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Papers, volumes, and photographs of Robert and Margaret Laws
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 2
Identifier: CSWC 89
Scope and Contents
Volume of anthems, New Testament, empty wallet and photographs and prints of studio portratis of Robert and Margaret Laws
Dates:
20th c
Parody of Ola Hansson ditty by H.H.B., Young Ofegs last ditty
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1624
Scope and Contents
Card with ms poem, in pen, entitled 'Young Ofeg's Last Ditty'... or 'Never say Die'.. with envelope bearing a 'post-it' with 'Parody by H. H. B.'. Said to be a parody of Ola Hansson's Ung Ofegs visor.
Dates:
late 19th - mid 20th century
Part of a report on a visit to the Jeanes Training Centre with photographs, Zomba, Nyasaland, c 1930s
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 2
Identifier: CSWC 88
Part-printed and ms receipts from Stonehaven sheriff officer and the debt collection company of Kinnear & Munro, Stonehaven
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1721
Scope and Contents
18 x part-printed and ms receipts from the Stonehaven sheriff officer and from the debt collection company of Kinnear & Munro form a small collection of Scottish local taxation and debt collection receipts, 1819-1868. Money is detailed for various Kincardineshire taxes and rents including road money, land tax, salmon fishing rents, feu duty, together with various parish tax assessments including amounts for poor relief, rogue tax, police assessment, prisons assessment, turnpike road...
Dates:
1819-1868
Pata scroll illustrating the Indian career of the botanist William Roxburgh
Item
Identifier: Coll-1851
Scope and Contents
A traditional, cloth-based scroll painting, illustrating the life of botanist William Roxburgh, created by Gurupada Chitrakar in 2010 in West Bengal. It is a water-based paint on paper, mounted on cotton. Created using paint made with vegetable dyes, these scrolls are made by sewing together individual panels of paper. Fabric, often from old saris, is glued to the back to strengthen the scroll.Painted scrolls such as this, known as patas, are used...
Dates:
2010
Patrick Geddes Collection
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1167
Scope and Contents
The collection contains original exhibits from Patrick Geddes' replacement Cities and Town Planning Exhibitions (which was constituted 1914-1924, after the original exhibition was lost at sea during transit to India in October 1914). Also included are items from Geddes' Survey of Edinburgh (which formed part of the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition as an illustration of Geddes' city and region survey). The Survey of Edinburgh includes over 250 glass plate negatives which were commissioned...
Dates:
1753-c 1985
Peepshow depicting a library, by Martin Engelbrecht
Item — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-2048
Content Description
This is an eighteenth-century perspective view (also called "peepshow", or in the original German Guckkastendioramen) produced by German engraver and publisher Martin Engelbrecht. Printed on thin paper, from etched copper plates, and coloured in watercolour, it depicts a miniature contemporary library, complete with library users reading, discoursing, or simply admiring the shelves.Martin Engelbrecht of Augsburg, Germany started creating...
Dates:
18th century
Pen and ink sketches of William Stewart Watson, whilst on tour in Rome in 1840
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1432
Scope and Contents
Folio album of original pen and ink sketches compiled by the artist while on a tour of Rome in 1840. The album contains over 250 mounted drawings executed on tracing paper and these vary in size from a few inches square to full and half-page preparatory sketches for paintings. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards. Signed Stewart Wilson, Rome 1840, on inner cover, above which is mounted the main section of the title page for the sale catalogue, March 1887, of the 'Collection...
Dates:
1840
Penicillin mould, Alexander Fleming
Collection
Identifier: Coll-2287
Scope and Contents
Case containing a colony of Penicillium notatum, the mould from which penicillin is derived.
Handwritten caption at the back: "The mould that makes Penicillin. To the S.R.C in memory of the "Rectorial". Alexander Fleming 1952" (the date was initially "1951", later corrected to "1952").
Dates:
1952
Personal copies of David Douglas of "The Journal of Sir Walter Scott" (1890) and "Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott", extra-illustrated with correspondence
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-481
Identifier: Coll-2098
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of publisher and editor David Douglas' personal copies of The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (1890, vol. I and II) and Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott (1894, vol. I and II), extra-illustrated with correspondence.David Douglas, an Edinburgh publisher, oversaw the editing and publication of The Journal of Sir Walter Scott in 1890 and ...
Dates:
1890-1894