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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 533 Collections and/or Records:

Minute book, 1954-1961, of the National Union of Mine Workers, Scotland, Brora Branch.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11789
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies of 11 share certificates in Highland Colliery Ltd, the Ross Pit, Brora, 1962-1967, and copies of press cuttings, 1973 and 1988, concerning the closure of the mine.

Dates: 1954-1988.

Minutes and records of the Edinburgh and District Trades Council.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11177/1-62
Scope and Contents Minutes, annual reports and other records of the Edinburgh and District Trades Council. The main series of minutes of the Council are almost continuous from 1859, forming the earliest full series of trades council records in Scotland.The 'Minutes of Edinburgh Trades Council, 1859-1873', have been edited, with an introductory essay, by Ian MacDougall for the Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1968, and there is a centenary essay on the history of the Council by Hamish MacKinven...
Dates: 1859-1981.

Minutes, correspondence and other papers of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, mainly records of the Scottish Liberal Party.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11765/1-110
Scope and Contents

Minute books and other papers from the Edinburgh headquarters office of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, consisting mainly of older records of the Scottish Liberal Party prior to its union with the Social Democratic Party and the creation of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and including records of the Scottish Liberal Club and the Scottish Reform Club.

Dates: 1855-1987, undated.

Miscellaneous Gaelic papers.

 Series
Identifier: MS.14956

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 File
Identifier: MS.819
Dates: 1643, 1661, 19th century.

Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates: 1561, 17th century-late 19th century.

Miscellaneous papers, chiefly of the seventeenth century, relating to private, domestic, and public matters.

 File
Identifier: MS.3830
Scope and Contents

Included are letters to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, various members of the Townshend family, George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow, and Sir Michael Stanhope, son of Sir Michael Stanhope (died 1552).

Dates: 17th century.

Music book of H E Passavant.

 File
Identifier: MS.21757
Scope and Contents

The signature of H E Passavant, dated 1856, is written inside the front cover.

The music book contains a small number of songs, hymns and other pieces, some of which are dated 1857 (folios 5, 7), written apparently in a beginner's hand.

A press cutting containing an account of an old song is tipped in at the back (folio ii).

Dates: 1856-1857, undated.

Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents

The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.

Dates: Mid 20th century-1988, undated.

Notebook containing notes, probably taken by Peter Stewart, writer, Provost of Campbeltown, on dictates on rhetoric delivered by Hugh Blair.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25259
Scope and Contents

The notebook has some miscellaneous early 19th century newspaper cuttings posted in (folios i-v) and a notice of the death of Sir Thomas Reid, Baronet, written 1823, probably by William Ferguson (folio 183 verso). An article by A I B Stewart, ascribes the volume to Peter Stewart and gives family details (loosely enclosed at back, folio 190-196).

Dates: ?1760-1775.

Notes of Dr Alexander Mitchell for a biography of John Gibson Lockhart, taken chiefly from manuscript material in the National Library of Scotland.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5210-5265
Scope and Contents

The notes fill fifty-four notebooks (MSS.5210-5263).

MSS.5264-5265 contain miscellaneous correspondence and papers concerning John Gibson Lockhart.

Dates: 1st half of 20th century.

Notes of proceedings in the elections, 1790-1837, of representative peers for Scotland, compiled by William B D D Turnbull.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.16
Scope and Contents

Included in the manuscript are the names of those who voted in the elections, and copies of relevant documents. The paper of the manuscript is watermarked 1839. At the end is inserted a newspaper cutting on the election of 1847.

Dates: 1839, or after.