Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Scotland
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
12 stereo views of Scotland, 1891, B. W. Kilburn, Littleton NH
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1554
Scope and Contents
The views are of:
6322 Oban, its harbour, and Mull, Scotland
6310 Loch Katrine Boat Landing, Highlands, Scotland
6303 Birthplace of Robert Burns, Ayr, Scotland
6297 The Bonnie Doon, Burns' Lullaby, Ayr, Scotland
6292 Melrose Abbey, Scotland
6280 Sir William Wallace's Prison, Dumbarton Castle, Scotland
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Dates:
1880-1910
Album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2019
Content Description
This is an album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), comprising approximately 420 sketches. A talented amateur artist, James Skene of Rubislaw was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott who accompanied him on riding excursions to localities that Scott planned to feature in his novels and poems. There, at Scott’s suggestion, Skene made sketches of landscapes and buildings that Scott then used as an inspiration and aide-memoire for his own work. Many of the sketches in this album...
Dates:
c 1804-c 1830
Manuscript commonplace book compiled by M Massey, York Place
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1546
Scope and Contents
The commonplace book may have been the work of M. Massy, York Place, Edinburgh - the name inscribed in first page. The written material contains original and transcribed matter. It is bound in original decorative brown morocco with all page edges gilt. There are gilt inner dentelles with repeated flower and urn design. Gilt spine and cover designs. There are clipped illustrations showing: the Gile Callum broadsword dance; Scottish Games, Tossing the caber; Clan Cameron; Clan...
Dates:
1860-1870
Material relating to Agnes Waugh, and student outings in the 1930s
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1525
Scope and Contents
Ring-binder with notes describing the hike taken by Agnes Waugh, Winifred N. Turner, Katharine M. Martin, Minty Johnstone, Mary Craig, Grace M. Thomson, and Marion Wilson, between Thursday 22 June and Saturday 1 July [1933]. The description of the hike from Edinburgh into Kirriemuir, Angus, and Glen Clova, and then on to Ballater, Braemar, Inverernan, Tomintoul, Aviemore, Inverness, Loch-an-Eilean, and the Lairig Ghru, also contains some black and white photographs. Note-book...
Dates:
1933-1936
New map of Scotland for Ladies Needlework, 1797
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1111
Scope and Contents
The map is entitledA New Map of Scotland for Ladies Needlework. The title is at the top of the map and the text is encircled by greenery and tartan and supported by a Highlander. It is noted as published in London by Laurie and Whittle, No.53 Fleet Street, 1797. The map is colour tinted and is presented in an oval setting. The rolled sheet is approximately 45cm x 50 cm.
Dates:
1797
Papers of Dr. John Walker
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-205
Scope and Contents
[to be completed]
Dates:
1731-1803
Papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-78
Scope and Contents
The papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson within Gen. 1627-1645 consist of general and individual correspondence and correspondence with institutions and publishers. There is material and notes on churches, about crofters, emigration, genealogy, and the Northern Isles. There are lectures and notes; personal and family papers; photographs; and, press cuttings. There is manuscript material, typescript material, and proofs. These all cover the period 1935-1993.The collection also...
Dates:
1549-1993
Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-74
Scope and Contents
The papers Sir Archibald Geikie consist of:
personal, organisational and scientific correspondence
geological notebooks with field sketches and water-colours
reprints of his work
miscellaneous lecture notes
student's lecture notes
lecture notes and printed maps relating to a visit to Boston
proofs for...
Dates:
1851-1921
Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-203
Scope and Contents
- 10 boxes of correspondence
- 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
- 24 boxes of offprints of papers
- 294 notebooks
Dates:
1820-1874
Schizzenbuch aus Schottland, a sketchbook of architectural studies
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1472
Scope and Contents
The leather-bound sketch-book measures 21.5 cms x 13 cms. On its cover the sketch-book bears a version of the arms of the Board of Ordnance - three field pieces, three canon balls, mural crown, and flags. It contains various scenes around Aberdour and Kinghorn in Fife, Comrie Castle, Aberdeen Cathedral (St. Machar), Elgin Cathedral, Jedburgh, Dryburgh and Kelso Abbeys, Loch Leven Castle and Holyrood Chapel, though it also contains sketches of grander classical buildings, features and avenues...
Dates:
1800-1880