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Two photograph albums of views from Shantung and Shanghai, and from Jehol and Beijing, to Yunnan
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1879
Content Description
Two albums containing black and white photographs of landscapes in a variety of locations, as well as portraits and street scenes, each with accompanying text. The first album is entitled '"China 1920-1930 - From Shantung and Shanghai to Yunan [sic]" (119 pages), and the second album is entitled "China 1920-1930 - From Jehol and Peking to Yunnan" (136 pages). Many of the photos are grouped into sets of up to ten images on a particular province or theme, such as: Futoshan/Putuoshan, near...
Dates:
late 1920s- early 1930s
Two preparation sermons by Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661), Professor of Divinity, St Mary’s College, St Andrews
Collection
Identifier: MS RUT
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below).
Dates:
1634
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Two scrap books on the 'Scottish Church Case'
Collection
Identifier: MS 5021
Scope and Contents
Two scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings relating to the Scottish Church Case 1904-1905. Loose cuttings have been rehoused in a folder.
Dates:
1904-1906
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Two volumes of lecture notes taken down by Susan and Janet Robb
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-228
Identifier: Coll-1965
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of lecture notes taken by sisters Susan and Janet Robb, originally from Woodend, Carnwath, dating from the 1890s and early 1900s.
- Notes taken down by Susan Robb on botany lectures given by Professor S. Elliot, 17 May 1901.
- Lecture notes taken down by Janet Robb on the subject of physiography, 1890s.
Dates:
1890s-1901
Tynedale-Biscoe, Barbara Bettina
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-54
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of nurse's letter describing night duty 1935; transcript of letter
Dates:
1935
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Typescript and printed volumes on Glasgow and Edinburgh 'lodging houses'
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1816
Content Description
A collection of 2 x ts and printed volumes on Glasgow and Edinburgh 'lodging houses'. These were created by...:Louie Murray, who wrote Edinburgh Common Lodging-Houses, a study of the residents and how their needs are met by statutory and voluntary social services. Murray's work was presented as a thesis for the Diploma in Social Study, Edinburgh University... 94pp including appendices.and by...Dr. Stuart Laidlaw, who wrote ...
Dates:
1956
Typescript by James Dick: Account of his boyhood in Scotland
Item
Identifier: Coll-1900
Scope and Contents
Typescript by Colonel James Dick (1863-1926), containing an 'account of his boyhood in Scotland'.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century (before 1926)
Typescript by John Findlater, Methodist minister, Leith
Fonds
Identifier: MS FIN1
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
c.1909
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Typescript by Richárd Hörcsik (1955-) entitled ‘The history of the Hungarian scholarship at Edinburgh’
Fonds
Identifier: MS HOR1
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
c.1990
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Typescript Cunningham Lectures by Prof William Alexander Curtis (1876-1961)
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 36.7
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1950-1953
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
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- Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 2
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- Davidson Clinic (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2
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