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Acts of the Smith Trade of Lanark

 Fonds — Box: Dk.3.9
Identifier: Coll-2168
Scope and Contents

Acts of the Smith trade of Lanark, 1653-1845. Several inks.

Dates: 1653-1845
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Admission tickets to General Assemblies (1840-1843)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 7.2
Scope and Contents

See External Documents (below) for details.

Dates: 1840-1843
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Affleck, James Whigham

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-64
Scope and Contents

Papers regarding rehabilitation 1957-1988; membership of Boards 1969-1981; miscellaneous papers 1969-1988; published papers 1947-1989; slides; Royal Medico-Psychological Association material 1927

Dates: 1927-1989
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Album amicorum of Tokyo artists Japanese art

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1625
Scope and Contents

The album contains 22 paintings by various artists, and these include: an illustration of a swallow, a peony, a waterfall, a monkey, autumn leaves, a mandarin duck, a chrysanthemum, a sparrow on a flowering twig, a lobster, heavy rain, a flock of sparrows, a tea bowl and camellia, a shrimp, houses in the snow, a fan and handscroll, a white rabbit, and a basket.

Dates: 1820-1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album and scrapbook collected by Jessie Aitken Wilson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1504
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 x book of photographic portraits containing portraits of Albrech Duerer, Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, George Sand, Matthew Arnold, and cardinal newman, and others. The album was given to Jessie Aitken Wilson by novelist Mrs. Oliphant and is inscribed, 'This Book was the gift of Mrs. Oliphant'. 1 x packet of (4) loose photographic...
Dates: 1850-1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of cuttings relating to dreams, c.1840-1870

 Fonds
Identifier: MS DRE
Scope and Contents

Album of cuttings and manuscript quotations from various periodicals, regarding dreams, visions, superstitions, and other supernatural phenomena

Dates: c.1840-1870
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Album of early X-rays taken by John Cook

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1995
Scope and Contents This is an album of early X-rays taken by John Cook, Principal of the Central College of Bangalore, at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century. There is a pen inscription on the pastedown: "X ray Photographs taken by J. Cook. Bangalore". Most X-rays are of human limbs (hands, arms, legs, feet), and some have a caption with the patient's name. There are also a few X-rays of a frog.The volume contained some enclosures, now placed in a separate folder. They consist of a...
Dates: [c 1895?]-1907; 1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of operatic programmes, Dresden, 1911-1918

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1590
Scope and Contents

The scrap-album contains postcards showing the exterior of the Koenigliches Opernhaus in earlier years, and opera-singers or performers in their various roles. There are also circa 19 programmes of the operatic programmes at Dresden Opera House, 1911. Also within the album are three letters to 'Eleanor W. Dolie' (Dollie?) addressed to a Paris address.

The album holds the signature 'Eleanor W. Dolie' (Dollie?) facing inside cover, and was presented by 'Miss Eleanor Hughes'.

Dates: 1911-1918
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of periodical cuttings, mainly of reviews of James Sime's Lessing, his life, and writings

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.2.2
Identifier: Coll-2137
Scope and Contents

Sime (James). Cuttings of reviews of his book Lessing. Printed materials from 1877-1888.

Dates: Late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of photographs and ephemera of 'The Eves', a Home Front theatrical group, 1916-1917

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1668
Scope and Contents

Quarto album of platinum print photographs, printed on highly prepared vellum-style leaves, with associated ephemera, including five printed programmes.

The album is unsigned but 'is most likely to have been produced by James A. Sinclair Ltd' (founded London, 1903). The snapshots and formal group photographs, posters and newspaper cuttings have been reproduced in the permanent platinum process on thick vellum card.

Dates: 1916-1917
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
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Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
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Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 4
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 4
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 4
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Knox, John, c 1513-1572 (Scottish preacher) 3
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Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 3
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Syme, James, 1799-1870 (Scottish pioneering surgeon; Professor of clinical surgery at the University of Edinburgh) 3
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