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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:

Biographical and genealogical notes, mostly extracts or cuttings from books and newspapers, compiled by William B D D Turnbull.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.18
Scope and Contents

Almost all of the notes are undated, but the press-cuttings are dated 1855.

Dates: Circa 1855

Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22130-22133
Scope and Contents The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates: Late 19th century-?1956.

‘Book of Clan Fraser’, being an album of manuscript notes and newspaper-cuttings relating to families and individuals of the name of Fraser, compiled by the Reverend Alexander Thomson Grant, Episcopalian Rector at Leven and later Chaplain at Wemyss Castle., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.3070
Scope and Contents

The notes, which are arranged alphabetically in order of families, include extracts from early official records, but consist chiefly of notices of marriages, deaths, etc., taken from modern newspapers. The compilation is incomplete, and there are many blank pages.

Dates: Early 20th century-mid 20th century.

Book of newspaper cuttings concerning the state of the Gaelic language and Highland culture, 1929-1933. , 1929-1933, but mostly from 1929-1930

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13695/65
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.

Dates: 1929-1933, but mostly from 1929-1930

Book of newspaper cuttings on Gaelic language, literature, songs, music and cultural events. , ca. 1895-1902

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13695/61
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.

Dates: ca. 1895-1902

Book of newspaper cuttings on the Gaelic language, Gaelic songs and music events, 1912-1929., 1912 - 1929

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13695/64
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.

Dates: 1912 - 1929

Book of newspapers cuttings and other papers and printed ephemera, relating mostly to the Society's Féill of 1907. , 1907

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13695/63
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.

Dates: 1907

Book-related press cuttings, 1940-1969

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13772/232-238
Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains the press cuttings Edith Simon retained, documenting press coverage and reviews for her writing career and published books.

Dates: 1940-1969

Book reviews and newspaper cuttings on 'Scotland: The Story of a Nation'., 2000.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/103
Scope and Contents

File includes Magnusson’s review of Simon Schama’s 'A History of Britain'(2000).

Dates: 2000.

Books of accounts, 1850-1854, and press cuttings, 1812., 1812, 1850-1854.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.3521/8 (i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Including legal and financial papers.

Dates: 1812, 1850-1854.

Books of press cuttings of the Scottish Iron Moulders' Union., Circa 1871-1895.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.5010/65-66
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprising the archives of:

1. Scottish Iron Moulders’ Union (retitled in 1869 Associated Iron Moulders of Scotland)

2. Central Ironmoulders’ Association (retitled in 1926 Ironfounding Workers’ Association)

3. Scottish Iron Dressers’ Union (later Associated Iron, Steel, and Brass Dressers of Scotland)

4. National Union of Foundry Workers.

Dates: Circa 1871-1895.

Bound volume entitled ‘Reminiscences of my father [by] E.B.S.’ containing a typed copy of a biography illustrated by selections from his correspondence, of Richard Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond (died 1865) compiled after his death by his daughter Elizabeth., Late 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20027
Scope and Contents The leaves are typed on one side only: notes and additions have been written on some of the blank sides and press-cuttings have been pasted to some others.The biography is followed by leaves from some of Richard Burdon-Sanderson's published works pasted in (folio 383), copies of newspaper reports of the death in 1876 of his son Richard (folio 469), copies of press notices of Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson (folio 492), and a genealogy of the family of William Scott,...
Dates: Late 19th century.

Bound volume made up for James Simpson Fleming of articles published by him.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.7
Scope and Contents The articles in the volume are: an interleaved copy of the third edition of Fleming’s ‘Scottish Banking’ (Edinburgh, 1877); a reprint from ‘Blackwood`s Magazine’, volume 118 (June 1875), of his “Banking and Mr Goschen`s Bill”; `The Interview between Sir Stafford Northcote and the English Bankers` and `Extension of Scottish Banks into England` from “Bankers` Magazine”, volume 36 (July 1876). Pasted in amongst the binder`s blank endpapers are a collection of press-cuttings,...
Dates: 1875-1877.

Bound volumes of newspaper cuttings relating to Robert Boothby., 1918-1980.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12929/71-82
Scope and Contents

This series consists of 12 albums of newspaper clippings about Robert Boothby from his earliest political endeavours until 1980 and probably compiled by Baron and Lady Boothby themselves.

Dates: 1918-1980.

Box containing papers of Edith Simon concerning her youth and early writings, entitled 'Juvenilia', 1930-1937

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14390 Box 2 (1-12)
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates: 1930-1937

Box containing the contents of a portfolio of Edith Simon, namely press cuttings concerning her artworks and exhibitions , 1988-1997

 File
Identifier: Acc.13772/262
Scope and Contents File contains original press cuttings and copies of articles and reviews concerning specific exhibitions. Exhibitions include The New Underground (1989); Society of Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsmen exhibition (1990); Lovely Odd Fish (1990); People in Papercut and Sculpture (1990); Signals II (1991); The Brillian Alternative Portrait Gallery (1992); New Locations-New Departures (1995); Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis (1996); and Edith Simon: Works (1997). This file also includes an...
Dates: 1988-1997

Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing Lewis collections., 18th century-19th century, 1950-1980.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 8(1-7)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.

Dates: 18th century-19th century, 1950-1980.

Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing papers of Reverend Dr Duncan M Campbell and collections of Gaelic songs and verse., circa 1878-1912, 1927, circa 1935, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 5(1-8)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.

Dates: circa 1878-1912, 1927, circa 1935, undated.

Box of the Reverend William Matheson, containing three volume press cutting collection of Gaelic verse, prose and related articles from Highland newspapers and periodicals., Late 19th century-early 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 4(1-3)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.

Dates: Late 19th century-early 20th century.