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Photocopies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: General term for copies produced by photocopying, that is, in a machine employing a light-sensitive process, and usually at a one-to-one scale. In the early to mid-20th century, used regarding copies made by various specific processes; since the mid-20th century, most often refers to xerographic copies.

Found in 1148 Collections and/or Records:

Photocopy of a notebook of David Livingstone., 1852.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10711
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains notes of David Livingstone on Bantu languages (used in his ‘Analysis of the language of the Bechuanas’) (folio 2); various notes, inter alia, on animals (folio 57) and plants (folio 68); and an account of a conversation with a rain-doctor (folio 85); a sermon on missionary sacrifices (folio 90); and newspaper-cuttings.

Dates: 1852.

Photocopy of a postcard of James Scott Skinner to Tom MacDonald.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7887
Scope and Contents

Containing a score by Scott Skinner of the tune, "The Weeping Birches of Kilmorack".

Dates: 1909.

Photocopy of a reminiscence, 1937, of Rhoda Balfour concerning the quarrel between Robert Louis Stevenson and William E Henley.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9846
Scope and Contents

With covering note by her son, Prof Michael Balfour.

Dates: 1937 and 1989.

Photocopy of a tour of the English Lake District and Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8139
Scope and Contents

Text in verse with many illustrations and calligraphic embellishments.

Dates: 1857.

Photocopy of a typed version of a journal kept by Agnes Paterson, wife of Andrew Paterson, a merchant sea-captain in the service of Jardine and Mathieson, the oriental trading company.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8925
Scope and Contents The journal describes Agnes Paterson's voyage from Scotland to China, from her original departure from Leith to London, to her main embarkation at Portsmouth. It then records incidents on the journey, via the Cape of Good Hope and Java, to her destination at Macao. The journal was sent home in 1840 to her sister Janet, wife of Robert Morham, Depute Town Clerk of Edinburgh. A prefatory note by the donor gives a short biographical note on the compiler and mentions that it is not known whether...
Dates: 1839-1840.