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All Other |
AL 5 |
Papers of Archibald Craig, antiquarian, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Volume 2 of three scrapbooks compiled c.1825-50, bound in leather, labelled on the spine and titled 'Scrap Book' and numbered I-III, and bearing the bookplate of Archibald Craig. In the front of Volume III there is a manuscript family tree. Archibald Craig b.1805, educated at Craigmount and the Edinburgh Institution, from whome volumes descend to Archibald Hugh Craig b.1892, (address under Copyright field); Archibald Hugh Baillie Craig b.1925 (address under Copyright field). The family, as Craig Bros., were wholesale and retail woollen merchants and hatters in Edinburgh, running a cloth warehouse on the South Bridge. The volumes, which reflect Archibald's diverse interests, contain a typical collection of cuttings but with an emphasis on military subjects. They include engravings and sketches of buildings in Edinburgh and the vicinity, miscellaneous drawings and an unidentified architect's design for a Monument to General Sir Ralph Abercromby (died 1801).
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c. 1850 |
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All Other |
PA 146 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
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 |
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