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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 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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