Advertisements
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to William Tait, 9 October 1846
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/10
Scope and Contents
Autograph Letter Signed from Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe to William Tait, asking him to insert an advertisement in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, and complaining of the loss of previous advertisements. Edinburgh, 9 October 1846.Combe writes that he is enclosing an advertisement which he wishes to be inserted in Tait's Magazine on four occasions between November 1846 and May 1847. "As my advertisement was altogether lost sight of in...
Dates:
9 October 1846
Card album entitled "Album des célébrités contemporaines publié par Lefèvre-Utile, Nantes"
Item — Box CLX-A-1721
Identifier: Coll-2042
Content Description
This is an artfully decorated album issued by the French biscuit manufacturer LU (formerly known as Lefèvre-Utile), entitled "Album des célébrités contemporaines publié par Lefèvre-Utile, Nantes". It contains forty-eight chromolithographed cards featuring famous figures from the arts; each card, embossed with silver or gold, bore a black-and-white photograph portrait of the celebrity along with a relevant colour image and a quotation from the celebrity themselves in praise of LU biscuits....
Dates:
c 1901
Collection of Victorian printed ephemera
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1982
Content Description
Collection of 32 Victorian printed ephemera, in colour: greeting cards, birthday cards, New Year and Christmas cards, religious cards with short prayers, a Valentine card, and two advertisements for Heinz and Ivelcon. Some cards are annotated in the back by the people who sent or received them.
Dates:
19th - early 20th century
Commonplace book entitled 'Fugitive Pieces', collected by Richard Gall (1776–1801)
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2935
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book of Richard Gall, made up of clippings with occasional manuscript notes. Initial entries focus on the recent death of Robert Burns (1759-1796), but branch out into examples of Burns' work, and poems by other authors that centre generally on Scottish life and the city of Edinburgh.Identifiable authors and subjects of their work:
E. [Ellen] Hyslop (1766-1852)William Roscoe (1753-1831)Edward Rushton (1756-1814)Eaglesfield...
Dates:
1649-1799
EURAGONNA Charities Week magazine, 1949
Item — Box CLX-A-309
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0060
Scope and Contents
One issue of Euragonna Charities Week magazine, dated 1949. Euragonna was a magazine published by the Students' Representative Council of the University of Edinburgh to raise money for charities - in 1949, these were The British Empire Research Fund, The Lady Provost's Fund, and the University Settlement. The magazine contains articles, poems, illustrations, and caricatures from students, as well as advertisements. It also...
Dates:
1949
Four printed adverts, 1829-1884
File
Identifier: Coll-1383/2/6
Scope and Contents
Four printed adverts, three pertaining to companies in Edinburgh in the early 19th century, and one to a London based company.
Defries' safety lamp. Company based in Houndsditch, London, offering economical safety lamp for household use c.1884
Alexander Ferguson, confectioner to Her Majesty (Victoria). List of lozenges for sale, for indigestion, for heartburn, for worms, for sore...
Dates:
1829-1884
Letters relating to Materia Medica Department, University of Edinburgh
Fonds — Box Dk.7.27
Identifier: Coll-2218
Scope and Contents
Letters relating to the Edinburgh University Materia Medica department. Letters (3) relating to 1889, 1908, 1945. Also includes some quack adverts.
From W. Y. Prout to Professor Sir T. R. Fraser about poisoned arrows, 1 August 1889.
From C. Philips Frast to Mr. McAlpine about snake venom, 1 August 1908.
From W. C. Sillar to Professor J. H. Gaddum about...
Dates:
1889-1945
Lithographic umbrella advertising print featuring John Stuart Blackie, 1880s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0128/2
Scope and Contents
This is a lithographic advertisement for umbrellas, depicting Prof. John Stuart Blackie using an umbrella in a rainstorm. Printed for Joseph Wright, Glasgow Umbrella Manufactory, 48 Argyle Arcade, Glasgow. That text includes "With Compliments", so the card may have been given with the purchase of an umbrella.
Dates:
1880s
Poster for productions of "Electra" and "Something Unspoken", mid-20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-1581, vol. 2, no. 75
Scope and Contents
This is an poster for the Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group's productions of "Electra" and "Something Unspoken". The year is unknown, but it occurred at the Adam House Theatre from 9 to 12 March.
Dates:
mid-20th century
Scrapbook of curiosity, 1730-1771; 1840s; 1859
Item — Box CLX-A-353
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0240
Scope and Contents
This ‘scrapbook of curiosity’ consists of 18th century original advertisements of Rare and Curious Books, Jests, Wits, Facetia, Books on Angling, Poetry from 1730 to 1771. The title page is written in neat, probably late-18th century manuscriptA compilation of over 170 advertisements for new publications, cut from a variety of daily, weekly and monthly periodicals of the mid-18th century. Many of the snippets ate dated, but the works from which they have been extracted are not...
Dates:
1730-1771; 1840s; 1859