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Collection of United States Consular Reports
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-547
Scope and Contents
The US Consular Reports are a collection of information about the economies and markets of other countries - in this case Scotland. They provide statements about the imports and exports between the main ports of Scotland and the US based on the accounts of US consuls in Edinburgh, Leith, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, and other Scottish towns. There is economic information on Clyde shipbuilding, Dundee trade and social conditions, the bicycle market, the sugar industry, locomotive building, and...
Dates:
1855-1885
Collection of University law medals of James S H Allan
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1609
Scope and Contents
5 x medals, University of Edinburgh, being:
- Civil Law - 1953-54
- Public law - 1953-54
- Mercantile law - 1954-55
- Conveyancing - 1955-56
- Evidence & Pleading - 1955-56
Each medal is contained in a medal box - Alexander Kirkwood and Son, Medalists, St. James Square, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1953-1956
Collection of Victorian printed ephemera
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1982
Content Description
Collection of 32 Victorian printed ephemera, in colour: greeting cards, birthday cards, New Year and Christmas cards, religious cards with short prayers, a Valentine card, and two advertisements for Heinz and Ivelcon. Some cards are annotated in the back by the people who sent or received them.
Dates:
19th - early 20th century
Collection of Works of Rev. Thomas A. Pye
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-516
Scope and Contents
The works of the Rev. Thomas A. Pye consist of: The Jesus Christ of Greece on Socrates, A comparison of Aristotelian and Christian ethics, The seal of Roman Law on early Christianity, and The influence of Christianity on Roman Law.
Dates:
20th century
Collection on the Study of Government in Scotland
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1076
Scope and Contents
Collection composed of: circa 200 separate copies of reports of investigation into complaints against the various Scottish local government councils, regional and district, carried out by the Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland, mainly 1970s; various planning documents, reports and news-sheets, including those on transport, community land schemes, Clyde recreation, crime, community councils, school and college councils, regional councils, housing, special housing, role of...
Dates:
1930-1980
Collection relating to Eric Henry Liddell
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-218
Scope and Contents
Small collection of items, from multiple sources, relating to Eric Liddell.
Annual sports programmes of Edinburgh University Athletic Club, 1923-1925, showing Liddell's times in the races entered, and an annotated Scottish Inter-Universities programme, 1923; two photographs of a memorial stone in China; Wedding invitation.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 20th century
Collection relating to James Stewart Fraser
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1263
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
- copy of 'Gardyloo', 2 March 1940
- copy of 'Gardyloo', 29 April 1944
- copy of 'The Chalmers Watson Journal', 1935 (Rectorial election - D. Chalmers Watson)
- copy of 'The Chalmers Watson Journal' (Once more a message on the eve of election)
- 2 x copies of reprints of 'The Royal Medical Society', from...
Dates:
1935-1944
Collection relating to James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1270
Scope and Contents
At E2010.22 is an archive of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize retained by its first judge, Herbert Grierson, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University, comprising letters from prizewinners including D.H. Lawrence, Arnold Bennett, Lytton Strachey and Robert Graves. While most of the letters in the collection are solicitor's typed carbon letters (letters to the administrating solicitor Robert Welsh of Ayr), five are original letters to Herbert Grierson from winners: Henry...
Dates:
1920-1935
Collection relating to Winifred Rushforth
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1260
Scope and Contents
The Rushforth collection is composed of: In E2010.10:
- material relating to the Davidson Clinic, being Minute Book 1938-1946, bank guarantee 1960, bank statements 1959-1961, Annual Reports of the Davidson Clinic 1942-1968; Davidson Clinic Bulletin 1946-1967, pamphlets and programmes of the clinic 1940s and 1950s, newspaper clippings, talks and papers, off-prints of articles, and journals...
Dates:
1855-1984
Collections of posters of student events at the University of Edinburgh
Fonds — Container: CLX-D-66
Identifier: Coll-1867
Scope and Contents
Bundle of about 20 posters of events at the University around 1971, mostly relating to student activities. The events advertised include dances/balls/concerts; special lectures and symposium; Church and carol services; and Student Representative Council Elections. The posters are arranged in bundles by types of events, as follows:
Poster of the Corries, and poster advertising a folk concert in...
Dates:
1970-1972