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Press cuttings. Information artifacts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources. (AAT) 'Press cuttings' NLS preferred form.

Found in 2179 Collections and/or Records:

Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22130-22133
Scope and Contents The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates: Late 19th century-?1956.

‘Book of Clan Fraser’, being an album of manuscript notes and newspaper-cuttings relating to families and individuals of the name of Fraser, compiled by the Reverend Alexander Thomson Grant, Episcopalian Rector at Leven and later Chaplain at Wemyss Castle., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.3070
Scope and Contents

The notes, which are arranged alphabetically in order of families, include extracts from early official records, but consist chiefly of notices of marriages, deaths, etc., taken from modern newspapers. The compilation is incomplete, and there are many blank pages.

Dates: Early 20th century-mid 20th century.

Book-related press cuttings, 1940-1969

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13772/232-238
Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains the press cuttings Edith Simon retained, documenting press coverage and reviews for her writing career and published books.

Dates: 1940-1969

Book reviews and newspaper cuttings on 'Scotland: The Story of a Nation'., 2000.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/103
Scope and Contents

File includes Magnusson’s review of Simon Schama’s 'A History of Britain'(2000).

Dates: 2000.

Bound volume entitled ‘Reminiscences of my father [by] E.B.S.’ containing a typed copy of a biography illustrated by selections from his correspondence, of Richard Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond (died 1865) compiled after his death by his daughter Elizabeth., Late 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20027
Scope and Contents The leaves are typed on one side only: notes and additions have been written on some of the blank sides and press-cuttings have been pasted to some others.The biography is followed by leaves from some of Richard Burdon-Sanderson's published works pasted in (folio 383), copies of newspaper reports of the death in 1876 of his son Richard (folio 469), copies of press notices of Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson (folio 492), and a genealogy of the family of William Scott,...
Dates: Late 19th century.

Bound volume made up for James Simpson Fleming of articles published by him.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.7
Scope and Contents The articles in the volume are: an interleaved copy of the third edition of Fleming’s ‘Scottish Banking’ (Edinburgh, 1877); a reprint from ‘Blackwood`s Magazine’, volume 118 (June 1875), of his “Banking and Mr Goschen`s Bill”; `The Interview between Sir Stafford Northcote and the English Bankers` and `Extension of Scottish Banks into England` from “Bankers` Magazine”, volume 36 (July 1876). Pasted in amongst the binder`s blank endpapers are a collection of press-cuttings,...
Dates: 1875-1877.

Bound volumes of newspaper cuttings relating to Robert Boothby., 1918-1980.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12929/71-82
Scope and Contents

This series consists of 12 albums of newspaper clippings about Robert Boothby from his earliest political endeavours until 1980 and probably compiled by Baron and Lady Boothby themselves.

Dates: 1918-1980.

Box containing the contents of a portfolio of Edith Simon, namely press cuttings concerning her artworks and exhibitions , 1988-1997

 File
Identifier: Acc.13772/262
Scope and Contents File contains original press cuttings and copies of articles and reviews concerning specific exhibitions. Exhibitions include The New Underground (1989); Society of Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsmen exhibition (1990); Lovely Odd Fish (1990); People in Papercut and Sculpture (1990); Signals II (1991); The Brillian Alternative Portrait Gallery (1992); New Locations-New Departures (1995); Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis (1996); and Edith Simon: Works (1997). This file also includes an...
Dates: 1988-1997

Briefing papers of Esther Breitenbach and reports by other authors relating to the work of the Strategic Women's Group, Scottish Executive Equality Unit., 2003-2006.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13806/42
Scope and Contents The file contains background papers on Esther Breitenbach's previous work for the Women in Scotland Consultative Forum; 'Summary and Discussion of Research Reviews on Women's and Gender Issues in Scotland' (c June 2003); briefing note for the Strategic Group on Women, 'Summary and Discussion of Research Reviews on Women's and Gender Issues in Scotland' (2003); 'Executive to put feminist ideals at core', Sunday Herald (20 July 2003); 'Making Progress: Equality Annual Report' (2003);...
Dates: 2003-2006.