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 38 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the "Keep Our Scottish Battalions" Campaign.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11230
Dates:
1991-1994.
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.
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 of Tom Gourdie, advertising handwriting exhibition at NLS.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4284
Dates:
1960.
Poster of Tom Gourdie, advertising his lecture on handwriting.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6512
Dates:
circa 1950-circa 1975.
Posters designed by Alasdair Gray for exhibitions, plays and books.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12623/1-43
Scope and Contents
Posters designed by Alasdair Gray for exhibitions, plays, readings and other events, as well as promotional artwork for some of his novels.
There is a mix of original drawings, paintings and paste-ups, as well as prints and reproductions.
Many of the posters in this collection were reproduced in 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).
Dates:
1955-2009.
Posters designed by Alasdair Gray, with a print by Alasdair Gray and a print of Gray at work.
File
Identifier: Acc.14042
Scope and Contents
Contains:Print, undated, of 'Is Scotland a possible nation? Yes - make it!', by Alasdair Gray. Number 59 of 60.Print of a photograph, 2007, of Alasdair Gray at his desk, by Jim Clark.A poster for an international conference on works of Alasdair Gray, 16-17 November 2012, Brest, Faculté Victor-Segalen. The artwork for this poster is based on the cover of 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009).Poster and flyer designed by Alasdair Gray for 'Double...
Dates:
2007-2019, undated.
Printed poster: "Sir Douglas Haig`s Message to Munitions Workers".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4396
Dates:
24 November 1918.