Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:
Photographs of War-Devastated Caen
Fonds — Volume Dk.2.1
Identifier: Coll-164
Scope and Contents
The collection of photographs and postcards shows the war devastation of Caen, June-July, 1944. The devastation is shown from different elevations, and feature not only the most prominent buildings but also the extent of the damage beyond the central area of the city. Some of the pictures show the streets and buildings of Caen before the bombings.
Dates:
1900-1945
Photographs, regulation pamphlet, and examination paper relating to Masson Hall
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1594
Identifier: Coll-2004
Content Description
This fonds contains documents and photographs relating to Masson Hall, a hall of residence for women students who attended the University of Edinburgh. It consists of the following items:
Two group photographs of students who resided at Masson Hall, dated 1943-44 and Summer 1946. One photograph bears the stamp of J. Campbell Harper, A.R.P.S, 181-185 Leith Walk, Leith, Edinburgh;
One...
Dates:
1940s
Poetry album of Louisa Agnes Czarnecki
Fonds — Box CLX-A-480
Identifier: Coll-2090
Content Description
This is an album dated 1861 belonging to Scottish poet Louisa Agnes Czarnecki, who was married to Arthur Antoine Czarnecki, a Polish exile residing in Scotland. The album primarily focuses on politically engaged poetry that vehemently protests against "Russian atrocities" while celebrating the triumph of Garibaldi in Italy.The volume comprises a variety of interesting elements, including original manuscript poetry written by Czarnecki herself. These poems are accompanied by...
Dates:
1861
Records of the NHS Education for Scotland South East Deanery
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1436
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of correspondence, copies of committee meeting documentation, and printed matter: Box 1:
Postgraduate Board, Policy and membership - 1975-1990
Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education Education (SCPMDE), Postgraduate News - 1973-1979
Minutes/Committee and Sub-committee meetings - 1979-1992
...
Dates:
1939-1989
Scrapbooks of Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter and Daisy Helen Burnley-Campbell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2080
Content Description
These two scrapboosk were compiled by Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter (a.k.a. Mrs Burnley-Campbell of Ormidale (1857-1938)) and her daughter Daisy
Helen Burnley-Campbell (later Warrand (1891-1973)). Dealing with both public and private life, they contain a substantial quantity of material relating to Margaret’s participation in the Gaelic movement, including events devoted to Gaelic language, Highland culture, games and music. They also record her involvement in the suffragette movement,...
Dates:
1909-1919
Spitsbergen 1960 - Diary of John Fraser
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1923
Scope and Contents
Reproduction of the diary of John Fraser, then researcher at Imperial College, written during a land-surveying expedition to Spitzberg (Spitsbergen in Norwegian) in 1960. In addition to a day-to-day account of the expetition written by Fraser, the volume contains black-and-white photographs (orginals) depicting landscapes and various scenes of the expetition, a biographical note on Fraser, a photograph of Fraser himself at Imperial College, loose maps of Svalbard and Dicksonland, and an...
Dates:
1960-1961
Stereoscopic photographs of Boer War and other subjects
Fonds — Box Coll-1753
Identifier: Coll-1753
Scope and Contents
An as yet unsorted box of steroscopic photographs.
Dates:
Publication: c1900
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
University cycling and rugby cups awarded to Ian McGregor Reith Scroggie MB ChB (Edin.1944) in 1940 and 1941, and group photograph 1941
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1735
Scope and Contents
2 x University cups (larger cup being Ramsay Lodge, Annual TT, awarded 1940 and 1941, cycling; and, smaller Irish Cup 1941, rugby).1 x group photograph showing participants in Ramsay Lodge, Irish Cup, 1941, rugby, including I. M. R. Scroggie (standing back row 2nd from left).The larger cup (inscribed Ramsay Lodge, Annual TT) was made by J. & D. Meek, Edinburgh. It is also inscribed with numerous names of winners from 1920 to 1943. No race was run in 1924....
Dates:
1920-1943
William Burton-Stewart bound Game books
Collection — Box CLX-D-72: Series Coll-1828/6
Identifier: Coll-1887
Scope and Contents
Two 'game books' which belonged to Major William Burton-Stewart, containing score tables recording his session of game birds shooting and black-and-white photographs of social events, hunting, and people. It also includes sketches and handwritten biographical and travelling accounts by Burton-Stewart himself. Places mentioned in the game books include Ratho Park, Conaglen, Stroud, Darleith, Lothians and the Borders, Venice, India, Ontario (Canada), etc.Highlights in the first...
Dates:
1889-1935