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Penguins

 Subject

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

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

A group of moulting penguins

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/17
Scope and Contents

A group of penguins standing together in their enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo. Some of them are moulting.

Dates: 1914 - 1999
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

A group of penguins

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/28
Scope and Contents

A group of mainly Humboldt penguins at Edinburgh Zoo.

Dates: 1914 - 1999
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

A large group of chinstrap penguins

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/6
Scope and Contents

A large group of chinstrap penguins standing together.

Dates: 1914 - 1999
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

A large group of chinstrap penguins

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/8
Scope and Contents

A large group of chinstrap penguins at Edinburgh Zoo.

Dates: 1914 - 1999
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

A penguin eating a fish

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/37
Scope and Contents

A penguin in the foreground eating a fish. A group of penguins stand in the background.

Dates: 1914 - 1999
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

Adelie and Chinstrap penguins

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/9
Scope and Contents

Two penguins (an adelie and chinstrap) look back towards the camera in their enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo.

Dates: 1914 - 1999
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

Adelie Penguin

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/7/1
Scope and Contents

Partial image of a penguin at Edinburgh Zoo.

Dates: 1914 - 1999
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives / Box 7

Ark File Volume 6 Spring Edition, 1997

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2099/6/2/2/6
Scope and Contents

Volume 6, 1997 Spring edition of Ark File, the newsletter of the RZSS.

This edition includes, news from the zoo, tortoises, vetfile, penguins, Highland Wildlife Park news, and diary.

Dates: 1997
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / RZSS Publications / Magazines / Ark File, newsletter of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland

Box 1

 File
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/7/1
Scope and Contents

Box 1 contains the following groups of negatives, as they were found in their original boxes - King Penguins, Monkeys, Bears, and Chimpanzee 'Bobo'.

Dates: 1914 - 1999
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Glass Plate Negatives

Box 1, 1915 - 1920

 File
Identifier: Coll-2099/8/6/1
Scope and Contents

A collection of lantern slides, possibly taken by Mary Elizabeth Gillespie, Thomas Gillespie's wife. The photographs are mainly of animals at Edinburgh Zoo. Further details of individual slides can be found at item level.

Dates: 1915 - 1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Photographs / Lantern Slide Collections