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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

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/488808

Collection Hierarchy - Batch Level

Collection Level (551 87) General Collection. Photograph Albums.

> Batch Level (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

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
Print Room PA 58/34/5 View of main house from south west, Williamwood House c. 1910 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/35/2 Detail of main entrance of Williamwood House with a groups of people 1912 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/35/3 Detail of main entrance of Williamwood House with a groups of people c. 1912 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/35/4 Detail of main entrance of Williamwood House with a groups of people c. 1912 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/12/2 Etching of Edinburgh Castle Item Level
Print Room PA 58/27/1 View of an unidentified cottage 1911 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/27/2 View of an unidentified cottage c. 1911 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/56/2 Two photographs of ice skaters c. 1911 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/53/2 Seven photographs taken while on a skiing holiday in France c. 1911 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/50 Nine photographs showing a group of people at Williamwood Moss 1912 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/50/1 View of a group of people at Williamwood Moss having picnic 1912 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/50/2 View of a group of people at Williamwood Moss having picnic 1912 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/50/3 View of a group of people at Williamwood Moss having picnic 1912 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/50/5 View of a group of people at Williamwood Moss 1912 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/50/7 View of a group of people at Williamwood Moss 1912 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/50/8 View of a group of people with guns and dogs outside the entrance to Williamwood House 1912 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/50/9 View of a group of people at Williamwood Moss having picnic 1912 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/8/3 View of 24 George Square, Edinburgh c. 1910 Item Level
Print Room PA 58/55/6 Photograph of two men with guns outside the entrance to Williamwood House 1912 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 7304 Copy of historic photograph showing view of house through trees. c. 1912 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 7303 Copy of historic photograph showing view of house through trees. 1912 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 7311 Copy of postcard showing carriage racing past old toll bar in Gretna c. 1910 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 7315 Historic photograph of Seaforth House viewed from W. Item Level

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