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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Scope Note: Unpublished sets of pages, bound or loose-leaf, either intended to have, or assembled after having, material affixed to them or writing or other images made on them.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 148 Collections and/or Records:

Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates: Mid 19th century-1936.

Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents

Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.

Dates: 1898-1902.

Album of Evelyne Radford, daughter of Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, Walthamstow, Essex, relating to country house parties in England and at Kildonan Lodge, Sutherland, to a cruise and a holiday in the South of France.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13196
Scope and Contents The album is a record of the weekend and holiday social life of the Radford family, friends of the Drummond family, the Viscounts Strathallan. Evelyn Radford was the spinster daughter of Mrs and Mrs Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, near Walthamstow, Essex. Places visited include: Swaylands House, Penshurt, Kent; West Garty Lodge and Kildonan, Sutherland; Hale End Manor, Essex; Alderwasley, Matlock, Derbyshire; Fornham Park, Bury St Edmunds; The Briars, Byfleet, Surrey; Cranborne Hall, Windsor...
Dates: 1893-1898.

Album of miscellaneous printed and manuscript matter.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.20
Scope and Contents

The printed items are mostly newspaper cuttings, from the period circa 1780-circa 1830; they have not been indexed. The manuscript items, a list of which has been added at the beginning of the volume, are mostly Scottish, several relating to Bo`ness and Linlithgow, and date from 1562 to 1826. On folio 44 is a note signed `A.E.N.`

Dates: 1562-circa 1830.

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 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 poetry compiled by Isabella Farquharson Will.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6844
Scope and Contents

Containing lithographs of Frederick Schenck, Edinburgh.

Dates: 1852.

Album of sketches in watercolour and in pencil and wash, made during a tour in Scotland from July to September 1823.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10989
Scope and Contents

The sketches have not been mounted in chronological sequence, and appear to have come from two sources. The wash drawings are probably from a sketchbook, and the watercolours have been cut from a journal of the tour. The artist, who was English, travelled from Loch Lomond and the Trossachs to Inveraray, Staffa, Glencoe, Killin, and back to Loch Lomond. Inserted at the end are sketches of Edinburgh and Carlisle, a drawing, 1820, of Killarney and other unrelated material.

Dates: 1820, 1823

Album of the Reverend John Kirk.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11146
Scope and Contents

Includes University of St Andrews certificates, letters of Thomas Chalmers and others, cut signatures, sketches and plans.

Dates: circa 1814-1855.

Album of topographical views and figure studies of a tour in Scotland and England, of Revd. George Ernest Howman. Places visited in Scotland include Bridge of Fyers, Blair Atholl, Killicrankie, Dunkeld, Killin, Callendar, the Trossachs, Stirling, Dunblane, Scone Palace, Perth, Castle Huntly, Dundee, Leuchars, St Andrews, Loch Leven, Linlithgow, Craigmillar Castle, Roslin Chapel and Melrose.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13197
Scope and Contents Single volume with 16 drawings loosely enclosed.ff.1-58 Tour of Scotland and return through England, 1820f.1 Bridge of Fyers from above the Upper Fall, Augt. 17 f.2 Lower Fall of the Bruar near Blair Athol, Augt. 21f.3 In the Pass of Killiekrankie, Augt. 22f.4 Cottage near Fascalie Augt. 22 f.5 Vale of the Tay. Looking towards Dunkeld. Birnham Hill in ye distance Augt. 22f.6 The two Parent Larches. Dunkeld....
Dates: 1820-1826.

Album of verses, riddles and drawings.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10783
Scope and Contents

Most of the entries are dated from 1825 to 1828, and some were made at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. The book belonged to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Russell Davison, of the Wilson family of Roxburghshire.

Dates: 1822-1853.

Album of Walter Bowman.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10717
Scope and Contents

Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.

Dates: 1764.

Album owned by Private W J Little.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7720
Scope and Contents

Containing, "Seaweed from Lord Kitchener`s Grave off Marwick Head, Orkney".

Dates: 1917.

Albums compiled by John P. Ritchie and related material.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13663/1-4
Scope and Contents

Two albums of and relating to John P. Ritchie largely concerning ornithology especially of Saint Kilda. With a bronze plaque for 1st Prize in Beginners Lantern Slides, 1930, awarded to John P Ritchie by the Paisley Philosophical Institution and his inscribed copy of John Morrell McWilliam`s `The Birds of Bute`, 1927.

Dates: 1923-1974, 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.