Gibraltar
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Annotated Map of Gibraltar, 1868
Item
Identifier: Coll-99/11/1
Scope and Contents
Coloured index map to the 1/600 Plans of Gibraltar, with geological annotations detailing features such as raised beaches and shale.
Dates:
1868
Letter from George Burnett (nephew) to Joseph Black, 23 September 1771
Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/38-39
Scope and Contents
Letter from George Burnett, Gibraltar (nephew of Joseph Black) to Joseph Black, sending mineralogical specimens and fossils.
Dates:
23 September 1771
Letters from Colonel John Murray to 'My Dearest Mim' and 'My Dearest Mother' from Balaklava and Sebastapol, 1855-56, and onboard HMS Royal Albert, en route to Crimean War. Includes poem 'The Storming of the Redoubt', 1855-1856
File
Identifier: Coll-1383/4/31
Scope and Contents
HMS Royal Albert- 8 leaves - relating to passage by Gibraltar in autumn and how the weather is akin to a London summer's day.
4th September 1855, writing to his mother, Murray tells her that he is to take charge of a detachment and tells her of provisions arriving for winter.
Dates:
1855-1856
Siege of Gibraltar, being Journal or Log-book kept on board H.M.S Essex, by Jonathan Greenwood, with drawings,1704, 1704
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Identifier: La.III.578
Scope and Contents
Records made by Jonathan Greenwood from his time with the ship, Essex.
Dates:
1704
Two photograph albums, of older Spain and Portugal, and of the Nile Valley and Classical Europe... one of them collected by William Horn, Edinburgh
Collection — Volume Coll-1807 / SC-Acc-2016-0196
Identifier: Coll-1807
Scope and Contents
One album, with photographs of the Nile Valley and Classical Europe, has ms description on fore-page: "Photographs Collection of William Horn [address], Edinburgh. On tour of 1872." Some of the photographs are signed, 'A. Beats'. Many of the photographs of Classical Europe have Italian scenes around Florence, Naples and Pompei, and Milan, and there are photographs of Alpine scenes and Vienna too.The other album is entitled on the front board: "Photographs of Spain &...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1872-1890