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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Scope Note: Unpublished sets of pages, bound or loose-leaf, either intended to have, or assembled after having, material affixed to them or writing or other images made on them.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:

Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins., Circa 1870-1933, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2919-2927
Scope and Contents The caricatures, which date from about 1870 to 1932, the year before the artist's death, depict many celebrities of the artistic, musical, and literary worlds, by whom the house of his father, Alfred James Hipkins, the musical antiquary, was much frequented.At the beginning of MS.2919 is a biographical notice of Hipkins by his sister; there are portraits of him by her, 1879, at the beginning of MSS.2923-2924, 2926; and his own caricatures of himself appear in MSS.2919 (page 25),...
Dates: Circa 1870-1933, undated.

Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins, wood-engraver, with scrap-books containing material collected by or associated with him.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.2919-2931
Scope and Contents

The volumes, which have been arranged and provided with biographical notes and lists of contents by John A Hipkins's sister, Miss Edith J Hipkins, the painter, illustrate the cultivated life of London in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Since Hipkins himself was deaf, there is much material relating to the artistic and other activities of the deaf.

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

Annotated photograph album of the mountaineering and skiing activities of Harry MacRobert chiefly in Scotland, but also in Switzerland., June 1933-January 1945.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14275/6
Scope and Contents

The album contains photographs and details of climbs and skiing activities in Scotland (including Aviemore, Braemar, Corrour, Crianlarich, Dalmally, Glencoe, Killin, Loch Awe, Skye and Tyndrum) and Switzerland.

There are many blank folios at the back of this album.

Dates: June 1933-January 1945.

Annotated photograph album of the rock climbing and mountaineering activities of Harry MacRobert chiefly in Scotland, but also in France, Italy and Switzerland., July 1910-August 1912.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14275/3
Scope and Contents

The album contains photographs and details of climbs in Scotland (including Arran, Arrochar, Ben Nevis, Crianlarich, Fort William, Lochearnhead and Skye), France, Italy and Switzerland.

Dates: July 1910-August 1912.

Annotated photograph album of the rock climbing and mountaineering activities of Harry MacRobert chiefly in Scotland, but also in Italy, Switzerland and Wales., August 1912-July 1921.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14275/4
Scope and Contents

The album contains photographs and details of climbs in Scotland (including Arran, Arrochar, Aviemore, Ben Lomond, Braemar, Crianlarich, Fort William, Glencoe, Killin, Tyndrum), Italy, Switzerland and Wales.

This album covers a climbing trip to the Alps during the summer of 1914, which was cut short by the declaration of war.

Dates: August 1912-July 1921.

Annotated photograph album of the rock climbing and mountaineering activities of Harry MacRobert chiefly in Scotland, but also in Switzerland., 1898- September 1906.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14275/1
Scope and Contents

The album contains photographs and details of climbs chiefly in Scotland (including Arran, Arrochar, Ben Nevis, Edinburgh, Glen Coe, Skye and Tyndrum), with some details of from climbs in Switzerland.

Dates: 1898- September 1906.

Annotated photograph album of the rock climbing and mountaineering activities of Harry MacRobert chiefly in Scotland, but also in Switzerland., August 1921-April 1933.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14275/5
Scope and Contents

The album contains photographs and details of climbs in Scotland (including Aaron, Arrochar, Aviemore, Ben Nevis, Blair Atholl, Braemar, Crianlarich, Fort William, Killin, Kinlochewe, Newtonmore, Skye and Torridon) and Switzerland.

Dates: August 1921-April 1933.

Annotated photograph album of the rock climbing and mountaineering activities of Harry MacRobert chiefly in Scotland, but also in the Lake District and Switzerland., September 1906-June 1910.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14275/2
Scope and Contents

The album contains photographs and details of climbs in Scotland (including Arran, Arrochar, Ben Nevis, Fort William, Glencoe, Killin, Lochinver, Skye, Tyndrum), the Lake District and Switzerland.

Dates: September 1906-June 1910.

Anonymous album of a visit to Scotland entitled `Oban, 1919`.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13169
Scope and Contents

This album records a visit to Scotland by three women, Winnifred, Joan and Mona in August 1919. The friends visited Oban, Dunollie, Dunstaffnage, Staffa, Glencoe and Edinburgh. The album consists of photographs and postcards with observations on their experiences.

Dates: 1919.

Antiquarian album of Adam de Cardonnel-Lawson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12139
Scope and Contents

Contains several hundred prints and drawings.

Dates: circa 1780-1820.

Archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13695
Scope and Contents

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: 1891-2009

"Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott"

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9430
Scope and Contents

Contains letters mainly to Charles Erskine and James Curle, with associated documents, all as described in printed index bound in.

Dates: circa 1800-circa 1826.

‘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.