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Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (United States)

 Subject

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Carnegie, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3192
Scope and Contents

Four photographs and an article on Andrew Carnegie from the early 20th century. One photograph shows him in his office in New York; the Castellated Mansion in northern Scotland where he lived in his later life; the city of Pittsburgh, where he accumulated his fortune; and a caracature of him by C. de Fonaro.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

'Control and structural mutations in B. lichenformi Penicillinase', Pittsburgh, USA, 30 October 1964, 1964

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/F/1/F.45
Scope and Content

The material consists of manuscript notes for lecture 'Control and structural mutations in B. lichenformi Penicillinase' by Martin Rivers Pollock, given at Pittsburgh, USA, 30 October 1964

Dates: 1964
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION F: LECTURES AND BROADCASTS / LECTURES

Notebook No.140, 5 April 1846 - 14 April 1846

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/140
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from April 5th to April 14, 1846. The notebook starts in Louisville, Kentucky as Lyell travels north along the Ohio River in the steamer Ben Franklin, arriving in Cincinnati on April 7th. On April 13th Lyell resumed travel up the Ohio River, bound for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The index is located in the back of the notebook on eight unnumbered pages. Notes are in pencil and ink. Content warning:...
Dates: 5 April 1846 - 14 April 1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.141, 15 April 1846 - 25 April 1846

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/141
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes from 15 April to 25 April 1846 [the stated end date is inferred from the date recorded in the following notebook], having embarked from Cincinnati, Ohio on April 13th and traveling into Pennsylvania. The Lyells traveled on the steamer Clipper, continuing northward on the Ohio River from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh (arrived on April 16th), and then by carriage across the Alleghenies onto Philadelphia, a return visit destination. The Indian Mound south...
Dates: 15 April 1846 - 25 April 1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks