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Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

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

Found in 148 Collections and/or Records:

Material relating to research into plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1324, Folder: Coll-1813 / SC-Acc-2017-0062
Identifier: Coll-1813
Content Description This small collection consists of the material collected by Dr Tom Barron, for his research into the plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and the British community there. Having not found any surviving records when he visited Ceylon (Sri Lanka), he decided to search for private papers, including by publishing a call in the Quaterly Bulletin no. 151 of the Ceylon Association in London, for personal papers and experiences relating to planting and business ventures in Ceylon in the 19th...
Dates: 1969-1972

Mathematical archive of Professor Alexander Craig Aitken

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1529
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of mathematical mansucripts and the corrected manuscript, and correspondence around, the publication Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman. It also contains off-prints and publications by Aitken, papers and correspondence relating to Aitken's work at Edinburgh University and letters to and from academics, family and friends, as well as letters of condolence addressed to Mrs. Aitken. There is also a quantity of...
Dates: 1910-1995

Medical Buildings Time Capsule

 Fonds — Box EUA-A-48
Identifier: EUA GD5
Scope and Contents Note written by William Turnbull contating details about him, his wife Cecilia, and Thomas Wilkie, which describes their idea, along with three cuttings taken from The Scotsman. One includes an item on Popery in the Highlands by John Stuart Blackie, with a related poem on the establishment of Fort Augustus. Another reports weather conditions. The third includes coverage of a meeting of the Free Church Presbytery in...
Dates: 1880

'[Meteorological] register kept at Castlecary from June 1877’ by G.G. Chisholm, 1877-1878

 Item
Identifier: Coll-68/4
Scope and Contents

‘[Meteorological] register kept at Castlecary from June 1877’ by G.G. Chisholm; ms and printed newspaper cuttings of meteorological reports laid in (1877-8).

Dates: 1877-1878

Miscellaneous Papers and Notes by W.J. Watson, late 19th-early 20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW11
Scope and Contents

Folder containing miscellaneous papers and notes by W.J. Watson. Items include a paper on 'Some Interactions between English and Gaelic' , lists of place names, correspondence with the Burgh Surveyor's Office, Perth, concerning a site in Strathtay, a list of 'Saints in Adamnan's Life of Columba', a newspaper clipping from the Times Literary Supplement July 12, 1923, entitled 'Scottish Place Names', and an essay entitled 'The Early Church in the North'.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th century

My Village (1), 1946-1947

 File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/D/2
Scope and Contents Student project from the Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) Polytechnic entitled "My Village" including completed questionnaires and manuscript maps, with names and origins of students. Exemplary course work from Hav Ahdul Rahman includes manuscript maps of his region, a hand written regional history and his photograph. The course booklet Twelfth Army Pre-Release Booklet No 1: First Village Uplift Course (for Punjab and NWFP...
Dates: 1946-1947

‘News Cuttings’, note book, 1908-1930

 Item
Scope and Contents

‘News Cuttings’, note book. Softbound, charcoal grey, paginated, 31 x 24 cm, 50 pages (of which 23 pages empty), contains press cuttings from 1908-30, mainly recital reviews.

Dates: 1908-1930

Newspaper clipping concerning the "Varsity Vanities" production, 28 April to 3 May 1947

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1581, vol. 1, no. 80
Scope and Contents

This is a newspaper clipping from the Evening Dispatch. It contains a photograph of the Varsity Vanities production from 28 April to 3 May 1947. The photograph is also within the collection.

Dates: 28 April to 3 May 1947

Newspaper clipping for the “Peer Gynt” production, 1949

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1581, vol. 2, no. 14
Scope and Contents

This is a newspaper clipping of a first night press review for the Peer Gynt production at the Central Hall, Tollcross from 30 August to 9 September 1949. The newspaper is not determined.

Dates: 1949

Newspaper clipping for "What Say They?", 9 November 1948

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1581, vol. 1, no. 123
Scope and Contents

This is a clipping from the Evening Dispatch dated 9 November 1948. It contains a posed press photograph at dress rehearsal for "What Say They?" at the Little Theatre.

Dates: 9 November 1948