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Ethel Miller
Fonds
Identifier: GD1/142
Scope and Contents
Nursing certificate, loose photographs, and autograph album.
Dates:
1915 - 1919
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Handmade magazine The Cavalier, double Xmas no 1916 Vol. IV, together with a photograph album of the Smythe family
Collection — Box: CLX-A-375
Identifier: Coll-1880
Scope and Contents
One handmade 'magazine' constructed by Scottish ladies forming a group called 'The Cavalier Club', composed of Barbara E. Smythe (editor), Susy F. Lumsden (treasurer), Jean Drummond, Victoria A. Drummond, Frances A. Drummond, Doreen Arbuthnot, and Susan Newdegate. The magazine is entitled The Calavier and was to be borrowed by a select group of recipients, to help raise funds for the war effort. This is the Double Xmas no. 1916, vol IV. It includes short...
Dates:
1916-1930
Isabella Lamont
Fonds
Identifier: GD1/140
Scope and Contents
Nursing certificate, photograph album, nursing badge, newspaper clipping, loose photographs, poem, and autograph albums with drawings and dedications.
Dates:
1903 - 1940
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Leith Hospital
Fonds
Identifier: LHB6
Scope and Contents
Management 1846-1948; administration 1905-1985; patients (bound records) 1904-1987
Dates:
1846-1987
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Letters from Professor George Saintsbury to Rev. William Hunt
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1692
Identifier: Coll-2020
Content Description
This collection consists of typescript letters sent by Professor George Saintsbury to Rev. William Hunt D Litt., arranged in chronological order, dating from 1895 to 1932. The subjects of these letters are diverse, from family and personal matters, to literature and political discussions.
First lot: "Letters Christmas Eve 1895 to Dec. 1917. Autograph letters and typescript copies of these letters have...
Dates:
1895-1932
Macdonald, Elizabeth Mackay
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-30
Scope and Contents
Certificate of training 1910; certificate of registration Edinburgh City Hospital 1911; regulations for admission to Nursing Service Reserve 1908; letters of pay authorisation 1915; uniform and camp kit lists for Reserve; RIE School of Nursing certificate 1914; World War I passport 1914; military hospital identity card 1915
Dates:
1908-1915
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Mathematical archive of Professor Alexander Craig Aitken
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1529
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of mathematical mansucripts and the corrected manuscript, and correspondence around, the publication Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman. It also contains off-prints and publications by Aitken, papers and correspondence relating to Aitken's work at Edinburgh University and letters to and from academics, family and friends, as well as letters of condolence addressed to Mrs. Aitken. There is also a quantity of...
Dates:
1910-1995
Medals, awards and decorations of William Hunter
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1146
Scope and Contents
At E2008.33, the collection of Prize orders, medals, and medallions awarded to William Hunter is composed of:
- the Serbian Order of St. Sava - bejewelled breast Star
- the Serbian Order of St. Sava - Medallion/Badge with ribbon; the obverse of the cross bears an oval enamelled portrait of the bishop St. Sava, the centre of which is encircled by blue and the motto of the order in old...
Dates:
1879-1920
Munition Work Record of the Falkirk Iron Coy, Ltd.
Item
Identifier: Coll-2118
Scope and Contents
This is a photograph album recording the First World War work of the Falkirk Iron Company, a cast iron goods manufacturer that switched to the production of munitions in 1915. The photographer is not named. As a "Government Controlled Establishment", the Falkirk Iron Company produced 10,000 tons of munitions, many of these delivered by women, who feature prominently in the photographs. A printed note to the front paste down of the album gives a detailed breakdown of the munitions produced,...
Dates:
1915-1918
Papers and correspondence of John Cunningham
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-30
Scope and Contents
The papers include full documentation (case histories, experimental notes and data) of Cunningham's medical researches in India, and in particular of his prolonged and exhaustive work on the bacteriology and immunology of relapsing fever, and the major programme on the treatment of rabies which he instituted on his appointment as Director of the Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, (where over 8,000 cases a year were treated). There are also records of the work on vaccine lymph carried out at the...
Dates:
1905-1968