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A photograph of medical students graduation, and a photograph of the International Physiological Congress at Edinburgh, 1920s

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Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0157
Scope and Contents

One framed photograph of the International Physiological Congress held in Edinburgh in 1923, showing the c. 300 delegates in the Quadrangle of the Old Medical School of the University. Names are given around the photo.


The second photograph has no caption whatsoever, but probably is a graduation photograph. The group includes E. Scharpey-Schafer, Professor of Physiology at the University of Edinburgh from 1899 to 1933. It was taken by E. R. Yerbury and Son.

Dates: 1920s

Carte de Visite Portraits, 1865

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Identifier: Coll-1383/6/12
Scope and Contents

Nine English portrait cards: five from Bradford region, two from Manchester, one from Harrogate and one from Bath. Twelve Scottish cards: four from Edinburgh, three from Dunfermline one each from Largs, Leven, Broughty Ferry, Peebles and Glasgow. Two subjects identified. Glasgow card of James Wylie, May 1865, and one of Bradford cards signed Gertrude Glyde.

Dates: 1865

Ceilidhs, 2004

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Identifier: GD61/5/2/6
Scope and Contents

Photographs from ceilidhs held by LGLS, with copies of a small leaflet advertising LGLS's Valentine's Ball (held on 14/02/2004).

Dates: 2004

Class photographs of Honours Classics Graduates, Edinburgh University, 9 April 1901

 Item — Box CLX-D-72: Series Coll-1828/6
Identifier: Coll-1828/6/4
Scope and Contents

Class photograph mounted on board of Honours Classics Graduates, 9 April 1901, Edinburgh University. The students' names are given under the photo and on the back, Alexander F. Giles is at the bottom right. Photography studio: signature illegible - '25 North Bridge, Edinburgh'.

Dates: 9 April 1901

"E. Divines, Metaphysicians, Philologists", 1805-1899

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Identifier: Coll-1997/1
Scope and Contents This volume is entitled "E. Divines, Metaphysicians, Philologists" and contains 175 items: 118 autograph letters and documents 57 portraits, comprising 40 albumen print photographs, 16 engravings, and 1 lithograph. Ainger, Alfred. ALS to Katharine Lyell. 9 February 1885. 2 pp. Ainger is best known for his memoirs of English authors. Declining a dinner invitation, saying that being in Hampstead Heath he...
Dates: 1805-1899

Early History, 1970s

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Identifier: GD61/5/2/3
Scope and Contents Photocopies of an article in Gay Scotland celebrating 10 years of Switchboard, timelines of Switchboard, the logs of the first calls and the minutes from the Scottish Minorities Group meeting where it was agreed to establish a phoneline.Correspondence relating to, and an outline of, a one-day workshop on Sexual Attitude Reassessment, held at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, 27/05/1978.A request for a speaker from the Lothian Marriage Counselling Service, dated...
Dates: 1970s

Envelope of photographs and itemised account for construction and supplying of operating table for Dott, and photographs of various instruments, 1918-1927

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Identifier: Coll-32/A.6
Scope and Contents

Envelope of photographs and itemised account for construction and supplying of operating table for Dott, showing detailed costs of materials and craftsmen's labour 1926-27; photographs of various instruments including two signed 'Norman M. Dott Aug. [August] 1918.'

Dates: 1918-1927

Graduation photograph of Honours Greek students including Norman MacCaig, 30 June 1932

 Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0091
Scope and Contents

This is a graduation photograph of the Honours Greek Class of the University of Edinburgh, dated 30 June 1932. The class is composed of two professors, two women and nine men, including the Scottish poet Norman MacCaig. Photo by E. R. Yerbury & Sons.

Dates: 30 June 1932

Group Photo; most likely residents of Masson Hall, 1924-1937

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Identifier: Coll-705/1/1/6
Scope and Contents

Group of student-aged women, in four rows with the bottom row sitting on two rugs. The picture is taken outside, against a stone wall with windows, and Marjorie Rackstraw is seated in the middle of the second row, with a headband across her forehead.

Dates: 1924-1937

Group photo; most likely residents of Masson Hall, 1924-1937

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Identifier: Coll-705/1/1/7
Scope and Contents

This photo depicts 5 rows of student-aged women, the bottom row seated on two rugs. The photo was taken outside, with a stone wall of a building behind them. Marjorie Rackstraw is seated in the middle of the second row, holding a young boy.

Dates: 1924-1937

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Rackstraw, Marjorie, 1888-1981 (educationalist and social worker) 12
Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 4
Masson Hall (1897-) 4
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 3
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Barnett, Samuel Augustus, 1844-1913 (English cleric and social reformer) 1
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 (American Congregationalist clergyman and social reformer) 1
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 (English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer) 1
Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel, 1827-1875 (German linguist) 1
Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 1832-1916 (Irish churchman, royal chaplain and writer) 1
Bryn Mawr College (1885-) (Women's liberal arts college) 1
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 1
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 (American Unitarian preacher and theologian) 1
Clifton College (1862-:) 1
Colenso, John, 1814-1883 (Cornish cleric and mathematician, Zulu and biblical scholar, first Bishop of Natal) 1
Dawes, Richard, 1793-1867 (English cleric and educationalist) 1
Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert, 1862-1934 (composer) 1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet) 1
Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903 (English cleric, schoolteacher and author) 1
Ferrier, David, 1843-1928 (Scottish neurologist and psychologist) 1
Freeman, Louisa Mary, fl 1880s (calligrapher) 1
Fry, Sara Margery, 1874-1958 (Penal reformer, Principal of Somerville College Oxford) 1
Garibaldi, Guiseppe, 1807 - June 1882 (Italian General, Patriot, Revolutionary and Republican) 1
Goumans, E. L, fl 1871 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Grimm, Jacob (Jacob Ludwig Karl), 1785-1863 (German linguist and mythologist) 1
Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 ( German author and anthropologist) 1
Hamilton, Sir William, 1788-1856 (metaphysician ) 1
Hansard, Septimus C. H. , Reverend, fl 1862-1890 (Correspondent of Mary Lyell, Rector of Bethnal Green) 1
Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist) 1
Horner, Francis, 1778-1817 (Whig politician, journalist, and political economist) 1
Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 1
Jamieson, John, 1759-1838 (Scottish minister of religion, lexicographer, philologist and antiquary) 1
Laws, Robert, 1851-1934 (Scottish missionary) 1
Lyell, Charles, 1767-1849 (Scottish botanist, translator of Dante) 1
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 1
Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 1
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, 1910-1996 (poet, teacher) 1
MacMurray, John, 1891-1976 (chair of moral philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872 (Italian politician, journalist) 1
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 1
Pulszky, Ferenc, 1814-1897 (Hungarian politician, writer and nobleman) 1
Roberts, Joyce, fl 1930s (nee How) 1
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 1
Royal College of Physicians (1518-) 1
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 1
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 (art and social critic | London | England) 1
Ryan, Edward, 1793-1875 (English lawyer and judge) 1
Schafer, Edward Albert Sharpey-, 1850-1935 (Professor of Physiology; University of Edinburgh) 1
Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde, b 1934 (Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist) 1
Spillane, John David "Jerry" , 1909-1985 (Welsh neurologist) 1
Sugden, David Edward, b 1941 (British Glaciologist and geomorphologist) 1
Turner, John William Aldren, 1911-1980 (British neurologist and physician) 1
University of Birmingham (1900-:) 1
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 1
University of Oxford (c1096-:) 1
Watson, Andrew Swan, c.1863-1930 (photographer) 1
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