Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 115
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
Scope and Contents
Oral history of the nursing career of Isa Beattie 1986; transcript of oral history; 'Health Visiting 1940-1966', by Isa T. Beattie 1994; photocopy of 'In-Service Mental-Health Training for Health Visitors', by J.W. Affleck et al. 1960
Dates:
1986-1994
Scope and Contents
Correspondence relating to Thomas Clouston Clinic; audiotapes of interviews with Royal Edinburgh Hospital staff; slides, prints and negatives; lecture notes 1993
Dates:
c1990
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1933
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of 15 volumes of bound lecture notes that belonged to Ethelwyn Lemon. These notes were taken by Ethelwyn Lemon herself, or by other fellow female students, in the late 19th-early 20th century at the University of Edinburgh.
Notes of lectures on British history given by Sir Richard Lodge, taken down by Barbara M Craw. Edinburgh University, 1904. (4 vols)
Notes of...
Dates:
1892-1931
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1932
Scope and Contents
Gathering of loose French currency (assignats), letters, offprints, and a manuscript poem bound in a volume. The reasons behind the gathering of these items are unclear.- Assignats are a short-lived type of French 'fiat money' used during the time of the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars, which resemble bank notes. There are four assignats in this volume, each of...
Dates:
1792-1862
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-71
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of diplomas, certificates, appointments, and honours awarded to William Robertson, Principal of the University of Edinburgh by various institutions and cities. There are also William Robertson's spectacles, and a memberbership certificat belonging to his son, also called William Robertson (1753-1835), who later became Lord Robertson.
Dates:
1743-1783
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1140
Scope and Contents
The inventory includes mention of John Kennedy of Blairquhan and his chapel at St. Ninian's (1508). There is also the will of the jeweller and philanthropist, George Heriot (1563-1624), who left funds to Edinburgh's ministers to found the hospital which bore his name (now a school). In addition there are letters from Lord Salisbury, Fentoun (Alexander Erskine, Viscount Fentoun), and others, and including Scottish government letters of condolence on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales,...
Dates:
1670
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1130
Scope and Contents
This bound volume contains copies of letters, these being:
copy of letter by Sir George McKenzie to the Lord Balcarres, 1684
copy letter from Sir George Mackenzie to the Earls of Moray and Middleton
copy letter John, Duke of Lauderdale, 1680
copy letter Elizabeth, Countess of Dysart, after Duchess of Lauderdale
copy letters Field...
Dates:
1820-1829
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1242
Scope and Contents
The collection of 65 Scottish charters and documents, on vellum and paper, is composed of the following:
Charter between Alexander, Abbot of Scone, entirely in Early Scots, on vellum, dated 21 August 1402, 270mm. by 160mm., with the suspended complete wax seal of Katherine Paxton.
Charter of Robert Logy, burgess of Perth, to Andrew Charters, of lands in Perth, in Latin, on vellum, dated...
Dates:
1402-1699
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1383
Scope and Contents
The material represents Ian R. Grant's seller's stock. The widely varied content of the collection includes legal documents on vellum, oaths of burgesses, inventories, correspondence and letter books, printed material such as adverts, magazines and religious pamphlets, songs and poems, family history documents, etc. It also includes a collection of c. 30 Burmese palm leaf manuscripts dating from the 19th century.Because there was no discernible original order, the material was...
Dates:
1544-1986