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Photograph album of the Geikie family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1777
Content Description
This is a fine photograph album with 38 albumen prints and one carbon print of portraits of the Geikie family. There is also a birthday card mounted on the front fly-leaf, dated 16 December 1882. Included is a useful later index to the photographs, which identifies the sitters. The oldest two photos must have been taken before the death of both John Geikie and his wife Eleanor in 1864. There are several portraits from the 1870s; and the most recent dated photo is from 1887. The album...
Dates:
1860s-1880s
Photograph album related to the Gotch-Robinson High School (or Shoushan Middle School)
Item
Identifier: Coll-1998
Content Description
This is an album containing approxmately 147 photographs with captions, showing staff, students, premises and scenes from the Gotch-Robinson High School (also known as Shoushan Middle School) in the 1920s. The school was a British Baptist school located in Tsingchowfu, Shantung, in North China. It was founded in 1917 by the English Baptist Missionary Society, and was dissolved in 1929 amid the changes in the education system after the Nationalists took over Shandong province.The...
Dates:
1926-1929
Photograph album showing Fez, Morocco
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2015
Content Description
This is a photo album containing 37 photographs of Fez, Morocco. The photographs mostly show everyday life in the streets and houses of Fez. Four photos show general views of the city. On the reverse there is the stamp of Joseph Bouhsira, one of the first Moroccan photographers who opened his studio in the Jewish quarter of Fez in the early 1910s.
Dates:
early 20th century
Photograph album showing people and locations in Perthshire
Item
Identifier: Coll-2942
Scope and Contents
This is an album containing 63 mounted and 14 laid in albumen print photographs dating primarily to the late 1850s and 1860s, which mainly depict community life, people and locations in the Blair Castle area of Perthshire. It also include some portraits, and a few photographs of Funchal and Pico Fort (São João Batista Fort), in Madeira.A label on the inner front cover has the owner’s name, William Stewart Arnott, who might have been a merchant in Perth. The identity of the...
Dates:
1850s-1860s
Photograph copies of sketches by the South African artist C. Bell of African congregations
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 60
Scope and Contents
The South African artist C. Bell did sketches of a number of congregations of various denominations in 'remoter' parts of the country. This set contains:
1. James Archbell, of the Wesleyan Mission to the Baralong, in his pulpit at Thama Nchu in 1834 (Archbell produced the first Sechuana grammar).
2. William Edwards, of the London Missionary Society at Lishuane in 1834
3. "Mr. Kolbe" - a moravian missionary?- at Philippolis in 1834.
4. Jean-Pierre Pellissier, of...
Dates:
1834-1840
Photograph copy of a page of manuscript by J.N. Farquhar, India
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 68
Photograph (copy) of the [Prophet] Garrick Sokari Braide
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 62
Photograph of Sir Thomas Henry Holland, Principal of Edinburgh University, 1929-1944
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1486
Scope and Contents
The sepia-tint head and shoulders portrait photograph is mounted on buff card. There is an embossed stamp for the Photographer, Russell, [75] Baker Street, London. Because of the London-based photographer, the portrait photograph is perhaps more likely to have been taken during Holland's period of office as Rector of Imperial College, London, 1922-1929.
Dates:
1922-1929
Photographic prints of a panorama view from the Beyazit Tower, Constantinople
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2086
Content Description
This item consists of two colour photographic prints, conjoined, depicting a panoramic view from the Beyazit Tower, Constantinople, c 1900.
Dates:
c 1900
Photographs and badges of Johanna Harris, former student at the Dunfermline College of Hygiene and Physical Training
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2120
Content Description
This fonds consists of material related to the Dunfermline College of Hygiene and Physical Training [later renamed the Dunfermline College of Physical Education] that belonged to Johanna (Jo) Harris, a former student.
27 small photographs of College life taken by Johanna Harris during her time there as a student, from 1928 -1931. This includes a trip to Sweden by the students;
1 large...
Dates:
1928-1931