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Papers of Marjorie Jean Oswald Kennedy

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1290
Scope and Contents Mounted photograph of Highland scene Packet of photographs c1970s inc. Edinburgh Castle Folder "Upwards of a Century" Family photographs Students taking exam, location unidentified Album of South African photographs: "Mr R Kennedy, with best wishes from T Wilson Cairncross, Cape Town, South Africa, 14 Oct 1896" ...
Dates: 19th-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-78
Scope and Contents The papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson within Gen. 1627-1645 consist of general and individual correspondence and correspondence with institutions and publishers. There is material and notes on churches, about crofters, emigration, genealogy, and the Northern Isles. There are lectures and notes; personal and family papers; photographs; and, press cuttings. There is manuscript material, typescript material, and proofs. These all cover the period 1935-1993.The collection also...
Dates: 1549-1993
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Professor Sir Thomas Broun Smith

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1250
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of (in many cases simply copies of) cases, reports, drafts, memoranda, off-prints, articles, notes, correspondence, lectures and addresses, news-clippings and other material relating to: Defective consent Illegality of obligations / Illegality and morailty / Illegal contracts Contract code / Contract code - Minors Unjustified...
Dates: 1960-1985
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Reginald Davies

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-191
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of correspondence about the Sudan between 1901 and 1961, and include photograph albums, loose photographs and slides, verses, addresses, articles, and biographical information. Contained within is correspondence with Freya Stark (1893-1993). There is also diary-based material covering 1920 to 1934. The material is both in manuscript and typescript form.

Dates: 1901-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Rev. Will Freshwater and A. (Nancy) Freshwater

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1059
Scope and Contents The collection - E2005.13 - is composed of typescript and manuscript material in the form of off-prints, articles, reports, notebooks, letters, postcards, and diary. There are also photographs.Within the typescript material and collection of letters, there is: correspondence with users of the collection covering period 1980-1985; a copy of Manners and customs of the Ba-Bemba, collected by W. Freshwater, Mbereshi, 1906; manuscript postcard notes,...
Dates: 1901-1985
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
Coll-20/1/9/9: The Temple of Jupiter Olympus with the Acropolis in the distance. Athens
Coll-20/1/9/9: The Temple of Jupiter Olymp...

Photographs and Diaries of John Shaw Smith

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-250
Identifier: Coll-20
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of: a folder containing a typescript copy of a diary of a journey from Italy to the Holy Land, covering the period 18 December 1850 to 6 September 1852; two microfilms of diaries covering the period 1849 to 1850; and five boxes of photographs showing scenes of Ireland, Paris, Switzerland, Rome, Pompei, Athens, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Cairo, Thebes, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Petra, and more.

Dates: 1849-1852
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Photographs and papers relating to Dr. Anthony D. Oliver

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1825
Content Description This fonds consists of photographs and papers relating to Dr Anthony D. Oliver. It is made of two different accessions; the first one (SC-Acc-2017-0102) contains photogrraphs and pictures, and the second one (SC-Acc-2023-0120) contains papers such as student notes, medical case notes, workbooks etc.SC-Acc-2017-0102: group photograph of the Students' Representative Council, 1960/61 (also includes David Steel, Senior President and Duncan F. Hallas, Secretary); portrait photograph...
Dates: 1958-1970s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Photographs (copies) taken by Capt. Herbert Mather Spoor

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1155
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of copies of photographs taken by Herbert Mather Spoor. Titles of photographs, as noted by Capt. H. M. Spoor R.A.M.C., M.C., under each photograph in the original family album, are as follows (numbering is that given by Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library): 1. Fire at Pathology 2. Botany 1904 3. Histology 4....
Dates: 1904-1905
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Photographs from drawings by W. Vandevelde Junr

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1416
Scope and Contents

The album had been in the possession of the Earl of Cawdor (John Frederick). It is dated 1859. The album is composed of photographic art reproduced on salted paper. Eight images are maritime in nature - vessels at sea - with waves and sails coloured in bluish / greyish tint, and are of drawings done by Willem Van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707).

Maroon morocco. Gilt stamp at the from and back board - John Frederick Earl Cawdor.

Dates: 1859
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Barlow, Arthur Ruffell, 1888-1965 (Scottish Missionary) 1
Bradley, O. Charnock (Principal, Roayl (Dick) Veterinary College, Edinburgh) 1
Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958 (Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University) 1
Brennan, A. D. J. (Veterinarian) 1
Campbell, John Frederick, 1790-1860 (1st Earl Cawdor) 1
Chrystal, George, 1851-1911 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 1
Church Missionary Society 1
Coleman, Francis L., fl. 1971-1993, Economist, Economic Historian 1
Cowan House (student hall of residence) 1
Davie, George Elder, 1912-2007 (philosopher) 1
Davies, Reginald, 1887-1971 (Colonial Administrator) 1
Dickson, William Kirk, 1860-1949, Librarian and Historian 1
Donaldson, Gordon, 1913-1993 (Scottish historian; Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography) 1
Edinburgh Graduates Theatre Group (1954-) 1
Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 1
Edinburgh University Women's Athletics Club 1
Elmslie, James S. K., fl. 1930-1970 (Veterinarian) 1
Fraser, Sir John, 1885-1947 (Principal of Edinburgh University and surgeon) 1
Freshwater, Nancy (Annie), 1874-1959 (Married to missionary Will Freshwater) 1
Freshwater, Will, 1872-1936 (Missionary) 1
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 1
Glaister, John, 1892-1971 (Professor of Forensic Medicine at Glasgow University) 1
Grieve, Andrew Graham (brother of Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Hallas, Duncan Frederick, 1925-2002 (revolutionary socialist) 1
Hills, Joseph W. (Senior President, Students' Representative Council, E.U., 1952-1953) 1
Horn, William, fl 1872-1890 1
John Dover, Wilson, Professor, 1881-1969 (Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Edinburgh University) 1
John Paul II, 1920-2005 (Pope) 1
Justice, James Robertson, 1905-1975 (actor) 1
Kaufman, Matthew H., Professor, 1942-2013 (Professor of Anatomy) 1
Kennedy, Marjorie Jean Oswald, c1916-2003 (Edinburgh University Library member of staff) 1
Kenyan African National Union (founded 1960) 1
Kenyatta, Jomo, c 1897-1978 (Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician) 1
Kilburn, Benjamin West, 1827-1909 (American photographer; stereoscopic view publisher) 1
Liddell, Eric Henry, 1902-1945 (Olympic Athlete and Missionary) 1
London Missionary Society 1
Lundholm, Dr., Eric Olof, b. 1915 (Physician, Psychotherapist) 1
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 1
MacWilliam, Iain Coutts, 1926-2013, brewing scientist 1
Mathieson, Anne (Padi) (Edinburgh University alumnus) 1
McNair, Thomas Jaffrey, 1927-1994 (surgeon and surgeon to the Queen in Scotland) 1
Morrison, Frederick Thomas, fl. 1885, Engineer 1
NHS Education for Scotland 1
Nares, Sir George Strong, 1831-1915 1
Northern General Hospital 1
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 1
Oliver, Anthony D, fl 1958-1963 (University of Edinburgh medical student) 1
Potter (née Ross), Elizabeth Mackay, Dr., 1924-1979 (physician) 1
Potter, Jacobus Louw, Dr. (physician, scientist) 1
Rae, Oswald, 1892-1967 (magician) 1
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1505) 1
Scroggie, Ian McGregor Reith (Edinburgh University alumnus) 1
Smith, John Shaw, 1811-1873 (Irish traveller, Photographer) 1
Smith, Robert Murdoch, 1835-1900, Sir (Knight Major General Archaeologist and Diplomat) 1
Smith, Thomas Broun, 1915-1988 (Professor of civil (Roman Law), Edinburgh University) 1
Spoor, Capt., Herbert Mather, 1872-1917 1
Stark, Freya Madeline, 1893-1993, Dame (Author and Traveller) 1
Steel, David Martin Scott, Baron Steel of Aikwood, 1938- (politician) 1
The African Lakes Company Limited (1878-1982) 1
Thelander, Charles A, 1883-1959 (General practitioner; Edinburgh University alumnus) 1
Thompson, A W S, fl 1933-1979 (WWII veteran) 1
Thomson, Sir Charles Wyville, 1830-1882 1
Wright, Gordon, b. 1942 (Publisher, Photographer) 1
van de Velde, Willem, 1633-1707 (painter of sea-scapes) 1
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