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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 178 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

'[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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Miscellaneous, 1964-1971

 File — Box CLX-A-24: Series Coll-490/22; Series Coll-490/23
Identifier: Coll-490/23/RG(F)
Scope and Contents 1. Invitation to Mr Rolf Gardiner to a buffet lunch and meeting held by the Royal African Society jointly with the Royal Commonwealth Society. Speaker: Professor George Shepperson. 2 February 1967.2. Company Report: The Nchima Tea and Tung [oil extracted from crushed nuts] Estates Ltd. Mr H. Rolf Gardiner's Review. "East Africa and Rhodesia", 3 January 1957.3-8. Newspaper Cuttings. Rolf Gardiner's letters to the papers relating to ecology and conservation....
Dates: 1964-1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 23 / Rolf Gardiner

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Mungo Park (1771-1805). Papers relating to Bi-Centenary Celebrations, 1971

 Series — Box CLX-A-25: Series Coll-490/24; Series Coll-490/25
Identifier: Coll-490/24/MP
Scope and Contents Mungo Park (1771-1805). Papers relating to Bi-Centenary Celebrations. 'Mungo Park and the Scottish Contribution to Africa'. Talk given by George Shepperson to the joint meeting of Royal African and Royal Commonwealth Societies. 4 February 1971. Shortened account of the above. Mungo Park Bicentenary lecture: Selkirk, 8 September 1971. Statement by...
Dates: 1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 24

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) / Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) Polytechnic

‘News Cuttings’, note book, 1908-1930

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser / Box list / Box Gen. 279

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Archive of productions of Varsity Vanities and various dramatic groups / Volume 1

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Archive of productions of Varsity Vanities and various dramatic groups / Volume 2

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Archive of productions of Varsity Vanities and various dramatic groups / Volume 1