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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 2202 Collections and/or Records:

Album of photographs, autographs, press cuttings and other memorabilia concerning the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., [Circa 1896]-1950.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21617
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: [Circa 1896]-1950.

Album of press cuttings collected by John Purves chiefly concerning the poet Rupert Brooke., 1915.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15889
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates: 1915.

Album of press cuttings collected by John Purves on literary topics., 1913-1914.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15888
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates: 1913-1914.

Album of press cuttings concerning Richard B Haldane and in particular his successful candidature as Liberal M.P. for Haddingtonshire in 1885., 1885-1888.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20035
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.

Dates: 1885-1888.

Album of press cuttings concerning the Scottish Sharpshooters in South Africa., 1900-1902.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10482
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: 1900-1902.

Album of press cuttings relating to financial activities of John Blythe Kinross relating to the time he left Gresham's., 1933-1964.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8699/44
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Containing correspondence, memorandums, diaries and other papers.The main interest of the collection lies in the material to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC), to the financing of small businesses, and in general to Kinross’s activities in the City of London from 1928 to the present day. In addition to formal business, the papers contain a significant quantity of private correspondence, and some interest diaries. All the papers carry useful and sometimes...
Dates: 1933-1964.

Album of press cuttings, undated, collected by John Purves chiefly on Italian literature, with a series of articles concerning lectures on 'The nature of the physical world' by Professor A S Eddington at Edinburgh University., [?1927.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.15897
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates: [?1927.]

Album of press cuttings, undated, collected by John Purves chiefly on literary topics., [?1913-?1960.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.15896
Scope and Contents

The cuttings include reviews of a series of six lectures which John Purves gave to the Helensburgh Lecture Association, an article by Purves on Italian contemporary writers and a group of articles on Thomas Hardy.

Dates: [?1913-?1960.]

Albums containing chiefly press cuttings apparently collected by Richard Haldane., 1888-1890, 1912.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20068-20069
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.

Dates: 1888-1890, 1912.

Albums containing newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson., 1896-1910.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6659/1-5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot's Hospital and George Watson's College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies' College in 1876. His writings, some under the pen-name of 'Hugh Haliburton', include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922.Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a...
Dates: 1896-1910.

Albums of published articles and verse by Jan Struther, with related press cuttings., 1914-1955, 1972-2010.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/1-16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Articles and poems published in newspapers and magazines are all faithfully preserved in 16 large albums of press cuttings.She was a keen supporter of the Democratic Party and the correspondence files contain some letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. The papers include several travel journals, and manuscripts and typescripts of many articles, verses, songs and hymns - which she had a gift for writing, despite her own agnosticism. Also significant are the manuscripts...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1914-1955, 1972-2010.

Albums relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13649
Scope and Contents Scrapbook relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905. The scrapbook includes: Mossman`s commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Edinburgh City Volunteer Artillery, 1893; 17 letters, 1902-1905, of Mossman to his father and `Isabella`, concerning his journey and experiences on board ship, destinations on his journey including Kngstown in Ireland, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, Port Stanley, the South Orkneys and Buenos Aires; a letter of William...
Dates: 1893-1938

Alphabetical lists of Gaelic place-names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson from the Chronicle of Fortingall, as printed in translation in ‘The Northern Chronicle’, 16 December 1886, with newspaper cuttings of the articles in question., [1886, or after.]

 File
Identifier: MS.362
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: [1886, or after.]

Annotated copy of 'Dylan Thomas' (London: Neville Spearman, 1954), by Derek Standford, with inserted newspaper cuttings., 1954.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10397/57
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes corrected typescripts of articles, reviews and broadcast talks, together with 55 letters from various correspondents.

Dates: 1954.

Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10893/1-451
Scope and Contents

Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.

Dates: 1972-1991.

Art-related press cuttings, 1959-2003

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13772/256-262
Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains the press cuttings Edith Simon retained, documenting press coverage and reviews for her art projects and exhibitions.

Dates: 1959-2003