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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 320 Collections and/or Records:

A photograph of medical students graduation, and a photograph of the International Physiological Congress at Edinburgh, 1920s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0157
Scope and Contents

One framed photograph of the International Physiological Congress held in Edinburgh in 1923, showing the c. 300 delegates in the Quadrangle of the Old Medical School of the University. Names are given around the photo.


The second photograph has no caption whatsoever, but probably is a graduation photograph. The group includes E. Scharpey-Schafer, Professor of Physiology at the University of Edinburgh from 1899 to 1933. It was taken by E. R. Yerbury and Son.

Dates: 1920s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

"An aircraft factory for Liverpool" - photographs, 1935-1936

 File
Identifier: PJM/UOL/A/6/4
Scope and Contents

Photographs of architectural drawings (20cm x 30cm) by Percy Johnson-Marshall, created for his final thesis project "An aircraft factory for Liverpool", undertaken as a fifth year student at the Liverpool School of Architecture.

Dates: 1935-1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / University of Liverpool studentships / Diploma in Architecture - student assignments / Thesis design: "an aircraft factory for Liverpool"

Armstrong, William, 21 July 1863; 29 August 1863

 File
Identifier: Coll-1989/1
Scope and Contents Two autograph letters signed from Sir William Armstrong to Sir Charles Lyell.1. Letter dated 21 July 1863: "It will be quite convenient to receive you & Lady Lyell with her servant on the 29th Aug[us]t & Lady Armstrong and I hope you will not hesitate to come. I have several houses available for sleeping within a few hundred yards of my own & I have abundance of room in all other aspects [...]".2. Letter dated 29 August 1863: "I am very sorry that we are...
Dates: 21 July 1863; 29 August 1863
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

Arnold, Matthew, 8 March 1977

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1989/2
Scope and Contents Unpublished letter by Matthew Arnold to the botanist Frances Joanna Horner, Lady Bunbury, living near Bury St Edmunds: “My dear Lady Bunbury, It is very odd that only last night at a house when I was leaving somebody was expressing surprise at my not having quoted my father about [Lord] Falkland; and now this morning comes your kind letter and reproaches me with the same thing. But the truth is, it is difficult for a son to quote his father; one cannot quite quote him as if he was a...
Dates: 8 March 1977
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

Arrivabene, Giovanni, 20 June 1866

 File
Identifier: Coll-1989/3
Scope and Contents Autograph letter in Italian from Giovanni Arrivabene to probably to Susan or Joanna Horner about his departure to Turin the next day and his regretting not being able to follow their invitation: "Il Conte Arrivabene parte domani par Torino. Non potrà quindi, con molto suo rincrescimento approffittare del grazioso invito di M Horner". After living in Switzerland, France, England and Belgium, Arrivabene returned to Italy in 1860 where he became a senator and president of the Italian National...
Dates: 20 June 1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

Assortment of items originally contained loosely in a bound volume, 1927-1957

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-1057/3/5
Scope and Contents

These items consist of a bound volume and seven envelopes. The envelopes contain material which has been removed from the volume and consists of a variety of photographs, correspondence, typescripts, ephemera and newspaper clippings. The bound volume still contains some items which have been affixed inside, namely: a letter to Greenwood relating to his service with the Home Guard (January 1945) and various newspaper clippings and articles.

Dates: 1927-1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Alan W. Greenwood / Papers relating to the Poultry Research Centre

Barrie, James Matthew, 8 September [1893]; [14 May 1897]

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Identifier: Coll-1989/4
Scope and Contents Two autographs letters signed from James Matthew Barrie to Katherine Murray Horner. One letter is written when she is Barrie’s neighbour in his native Kirriemuir (dated 8 September [1893]), the other to her home at 9 Cornwall Gardens, South Kensington: "Yes, delighted. [...] I am struggling with a love scene. If it wins I’ll send it in my place. Yours ever [...]". (14 May 1897; date from a pencil note, likely by the recipient, inside the envelope flap).Includes addressed...
Dates: 8 September [1893]; [14 May 1897]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

Black and white photographic portraits, mostly of artists, Undated

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/9/5/7
Scope and Contents

Photographic portraits of various artists: Ivan Miro, Fernand Leger, Yves Tanquy (by Man Ray), Alberto Giacometti, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque (2 copies), Max Ernst, Picasso (by Man Ray). Also includes a photograph of Dame Honour Fell and one featuring an unidentified individual.

Dates: Undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Conrad Hal Waddington / Personal and departmental papers / Personal papers left at the Department

Bowring, John, 16 June 1868

 File
Identifier: Coll-1989/5
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from John Bowring to Fanny Horner Byrne (1789-1876), wife of the Irish revolutionary Myles Byrne, dated 16 june 1868, [London]: "Thanks for your letter & the trouble you have taken. If I can carry my Co-Trustees with me, we will make a Grant to the Institution whose cause you so ably plead".

Dates: 16 June 1868
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

Boxall, William, 31 January 1867; 13 January 1877

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Identifier: Coll-1989/6
Scope and Contents 1. Autograph letter of excuse from William Boxall to Katharine Murray Lyell following an invitation (dated 31 January 1867): "I have been in bed two days with one of my bad attacks in the throat. I hoped till this moment that I might have had the pleasure of dining with you on Saturday but I am so unwell that I feel that it will be impossible for me to leave the house. – I am most grateful to you and to Col. Lyell and to Sir Charles and your sister for unremitting kindness and I cannot help...
Dates: 31 January 1867; 13 January 1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

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