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).
c. 1850
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All Other
PA 52 General Collection. Photograph Albums.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 52: THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION ALBUM
Buff cloth cover
Amateur Album including snapshots of Edinburgh, Peebles, Shandon, Glasgow and other places with trains, bridges and ships.
This album contains a very large number of family photographs with little to identify them. There are, however, snaps of the following:
"Aunt Maggie's grave" - Margaret Anne Farquhar, wife of Alexander Forbes, d. 22 October 1925 aged 45 "Granda and Grannie's stone" erected by family in memory of Frank Forbes d. 23 July 1924 aged 77, also his wife Susan Ironside d. 20 June 1928 aged 78.
From internal evidence it seems possible that the album belonged to a Rev. Cameron and his wife. Many of the snaps are of Boys Brigade and St George's Sunday School outings 1929-34 and St George's Players 1937; Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh pageants; Heriots School sports 1929; Round Table ramble 1933; Territorial Review 7 May 1932 showing Lord High Commissioner Sir Iain Colquhoun, Major ACH Hope, Royal Lancers and Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders on parade. There is a group photograph taken at Musselburgh Orphanage 1931 and snaps of the Empire Exhibition, Bellahouston Park, of 1938; also "Drink more milk" floats at a pageant in 1930 (Co-op lorry and Dempster's Dairy van).
Topographical views include Tulliechettle churchyard; Sma' Glen; churches at Kyleakin, Auchterarder, Balquhidder and Lochearnhead, and the shop of J Macpherson, chemist, Auchterarder; a paddle steamer at Arrochar; and the Beheading Stone, Stirling. Also included are Scotland Place, South pier and harbour and the Golf View Hotel, Nairn, and snaps of A Ross; PC Mennie on motor bike; and "WR", a message boy with bicycle belonging to Cooper's, all at Nairn. The bottle works at Pettycur is shown, also the steel houses at Granton; Lauriston Gardens, Edinburgh and 80 Guild Street, Aberdeen and there are five photographs of Aberdeen Fish Market.
See also PA167, which seems to have belonged to the same family.
1927
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