Photographs.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. (AAT) This heading was used in the NLS typescript manuscripts catalogue for all types of photographs, and for documents relating to photography. (NLS).
Found in 2645 Collections and/or Records:
Typescripts, photographs and other material concerning Chapel House in Potterow, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15990-15991
Dates:
[Circa 1904-circa 1952.]
Typescripts, with pencil and watercolour illustrations and photographs inserted, of diaries of Violet Jacobs kept while in India, 1895-1923., 1932, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27414-27415
Dates:
1932, undated.
Ultra-violet photographs of leaves removed from, and of a defaced page of the 'Auchinleck Manuscript' (Adv.MS.19.2.1).
File
Identifier: MS.8894
Scope and Contents
With the exception of folio 5, the photographs are of leaves which were originally part of the 'Auckinleck Manuscript' but were removed at an early date and have remained seperate. They were discovered in use as the covers of notebooks and in bindings.The contents are as follows.Two leaves containing part of ‘The Life of Adam and Eve’; originally gathering 3, folios 4-5, item 3(viii). (Folio 1.)Part of ‘Þe Wenche þat loved a king’; gathering 36, folio 256...
Dates:
[Circa 1335.]
Various papers, containing bills, receipts and photographs., 1920-1962, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/210(1)-211(3)
Dates:
1920-1962, undated.
Verse and prose writings, correspondence, photographs and press cuttings of Domhnall R MacGillemhoire/Donald R Morrison of Scalpay, Isle of Harris.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12363
Dates:
1954-2002.
Verse and prose writings, correspondence, photographs and press cuttings of Domhnall R MacGillemhoire/Donald R Morrison of Scalpay, Isle of Harris.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.358- is now Acc.12363.
Dates:
1951-2002.
Volume containing typed copies of diaries of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of journeys to India in the winters of 1885-1886 and 1888-1889 for the sake of her health; with associated papers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20668-20669
Dates:
1885-1889.
Volume containing watercolour sketches, photographs, maps and geological notes of John Francis Campbell, recording a visit he made to North America in the autumn of 1864., 1864.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.1
Dates:
1864.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Volume containing watercolours, photographs, notes and printed items relating to John Francis Campbell`s travels from 1865-1868., 1858-1868.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.2
Scope and Contents
Campbell illustrates a visit to Hammerfest and the North Cape made in the Autumn of 1865 and travels he made in Scotland for geological interest in the following years.There are several printed pamphlets by Campbell which have been inserted at various places throughout the volume: ‘Notes on the Stature of the Lapps’ (London, 1866) (folio 53), “Rough Night`s Quarters” (Edinburgh, 1866) (folio 75), ‘A Method of Converting Collodion Negatives into Positives’ (Liverpool, 1858) (folio...
Dates:
1858-1868.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee, consisting of pipe tunes, poems, notes and memoranda, extracts from published sources, letters from correspondents interested in Gaelic culture, and some press cuttings and photographs.
File
Identifier: MS.22164
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 1, a vellum leaf.Some items found loosely enclosed have been tipped or pasted in.The work consists of an introduction (folio 6) preceded by prefatory poems (folio 2), and eight sections: Old highland airs (folio 39), Clan tunes (folio 90), Jacobite airs (folio 131), Battle tunes (folio 159), Laments (folio 209), Old Scottish airs (folio 223), Army tunes (folio 244) and General marches (folio 276).There are two unrelated items:...
Dates:
1911-1912.
Volume entitled `Field Marshal Earl Haig K.T. Letters 1920 to 1927`, containing forty-one letters to James Curle with associated printed material and a photograph.
Item
Identifier: Dep.214- is now Acc.9431.
Dates:
1920-1927.
Volume of photographs of the early stages of the building of the Forth Bridge, 1888, with some later photographs and a watercolour of the completed bridge.
Series
Identifier: Dep.181-is now Acc.14382
Dates:
1888, and after.
Volume of watercolour sketches and photographs with brief geological or meteorological notes made by John Francis Campbell on his journey to India in 1876-1877 in continuation of his world tour., 1876-1877.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.12
Scope and Contents
Campbell also includes rubbings of ornamental tiles from some of the Indian temples he visited.
At the end of the volume there are a few photographs of Windsor Castle (folios 127-129).
Dates:
1876-1877.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Volume, received bound, of 'Letter from Cadet R.K. Dickson, R.N., Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, to Mrs W.K. Dickson, describing the test mobilization of the Fleet in July 1914, just before the outbreak of war with Germany', with a photograph of H.M.S. Russell on the inside of the front cover., 26 July 1914.
File
Identifier: MS.13578
Dates:
26 July 1914.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
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Papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson.
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Personal and naval papers of Robert Kirk Dickson.
War correspondence between Lawrence Burness and his parents.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9088
Scope and Contents
Includes extracts of letters, parted into three volumes, and photographs, 1942, of people and places mainly in Burma.
Dates:
1940-1947.
Wartime log of Flight Sergeant Charles D Paterson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13215
Scope and Contents
Wartime logbook, 1938-1942, of Flight Sergeant Charles D. Paterson, recording his experiences during the Second World War. The contents list at the beginning of the volume suggests that Paterson was a POW in first Italy then in Germany, although the description of his experiences is incomplete and ends before his capture. In one of the chapters, Paterson notes that he has been a prisoner of war for almost 3 years. In addition to Paterson`s description of his flight...
Dates:
1938-1942.
Women`s Social and Political Union postcard album.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4546
Scope and Contents
Including cards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and printed and manuscript papers.
Dates:
circa 1900-circa 1914.
Working papers of William Skeoch Cumming, comprising notes, sketches, photographs, and other material collected by him in the course of his work., 1893-1919, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9773-9795
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is undated and fragmentary in nature. Rough sketches, notes taken from printed books, addresses, accounts, and descriptions of portraits and uniforms are scattered throughout.
Dates:
1893-1919, undated.
Yellow box containing various loose photographs and handwritten correspondence to Pete Horobin., ?1980
File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 42(8) [C-0043-80]