Scope and Contents PowerPoint slides entitled "Nina's photos", and Word document entitled "Nina Mackinnon at the Main Library" containing the Memoirs of Nina MacKinnon at the Main Library from 1987 to 2021, presented at her last Metadata Team meeting on occasion of her retirement. She was asked by her manager Alasdair MacDonald to talk about her time in Main Library. Nina retired on the 14th of May 2021, after 34 years there. Her first post was library assistant to the Centre for African Studies collection;...

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),...

Scope and Contents This series consists of photographs of Anne Davies's family, class photographs, and photographs of Edinburgh University graduate reunions. Group photographs: University of Edinburgh First Year Medicine 1939-1940; First Year medicine 1940-41; R.I.E. Autumn Term, 1942 (x 3, including a photocopy); Sir John Fraser's Clinique 1943-1944 (outsize). Students are identified under the pictures. ...