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B 27574 PC |
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Oban, General.
General postcard view of town and Sound of Mull.
Insc: 'Oban and Sound of Mull'. |
c. 1900 |
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G 813685 NC |
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Cutting from Scotland's Magazine showing general view of the bay.
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c. 1953 |
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DC 50679 |
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General view |
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PA 103 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
Photograph Album No103: The Douglas Room Album
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c. 1870 |
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PA 18 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 18: CARTE-DE-VISITE MINIATURE ALBUM
Photograph album of an anonymous collector inscribed: 'Photos collected on my journey's', c1860'; with a wide selection of photographs of castles, towns, churches and bridges throughout Scotland. |
1860 |
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PA 109 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
Photograph Album No 109: G.M. Simpson of Australia's Photograph Album |
1880 |
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All Other |
PA 33 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.33: COURTAULD ALBUM
Album of professional prints, black leather, gilt inlay and page edges. Insc: (paper slip with Apollo motif) 'APOMWN [Greek lettering] Ex Libris S.L.Courtauld' (first page) 'S.L.Courtauld'.
Album of 71 G.W.Wilson and J.Valentine prints of bridges, castles, and topography. Dates approximate.
Includes views of Callander Bridge; St. Fillans; a Highland clachan; Loch Duich; Scrabster lighthouse and a bay with five sailing boats; the Broomielaw with crowds and shipping; a paddle steamer on Loch Lomond and many other large views of beauty spots in Scotland. |
c. 1878 |
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PA 55 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.55: WALTER SCOTT MELROSE ALBUM
Red morocco leather album with black and gilt striped spine, embossed with the burgh stamp of Melrose on front cover.
Album of commercial prints by J.V.Valentine and J. Patrick, c.1880's showing scenes throughout Scotland of places which had been connected with Sir Walter Scott including pictures of horse-drawn trams in Edinburgh and Glasgow. |
c. 1880 |
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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 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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PA 38 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO. 38: HOLYROOD GALLERY ALBUM.
Professional album, red leather, gilt inlay labelled (back inside cover): 'A & N C S Ld, Stationery Dept, 105 Victoria St. SW.' c.1900
Album of professional prints by J Valentine, G W Wilson and Poulton Series of Castles, bridges, art reproduction, topography England and Norway.
Includes views of Killin, Comrie, Crieff and Culloden; a photograph of a Royal Navy warship with twin funnels and views by K. Knudsen, Bergen including Hardanger, Molde, Vossebanen, Romsdalen etc. |
c. 1900 |
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PA 39 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.39: TRAVELS ALBUM
Album in book format, light brown leather, embossed, gilt inlay.
Insc: (first page) 'PARKINS/GOTTO' (1887-1891)
Album of professional prints by G.W.Wilson and J.Valentine plus snapshots of the Southern Mediterranean, Germany, Paris, Isle of Wight and castles, bridges, towns of Scotland, including Shetland, Orkney, Pittenweem, St Monans and Drummond Castle from the gardens. There is a photograph of the SS Patua ?; a group in the Consul's garden Shanghai showing five European men and one woman with four Chinese people, probably servants; Dr Palin, Frances and Fergus with horses; and several tennis parties, at Mrs Kennedy's, 1887 and at St Leonards, 1891. |
c. 1876 |
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PA 35 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 35: Biel Album |
c. 1899 |
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PA 61/1 |
General Collection. Photograph Albums. |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 61: THE MARSHALL ALBUM, vol.II
Bound in black Morocco leather with gold inly on the front cover in an interweaving design, and with a gold striped spine.
Photographic album including amateur and commercial views of buildings of Perthshire, Argyll, Midlothian, the Highlands etc and abroad.
See also PAs128-131. |
c. 1870 |
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PA 104 |
William Notman |
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO. 104: NOTMAN COLLECTION ALBUM A. |
c. 1890 |
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551 1/4/10/100 |
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu |
Oban (General) |
28/4/2002 |
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551 359/3/104 |
General Collection |
A collection of Stereoscopic photographs |
1891 |
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