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Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

 Subject

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

Found in 184 Collections and/or Records:

Scrapbook of Edinburgh University student Ella MacGregor, 1920s

 Item — Box CLX-A-345
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0181
Scope and Contents Scrapbook/diary of Ella MacGregor, an Edinburgh University student in the 1920s. It contains handwritten autobiographical accounts and thoughts, cuttings of poems and songs, copies of photographs of people involved in the University's student life (for example, V. K. Mowat, joint editor of the Student 1923-24; John B. Colquhoun, President of the Union; Lilian M. Roger, President of Edinburgh University Unionist Association), of famous people who visited the University (G. K. Chesterton;...
Dates: 1920s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Scrapbook of James Finlay Weir Johnston (1796-1855), chemist of Agricultural Society of Scotland

 Fonds
Identifier: MS JOH
Scope and Contents Volume of newspaper clippings, letters, and printed pamphlets. The subjects covered change with the orientation of the book:From the front, the subject is the Irish Potato Famine, and contains materials dated 1845-1846. Interleaved throughout the newspaper clippings are letters and notes, as well as pamphlets about potato disease, many of which are written by Johnston. Other sources for the pamphlets include the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, reports by John F. Hodges, the...
Dates: 1845-1851
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Scrapbook of John Donaldson, Reid Professor of the Theory of Music, 1850s

 Item
Identifier: Mus.f.379
Scope and Contents Scrapbook containing Donaldson's collection of cuttings (including one from The Scotsman 24 April 1858 re his purchases of many items for the Reid library from Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn in Berlin), pamphlets (including several collected at the Great Exhibition of 1851), handbills and advertisements describing and advertising various types of musical instrument.Donaldson made considerable acquisitions of both musical instruments and scores for the Reid and was the driving force...
Dates: 1850s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Scrapbooks of Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter and Daisy Helen Burnley-Campbell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2080
Content Description These two scrapbooks were compiled by Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter (a.k.a. Mrs Burnley-Campbell of Ormidale (1857-1938)) and her daughter Daisy Helen Burnley-Campbell (later Warrand (1891-1973)). Dealing with both public and private life, they contain a substantial quantity of material relating to Margaret’s participation in the Gaelic movement, including events devoted to Gaelic language, Highland culture, games and music. They also record her involvement in the suffragette movement,...
Dates: 1909-1919
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

‘Songs of Scotland – Programmes 1882-6’, 1882-1886

 File
Scope and Contents

‘Songs of Scotland – Programmes 1882-6’. Scrapbook, softbound, cover missing, 23 x 18 cm, 88 pages, marked: ‘E61/19, Gen. 519’, containing pasted Kennedy recital programmes and press cuttings from Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand, also two loose recital programmes.

Dates: 1882-1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser / Box list / Box Gen. 519

South Bank: London County Council press clippings, 1953-1960

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/4.4
Scope and Contents

File of press clippings and journal articles concerning the redevelopment of London's South Bank by London County Council, under the Comprehensive Development Area no 4: South Bank.

Dates: 1953-1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: South Bank

Syllabus of a Course of Four Lectures on Crustacea delivered by Ewart under the auspices of the Science Lecture Committee, 1880

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/5/2
Scope and Contents

Also contains a cutting of a newspaper caricature titled 'Crustacea', depicting a silhouette of a man holding a lobster.

Dates: 1880
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Reports and papers

Text and notes for lectures on and ‘British interests in economic settlement after the war’ and Australia and British South Africa, 1916-1921

 Item
Identifier: Coll-68/81
Scope and Contents

Text and notes for lectures on and ‘British interests in economic settlement after the war’ (continued from #80), and Australia and British South Africa (lectures dated February 1918); several press cuttings tipped in (dated 1916- 21); ms, 1 bound notebook.


Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: M4

Dates: 1916-1921
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Text and notes for lectures on economic geography, honours course, 1922

 Item
Identifier: Coll-68/77
Scope and Contents

Text and notes for lectures on economic geography, honours course, indexed on pp.100-1; two press cuttings tipped in (dated 1922); ms, 1 bound notebook.


Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: M

Dates: 1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Text and notes for lectures on India and ‘British interests in economic settlement after the war, 1920-1922

 Item
Identifier: Coll-68/80
Scope and Contents

Text and notes for lectures on India and ‘British interests in economic settlement after the war’, with several press cuttings tipped in (dated 1920- 22); ms, 1 bound notebook.


Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: M3

Dates: 1920-1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm