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Victorian family photograph album with sixty-one photographs of Russian vendors and tradesmen by William Carrick
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1309
Scope and Contents
This is a first quality Victorian family photograph album of the family of Eliza Murphy, daughter of Calvert Toulmin who was a shipowner holding the monopoly of postal carriage to Australia.
In addition to 196 'carte de visite' photographs of family members including Calvert Toulmin, of holiday destinations and of sentimental group poses, the album contains 57 photographs of Russian tradesmen and street vendors taken by William Carrick.
Dates:
1857-1878
Volume of lecture notes taken by John P Mackintosh at lectures in Constitutional History given by Dr. Balfour-Melville, 1947-48. With enclosures
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1323
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of:
- 1 x notebook of lectures in Constitutional History given by Dr. Balfour-Melville
- insertions (from notebook), being Examination for Vans Dunlop Scholarship in History, 1949, Edinburgh University; three printed examination papers, Edinburgh University - British History (Ordinary) December 1946, British History (Honours) January 1948, British History (Degree...
Dates:
1947-48
William Henry Playfair Architectural Drawings
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-13
Scope and Contents
The drawings in the collection range from Playfair's student drawings, sketch designs and preliminary schemes, to many presentation drawings in watercolours. The earliest catalogued plans, elevations and sections relate to the commission to complete the University (the College of Edinburgh), 1817 onwards. The Advocates' Library, Royal Terrace, Regent Terrace, the National Gallery, the National Monument, and New College also feature in the collection. Other material relates to the...
Dates:
1817-1849
William Henry Playfair letter books
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1675
Scope and Contents
What appear to be two surviving volumes of a larger series of letter-books (volume 4 covering 1830-33 and volume 7 covering 1840-45).
Dates:
1830-1845
William Logie, William Logie, Robert Scarth Valentine Logie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1054
Scope and Contents
The collection, as yet unsorted, is composed of : the manuscript preaching journal of Robert Scarth Valentine Logie and circa 100 sewn sheafs of manuscript notes - sermons; a catalogue of 468 discourses, or sermons, of William Logie (Senior), and accompanying manuscript sermon notes, together with a manuscript sermon preached in Lady Kirk, Kirkwall, 18 January 1816, for the National Thanksgiving 1816, the day appointed for thanksgiving after the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte (transcript...
Dates:
1790-1940