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Portraits

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

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Album and scrapbook collected by Jessie Aitken Wilson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1504
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 x book of photographic portraits containing portraits of Albrech Duerer, Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, George Sand, Matthew Arnold, and cardinal newman, and others. The album was given to Jessie Aitken Wilson by novelist Mrs. Oliphant and is inscribed, 'This Book was the gift of Mrs. Oliphant'. 1 x packet of (4) loose photographic...
Dates: 1850-1870

Albums containing autograph letters to Sir Charles Lyell and family, and portraits of the writers, compiled by Leonard Lyell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1997
Content Description This collection consists of two albums compiled by Leonard Lyell, nephew of Charles Lyell and son of Katherine Mary Lyell. The volumes contain letters sent by many leading scientists and scholars of the 19th century to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family, such as his wife Mary, the elder Charles Lyell, Mary’s father Leonard Horner, and his brother Francis Horner. In both albums, most of the letters are accompanied by a facing photograph or portrait print of the letter’s...
Dates: 1805-1899

Cartes de visite portraits of medics

 Fonds — Folder Phot.Ill.90
Identifier: Coll-1980
Scope and Contents

Cartes de visite portraits of medics.

Dates: mid-late 19th century

Material relating to Charles Thelander MB ChB (Edin) FRACS

 Collection — CLX-A-1558
Identifier: Coll-1758
Scope and Contents The material is largely photographic but may be added to in the future. There are board-mounted group photographs by A. Swan Watson, Bruntisfield, Edinburgh: Photograph of Theatrical group, with signatures including Charles A. Thelander, dressed as 'nun' SRC, Students' Representative Council, Executive Committee, including Charles A. Thelander, 1903-1904 E.U. Winter...
Dates: 1903-1909

Papers of James Robert Stott

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-390
Identifier: Coll-2041
Content Description This small fonds consists of the papers, portrait, and medals of Dr James Robert Stott, OBE, World War I Captain and graduate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. It includes: Four First World War medals in a "Ernest Jones" box: The British Military Medal, The Victory Medal (Great Britain), an OBE Officer Badge, Military Division, and a tripartite medal with smaller versions of the three...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1914-1919; 1954

Papers of Professor Sidney T. M. Newman

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1032
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: in Box 1, concertos of C. P. E. Bach (son of Johann Sebastian Bach), an opera The admiral's daughter by Dr. H. F. Henniker (1930) and a symphony in three movements, music and libretto to David Rizzio, and various pieces of music; in Box 2, assorted pieces of music and song, the Fantasia No.1 Mozart with music for violin I and II, viola, v.cello, c.bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, corno,...
Dates: 1920-1968