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Photograph albums

 Subject

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

Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:

Photograph album belonging to Wayland W. Wilcox, 1912

 Item
Identifier: Coll-210/3/2
Scope and Contents

Photograph album belonging to Wayland W. Wilcox with photographs taken in and en route to Africa while investigating Booth, 1 vol., 1912.

Dates: 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers relating to Joseph Booth and family / Material relating to Wayland D. Wilcox

Photograph album entitled "Roma", 18 March 1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/Dalyell Binns S.75
Scope and Contents

Album containing sepia photographs showing famous streets, buildings (inside and outside), and archaeological sites in Rome in the 19th century, including the Colosseum, the Forum, St Peter's Basilica, Castel Sant'Angelo, the Trevi Fountain, etc. The album also contains photographs of sculptures and paintings kept in Rome.


There date "18th March 1893" has been written by an unknown person on the first page of the album.

Dates: 18 March 1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Photograph album of Sheena Tennant Kendall

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2054
Content Description This is a photograph album of Sheena Lillian Grant Tennant Kendall (1883-1974), composer and daughter of wealthy Scottish industrialist James Tennant. Kendall is well identified in the album, which documents a period of residence in Japan (1919-24), as well as travels in Egypt, Burma, Ceylon, Malaysia and Shanghai, and their life at Scottish and English country estates. It also includes 19 photos of Hakone, Japan in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923; images of horse racing...
Dates: 1919-1925
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Photograph album presented to Waddington by Institute staff on his 50th birthday, November 1955

 Item — Box EUA IN1/ACU/A1/6/4
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/A1/6/4
Scope and Contents The volume contains various group and individual photographs of the Institute staff, as well as original paintings and drawings of Waddington in the mock-styles of various artists by Ruth Clayton and E.D Roberts. Some of the individuals feaured in the photographs are: Charlotte Auerbach, Boris Balinsky, Geoffrey Beale, Richard Alan Beatty, Alick Buchanan-Smith, George and Ruth Clayton, Hugh Donald, Douglas Falconer, Alan Greenwood, Henry Kacser, Mary Lyon, Eric Lucey, Margaret Perry, Alan...
Dates: November 1955
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Institute of Animal Genetics / Departmental files of Conrad Hal Waddington

Photograph album related to the Gotch-Robinson High School (or Shoushan Middle School)

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1998
Content Description This is an album containing approxmately 147 photographs with captions, showing staff, students, premises and scenes from the Gotch-Robinson High School (also known as Shoushan Middle School) in the 1920s. The school was a British Baptist school located in Tsingchowfu, Shantung, in North China. It was founded in 1917 by the English Baptist Missionary Society, and was dissolved in 1929 amid the changes in the education system after the Nationalists took over Shandong province.The...
Dates: 1926-1929
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Photograph album showing Fez, Morocco

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2015
Content Description

This is a photo album containing 37 photographs of Fez, Morocco. The photographs mostly show everyday life in the streets and houses of Fez. Four photos show general views of the city. On the reverse there is the stamp of Joseph Bouhsira, one of the first Moroccan photographers who opened his studio in the Jewish quarter of Fez in the early 1910s.

Dates: early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Physical Proficiency Students, 1939-1959

 Item
Identifier: EUA GD31/P1/12
Scope and Contents

Photograph album containing group portraits of Edinburgh University's Physical Proficiency Students, covering the years 1939-1959.

Dates: 1939-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of Edinburgh University Sports Union / Photograph albums

Scrapbooks of Iain Moffatt-Pender

 Collection — Box CLX-A-1140
Identifier: Coll-1896
Scope and Contents Two personal scrapbooks of writer and Gaelic revivalist Iain Moffatt-Pender, comprising mostly clippings, photographs, and correspondence which together throw an interesting light on the social milieu of Scottish Gaelic revivalism in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, including links with Irish artists and academics.The first album contains several black-and-white family photographs dating from the beginning and middle of the 20th century, a letter from John Macmillan...
Dates: 1950s-1960s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Two photograph albums of views from Shantung and Shanghai, and from Jehol and Beijing, to Yunnan

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1879
Content Description Two albums containing black and white photographs of landscapes in a variety of locations, as well as portraits and street scenes, each with accompanying text. The first album is entitled '"China 1920-1930 - From Shantung and Shanghai to Yunan [sic]" (119 pages), and the second album is entitled "China 1920-1930 - From Jehol and Peking to Yunnan" (136 pages). Many of the photos are grouped into sets of up to ten images on a particular province or theme, such as: Futoshan/Putuoshan, near...
Dates: late 1920s- early 1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

University of Edinburgh Badminton Teams, 1935-1977

 Item
Identifier: EUA GD31/P1/11
Scope and Contents

Photograph album containing group portraits of the Edinburgh University Women's and Men's Badminton Teams, covering the years 1935-1977.

Dates: 1935-1977
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of Edinburgh University Sports Union / Photograph albums