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Edinburgh -- Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 833 Collections and/or Records:

City of Edinburgh Planning and Transport Study - reports, 1971

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/A/1.2
Scope and Contents

3 reports commissioned for the City of Edinburgh Planning and Transport Study by the Corporation of the City of Edinburgh. These give proposals for managing traffic in Edinburgh, including provision for cars and pedestrians. The reports were collected by Percy Johnson-Marshall as part of his work for the City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning.

Dates: 1971

City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning: minutes, reports and correspondence, 1964-1976

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/A/1.1
Scope and Contents

Mixed file of papers relating to Percy Johnson-Marshall's work for the City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning. The papers document details of various schemes for a new road infrastructure for Edinburgh and include: feasibility reports, committee minutes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs of models, related articles and plans. Many of these papers document proposals for an inner ring motorway for Edinburgh.

Dates: 1964-1976

Cobweb, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2578
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a cobweb located at 2 Marchall Road [Edinburgh, Scotland] taken by E.M.J. in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Collected reports concerning transportation planning in Edinburgh, 1963-1983

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/A/1.3
Scope and Contents

8 reports concerning transportation and pedestrian planning issues in Edinburgh, mostly collected by Percy Johnson-Marshall as part of his work for the City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning.

Dates: 1963-1983

Collection of 19th-century photographs of Scotland and Geneva, Switzerland

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1984
Content Description

This collection comprises twenty-one black-and-white photographs mounted on board showing various locations in Scotland (including Edinburgh, Stirling, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, Loch Katrine), Geneva, and an unidentified location (probably also Geneva).

Dates: late 19th century

Coloured and annotated Orographic Map of Arthur's Seat, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/6
Scope and Contents

Orographic Map of Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh with added hand colouring and annotations denoting geological features.

Dates: late 19th century

Coloured and annotated plan of Edinburgh, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/5
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory plan (1879), with later hand colouring and notation denoting geological and other features.

Dates: late 19th century

Committee Papers, 1962-1985

 Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/A
Scope and Contents This consists of incomplete sets of papers for a variety of Committees, relevant to the development of the University of Edinburgh, in which Percy Johnson-Marshall participated: papers of the City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning, (1963-1983) papers of the University of Edinburgh Works and Buildings Committee, (1973-1985) papers of the University of...
Dates: 1962-1985

Commonplace book of Edith A. Vernon, 1859-1901

 Item — Box CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0114
Scope and Contents This interesting piece of Edinburgh educational history is a commonplace book composed in two periods, 1856 and from 1891-1901, from the teacher training college at Dairy House, Edinburgh and probably the Edinburgh Institution For The Education Of Young Ladies at 23, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh.1856 entries make up a leavers book with a charming large collection of signed and dated entries of verse quotations, well-wishes and original prose/verse in English, German & French...
Dates: 1859-1901

Corpuscular Forces, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/35
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on the notion that physical interaction between bodies is not a matter of Newtonian forces, governed by Keplerian laws, but of the cumulative effect of collisions and other interactions among particles.

Dates: c1780-c1803