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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 534 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of and concerning the painter Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19245-19250
Scope and Contents

A member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.

Dates: 1891-1925.

Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.

Papers of and relating to Emile Joseph Dillon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14111/1-19
Content Description

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, notes, photographs, press cuttings and papers of and relating to Emile Joseph Dillon. With notes of and papers collected by Ernest Eugene Laws for his proposed biography of Dillon.

Dates: 1854-1951.

Papers of, and relating to, Iain Crichton Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12600/1-65
Dates: Majority of material found within 1946, 1962-2000.

Papers of and relating to the artists Beatrice Huntington and William MacDonald.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14369/1-39
Scope and Contents Beatrice Huntington was born in 1889 in St. Andrews to Dr William Huntington, surgeon, and Charlotte Huntington, née Bowles, daughter of Joseph Bowles of Quebec City. She was educated in St Andrews before attending art schools in Paris and Munich between 1906-1911. She began exhibiting in 1916 and became an active member of the Dundee Art Society and the Society of Scottish Artists. Influenced by Modernist art styles, she experimented with Cubism in her portraits, including 'A Muleteer from...
Dates: 1864-2015.

Papers of Archie Lamont.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9290
Scope and Contents

Includes:

notes, articles and correspondence on geology and zoology

notes, correspondence and press cuttings on the Scottish Nationalist movement

manuscripts of poems.

Dates: 1925-1984.

Papers of Bernard Fergusson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10985
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, photographs, press cuttings and notebooks.

Dates: circa 1928-1980.

Papers of Bet Low, artist.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12177
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Low`s role in the establishment of the Charing Cross Gallery, Glasgow.

Dates: 1948-1984.

Papers of Colin Fox relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14271/1-6
Scope and Contents

Papers collected by Colin Fox in his capacity as a member of the Advisory Board of Yes Scotland, and during the course of campaigning for independence during the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.

Dates: 2009-2014.

Papers of David Angus

 Fonds
Identifier: MI.5/23

Papers of Donald Caskie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8846
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs, press cuttings and sermons.

Dates: 1935-1974.

Papers of Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd (1893-1981).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27438-27445
Scope and Contents

Born in Cults, Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd was educated in Aberdeen and became a lecturer in English at Aberdeen College of Education. She wrote poems in Scots and English and three novels as well as articles for magazines and journals.

Dates: 1896-1980, undated.

Papers of Dr Farquhar Macintosh.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14003
Content Description Correspondence and other papers of and about Dr Farquhar Macintosh, teacher and educationalist and supporter of Gaelic. He was born in Elgol, Isle of Skye, on 27 October 1923, a native speaker of Gaelic, and died in Edinburgh, 18 November 2007. He went to Edinburgh University and Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, and became headmaster of Portree High School (1962-1966) and Oban High School (1967-1972), and finally Rector of the Royal High School, Edinburgh (1972 to 1989). He served...
Dates: 1940s-2007

Papers of Dr Robert Maclagan Gorrie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11264
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts, cuttings and offprints concerning forestry and soil erosion, especially in India.

Dates: 1918-1952.

Papers of General Sir J Aylmer L Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20247-20259

Papers of George Lawson, Labour politician, including correspondence, articles, lecture papers and press cuttings.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9588/1-94
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers of George McArthur Lawson (1906-78). From 1937 to 1940 he was a full-time National Council of Labour Colleges tutor in the East of Scotland, and served as the West of Scotland National Council of Labour Colleges Organiser from 1940-50 when he was appointed Secretary of Edinburgh and District Trades Council. In 1954 he was elected as Labour MP for Motherwell, and represented Motherwell, and Motherwell and Wishaw, until his retirement in Oct 1974. George Lawson served...
Dates: 1920-1978.

Papers of George Renfrew Wilson relating to his unpublished biography of David Young Cameron.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13488 Box 1(1)-Box 6(3)
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises research papers and typescripts of a biography of Sir David Young Cameron which seemingly was close to publication, probably by Paul Harris, Edinburgh in the early 1980s. The anecdotal evidence is that some kind of disagreement stopped publication.

The papers include typescripts, correspondence, exhibition catalogues and press cuttings.

Dates: c 1944-1980.