Portraits
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 14 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 Katharine Murray 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
Carmichael Stopes Family Archive
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2907
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of around 30 drawings and paintings created by members of the Carmichael Stopes family, compiled by birth control pioneer and sexologist Marie Stopes (1880-1958). The collection is housed in a large portfolio on which she has written "M C Stopes – art", and she has added explanatory annotations to many of the works. The archive includes family portraits, a few prints, landscapes, and architectural and botanical drawings.Below is a list of some of the most...
Dates:
1786-1886
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
Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families
Collection — Box CLX-A-1705
Identifier: Coll-1989
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of 108 autograph letters sent from various scientists, politicians, economists, artists etc. to members of the Lyell and Horner families. Also includes 41 portraits (photographs, etchings, and engravings).
Byrne, Fanny Horner (1789-1876), sister of Leonard Horner;
Horner, Anna Susanna (1786-1862), married to Leornard Horner;
Horner, Frances Joanna...
Dates:
1791-1903
Commonplace Book of Brian Fairfax
Fonds — Volume Dk.5.25
Identifier: Coll-2201
Scope and Contents
Fairfax (B.) Commonplace book of Brian Fairfax, containing his "Iter Boreale" etc.
- "Iter Boreale", an account of his mission to George Monck in 1659. Ff.9-29.
- A letter of Ferdinando, 2nd Baron Fairfax to his son, Thomas, about portraits by a servant of Sir Anthony Van Dyck. F.2.
- Extracts from anti-papistical literature. 82 ff.
Dates:
c 1646
Correspondence of William Veitch, LL.D.
Fonds — Box Dk.7.54-64
Identifier: Coll-2234
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of William Veitch LL.D., 1873-1885.
Letter to William Veitch, LL.D., from W. Dawson Brown. Montreal, 7 November 1873. 4pp. 12^o.
Printed circular letter requesting subscriptions for a portrait of W. Veitch, Edinburgh, 21 June 1880.
Ticket for the presentation dinner to William Veitch on the occasion of the presentation of his portrait, 7 January...
Dates:
1873-1885
Illuminated vellum listing the names of the subscribers to Sir William Turner's portrait
Fonds — Volume Dk.2.21
Identifier: Coll-2154
Scope and Contents
The names of the subscribers who presented to the University of Edinburgh the portrait of Principal Sir William Turner, K.C.B. ; 13th February, 1913. Illuminated. On vellum. Bound in dark blue Morocco, gilt, with the arms of the University and of Sir William Turner.
Dates:
1913
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
Miscellaneous Collection of Letters relating to Scotland
Fonds — Box Dk.6.19
Identifier: Coll-2210
Scope and Contents
Letters, mainly Scottish. 18th-19th century.Dk.6.19/1: Miscellaneous collection of letters relating to Scotland. 1768 - 1853.
Correspondents: Sarah Austin, [Messers]. Michael Bogle and Scott, Hugh H Brown, John Bushby, Lady Campbell of Barcaldine, Alexander Campbell, David Campbell, Duncan Campbell, ditto of Barcaldine, ditto of Glenure, Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell of Barcaldine, Rx. Hon. Sir Ilay Campbell, John Campbell (1766...
Dates:
18th century, 19th century