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Architectural drawings.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Drawings of architecture and drawings for architectural projects, whether the project was executed or not.

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

53 architectural drawings from the Saltoun Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10444
Scope and Contents

Includes drawings by Alexander McGill, William Adam, John or James Adam, notably sets of drawings for Burnstane house and Inveraray Castle.

Dates: circa 1700-mid 19th century.

Album, containing notes taken by the father of Thomas Ross, the architect, of sermons preached by the Reverend John Caird, and drawings by Ross.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3646
Scope and Contents

The sermons were preached in Errol Church in 1851 (folio 1).

Some of Thomas Ross's drawings bear dates from 1858 to 1919 (chiefly architectural sketches and designs), and some are evidently juvenile. Loose drawings and a sermon (folio 94) have been pasted in.

Dates: 1851, 1858-1919, undated.

Architectural drawings of Mountinelville House, Fife, and its outbuildings.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.8.4
Scope and Contents

The plans of the house (folio 2) are signed by Robert Hutchison and Alexander Dick, and those of the mausoleum and wash-house (folio 8) are by James Gillespie Graham.

Dates: 1820-1821, 1828.

Building plans and drawings of agricultural buildings and installations on the Pitsligo, Fettercairn, and Invermay estates.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6780/1-77
Scope and Contents

A collection of plans and drawings of agricultural buildings in Perthshire, Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire. The estates concerned were owned by Lord Clinton and the Forbes family.

The plans were originally numbered in red, but the sequence is incomplete.

Dates: 1871-1893, undated.

Financial records of the Free Church of Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4994- is now MSS.18001-19198.
Scope and Contents

With some architectural drawings.

Dates: 1843-1910.

Four scrapbooks of Admiral Lord Mark Kerr.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9527
Scope and Contents

Contains watercolours and pen and pencil sketches, mostly grotesques and cartoons but with some landscape and architectural drawings.

Dates: circa 1815-1840.

Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.30.5.1-30.5.28
Scope and Contents

The notes and extracts appear to have been made between about 1784 and about 1820, but most are undated.

Dates: Circa 1784-circa 1820.

Papers of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10360
Scope and Contents

Indcludes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and plays, architectural notes and drawings and correspondence.

Dates: 1933-1990.

Papers of Stewart Sim.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11125
Scope and Contents

Includes architectural drawings, sketches, watercolours and photographs.

Dates: 1913-circa 1975.

Papers of the Sutherland Estates.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12173
Scope and Contents

Includes titles, minutes, rentals, maps and architectural drawings. Also includes Cromartie Estate correspondence, 1887-1894.

Dates: 1823-1894 and undated.

Records of the Scottish Youth Hostels Association

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13372
Scope and Contents Annual Reports, minutes, correspondence, reports, property records and photographs, 1931-2012, undated, of and relating to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.Following preliminary meetings in 1930s, the Scottish Youth Hostels Association was formed in Edinburgh in1931at a public meeting chaired by Lord Salvesen ‘To help all, but especially young people of limited means living and working in industrial and other areas, to know use and appreciate the Scottish countryside and...
Dates: 1931-2000

Saltire Society records.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13306
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of administrative records of the Society as well as papers, reports and related documents charting the different activities of the Saltire Society.

Dates: 1953 - 2010