General Collection. Photograph Albums.
551 87
Description General Collection. Photograph Albums.
Collection General Collection. Photograph Albums.
Catalogue Number 551 87
Category All Other
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Collection Level (551 87) General Collection. Photograph Albums.
| Preview | Category | Catalogue Number | Title | Date | Level |
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| All Other | PA 141 | Photograph Album No 141: The St Andrew Square Album | Batch Level | ||
| All Other | PA 142 | Photograph Album Nos 142, 143 & 144 Set of three hard backed paper covered albums containing art and architecture postcards and other pictures c.1930s of Fiesole, Florence and Rome respectively. | c. 1930 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 111 | Photograph Album No 111 : ENGRAVINGS OF BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND. Red half leather hard cover with red textured imitation leather, the spine embosed with gold decoration and title: "SCRAP BOOK". 30 card pages with plain end covers. Album of engravings of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, all of buildings in Scotland, the first half exclusively of Edinburgh. Several have been cut down and some large ones removed. Some have pencilled dates and captions. | Batch Level | ||
| All Other | PA 155 | Photograph Album No 155: THE LORIMER CHIMNEY PIECE ALBUM Hard-backed cloth-covered volume of 50 blue-green pages probably ordered from George Stewart, Stationer in George Street. Photographs, illustrated published articles, French post cards etc all relating to carving in wood or stone. Many pages at the beginning show fireplaces with design or order numbers and have dimensions and prices written in, as if it were to be a pattern book. Further pages include fireplaces in situ, details of carved doors and balusters etc (some in museums, some French) and interior views, many of them in Scottish houses. The Country Life articles date between 1910 and 1918. Loose pages of a gazetteer have been used as markers, and at the first page is a pencil design by Lorimer for a bed-spread, loose. | c. 1910 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 156 | Photograph Album No 156: THE J M Arthur Album Hard-backed album covered with dark green cloth, no 17881 made by Robert Miller, Glasgow (fl. c.1865-c.1965) containing 95 pages. Inscribed J Maurice Arthur, West Parkhill, Airdrie, the album is a collection of photographs of buildings designed by him. It includes a pencil sketch of him in 1911 drawn on office writing paper headed Geo. Arthur & Son . . . 4 Graham Street, Airdrie . . . 190... and a few military portraits including him. It also contains a collection of professional photographs of buildings in France, Italy, Belgium and a few in England and Scotland. Shown are views of Port Glasgow including the station, the Star Hotel, shops including J Duguid (Hairdresser), The George (Wines & Spirits), H Reid (dairy) and C Telfer, A Turner, A Morris and W McCallum, Semple & Smart (chemists), Ye Old Black Bull and R Taylor (dairy). Also included are views of Cathedral Street and Bridgeton Cross and The Olympia Theatre of Varieties, Glasgow; the Masonic Temple and J & W Watson (ladies and gents tailors), Graham Street, Airdrie 1906; Queen Victoria Nurses Memorial Home, Airdrie 1904-6; Royal Buildings and New Town Cross, Airdrie with the Royal Hotel and Royal Bank of Scotland; British Linen Bank/Bank of Scotland, 10 Stirling Street, Airdrie 1901; the opening of Airdrie Savings Bank, Bellshill 1925 with a group of people; the Craig Institute, Caldercruix; the Bank of Scotland, Church Street, Coatbridge, and New Monkland Kirk, Condorra Road, Glenmavis with views iinside and outside before and after renovation. A view of the High United Free church, Minister Rev. John Cook, BD shows a programme for the unveiling of a 1914-18 War memorial panel and communion table on 9 April 1922. Several Masonic groups are shown and there are many photographs taken from magazines showing buildings in France. | c. 1906 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 157 | Photograph Album No 157: Luffness Mill and other Houses | 1909 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 158 | Photograph Album No 158: 8 BELGRAVE CRESCENT Set of four fine dark blue hard-backed albums with gold lining on the covers and spines, which are lettered B,C,D and G respectively. Each contains 25 card pages, the edges brightly gilt. All the pges are used, the high quality photographs neatly pasted in, numbered and titled, the work of Professor Alexander Crum Brown. He was the first occupant of no 8 Belgrave Crescent in 1871/2 and still there at the time of these pictures 1900-1903. They include several of the interior of the house as well as views of both the communal front garden and the small back garden, where he has particular interest in a pile of stones. Perhaps he brought them back from his travels to glaciers, especially in Switzerland - the subject of most of his pictures. | 1900 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 58 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO. 58: MISS PEARSON'S ANNAN ALBUM Photograph album belonging to Miss Pearson with family photographs, concert programmes, newscuttings, sketches and other memorabilia | c. 1910 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 68 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO. 68: THE ISABEL ASHER ALBUM (cf PA 138) Album of red leather with red morocco spine and corners and gilt rim. Autographed visiting album of watercolour sketches, amateur snapshots and commercial views, some recording holidays in the Ross and Cromarty region. Views include "Forest Hill", Muir of Ord; Highfield House, Ross-shire; Foulis Castle, Evanton; St. Olaf, Nairn; Beechwood, Murrayfield, Midlothian; Valleyfield House; Glenclelland, Aberfoyle; Largs House, Twynholm, Kirkcudbrightshire; Hattonburn House, Milnathort; Moniack (Reelig) House, Beauly; Newtonhall House, Kennoway; Achernack, Grantown-on-Spey; Broomfield House; Kilcoy Castle, Killearnan, Ross-shire; Balvaird, Muir of Ord; Glentruim, Newtonmore; Feuch Lodge, Banchory; Altnaskiah, Inverness; and Stirkoke, Wick. There is a photograph taken at the Manse of Abernethy, Nethy Bridge with a large group celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Rev. William Forsyth on 15th October 1906. He had been minister of Ardersier, 1846-53, Dornoch 1853-63 and Abernethy 1863-1906. There are also views of Callander, Muir of Ord, Corsee at Nairn, and of sheep-shearing at Dornoch. There are press-cuttings about a meet of the Linlithgowshire Hunt from the Scots Pictorial of 26th November 1910, and a Bazaar at the Holy Trinity Church Music Hall on 11th, 12th and 13th February 1909 which includes photographs of the Lord Bishop of Edinburgh; Mr J. Selkirk, verger; Rev. E. Brook-Jackson, rector; and Mr. Graeme Goring,The Lady Dunedin, Mrs Redford, Mrs George Mackay, Mrs Brook-Jackson and Miss Hill-Thomson. The album contains many signatures and some photographs of family and friends including members of the Gillanders, Horne, Wardlaw, Mackenzie, Maclachlan, Munro and Haldane families and too many others to list. One snap shows Mr Bishop Culpeper in a fine wicker invalid-chair with Maclachlan of Maclachlan and Tibbie with "Sally in the background with bricks for Fanshaws house." Another shows Mr Parsons and dogs There is a picnic group showing Isabel Asher, A. Henderson, T. Horne, and H.J. Horne, E. Macpherson, B and M. Younger and R. Bruce Clark. Snaps show Susan at Achernack; Macdonald using a horse-rake; automobile S825 at Thieves Pass and Tibbie with Angeline, a cow; the summer house built by D.Macpherson at Glentruim; the bridge at Feuch Lodge and Colonel Bannerman and Baron Poellnitz. | 1904 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 99 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 99: BETTY AND THE BOBBIN MILLL | c. 1890 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 83 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO: 83. Western Highlands Cruise Brown paper album without lettering. Titled: 'Scottish Highlands, 2'. Photographs, maps and printed abstract of log of SY Killarney compiled as a memento of a "Western Highlands Cruise of the Scottish Firths and Fjords, June 19th to July 2nd, 1936", showing small snapshot views of the ship, and of Ardrossan, Mull, Skye, Benderloch, Staffa, Iona, Lochinver, Arran and Ailsa Craig and "a battery of old guns in front of the burnt Culag Hotel". A number of vessels are shown including the TBD no. H26 with submarines in Oban Bay; the fishing boat "Fiona of Poolewe" Ullapool no. 90 (owner Lewis Jack) being re-painted; cargo motor-vessel "Laanemaa" of Tallin, Estonia at Stornoway "with smoke coming from the after-mast fitted as a funnel", loading herrings; Yarmouth and Lowestoft herring boats including "Plankton" YH126 at Stornoway, and the cargo-boat "SS Hever" of Bremerhaven. | 1936 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 71 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO: 71: THE CHURCHES COMMISSION ALBUM Dark green album with gold lettering on front cover 'Photographs'. Insc: With the Churches Commission July 1906. Album of amateur snapshots recording a visit by ministers to the Western Isles. Largely United Free Church members, the Rev. A. Lee being the Mission Superintendent for the Commitee for Highlands and Islands. Shown are the "Tighnamara" after a storm and at Tobermory Bay and there are photographs of the Commissioner, MrNJK Cochran-Patrick and Rev A Lee swearing islanders as witnesses, Rev Fraser of Plockton Free Church, Mr Duncan (Dingwall), Mr MacLeod (Coigach), Rev MacDonald (Raasay), Capt. Downie, Mr Finney (Free Church), Mr Pitman (Congregational) at Grantown, Mr Dalmahoy (United Free Church), Mr Simpson (Free Church) and Mr Evans (United Free Church). One photograph is of the Commissioner landing at Staffin, being carried piggyback through the surf by a sturdy Highlander. There are also pictures of the standing stones at Callernish; Manish Church, Harris; and many of cottages at Torridon; Shieldaig; Alligan; Obbe, Harris; Newton Ferry, Carinish; Grimisay and Berneray, N Uist; Creagory; Benbecula; Lochboisdale, S Uist; Castlebay, Barra; Tobermory and Inverary. Some of the snapshots show groups of people in small rowing or sailing boats or in carriages on rough roads.Finally there are several photographs of a possible steam car, Reg. no. S302, with an Edwardian lady changing a wheel. | 7/1906 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 80 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 80: THE CAIRNS ALBUM Photograph album containing views of The Cairns near Cambuslang, Glasgow, in 1875. | 1875 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 77 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.77 : THE PETERHEAD ALBUM Photograph album with views of Peterhead and surrounding area, Aberdeenshire and Inverugie Castle, Moray. | c. 1880 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 67 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO. 67: DUNDEE VALENTINE Photograph album with views of Dundee c1875, mainly by James Valentine, but with a few amateur photographs. | 1875 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 186 | Photograph Album No 186: J B Mackenzie Albums vol.1 (cf PAs 187 and 188). | 1860 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 117 | Photograph Album No 117: The Douglas Castle Album | 5/9/1895 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 221 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.221 Brown paper covered album, the front with white label, titled 'Scottish Office - Provisional Order. Session 1921. Greenock Corporation. Photographs', with 23 heavy paper pages. Mostly professional views of the aqueduct (known as the Greenock Cut), Loch Thom, Overton and the Eastern Line of Falls and sluices. All images are captioned. Two photographs date from 1913 (Loch Thom views). One empty page. | 1921 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 127 | Photograph Album No 127 : Turnbulls and Kindersleys | Batch Level | ||
| All Other | PA 79 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO. 79: THE WEMYSS BAY ALBUM Album of plum cloth with gilt decoration. Insc: (front cover in gilt) 'Memorial Church Wemyss Bay'. Purchased from John Grant, Gullane, East Lothian. Presentation album commemorating the opening of the Memorial Church at Wemyss Bay, built by George Burns in memory of his wife ( d.1877) c.1879. Professional photographs by T. and R. Annan, photographers and publishers, Glasgow and Glenbank, Lenzie. Also includes photographs and engravings of Wemyss House and Wemyss Bay. | Batch Level | ||
| All Other | PA 75 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO. 75: MINATURE ARBROATH ALBUM Photograph album with views of Arbroath and surrounding area, Angus, by Valentines of Dundee. | c. 1878 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 100 | Photograph Album No 100: Melrose Abbey | 1919 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 69 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.69: THE EDENHALL ALBUM Album of green cloth with green leather spine and gilt trim. (8 1/2"x7") Insc: (inside back cover) 'Adie and Wedderburn, Edinburgh' Album of amateur snapshots, views from Fife and the Borders and of Fettes College, c.1910. Includes snapshots of family groups taken at Kinaldy House, and Fettes College cricket matches and O.T.C. around 1914-16. There is a view of Edenhall. A faded snap shows the 3/7th Royal Scots officers' tents at Peebles in September 1915, and another is of B Co's officers' hut at the Candle Works, Kinghorn in November 1915. There is a photograph of "Chris in uniform" and one of "Lilias aged 5 weeks, in January 1916". | c. 1910 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 232 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM No 232, Graveyard Monuments Album, vol.2 (cf NADFAS Church Inventories of Ladykirk and Troqueer Parish Church, Dumfries) Contains a modern survey of the monuments in the graveyard at Stenton Parish Church, East Lothian. Volume 1: Monuments 1 to 196. Volume 2: Monuments 197 to 340 and 66A. | 2005 | Batch Level |
