Edinburgh -- Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 832 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
Item
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
Item
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 from school...
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