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 |
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| All Other | PA 64 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 64: THE BONHILL ALBUM Album of amateur photographs bound in grey cloth, cf.PAs 21, 85, 90,114,115, 116, 125, 126 and 127 Includes family portraits, topography and buildings of Perthshire, Dunbartonshire, Stirlingshire, 1899-1907. Photographs are of many members of the Turnbull family and of Miss Davidson, Mr Mills at Glendaruel Hotel and other members of the Mills family, E Jamieson, Ugo, Mrs Burney, Cornelia, Dorothy, Marjorie and Robertson, Jessie J., Willie, Eliza, Mr Tulloch, Ferry John, and Archie the Gardener, Elska Ramsay, Mrs Ramsay, J McNab, Annie McGowan, Miss Parker, Arthur Stuart and Mrs Le Blanc. Locations include St Fillans Hotel, 1900 with figures, Bonhill, Stanley, Millburn, Colintraive, Shandon, Aikenshaw and Mambeg pier. One photograph shows Messrs Clarke and Wilson's office at Madras in 1901 with SRT and James Whitson and a larger one is of a group of staff of the ICS including JRB Branson and WS Adie; another is a view of "an old woman's residence at Portincaple" which has been made from an upturned boat with tarred roof and smoking chimney with a resident black cat. Snaps at Shandon include MAJ, a little girl playing with a toy boat in a pool; and a group of Alison Turnbull, Jane Blyth, Jeannie McKenzie and Jessie Logan, (maids). | 1899 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 65 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 65: BOOTHBY ALBUM Amateur album, red leather embossed with gilt, c.1870. Amateur snapshots, papercuttings, art reproductions, photographic views from England, Wales and the St Andrews area, (including Kniburn Terrace, 1889); two photographs of 'sketches by Miss Webster', St Andrews Castle and Budda Rock. Also shown are Rohallion Castle; Wemyss Castle with a horse-drawn grass-cutter; "Butter making" showing a young girl, Kathleen Hunt, at Foxworthy; Surveying (four men with staff and level); Robert and George Boothby with Jessie the pony, and a carriole at Howden House, Midcalder. There is also a modern snap of Rolf, Joan and the children. | c. 1870 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 46 | Photograph Album No 46: Thomas Wright Album | 1887 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 66 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 66: THE TOLLEMACHE ALBUM Photograph album associated with the Tollemache family with views of Brodie Castle, Cawdor Castle, Nairn and Kilravock Castle, as well as Helmingham Hall and Peckforton Castle, including many interiors. | 1890 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 134 | Photograph Album No 134: Dunara Castle | c. 1929 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 48 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.48: THE FETTES ALBUM Photograph album with views of Fettes College, Edinburgh, including a photograph taken 'after the fire of 1897'. | 1895 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 49 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 49: MCKEAN'S LEITH ALBUM Photograph album with modern copies of historic photographs of Leith by John McKean. | c. 1880 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 146 | Photograph Album No 146: THE ANNAN ALBUM Dark cloth-covered album with marbled end-papers (pieced) and 36 pages. Two similar volumes are in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow - this one has '701-928' impressed in gold on the front cover. Purchased from William Hardie. 19th century photographs presumed to be by Thomas Annan, the subjects mainly of architectural interest are pasted in six to a page in alphabetical order until p36; then another lot, mainly of Glasgow buildings are added on verso going back to p26v - all numbered in pencil from 701 to 986. | c. 1880 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 21 | Photograph Album NO 21: CYCLE TOUR ALBUM Amateur snapshot scrap album, light grey cloth Insc: (front cover) 'Photographs', (inside cover) 'To Father and Mother with love and best wishes. James 1903' Amateur photographs of 'Cycle Tour', houses, topography, Scotland and abroad, and family. This is the first of ten albums associated with the Turnbull family, cf PAs64, 85, 90,114, 115,116,125,126 and 127. It includes photographs of many members of the family at Aikenshaw, Rahane and other locations and on board the Bibby liner "Derbyshire" 1902-5. [At this time sailing regularly to Burma.] Snapshots show Jessie Jameson, Miss and Mr. Parker, Mrs Hannay, Arthur Kindersley, Louie Stewart, Miss Grant, Miss Davidson, Terry John, Dorothy, Robertson and Ugo, Miss Wilby, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell of Peton, Baroness von Grote, Arrol family, Constance Swan, Jeanie Robertson, Jessie Logan, Montague Baird, Campbell of Cambusaskin, Franklyn Baird, Mr. and Mrs. Thom, Prof. Sir Archibald Geikie, (Geologist and writer), Smith family. Also RCT in Brabants uniform 1900; Stuart K Turnbull crossing to Canna in Mr. Thom's yacht with Sir A. Geekie; Frances Edmonds, Ethel Yardley, Dorothy, MT, EFT and MAT 1906; HT Shaw at Koorg; Frances and Dick T at Ripplemead; Robertson and Dorothy, Lady Ramsay and Leska 1900 at Place of Bonhill; Brock family; Tower of Glenstrae 1905; Mr. A McNab; "The Lady Clare" on the Gareloch 1904; Mr. Christall, Mr. Peter McGibbon and Mr. McNab shooting for the Astor Challenge Cup. | 1903 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 50 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS NO 50: D. O. HILL IMITATOR ALBUM Black leather with gilt striped spine. Includes photographs by a D. O. Hill imitatorof c.1850, (attrib.Thomas Vernon Begbie.) Includes pictures of heavy horses working and other photographs with figures and farming scenes, sheep and hens, many taken by "C.R.". | c. 1850 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 51 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 51: THE WIGTOWNSHIRE ALBUM Wine red leather album with gilt striped spine Album of commercial prints by G W Wilson and J V Valentine. Includes Melrose Abbey; Dryburgh Abbey; Moffat, (including Beech Grove, High Street and Colvin Fountain); Stranraer (the piers showing sailing ships, Lewis Street and George Street); Comrie; St. Fillans; Orkneyman's cave, Bressay; Culloden Battlefield; Iona, and twelve views of Chester Cathedral and environs, (Pattitt series) | c. 1853 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 22 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 22: TROSSACHS HOTEL ALBUM Amateur scrap album, sage green cloth Insc: 'Photographs' in gilt. Stamped on back cover 'L. & H.' 10 Photographs of Trossach Hotel, copied 1985 & filed in photo boxes. | c. 1905 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 23 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 23: HELEN ALBUM Window Album of 12 prints, grey cloth Insc: (inside front cover) 'To Helen. From D. O.' Album of 12 very faded prints of topography and bridges | c. 1910 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 24 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 24: LINBURN ALBUM Family photograph album with views from across Scotland including Linburn, Aberdeen; Plockton, Skye, Tiree, Glasgow and Glencoe as well as photographs from Jersey and Dieppe and Rouen in France. | c. 1929 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 25 | Photograph Album No 25: Mr Dog Album | 1878 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 52 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 52: THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION ALBUM Buff cloth cover Amateur Album including snapshots of Edinburgh, Peebles, Shandon, Glasgow and other places with trains, bridges and ships. This album contains a very large number of family photographs with little to identify them. There are, however, snaps of the following: "Aunt Maggie's grave" - Margaret Anne Farquhar, wife of Alexander Forbes, d. 22 October 1925 aged 45 "Granda and Grannie's stone" erected by family in memory of Frank Forbes d. 23 July 1924 aged 77, also his wife Susan Ironside d. 20 June 1928 aged 78. From internal evidence it seems possible that the album belonged to a Rev. Cameron and his wife. Many of the snaps are of Boys Brigade and St George's Sunday School outings 1929-34 and St George's Players 1937; Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh pageants; Heriots School sports 1929; Round Table ramble 1933; Territorial Review 7 May 1932 showing Lord High Commissioner Sir Iain Colquhoun, Major ACH Hope, Royal Lancers and Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders on parade. There is a group photograph taken at Musselburgh Orphanage 1931 and snaps of the Empire Exhibition, Bellahouston Park, of 1938; also "Drink more milk" floats at a pageant in 1930 (Co-op lorry and Dempster's Dairy van). Topographical views include Tulliechettle churchyard; Sma' Glen; churches at Kyleakin, Auchterarder, Balquhidder and Lochearnhead, and the shop of J Macpherson, chemist, Auchterarder; a paddle steamer at Arrochar; and the Beheading Stone, Stirling. Also included are Scotland Place, South pier and harbour and the Golf View Hotel, Nairn, and snaps of A Ross; PC Mennie on motor bike; and "WR", a message boy with bicycle belonging to Cooper's, all at Nairn. The bottle works at Pettycur is shown, also the steel houses at Granton; Lauriston Gardens, Edinburgh and 80 Guild Street, Aberdeen and there are five photographs of Aberdeen Fish Market. See also PA167, which seems to have belonged to the same family. | 1927 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 53 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 53: THE MERRICK ALBUM | 1860 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 30 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 30: OLD EDINBURGH Album of 135 professional prints, dark red cloth with tan leather spine and edges embossed with pattern and gilt Insc: (spine) 'Old Edinburgh 1903 - R Dykes', (first page) '136 Photographs. Old Edinburgh A Photographic survey of old buildings in and around Edinburgh carried out during the years 1903, 1904 and 1905. The survey includes places such as Stirling, Dunfermline, Musselburgh etc. intimately associated with the history of Edinburgh. by Robert Dykes Edinburgh' Newspaper clipping (inside front cover) December 1904 about the Photographic Society Exhibition, from the Evening News. | 1903 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 54 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 54: ALBUM OF NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES Brown cloth album with leather spine. Collection of commercial and amateur photographs and engravings of Scottish lighthouses and lightvessels, including the Isle of Man, the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland. Includes some photographs by G W Wilson and J V Valentine | c. 1900 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 32 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 32: BALMACAAN ALBUM Photograph album with interior and exterior views of Balmacaan House and estate by Cornelia Craven. | c. 1910 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 34 | Photograph Album No 34: 16 Leamington Terrace, Mather Family Album | c. 1900 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 35 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 35: Biel Album | c. 1899 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 56 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 56: ST FORT ALBUM Photograph album with views of St Fort House and estate dated 1893-1896. | c. 1893 | Batch Level | |
| All Other | PA 140 | Photograph Album NO.140: C R & CO AMERICAN ALBUM Dark brown leather album with traces of gold trim. Gold lettering on front cover 'C R & Co'. Horizontal ribs on spine. Photographs of unidentified American houses and postcards of Scottish locations including the Caledonian canal, Skye and Lewis. | Batch Level |
