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
PA 58
Description 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
Date c. 1910 to 1920
Collection General Collection. Photograph Albums.
Catalogue Number PA 58
Category All Other
Scope and Content PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO. 58: MISS PEARSON'S ANNAN ALBUM. Dark blue canvas album. Amateur scrap album of 1910-20, containing snapshots of family, friends and buildings of Annan district which have been captioned but many of which are too faded to identify. The album belonged to Miss Pearson daughter of Alexander Pearson of Luce Cottage, Annan; the family is related to the Salvesons of Norway. Miss Pearson was educated at Southlands, Harrow and there is also a snap of "my class at Crieff" showing very young girls. The album includes is a poem by David AGP, and a view of her grandfather's house at 24 George Square, Edinburgh with newspaper accounts of a burglary there in 1913. There are clippings about cricket matches between Eton and Harrow, amateur theatricals, concert programmes, otter and fox hunting, steeplechase meetings, golf, skiing and skating, grouse shooting in 1912 and a choral festival at Lochmaben in 1911 with photographs of some of these. One snap shows "the old Darracq" car with four figures at Johnstone c.1910, and there is a descriptive poem about a fire at a school at Alton Burn, Nairn, 1912 by DAG Pearson mentioning schoolmasters by name. A cutting dated 23 September 1910 tells of Lord of Session Salveson and family recovering slowly from being poisoned by mushrooms in Norway. There is a lengthy press account of the St Andrew Boat Club Ball in the Music Hall, Edinburgh on 12 February 1914, giving four columns of the names , addresses and fancy dress costumes of all those who attended. This was a triennial event which had been held for the past sixty years. Also included are snaps of the families of Pearson of Johnstone and Pearson of Luce. Locations include Williamwood, Harrow, Nairn, Laurencekirk, Merchiston, Mardale Crescent, Edinburgh before the tenements were built in 1893, and Whittinghame 1913. There are also views of the Japanese Garden of c.1909 at Cowden Castle, Muckhart, now lost. Press cuttings announce (without the year) the following births;- Maitland-Heriot at San Ysidro, Buenos Ayres on October 1st the wife of F de Courcy Maitland-Heriot of a son (Ian de Courcy); Aglen. At the Inspectorate-General of Customs, Peking on 6th October, the wife of F. A. Aglen of a daughter. Weddings recorded are of :- MrJ N Robertson Rogers and Miss Margaret Keswick. Mr Maurice C Forsyth-Grant of Ecclescreig, St Cyrus of which house there is a picture, and Miss Evelyn Jane Sibbald Shaw, (Miss Anne Pearson, a cousin was the bridesmaid.) Mr Kenneth Forbes Meiklejohn, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and Miss Sybil Maud Stewart.
Accession Number 1993/10
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