765/1-4
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:
1944-1978.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts, correspondence, and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie and his family.
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Professional papers of Robert Blair Wilkie, mostly concerning organisations, clubs and societies, including the Old Glasgow Museum and Scottish National Party.
Papers of Janet Adam Smith relating to the biography 'John Buchan'., 1965-2015.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/99-101
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
1965-2015.
Papers of John Maxwell Geddes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14147
Content Description
John Maxwell Geddes, composer, was born in Glasgow on 26 May 1941, the son of John ('Jack') Drummond Geddes and Thomasina Geddes, née Maxwell. He grew up in the Maryhill area of Glasgow and attended Woodside Secondary School and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). He also studied with the Danish pianist and composer Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000) in Copenhagen.Geddes was awarded the fellowship of the RSAMD, the Creative...
Dates:
1951-2018.
Papers of Kathleen Jamie for 1995, including worksheets, typescripts and related material., 1994-1996.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11599/42-46
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Kathleen Jamie was born in Johnstone in 1962, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. These papers date from the period 1988 to 1997. During this time, Kathleen Jamie was writer in residence to various organisations, including the Workington Docks Project and the University of Dundee, and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Scottish-Canadian Fellowship in 1994. The collection includes papers relating to the following published or broadcast works:The Golden Peak (London:...
Dates:
1994-1996.
Papers of Lucinda Mackay concerning publicity for her work, 1974-2012
File
Identifier: MS.50808
Scope and Contents
This file contains press releases, newspaper and magazine cuttings, copy cuttings, and a small handful of letters in which various exhibitions and published works by Lucinda Mackay are referenced. Social events are also noted in society pages. The file also contains five publicity posters for Mackay exhibitions, including those for Prints and Drawings of East London (1974); Paintings and Drawings by Lucinda Mackay (1985); Drawings, Paintings and Cartoons by Lucinda Mackay (1998);...
Dates:
1974-2012
Papers of Nancy Somerville comprising material produced by Edinburgh City Council and several associated community groups in relation to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13653/1-6
Scope and Contents
Papers of Nancy Somerville relating to community learning and development events concerning the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014. The collection is comprised of items relating to events organised and facilitated by members of the Edinburgh Community Learning and Development Partnership and associated groups, as well as collated material relating to other events with a referendum-focus. Also included are journal articles relating to community learning and development events around the...
Dates:
2012-2015.
Papers of the "Keep Our Scottish Battalions" Campaign.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11230
Dates:
1991-1994.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, relating to Keith lectures., 1906-1970, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.7619/100-102
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including billet books, printed "Transactions", minute book, recent administrative correspondence and other earlier documents.
Dates:
1906-1970, undated.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, relating to student prize scheme., 1931-1976.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.7619/103-107
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including billet books, printed "Transactions", minute book, recent administrative correspondence and other earlier documents.
Dates:
1931-1976.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, relating to student prize schemes, and essay competitions., 1890, 1931-1976, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7619/103-114
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including billet books, printed "Transactions", minute book, recent administrative correspondence and other earlier documents.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1890, 1931-1976, undated.
Papers of the Scottish Plebiscite Society.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13546
Scope and Contents
The Scottish Plebiscite Society was formed by Peter Thomson (fl.1914-1991) to press for a plebiscite on the question of a Scottish parliament. In 1949 it conducted its own plebiscite in Kirriemuir and in which 85% of the local electors participated. Thomson’s continuing activity for the cause resulted in his dismissal as sheriff of South Strathclyde in 1977. Following his dismissal, Thomson devoted his time to holding a series of privately-funded plebiscites in Scottish towns...
Dates:
1959-1991
Papers of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12171
Dates:
1975-2001 and undated.
Papers of Yes Tweeddale and Women for Independence Scottish Borders, pro-independence campaign groups active during the Scottish Independence Referendum campaign 2014.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13615
Dates:
2013-2014.
Plastic crate, containing promotional materials for Argyll Publishing., 1993-2010, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14049 Box 11(1)-(11)
Playbills, press cuttings and notes relating to theatrical performances of works by Lord Byron., 1816-1863, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43546
Scope and Contents
Notes have been placed at the beginning of the sequence, followed by press cuttings and playbills.Manuscript notes regarding the actress Charlotte Mardyn during the years 1815-1824, undated: folios 1-3;Press cutting showing a letter of Charlotte Mardyn to the editor of the 'Morning Chronicle', reprinted in 'The Examiner', 23 Jun 1816: folio 4;Press cutting regarding a Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, performance of 'Marion Faliero, Doge of Venice', 1 Nov 1820:...
Dates:
1816-1863, undated.
Portraits, caricatures, and photographs of portraits of officers of the 51st (Highland) Division by Lieutenant Leonard J Smith.
File
Identifier: MS.10796
Scope and Contents
The drawings are in pencil, and there are also a few proofs of cards and posters designed by Leonard Smith.
Dates:
1915-1918.
Poster advertising performances of 'Un Ballo in Maschera', by Giuseppe Verdi, and 'La Boheme', by Giacomo Puccini., 1973.
File
Identifier: Acc.9732/50
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concerning Hopkinson`s bibliographies of Berlioz and Verdi.
Dates:
1973.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Cecil Hopkinson, containing bibliographies relating to Louis-Hector Berlioz and Giuseppe Verdi, and other related material.
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Papers of Cecil Hopkinson, relating to bibliography of Giuseppe Verdi, containing correspondence, notes, photocopies and other related material.
Poster, correspondence, maps and report of 'Cross-talk', drama mediation workshops organised in support of community safety programme of the Central Regional Council., 1993.
File
Identifier: Acc.12911/163
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.
Dates:
1993.
Poster for the First Annual Conference., 1950.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14406/32
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:
1950.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of and related to Connect, formerly the Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC) and Council of Parent and Parent-Teacher Associations of Scotland.
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Publications relating to Scottish Parent Teacher Council and education.
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Publications of the Scottish Parent Teacher Council.
Poster of the National Library of Scotland John Buchan exhibition., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/101
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
Undated.