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Scrapbooks.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Albums containing a variety of items, especially when those items serve as memorabilia.

Found in 143 Collections and/or Records:

Scrapbook, 1908 - 1918

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13916/20
Scope and Contents A volume of mainly newspaper cuttings with a general interest in Oban and in Gaelic culture, documenting the activities of An Comunn Gàidhealach and other Gaelic organisations and Gaelic-related events, news concerning Oban High School and its pupils, and newspaper articles concerning the First World War. There are also cuttings of a number of Gaelic songs, and two issues of Oban High School Magazine (Vol. IV, no. 2 (March 1913) and vol. IV, no. 3 (July 1913)). Pasted onto the back...
Dates: 1908 - 1918

Scrapbook concerning plans to re-build the chapel of Holyrood House.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14089
Content Description A scrapbook documenting Lord Leven's proposal to re-build the chapel of Holyrood House, Edinburgh, and his bequest of a large sum of money assigned to this purpose. According to the terms of the will, the work depended on the approval of two executors, who in 1906 decided not to let it go ahead. The scrapbooks contains press cuttings of obituaries and death notices of the Earl of Leven, some printed documents and reports, and newspaper articles and letters to the editors. With a...
Dates: ca. 1908

Scrapbook containing letters and other papers addressed to Sir John Rennie and to his son Charles Garth Colleton Rennie., 1818-1891.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19946
Scope and Contents

Writers of the letter and papers include C F von Wiebeking, Sir G B Airy, Garibaldi, George Scharf, Cardinal Manning, G O Trevelyan, and J A Froude.

Dates: 1818-1891.

Scrapbook kept by William Trotter of Ballindean, chiefly during his period of office as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1825-1827.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9858
Scope and Contents

The scrapbook contains pamphlets, circulars, and letters chiefly from public and charitable societies in Edinburgh and London.

Dates: 1823-1827.