Building
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Bamboo Trees, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a row of 14 year old bamboo trees planted in the Macpherson Park at Allahabad in the late 19th century. According to the text beneath the image, the trees have been utilised for scaffolding, for cattle enclosures and in the construction of buildings. Part of the Survey of the India Office, Calcutta, 1902.
Exhibitions: exhibition poster and plan, c1951
Journal account of a trip to the Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis including archaeological notes, January 1866
Juggernaut Car, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a juggernaut car in which "Sod" is drawn from the temple to garden house [in Southeast Asia?] in the early 20th century.
Letter to Arthur James Balfour from Professor Alexander Crum Brown, 04 July 1904
Crum Brown writes to Balfour that he believes the University of Edinburgh should have three ordinary professors of Chemistry who work co-operatively together and who are each assigned a laboratory and junior staff. He then includes some financial projections for salaries and a new building which he states 'should not be ornate' and should be built so it could be extended.
Medical Buildings Time Capsule
Note about the building of Temp[ull] Trian[aid] and S[aint] Michael, 18 January 1871
Note which reads 'Aft[er] build[ing] Te[a]mp[ull] Trian[aid], the fui[gh]leach was made to build S[aint] Michael' [Teampull na Trionaid, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist/Teampull Naomh Mhìcheil, Griomsaigh/Grimsay].
Note and story about Ciosmaol, 1867
Page captioned 'New Poultry Research Centre in course of erection, Autumn 1949' (photographs not present), 1949
Page mounted with four photographs, Undated, c.1960s
Recto: photograph of a brick building under construction, with rows of poultry huts behind; photograph of three rows of poultry huts, with the corner of a brick building in shot.
Verso: Alan Greenwood and Josephine Peace seated with five unidentified females outside the Poultry Research Centre; photograph of a single-storey stone building (possibly the building adjacent to Kellogg Hall, which once housed the ESCA Crop Production Advisory and Development Department).