Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of Thomas Jaffrey McNair
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1269
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed largely of black and white photographs reflecting Thomas Jaffrey McNair's study and leisure-time activities while at Edinburgh University. There are photographs of:
group photo Union women's dinner 1949
group photo Union men's dinner 1949
group photo Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Mr Walter Mercer's Clinique, Winter 1947
group photo...
Dates:
1946-1963
Development of Bristo Square: photographs, c1979
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.4
Scope and Contents
16 black and white photographic prints (26cm x 40cm). Some show buildings and details of buildings in London. The remainder show details of street furniture in the area which was redeveloped to make way for Bristo Square, Edinburgh. There is also a photo mosaic (11cm x 23cm) showing an oblique aerial view of the area prior to redevelopment. These photos were collected to inform the design of street furniture for the newly created Bristo Square.
Dates:
c1979
Development of the University of Edinburgh Student Amenity Centre, 1967-1970
Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/8
Scope and Contents
Development of the University of Edinburgh Student Amenity Centre consists of:
- reports and photographs of architectural models, (1967-1970)
- University of Edinburgh Student Amenity Centre: architectural drawings, (c1967-1968
- plans, (c1967-1968)
Dates:
1967-1970
Edinburgh South Side District Plan: general papers, 1962-1985
Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/C
Scope and Contents
Edinburgh South Side District Plan: general papers consists of:
- papers and correspondence, (1973-1980)
- reports, (1973-1980)
- photographs, (c1973)
- plans, (1973-1974)
Dates:
1962-1985
George Square redevelopment, 1960-1973
Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6
Scope and Contents
George Square redevelopment consists of:
general correspondence, (1969-1973)
Civic Trust Award, (1969)
reports, (1960-1973)
general photographs, (1965-1967)
plans: faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, (1964-1966)
plans: landscape and streetscape, (1964-1965)
plans: faculty of science, (1963)
...
Dates:
1960-1973
George Square redevelopment: Civic Trust Award, 1969
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.2
Scope and Contents
Material relating to the Civic Trust Award gained for the George Square Redevelopment Project undertaken by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates. The material consists of the award submission, a set of 22 (16cm x 22cm) photographs of the area with an accompanying location plan and the award certificate.
Dates:
1969
George Square Redevelopment: faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, plans, 1964-1966
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.5
Scope and Contents
plans: tentative planning proposals: Arts and Social Sciences Precinct, (1964)
plans: Arts Faculty Block D - William Robertson Building and David Hume Tower, (1964)
plans: sketch layout of Windmill House area, (1964)
plans: Podium edge details - blocks C, D and E, (1966)
plans: Arts Faculty Block G feasibility study, (1965)
...
Dates:
1964-1966
George Square redevelopment: reports, 1960-1973
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.3
Scope and Contents
5 reports concerning proposals for the redevelopment of George Square by the University of Edinburgh. Included is the 1963 proposal for the whole of George Square, by Percy Johnson-Marshall, in his capacity as Planning Consultant to the University. Original photographs of scenic drawings by Alexander Duncan Bell and an architectural model, used as illustrations for this report, are included. Other reports are: proposals for disabled access by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates, and...
Dates:
1960-1973
Journal of a tour round the world taken by Sir John Fraser (1885-1947)
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1296
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of three bound volumes being Sir John Fraser's journal of a tour made around the world in 1935. Each volume contains many pages of black and white photographs along with pages of typescript text describing the journey. The first entry in the journal is dated Tuesday 22 January 1935 and describes the Langholm Hotel and the start of the journey to Southampton to catch the ship (RMS 'Aquitania') bound for New York. A journey across the USA by train followed,...
Dates:
1935
Papers of Rev. Earle Monteith Macphail
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-91
Scope and Contents
The papers at shelfmark Gen. 2044-2073 consist of notebooks of notes from lectures at Edinburgh University and in India, 1878-1890.At MSS 2592-2593 there are personal papers including correspondence, a school notebook of handwriting dated 1875, and a school fees receipt dated 1869; photographs; notes of Natural Philosophy classes, 1879; and, essays, 1879. There is material marking celebrations of Edinburgh University Tercentenary; material of the Dialectic Society and the Diagnostic...
Dates:
circa 1869-1930