Albums
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick, circa 1850 (spine-dated 1849)
Item
Identifier: Coll-10/3
Scope and Contents
The third volume of Adam White’s set of eight scrapbook albums covers the historical Scottish Border counties of Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire, Roxburghshire and Berwickshire.As with the other albums, the arrangement is broadly by locality. Topographical and architectural views – from the eighteenth-century antiquarians Grose, de Cardonell and Archibald Rutherford onwards – are accompanied by other material including newspaper and magazine cuttings and portrait illustrations of, and...
Dates:
Other: circa 1850 (spine-dated 1849)
Symbolae Scoticae
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-10
Scope and Contents
The Symbolae Scoticae [= ‘Scottish contributions’] is a set of eight purpose-bound scrapbooks containing more than 2000 items relating to Scottish history, geography and culture.The bulk of this material consists of 18th and early 19th century prints illustrating Scottish topography and antiquities; but the collection also includes original historical documents, printed maps, portrait engravings, newspaper and magazine clippings, two calotypes,...
Dates:
circa 1850 (spine-dated 1849)