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23. Blue notebook entitled "Addresses. Introductory Lectures. Edinburgh Chair." draft of inaugural lecture (1903). Later in notebook: notes on the literature relating to the ecclesiastical and academic colours and a draft paper on the question of the admission of women to the medical school in Edinburgh (Cunningham was opposed to this).

Scope and Contents Embroidery done by a "Mrs Prince" in 1919. It artfully depicts a variety of elements and scenes in small panels: flowers and plants, animals (including a rooster, butterflies, fish, geese, and a dragon), a woman from side-on looking at a landscape, and a man from behind, holding what looks like a spear and looking over a high wall.There is very little metadata accompanying this piece, but given its style, this could be an example of embroidered samplers made by students at the...

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Group of student-aged women, in four rows with the bottom row sitting on two rugs. The picture is taken outside, against a stone wall with windows, and Marjorie Rackstraw is seated in the middle of the second row, with a headband across her forehead.

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This photo depicts 5 rows of student-aged women, the bottom row seated on two rugs. The photo was taken outside, with a stone wall of a building behind them. Marjorie Rackstraw is seated in the middle of the second row, holding a young boy.

Scope and Contents This photo depicts four rows of student-aged women, the bottom row seated on two rugs. The photo is taken outside, and in the background is the stone wall of a building. Marjorie Rackstraw is seated in the center of the second row.Two students can be easily identified in both Coll-705/1/1/7 and this image; in this image, the student in the second row on the far right is pictured in Coll-705/1/1/7 seated on the first row, second from the left. In this photo, the student in the...

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This photo depicts four rows of student aged women, outside on a bright day, with the stone wall of a building behind them. Marjorie Rackstraw is seated in the center of the second row.

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This photo depicts four rows of student-aged women in front of the stone wall of a building. Majorie Rackstraw is seated in the middle of the second row.

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Four rows of student-aged women are depicted in front of a stone wall of a building. Marjorie Rackstraw is seated in the center of the second row.

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This file contains newsletters, correspondence, reports, booklets, and photographs from Marjorie Rackstraw's time as Warden of Moray House and Warden of Masson House at the University of Edinburgh, as well as her involvement after her resignation with the Masson Association. A key event is the Masson Association party that was hosted at her house in Hampstead, which generated much correspondence.

Scope and Contents This subfonds contains: Photocopies of a certificate of the second grade from the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, 1866 Photocopies of certificates of study from the University of Edinburgh, 1871-1872 Transcripts of a letter from Edith Pechey to Anne Jane Anderson expressing her shock at the news that Anne will get married and give up...