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All Other |
PA 60 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
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.
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1883 |
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All Other |
PA 68 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
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 |
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