Scope and Contents The collection of menu cards for dinner, lunch, and breakfast aboard the liner 'Empress of Britain'is composed of: a pair of dinner menu cards for Gala Night, 16 September 1961; dinner menu card for 18 September 1961 showing Kirkcudbright, Scotland, on cover; a pair of dinner menu cards for 25 August 1963 with locomotive 'Rocket' on cover; dinner menu card for 26 August 1963 with stern of man-of-war on cover; dinner menu card for 27 August 1963 with balloon 'La Minerve' on cover; dinner menu...

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Newspaper photograph of [Eamonn] De Valera, the Irish Republican leader with a note that he 'left some £15 pay due to him as stoker on arrival in England from America' in [1921].

Scope and Contents This subfonds includes: Letters from James to his father and his brother relating his experience on board ship when he went to sea as a surgeon's mate in the service of the East India Company in their ship Dutton, bound for Madras, 1794-1795 Receipts, rates and taxes, 1798-1805 Note by James Anderson entitled 'Receipt for the Dropsy' (recipe for a drug), and receipt for...

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Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 4 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; birth injury; hydrocephalus; and intracranial pressure. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 32 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; otorrhoea; facial paralysis; intracranial pressure; and cerebellar abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Travel ephemera relating to the journey made by Verna Isaac includes: 1 x Canadian Pacific passenger list relevant to the sailing from Liverpool, Tuesday 22 August 1961 1 x Canadian Pacific westbound ocean ticket in favour of Miss Verna Isaac, on 'Empress of Britain', Liverpool to Montreal, 22 August 1961 1 x ticket document pouch (without tickets) - Trans-Canada Air...

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Photograph of people in and next to motor cars on a ship next to turbines in the early 20th century. The text beneath the image notes the length and wieght of the shafts in the ship, the number of first, second and third class passengers and the number of crew aboard.