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PA 137 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
Photograph Album No 137: Susan Freer's Album
Maroon half calf, hard backed album with gold trim on covers and spine, 29 card pages.
Inscribed inside in ink: 'Susan M Freer October 1910'.
A collection of postcards, photographs and pages from theatre programmes with hand written titles and dates between 1900 and 1917.
Contains photographs of Fordel Villa, Melrose, the Freer family's home for at least thirty years before this, and also shown are Spring Hill, St Baldred's Church (and Rev Gill) and Marly Knowe (Old Abbey Road) all North Berwick; Crichton House, Mountainhall 1909/10 and 1 Albany 1913 both Dumfries; Bangour Village station 1912; Ash Bank, Kippford 1913 and the garden of Balgonie, Colinton 1914. There are snapshots of Polly, Boodles, G and C Wade and Dorothy's wedding, 1903 and Bobby's birthday party 19 July 1910 at Liberton; Teddy Davies (3) and Ellen Davies (4); KW McEwen (2) is shown alongside a birth notice reading: "McEwen at St Vincent, Cape Verde Islands on 9th inst. Wife of FA McEwen, a daughter".
A group of women at St Andrews is captioned Girls' Diocesan Week 1915.
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1910 |
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All Other |
PA 64 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
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 |
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