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Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Observatory Road, The Royal Observatory

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All Other 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 Batch Level
All Other 551 449/1/2/1 Hamish McLachlan Life drawings and sketches of various buildings. 1938 Batch Level
All Other 551 5/10/85 Records of AOC Archaeology Group, archaeologists, Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland Archive from standing building survey at The Royal Observatory, Observatory Road, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh 12/2002 Sub-Group Level