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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:

Personal papers of Patrick Smith, Lanarkshire Mineworkers’ Union.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13075
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises miscellaneous personal papers of Patrick Smith, including a membership card of the Lanarkshire Mineworkers` Union.

Dates: 1941-1978.

Photocopies of articles and press cuttings concerning Braehead School, Buckhaven.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12295
Scope and Contents

Includes sketches and ephemera of the school.

Dates: 1964-2001.

Photocopies of correspondence, 1933-1950, between James Bridie and Sir Barry Jackson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9879
Scope and Contents

Concerning plays by Bridie.

With press cuttings, 1929-1933.

Dates: 1929-1950.

Photocopies of documents formerly at Yester House., 1673-1739.

 File
Identifier: MS.14810
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Poem in the hand of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale: ‘On the death of Lady Sophia Hay who dyed at Yester the 29th of April 1678 and of her age the 13th yeare’ (folio 1);(ii) Extract of the blazoning of the coat of arms borne by Sir James Hay, 1st Baronet of Linplum, 10 February 1673 (folio 4);(iii) Newsheet, Edinburgh 1715, concerning fighting between the Jacobites and the forces commanded by the Duke of Argyll (folio 5);...
Dates: 1673-1739.

Photocopies of letters, 1859-1860, to Kenneth Morrison, from relatives in Barvas and North Tolsta, Isle of Lewis.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6879
Scope and Contents

With later family letter, 1874, fragments of letters, and press cuttings.

Dates: 1859-1874.

Photocopies of papers concerning the football career of Arthur McGachie with East Fife Footbal Club, Dunfermline Athletic Football Club and other Fife clubs.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11473
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, agreements, match programmes, photographs and press cuttings.

Dates: 1931-1995 and undated.

Photocopies of three letters, 1987-1988, of Norman MacCaig.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11324
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies of press cuttings concerning Anna MacDonald.

Dates: 1950-1996.

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.

Photographic archive of Alan Daiches.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12694
Scope and Contents

Subjects include theatre productions (mainly at Traverse and Lyceum theatres in Edinburgh); arts and literary events and figures; newspaper and television work; commercial and private commissions. Consisting of circa 16000 negatives, some black and white photographs, order book, press cuttings and other papers.

Dates: 1961-1972, 1983.

Photographs, a letter and a press cutting of Robert Kirk Dickson, with miscellaneous papers, chiefly notes, of William Kirk Dickson., 1931-1945, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.13588
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Photographs of Robert Kirk Dickson as a naval cadet, Midshipman, Lieutenant, Captain and Rear-Admiral (folio 1);(ii) Holiday photographs, July 1931, of scenery in the Tyrol (folio 8);(iii) Miscellaneous photographs (folio 33);(iv) Letter, 7 August 1939, of Robert Kirk Dickson to his father enclosing press cuttings, supplied by a press cutting agency, of the King's visit to Greenwich in July 1939 (folio 60);...
Dates: 1931-1945, undated.