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Photographs

 Subject

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

Found in 1940 Collections and/or Records:

Photograph album of Sheena Tennant Kendall

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2054
Content Description This is a photograph album of Sheena Lillian Grant Tennant Kendall (1883-1974), composer and daughter of wealthy Scottish industrialist James Tennant. Kendall is well identified in the album, which documents a period of residence in Japan (1919-24), as well as travels in Egypt, Burma, Ceylon, Malaysia and Shanghai, and their life at Scottish and English country estates. It also includes 19 photos of Hakone, Japan in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923; images of horse racing...
Dates: 1919-1925
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Photograph album of the Geikie family

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1777
Content Description This is a fine photograph album with 38 albumen prints and one carbon print of portraits of the Geikie family. There is also a birthday card mounted on the front fly-leaf, dated 16 December 1882. Included is a useful later index to the photographs, which identifies the sitters. The oldest two photos must have been taken before the death of both John Geikie and his wife Eleanor in 1864. There are several portraits from the 1870s; and the most recent dated photo is from 1887. The album...
Dates: 1860s-1880s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Photograph album presented to Waddington by Institute staff on his 50th birthday, November 1955

 Item — Box EUA IN1/ACU/A1/6/4
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/A1/6/4
Scope and Contents The volume contains various group and individual photographs of the Institute staff, as well as original paintings and drawings of Waddington in the mock-styles of various artists by Ruth Clayton and E.D Roberts. Some of the individuals feaured in the photographs are: Charlotte Auerbach, Boris Balinsky, Geoffrey Beale, Richard Alan Beatty, Alick Buchanan-Smith, George and Ruth Clayton, Hugh Donald, Douglas Falconer, Alan Greenwood, Henry Kacser, Mary Lyon, Eric Lucey, Margaret Perry, Alan...
Dates: November 1955
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Institute of Animal Genetics / Departmental files of Conrad Hal Waddington

Photograph annotated 'In my garment called "The Animated Armchair"', c.1917

 Item
Identifier: EUA GD55/2/7/1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Comprises an array of material relating to student life at Dunfermline College of Physical Education, including photographs, artefacts and items of College uniform as well as documents including examination papers.

Dates: c.1917
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the Dunfermline College of Physical Education Old Students' Association / Individual student donations / Child, Dulcie

Photograph of a woman and a baby, early 20th century (?)

 Item — Box Coll-2126: Box 5
Identifier: Coll-2126/39
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white photograph of a woman and a baby. From the clothes style, it seems to date from the early 20th century. The link with Roddy Lumsden and his family is unclear. Found in an envelope marked by two large red asterisks.

Dates: early 20th century (?)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Roddy Lumsden

Photograph of conservatory and students sunbathing, 1924-1937

 Item
Identifier: Coll-705/1/1/2
Scope and Contents

Photo depicts students sunbathing outside of a glass addition to Masson Hall.

Dates: 1924-1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw / Papers related to Masson Hall / Photographs

Photograph of the Dowden Memorial, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, c 1910

 Item — Box CLX-A-355
Identifier: Coll-1847/17-0218
Scope and Contents

One photograph of the Dowden Memorial, modelled by Louis R. Deuchars and designed by Sir Robert Lorimer. It is now in St Mary's Cathedral.

Dates: c 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Photograph of the Scottish team a the XIVth Commonwealth Games, 1990

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1842/6/33
Scope and Contents

Group photograph in colour of the Scottish team a the XIVth Commonwealth Games (1990).

Dates: 1990
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of Scottish Gymnastics / Photographs

Photographic material, 1884-1990s

 Series — Box CLX-A-339: Series Coll-1711/5; Series Coll-1711/6; Series Coll-1711/7
Identifier: Coll-1711/5
Scope and Contents

This series contains photographs of, and related to Joseph Joachim and his family.

Dates: 1884-1990s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Joachim and family

Photographic prints of a panorama view from the Beyazit Tower, Constantinople

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2086
Content Description

This item consists of two colour photographic prints, conjoined, depicting a panoramic view from the Beyazit Tower, Constantinople, c 1900.

Dates: c 1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections