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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Reproductions, usually of documents, made with the Photostat (TM) machine or similar machines.

Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:

Annual reports of the Edinburgh and District Trade Council, containing balance sheets, financial statements and some photostats of the original reports, series one., 1868-1936.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11177/35-46
Scope and Contents

Bound in a uniform series of volumes. The contents of Acc.11177/35-36 are photostats of the original reports. There is some overlap in the arrangement of the later volumes in the series.

Dates: 1868-1936.

Copies of manuscript music of Georges Bizet and Percy Grainger., 1943-1954.

 File
Identifier: MS.21560
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Negative photostats of the manuscript full score of Bizet's 'Valse avec Choeur' in G major; with other fragments (Paris Conservatoire MSS 428 and 431) (folio 1); (ii) Photocopies of the autograph manuscripts of pieces, 1943-1954, by Percy Grainger: Two Faroese dances, and 'Walking tune' for piano duet, 'Bristol town' for piano 6 hands, and "The widow's party" for piano solo prepared for the projected "Music lover's Grainger" (folio 79).

Dates: 1943-1954.

Correspondence of Patrick Geddes with Sir Rabindranath Tagore and Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose., 1916-1930.

 File
Identifier: MS.10576
Scope and Contents

Also included are several photostats of letters, 1923-1924, between Geddes and his youngest son, Arthur, who was working in Santiniketan, Bengal, and a few letters, 1924-1926, from the Reverend Charles F Andrews, Vice President of Rabindranath Tagore's Institution, Santiniketan. Both Tagore and Jagadis Chadra Bose discuss their work. Bose, in particular, describes his research involving electric phenomena and plant response. He was founder of the Bose Research Institute in Calcutta.

Dates: 1916-1930.

Family papers and correspondence of and concerning Hugh Miller., 1650-1864, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.7516
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Legal papers, 1717-1803, concerning the Feddes and Wright families, Cromarty (ancestors of Hugh Miller) (folio 1);(ii) Legal papers, 1855-1857, undated, concerning Hugh Miller and his dependents (folio 14);(iii) Fragment of an abusive article on Hugh Miller, undated (folio 38);(iv) Four letters, 1650-1758, including one of George Monck, the others relating to the family of Forbes of Culloden (folio 40);...
Dates: 1650-1864, undated.

Full score of the march 'The lads of Wamphray' by Percy Grainger, for wind band, composed 1904-1905 and slightly revised 1937., 1904-1905, 1937.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21867
Scope and Contents

Most of the music consists of portions of photostats of his original score (with some amendments in ink) pasted to the leaves of the sheets, with omitted parts and amendments supplied by Percy Grainger. A sheet containing a typed programme note and 'hints to bandmasters' dated 1938 is tipped in at the front. Other notes, both typed and manuscript, are tipped in at the back (folios ii-iv).

Dates: 1904-1905, 1937.

'Kilberry book of Ceol Mor’, 2nd edition, by Archibald Campbell (1953), containing various annotations in Francis Collinson's hand throughout.

 Item
Identifier: MS.22128
Scope and Contents

The annotations are dated between 1960 (page 8) and 1982 (page 9) and most are in pencil.

A photostat copy of a piobaireachd found loosely enclosed has been tipped in at the back.

Dates: 1953, 1960, 1982.