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Photographs

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

Found in 389 Collections and/or Records:

Peel, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Viscount Peel, 26 July 1903

 File
Identifier: Coll-1989/51
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel, to Mary Lyell, Dover, 26 July 1903: “Your kind letter from Rheinis has reached me and I am glad to tell you that ‘Davie’ is delightful – full of health and spirits and of strong individual character. Beyond a temporary ailment attributed to a sunstroke – he makes speak progress and begins to show attachments. I hope you are better and able to prolong your stay abroad without fear of an impending general election. Next...
Dates: 26 July 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

Personal Snapshots, 1920-1970

 File
Identifier: Coll-705/6/4
Scope and Contents This file contains four photos. (1) depicts people standing out in a garden, and the back caption reads "Campton Lodge" and details names of who is standing with Marjorie Rackstraw. (2) shows Marjorie Rackstraw standing with a woman and a boy, this back caption reads "Trafalgar Square, Rodney, Meg, ??". (3) shows a man and woman seated at a dining room table, and the back caption reads "To Dear Miss Rackstraw as a souvenir of the happy time we spent together. William and Stepanka...
Dates: 1920-1970
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw / Photographs

Photo album relating to the Livingstonia Mission, and to Malawi, 1930s

 Item — Box CLX-A-345
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0092
Scope and Contents

Photo album containing around 100 black-and-white photographs showing the everyday life of missionaries and locals in Livingstonia, Isoko, Karonga. There are small handwritten captions in different hands. Some photos show the Livingstonia missionary School in Nyasaland (modern day Malawi), which was established in 1875 by Dr Robert Laws, a disciple of David Livingstone. Photographs include Dr Laws standing on the steps of Livingstonia Institution along with the new principal.

Dates: 1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Photo and Letter related to the Children's House Nursery, 18 August 1971

 File
Identifier: Coll-705/6/10
Scope and Contents

This file contains a photograph and a letter sent to Marjorie Rackstraw 18 August 1971 announcing the Headmistress May Brown's retirement, and thanking her for her "kindness and encouragement during my term of office". The photo is from the Reunion Summer of 1970, and is of a large room full of people seated. Marjorie Rackstraw is in the front row, on the right, third from the aisle.

Dates: 18 August 1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw / Photographs

Photograph album belonging to Ruby I.F. Mackenzie, 1913-1915

 Item
Identifier: EUA GD55/2/21/1
Scope and Contents

Contains formal and informal photographs of students and staff, including excursions and trips abroad.

Dates: 1913-1915
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the Dunfermline College of Physical Education Old Students' Association / Individual student donations / Mackenzie, Robina (Ruby) Isabella Forsyth

Photograph album entitled "Roma", 18 March 1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/Dalyell Binns S.75
Scope and Contents

Album containing sepia photographs showing famous streets, buildings (inside and outside), and archaeological sites in Rome in the 19th century, including the Colosseum, the Forum, St Peter's Basilica, Castel Sant'Angelo, the Trevi Fountain, etc. The album also contains photographs of sculptures and paintings kept in Rome.


There date "18th March 1893" has been written by an unknown person on the first page of the album.

Dates: 18 March 1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Photograph album in connection with the University of Edinburgh, 1832-1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0160
Scope and Contents This is a large photograph album, mostly empty, dating from the 19th century and containing seven photographs and one engraving.The first photograph shows the "Old High School" building, now occupied by the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation. It is captioned: "Old High School, now a part of Surgical Ward of the Edinburgh Infirmary, 1878". This is followed by portraits of older men; the only ones captioned are: William Ferguson[?] (possibly Sir William Fergusson (1808 -1877),...
Dates: 1832-1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

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

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