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PA 95 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
Photograph Album No 95: The Baxter Print Album
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1850 |
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PA 133 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
Photograph Album No.133: The Mackays of Upper Gray Street, 1903-1938
Dark green hard backed album, the front decorated and titled 'POSTCARDS', the end papers of coloured jugendstijl pattern and labelled inside the back 'Marshall 6 Salisbury Place Edinr.' (listed there in 1903).
75 green pages slotted to hold at least 4 postcards each side.
Most spaces are filled with unused postcards grouped topographically mainly of Scotland and the north of England. Also 3 woven silk cards of 1908 and 1911 exhibitions. A few unused cards reveal that this is probably a travel record of the MacKay family at 29 (and later 3) Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh. It also includes eight post cards in a series produced by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1903/4 on SY "Scotia" which show, 1. Capt Robertson and Mr Fitchie fixing Scotia's position; 2. Scotia sledge camp, S. Orkneys 1903; 3. Saddle Island, S. Orkneys where Capt. Weddell (Leith) landed 1823, and Scotia naturalists in 1903; 4. Ringed penguins - first arrivals at MacDougall Bay, S. Orkneys 1903; 8. Dr RNR Brown, Mr D Walton and Dr THH Pirie in Scotia's laboratory; 9. Mr RC Mossman and Scottish party at Omond House, Jessie Bay, built by the crew if the Scotia 1903/4; 11 Glacier ice-face on Pirie peninsula, Brown's Bay, S. Orkneys; 12. Scotia frozen up, wintering in Scotia Bay, March-November 1903. [Nos. 5,6,7,and 10 are nt present.]
Other post cards show the Royal Review 1905; a series of portraits of Admirals (Nelson, Hardie, Collingwood, Duncan and Napier); Actors (Edward Compton, Lewis Waller, Martin Harvey, JG Taylor, Holbrook Blane, Pauline Chase, Nora Lancaster, Miss N de Silva, Miss Coleridge, Bessie Elder, Lily Brayton and Mr and Mrs Laurence Irving -Mabel Hackney) and scenes from plays "The Breed of the Treshams", "The Only Way", "The Unwritten Law", "A Cigarette Maker's Romance" and "Hamlet". |
1903 |
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PA 90 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.90: THE FAMILY TRAVELS ALBUM, cf PAs 21, 64, 85, 114, 115, 116, 125, 126, and 127.
Views in Scotland, England, France and Madeira.Album of red cloth with leather spine inscribed on back cover "Album." Includes many photographs taken in Dinard, 1920; in Edinburgh, 1921-2, and elsewhere. Names include groups of nurses - Misses Counsel, Emerson, Duncan, Abbie, Mackenzie, Jaeger; Lees, Beattie, Carlsen, MacDowell, Baring, Coutts; Melvin, J & M Munro, Robertson, Sim, Graham, Meldrum, Chandler; McQueen, Miller, Rankin, Dickie, Flett; Younger, Stewart, Fairbairns, Kingdom, Folkmar, Hall, Rankin, Crooks; Jamieson, Munro, Macrae. Other groups show Mr Mrs and Miss MacIntosh, Miss M Norfor, Amy Henderson, Mrs Henderson, Miss Malcolm 1922, C Turnbull; Misses Kinnear, Clare, Black, Beattie, Wigston, Miller, MacWilliam, Baird, Emerson, Cumming, Mitchell; Lang, Allen, Gouldbourn; Miss Anderson, Aunt Eliza and Stuart; Trixie and Cousin Edith Stuart; Robertson, Auntie Grace and Robin; Miss Bachelor, Jessica, John; Capt. Redmayne at Dalmally 1923; Mr Price; Uncle Willie at Aikenshaw; Auntie May and Nick Hansard; WJV Turnbull and G & R Kindersley at Claygate 1925; Quarter House, Stuart and Jessica with David Baird Smith; the Turnbull vault at Bonhill 1927; Miss Murphy and "Gracchur" [car] at Shap Fell 1932; Patricia with GX2209 [car] 1933; Self with kitten, 1934; Patricia and Robert Smyllie; Nellie Robertson's two children at Leith. Later snapshots show family and friends in the south of England and in Madeira.Other pictures include views of milk cans in Hyde Park during strike May 1926; a ferry going ut to a paddle steamer at Rahane; Lochearnhead Hotel 1924; the paddle steamer "Lucy Ashton" 1924; Manor Water with graves of Barnets of Barns; submarine "mother ship" at Roseneath 1928; SS "Deutschland" 1929; the 1932 Review of Territorials at Dumbarton Castle, with Davie and Lizzie Campbell, Baker and Mrs Carson, and the Hamilton gravestone in Grange Cemetery. |
1920 |
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PA 78 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.78: MISS HILDA MAY DARLING'S COUNTRY HOUSE ALBUM
Miss Hilda May Darling of Priestlaw Duns personal collection of postcards, referred to in messages as 'your house book'. Contains postcards of Country Houses and Hotels from all over Scotland, the majority from East Lothian and Berwickshire. Arranged roughly chronologically from c.1902 to c.1930. |
c. 1902 |
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PA 148 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
Photograph Album No 148: The Princess Christian Album |
1860 |
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All Other |
PA 74 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 74: THE HUTCHISON ALBUM
Album of red cloth with green, gold, black and silver embossed decoration on the front cover
Insc:(front cover) 'Album' Bought by N.M.R.S. in conjunction with the Scottish Photographic Archive where some of the contents (including "The inhabitants of St Kilda", St Bernard's Well, Dreghorn Lodge, "Provost and Lady Boyd"),are kept (marked S. P. A. )
Inside front cover: 'Photographs by Alexander Hutchison (1840 - 1924) of 17 Dublin Street, Edinburgh'. Entered in the 1905 Edinburgh Street Directory: Hutchison, Alexander, joiner and cabinetmaker, Northumberland Place, house 17 Dublin Street'.
Views of Edinburgh surroundings, including Duddingston, Saughton (Ford's Road); Bellevue; Craigmillar; Cramond; Gilmerton House; Swanston; Abbotsford; Maxpoffle, St Boswells; Philipstoun Church; Darnick Tower, Melrose; Balvaird; Bein Inn, Glenfarg; and Arngask. Interior views include Thomas Bonnar's showroom, Edinburgh; drawing rooms at 7 and 9 Drummond Place; Business room and Library, 10 York Place; 6 Bellvue Crescent and the meeting room of The Monks of St Giles.
Loose Leaves: Abbotsford: entrance by garden front; Duddingston; Bonaly Tower; Black Watch Mess Room, Aldershot 1914 decorated; Bass Rock; Melrose Abbey and two decorative pages describing Brodies Close and the Canongate Tolbooth, Edinburgh. |
1880 |
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All Other |
PA 25 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
Photograph Album No 25: Mr Dog Album
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1878 |
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All Other |
PA 53 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 53: THE MERRICK ALBUM
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1860 |
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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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PA 195 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
Photograph Album No 195: Photographs by G W Wilson and Co.
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c. 1880 |
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Prints and Drawings |
WSS 1950/1/1 |
Papers of Walter Schomberg Hepburn Scott, architect, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Plan showing proposed new shop. Details of arcaded wall and iron railings. |
1957 |
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All Other |
MS 499/16/247 |
Records of Land Use Consultants, environmental consultancy, London, England: Inventory of Gardens an |
Research material relating to Abbotsford House and garden |
c. 1987 |
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551 6/3/27/63/2 |
Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Abbotsford House |
1956 |
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All Other |
551 490/3/5/16/1 |
Historic Scotland Photographic Library |
Abbotsford House, Corbels panels and Figures |
8/12/1970 |
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551 490/3/5/16/2 |
Historic Scotland Photographic Library |
Abbotsford House, Stained Glass Window |
3/1971 |
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551 490/3/5/16/3 |
Historic Scotland Photographic Library |
Abbotsford House, Corbels pand Stained Glass Windows |
8/12/1970 |
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551 1/128/25/7/15/6 |
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu |
Threatened building survey of painted decorative scheme, Abbotsford House |
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551 1/4/24/42 |
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu |
Abbotsford House |
1/9/1999 |
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551 1/4/24/48 |
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu |
Abbotsford House (Supplementary Survey) |
9/5/2000 |
Sub-Group Level |
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551 490/3/5/16 |
Historic Scotland Photographic Library |
Abbotsford House, Melrose |
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Sub-Group Level |
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All Other |
551 978/1/1 |
Papers of David Mitchell, Director, Historic Environment Scotland, Stirling, Scotland |
A collection of lantern slides of various sites including ship building machinery, probably in Glasgow. |
c. 1900 |
Sub-Group Level |
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551 721 |
A collection of photographs of buildings in the Lothians and the Scottish Borders, taken by Mr John |
A collection of photographs of buildings in the Lothians and the Scottish Borders, taken by Mr John Edward Cushion. |
1996 |
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