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Twenty-one comic visiting cards caricaturing the photographic carte-de-visite, by Rock Co., London, and J.S. Co., London, c. 1850-1870
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1262
Identifier: Coll-1679
Scope and Contents
Each card measures about 5.75 x 9 cm., engraved image on the recto with ‘Rock & Co., London’ in the image, on 19 cards, two cards have J. S & Co., London, below the image. Verso blank. Many of the 21 cards have a printed series number, the highest being 101, the other number no higher than 48. Three cards have no number. The cards by J.S have the numbers 4 and 5, so they may have been part of a smaller series. 'J. S.' are the initials of J. Simmons.Among the group four...
Dates:
1850-1870
Two common-place books of Ellen Caroline Warter, and around the Brontes
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1559
Scope and Contents
2 manuscript volumes. Oblong 8vo, one being 106 x 175 mm with 288pp, and the other 94 x 148 mm with 212pp. Many pages of both the larger and smaller commonplace book have Ellen Warter's embossed monogram (with a bee). The larger begins with 'The Home of the Brontes'. Well over 300 of the pages of the commonplace books, including the whole of the larger one, are devoted to the Brontes, beginning with extended transcripts from J. H. Turner's Haworth past and...
Dates:
1885
Two personal diaries, possibly of Ms Pearson
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2270
Scope and Contents
Two personal diaries, possibly by a woman with the surname "Pearson". One covering 1915 (January, July-November), the other one covering the year 1932 (January to December), with a note dated February 1934. In them, the author talks of her daily life (a record of social engagements, domestic events and the weather), and mentions sending parcels for British soliders during the First World War.
Dates:
1915; 1932-1934
Two photograph albums, of older Spain and Portugal, and of the Nile Valley and Classical Europe... one of them collected by William Horn, Edinburgh
Collection — Volume: Coll-1807 / SC-Acc-2016-0196
Identifier: Coll-1807
Scope and Contents
One album, with photographs of the Nile Valley and Classical Europe, has ms description on fore-page: "Photographs Collection of William Horn [address], Edinburgh. On tour of 1872." Some of the photographs are signed, 'A. Beats'. Many of the photographs of Classical Europe have Italian scenes around Florence, Naples and Pompei, and Milan, and there are photographs of Alpine scenes and Vienna too.The other album is entitled on the front board: "Photographs of Spain &...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1872-1890
Two photograph albums of views from Shantung and Shanghai, and from Jehol and Beijing, to Yunnan
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1879
Content Description
Two albums containing black and white photographs of landscapes in a variety of locations, as well as portraits and street scenes, each with accompanying text. The first album is entitled '"China 1920-1930 - From Shantung and Shanghai to Yunan [sic]" (119 pages), and the second album is entitled "China 1920-1930 - From Jehol and Peking to Yunnan" (136 pages). Many of the photos are grouped into sets of up to ten images on a particular province or theme, such as: Futoshan/Putuoshan, near...
Dates:
late 1920s- early 1930s
Two preparation sermons by Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661), Professor of Divinity, St Mary’s College, St Andrews
Collection
Identifier: MS RUT
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below).
Dates:
1634
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Two rolls of punched paper computer data, "Golagros and Gawane", prepared by Edinburgh Regional Computing Centre
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-623
Identifier: Coll-1573
Scope and Contents
Contained within 2 x boxes bearing the information, VU 074 / N. Hamilton-Smith / Edinburgh R.C.C. and with additional information that the boxes contain Tapes 2 and 3 with 'lines 1-712' and 'lines 713-end' respectively, two reels of punched paper computer data. The lines are of Golagros and Gawane.
Dates:
1968-1980
Two scrap books on the 'Scottish Church Case'
Collection
Identifier: MS 5021
Scope and Contents
Two scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings relating to the Scottish Church Case 1904-1905. Loose cuttings have been rehoused in a folder.
Dates:
1904-1906
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Two typescripts by Benchara Branford
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2281
Scope and Contents
Two typescripts by Benchara Bertrand Patrick Branford: "Space-time and its transcendental correlate", and "The world of tomorrow".
Dates:
20th century
Two volumes entitled "Edinburgh Medical Graduates 1705-1866" and "St Andrews University. List of Graduates", annotated by William Johnston
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2807
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two volumes entitled "Edinburgh Medical Graduates 1705-1866" and "St Andrews University. List of Graduates", compiled and annotated by Colonel William Johnston (1843-1914).The Edinburgh volume contains pages of the book List of the Graduates in Medicine in the University of Edinburgh : From MDCCV to MDCCCLXVI, each page pasted separately, and annotated by the compiler Colonel William Johnson. The annotations give biographical...
Dates:
1860-1911