Albums.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Unpublished sets of pages, bound or loose-leaf, either intended to have, or assembled after having, material affixed to them or writing or other images made on them.
Found in 276 Collections and/or Records:
Album of newspaper cuttings collected by Alexander Hutcheson concerning the haunted tower of St Andrews, the cathedral, the castle, and the abbey wall.
File
Identifier: MS.9608
Scope and Contents
Also pasted into the album are two pamphlets by David Henry about the cathedral and the castle, 1910, and three letters, 1894, 1911, of David Hay Fleming.
Dates:
1894-1911.
Album of newspaper cuttings concerning 'The miracle at Cardenrigg' by Tom Hanlin., 1949.
Item
Identifier: MS.27425
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Tom Hanlin worked as a coalminer at Armadale, West Lothian, until 1946 and much of his fiction is set in Scottish mining communities.
Dates:
1949.
Album of obituary notices of Patrick Geddes, 1932, with several typescripts of memorials., 1932.
Item
Identifier: MS.10652
Album of occasional verse, verse epistles, etc., apparently by Lady Frances Scott, afterwards Baroness Douglas.
Item
Identifier: MS.3814
Dates:
1762, 1774-1782.
Album of original letters, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple., 1637-1904.
File
Identifier: MS.3420
Dates:
1637-1904.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts compiled and collected by the Honourable Sir Hew Dalrymple, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library.
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Four albums of letters and documents, largely of Scottish interest, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple.
Album of original letters, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple., 1667-1823.
File
Identifier: MS.3421
Dates:
1667-1823.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts compiled and collected by the Honourable Sir Hew Dalrymple, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library.
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Four albums of letters and documents, largely of Scottish interest, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple.
Album of pencil and water-colour sketches, titled, ‘Sketches on the East Coast of Scotland by Edward Duncan’.
File
Identifier: MS.3245
Scope and Contents
The sketches are chiefly undated but where dated range in year from 1863 to 1876. Although most of the sketches are of St Abb's Head, the Bass Rock, Tantallon, Holy Island, etc., there are some views of Perthshire, Jedburgh, Roxburgh, and other places inland. The collection also contains an unfinished drawing of Fernilee, subscribed 'The house were (sic) the "Flowers of the Forest" was written'.
Dates:
1863-1876.
Album of photographs and cuttings relating to the John Buchan memorial near Magobaskloof, northern Transvaal, South Africa., 1987-1988.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/299
Dates:
1987-1988.
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 photographs of Highland Railway locomotives, compiled and annotated circa 1950., 19th century, 1920-1929.
Item
Identifier: MS.19984
Dates:
19th century, 1920-1929.
Album of photographs of Highland Railway locomotives, compiled and annotated circa 1950., 19th century, 1920-1929.
Item
Identifier: MS.19985
Dates:
19th century, 1920-1929.
Album of poetry compiled by Isabella Farquharson Will.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6844
Scope and Contents
Containing lithographs of Frederick Schenck, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1852.
Album of portraits, consisting chiefly of heads only, drawn by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in pencil, ink and watercolours., [Circa 1813.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19408
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The portraits have been cut out of larger sheets or sketchbooks and mounted in albums. Most of the sitters are unidentified. In accordance with Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's practice (see ‘Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe’, volume i, pages 21, 40) the heads are completed in watercolours but the rest of the figure and any background are usually only sketched in pencil.
Dates:
[Circa 1813.]
Album of postcards addressed to A E Borthwick, his wife and daughters., [Circa 1904]-1964.
Item
Identifier: MS.10478
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:
[Circa 1904]-1964.
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.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
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Press cuttings concerning Richard B Haldane (later Viscount Haldane).
Album of press cuttings concerning Richard Haldane’s visit to America and Canada, taken chiefly from Canadian newspapers., 1913.
Item
Identifier: MS.20055
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:
1913.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane.
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Correspondence and papers of, and concerning, Richard Burdon Haldane, who was created Viscount Haldane in 1911.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of Richard Burden Haldane.
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Papers concerning Richard Haldane's visit in 1913 to America and Canada at the invitation of the American Bar Association.
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 from Labour and other newspapers, largely relating to socialism, compiled by Alexander Dalrymple, Kingseathill, Fife.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4451
Dates:
Circa 1894-1906.
Album of press-cuttings from the ‘Berwickshire Advertiser’ of 1867 or earlier, giving the extracts from the Kirk Session Records of Stow from 12 November 1626 to 8 March 1667., 1626-1667, 1867.
Item
Identifier: MS.3035
Scope and Contents
James Simson's name is on the fly-leaf. A letter, 1867, of the Reverend Charles Rogers to Simson, thanking him for the loan of the album, is inserted (folio 11).
Dates:
1626-1667, 1867.
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.]
Album of reels, minuets, hornpipes, marches, and other dances, with a list of reels (incomplete) at the beginning and notes of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1st half of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3346 [Ing.153]
Scope and Contents
Inside the end cover is a note, "Mr. Stenhouse's Vol. X. MSS".
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Album of sketches, chiefly watercolour, some pencil or pen and ink, and lithographs of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke., 1860-1863.
Item
Identifier: MS.17920
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The sketches include scenes, portraits, objects, and incidents. Some are the source of woodcuts in John Hanning Speke’s ‘Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile’ 1863, and some of these have notes in Speke’s hand.
Dates:
1860-1863.