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Press cuttings. Information artifacts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources. (AAT) 'Press cuttings' NLS preferred form.

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates: circa 1916-2006.

Drafts and annotated typescripts of articles, lectures, and films scripts relating to a visit to Morocco with Douglas Scott in 1955., 1955, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13059/220A
Scope and Contents

Includes articles entitled 'Berbers of the High Atlas', 'The Astonishing Atlas', 'The Peaceful side of Morocco', 'Birds of the Himalayas' with lists of birds seen, and 'Mountains of Morocco', with a related letter, press-cuttings and printed articles.

Dates: 1955, undated.

Press cuttings with articles written of, about or relating to Tom Weir, 1946-2002.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13059/323-334
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Weir produced a high volume of written and spoken outputs during his career. The papers here relate to some of the results of that work, including his contributions to radio.

Dates: 1946-2002.