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 Hierarchy - Collection Level
Collection Level (551 87) General Collection. Photograph Albums.
| Preview | Category | Catalogue Number | Title | Date | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Other | PA 5 | Photograph Album No 5: Mrs Foster Forbes' Album | 1892 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 6 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM No.6: BLACKBARONY ALBUM. Photograph album with a survey of Blackbarony House and grounds, Scottish Borders, taken in 1926. | 1926 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 7 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM 7: CAMARA CLUB ALBUM Photograph album with views of castles, churches and towns. | 1900 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 8 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 8: LENDALFOOT ALBUM Amateur snapshot album, navy leather embossed with gilt Insc:[front cover] "J.C.B. Remembrances of July 1887. A.A.M." (c.1880.) Amateur snapshots of the Lendalfoot area, mainly topography, Knockdolian Castle, Carleton Castle. Bruce's Castle & Kirkhill House. It includes views of a train at Kilochan; groups on the Lendal and at Lendal Bay with rowing boats; the dinner committee and Ailsa Craig. | c. 1887 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 9 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 9: MISS FRANK'S PRINCE CHARLIE ALBUM Album of 81 prints, red leather embossed with gilt. Insc: [1st page] "Elizabeth Frank. August 1872. E. End. Loch Katrine" [2nd page] "Prince Charlie. Le Iocque." (c.1850) Album of prints, cabinet scraps, cartes-de-visite and art reproductions. Views of Edinburgh, castles, churches and topographic photographs, including views of Glencoe, Loch Lomond and Loch Katrine, Rosslyn Chapel, Melrose Abbey, Stirling Castle, Ayr, Abbotsford, Brodick, Crinan Canal, Staffa and Iona. The majority of the photographers are unknown and none of the photographs are dated, however the album includes images by Valentine and George Washington Wilson. | c. 1850 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 11 | Photograph Album No 11: Kirsty's Banff Album | c. 1893 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 20 | Photograph Album No 20: LORETTO ALBUM Amateur and professional print window album, grey cloth. Insc: in gilt 'Photographs', [inside front cover] 'E.D. Smith Bookseller and Stationer. 177 Sauchiehall St. Glasgow' Insc: [1st page] 'E.D. Smith September 3/00' Window Album mainly of James Valentine's Prints of castles, houses, bridges, towns and topography, some G.W. Wilson's. Includes some photographs taken on the Isle of Man. | c. 1870 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 12 | Photograph Album No 12: BEDOUIN ALBUM Photograph album with views of unidentified buildings, possibly in the Argyll area, and family photographs. | c. 1900 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 13 | Photograph Album No 13: S.N.P.G. Album Photograph album with views of unidentified houses, gardens and family photographs. | c. 1900 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 15 | Photograph Album No 15: Muthill Album Photograph album with views of buildings, including Lochranza Castle, boats and country life, the majority are likely taken in the Arran area. | c. 1890 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 55 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.55: WALTER SCOTT MELROSE ALBUM Red morocco leather album with black and gilt striped spine, embossed with the burgh stamp of Melrose on front cover. Album of commercial prints by J.V.Valentine and J. Patrick, c.1880's showing scenes throughout Scotland of places which had been connected with Sir Walter Scott including pictures of horse-drawn trams in Edinburgh and Glasgow. | c. 1880 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 16 | Photograph Album No 16: EWING GILMORE ALBUM Photograph album with views of houses and lodges as well as lochs, moors and rivers in the Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty area, including Rosehall and Balnakeil Estates. | c. 1910 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 17 | Photograph Album No 17: GLASGOW EXHIBITION 1901 Photograph album with views of the 1901 Internal Exhibition at Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow. | 1901 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 18 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 18: CARTE-DE-VISITE MINIATURE ALBUM Photograph album of an anonymous collector inscribed: 'Photos collected on my journey's', c1860'; with a wide selection of photographs of castles, towns, churches and bridges throughout Scotland. | 1860 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 19 | Photograph Album No 19: Formans and McCall Album | c. 1896 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 26 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.26: MOFFAT ALBUM Album of professional prints, dark purple leather with black spine and corners, gilt inlay. Album of J. Valentine and G.W.Wilson prints of houses, castles, churches, bridges and topography. Includes pictures of coaches and views including "Descending the Pass of Melfort in a coach and four" by George Washington Wilson and Ben Nevis Observatory. | c. 1870 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 109 | Photograph Album No 109: G.M. Simpson of Australia's Photograph Album | 1880 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 110 | Photograph Album No 110: Trossach's Concertina | c. 1870 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 198 | Photograph Album 198 Snakeskin bound photograph album showing Gibson family holidays around Scotland and abroad including Eqypt, Italy and India. Included are snaps of Gideon, Sandy (one-time Loretto student), Lydia, William, Edgar, "a page of Gibsons 1925" and one taken at Gullane 1927, captioned "4 Gibsons, 3 Maxwells and one Sidey". Other snaps show a "picnic in Glen Afric with Maj. and Mrs Crosby, Olive and self"; "Self with Miss Gray, Motor Instructress and the car 'Rhoda' at Blairgowrie"; Balmoral clansmen marching into Braemar, the Highland Gathering there, and Charles Mackintosh in Highland dress; Mrs Brown and Rose Campbell in the garden at Rose Earn, Crieff; and a thatched cottage in Skye with a huge hay stack. Views include Fern Cottage, Braemar; looking up Chapel Brae from Gowrie Cottage, Braemar; Chapel Brae in winter; Inverchroskie, Kirkmichael 1929; Craigour, Gullane 1930; Balfour, Menmuir, near Brechin; and Profits Hotel, Dinnet. There is a postcard of "the seaplane in which Ruth Wild and I flew into Ajaccio, Corsica, February 1926. The pageant at Callander House, Falkirk 1932 is shown and there are snaps of teachers at St Andrews with a view of "the school from St Regulus Tower." On holiday in Iona in 1932 "MacNeill, the lobster-catcher, our ferryman to Ulva with his two nephews" is the subject of several snaps. Other holidays in France, Holland and Italy are shown with more snaps of the family and friends. A large section of the album is devoted to scenes in India, where Olive and George lived at 18b Alipori Road, Calcutta and 72 The Mall, Ambala 1928 is also shown. There are many good photographs of life in India at that time showing friends and servants and views of famous sites in Delhi, Agra and Lucknow. The return journey seems to have been from Rangoon and there are views of the Sphinx, the Pyramids, Aden, Stromboli and the ship "Kaiser-i Hind". | 1926 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 60 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.60: MISS MURRAY'S ALBUM Album of amateur and commercial photographs and commercial prints and engravings. Insc: (inside) 'Lizzie M. Murray. Woodside House, 1883'. The album includes dated photographs of the Murray's house, 'Woodside' in Blairgowrie, and of 'Lintrose', their estate in Cargill, together with other buildings of the Blairgowrie/Coupar-Angus district. Also included are interior views of two houses in Edinburgh, No.4 Torphichen Street, and No.12 Howard Place - interesting because the interiors may be seen at different dates. There are also various buildings and views of London, Oxford, Dublin, Canterbury etc. The photographs date from 1883 - c.1902. Contains many engravings and lithographic prints of British and European royalty and celebrities of the day, along with cartoons and fashion plates. These include two views of the Great Fire in Parliament Square, Edinburgh, 16 November 1824; "The Passing of the Mistress of the Seas" - ships in Portsmouth Harbour on 1 February 1901, and coloured fashion plates by Henry de Hem and from The Queen magazine of 1884. "Yuletide in Canada" is the subject of an attractive print showing two children on a sledge, decorated with holly, in glowing colours. At a slightly later time snapshots and views have been pasted in. These show members of the Purvis, Moncrieff, Jackson, Wayne, Collins-Wood and Hill-Whitton families and iinclude many snapshots of young children. Other portrait photographs are of J. Buchanan Hamilton of Leny; Duncan Moncrieff; Rev E. Sugden of St Anne's church, Coupar Angus (which is also shown decorated for Christmas 1888); the Very Rev V L Briton, Dean of St Andrews 1898; George Palmer; David Murray; Arthur Blake; Willie Jardine; George, Ethel and Jean Kinloch; and Edward and family 1908. Two photographs show very small children, Frances and Darby Jackson, in pannier baskets on the back of a donkey being led, first by a uniformed nursemaid and afterwards by an old lady. | 1883 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 95 | Photograph Album No 95: The Baxter Print Album | 1850 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 133 | Photograph Album No.133: The Mackays of Upper Gray Street, 1903-1938 Dark green hard backed album, the front decorated and titled 'POSTCARDS', the end papers of coloured jugendstijl pattern and labelled inside the back 'Marshall 6 Salisbury Place Edinr.' (listed there in 1903). 75 green pages slotted to hold at least 4 postcards each side. Most spaces are filled with unused postcards grouped topographically mainly of Scotland and the north of England. Also 3 woven silk cards of 1908 and 1911 exhibitions. A few unused cards reveal that this is probably a travel record of the MacKay family at 29 (and later 3) Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh. It also includes eight post cards in a series produced by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1903/4 on SY "Scotia" which show, 1. Capt Robertson and Mr Fitchie fixing Scotia's position; 2. Scotia sledge camp, S. Orkneys 1903; 3. Saddle Island, S. Orkneys where Capt. Weddell (Leith) landed 1823, and Scotia naturalists in 1903; 4. Ringed penguins - first arrivals at MacDougall Bay, S. Orkneys 1903; 8. Dr RNR Brown, Mr D Walton and Dr THH Pirie in Scotia's laboratory; 9. Mr RC Mossman and Scottish party at Omond House, Jessie Bay, built by the crew if the Scotia 1903/4; 11 Glacier ice-face on Pirie peninsula, Brown's Bay, S. Orkneys; 12. Scotia frozen up, wintering in Scotia Bay, March-November 1903. [Nos. 5,6,7,and 10 are nt present.] Other post cards show the Royal Review 1905; a series of portraits of Admirals (Nelson, Hardie, Collingwood, Duncan and Napier); Actors (Edward Compton, Lewis Waller, Martin Harvey, JG Taylor, Holbrook Blane, Pauline Chase, Nora Lancaster, Miss N de Silva, Miss Coleridge, Bessie Elder, Lily Brayton and Mr and Mrs Laurence Irving -Mabel Hackney) and scenes from plays "The Breed of the Treshams", "The Only Way", "The Unwritten Law", "A Cigarette Maker's Romance" and "Hamlet". | 1903 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 191 | Photograph Album No 191: The Honeymoon Tour in Scotland | 23/9/1929 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 118 | Photograph Album No118 : Post Card Album | c. 1925 | Batch Level |
