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Paris (France)

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = France

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

A Poitou Jack, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/343
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Poitou jack donkey with the characteristic coat of hair and was a prize winner at the Paris Horse Show. The image is noted to be from a French photograph.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Advertising handbill for Burford's Panorama, Leicester Square, showing Switzerland, Pompei, and Paris, 1849

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/26-0096
Scope and Contents This is a single-sheet advertising handbill for Burford's Panorama, Leicester Square, bearing the following text on its recto: "Burford's Panorama, Leicester Square. A sublime and beautiful view of Switzerland from Rigi Kulm also a view of the ruins of Pompeii, the city of the dead: and a view of Paris, taken during one of the most important periods of the recent political events" [the events refer to the French Revolution of 1848, also known as "February Revolution"]. On the verso, there...
Dates: Publication: 1849
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Correspondence from Albert Jean Gaudry, 1897-1908

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/18
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence from Albert Jean Gaudry sub-series consists of:


  1. 12 letters, chronologically arranged (1897-1908)
Dates: 1897-1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H)

Correspondence: from Duncan M Irvine to Alfred John Jukes-Browne, 1865-1899

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/7
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence: from Duncan M Irvine to Alfred John Jukes-Browne sub-series consists of:


  1. 44 letters, alphabetically arranged (1865-1899)
Dates: 1865-1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S)

Correspondence from Gabriell Auguste Daubrée, 1874-1896

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/15
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence from Gabriell Auguste Daubrée sub-series consists of:


  1. 22 letters, chronologically arranged (1874-1896)
Dates: 1874-1896
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H)

"Done at Paris…the Tenth Day of January…at Six Fifteen o'Clock", 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3174
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the ratification of the Peace Treaty, the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles on 10 January, 1920 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, France with Clemenceau, Lloyd-George, and others at the event.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Houstoun Family Album

 Item — Box CLX-A-1595
Identifier: Coll-2013
Content Description This is an album used as a sketchbook and a common-place book from the mid-19th century to the 1930s, created and compiled by two Scottish women of the same family. The first contributor is Caroline Elizabeth Houstoun (1840-1926), who filled the volume with well-spaced studies of landscapes and buildings in coloured pencil, pastel, and some watercolour. Some noteworthy sites include Inverness from the Castle, Edinburgh Castle, Euston Station in London, and Saint-Germain in Paris. The...
Dates: 1850s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Janet Tessier du Cros, 28 October 1952

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2511
Scope and Contents

Letter, 28 October 1952, Paris, Janet Tessier du Cros to Mary Grierson. Praising Grierson's biography of Tovey and informing Grierson that Tessier du Cros has Cadenza's written by Tovey in Ms.. Typescript signed, with stamped envelope, for Tessier du Cros see also Janet Grierson.

Dates: 28 October 1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Janet Tessier du Cros, 16 March 1952

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2512
Scope and Contents

Letter, 16 March 1952, Paris, Janet Tessier du Cros to Mary Grierson. Praising Grierson's biography of Tovey, and her diplomatic style of writing and describing Tessier du Cros' musical training. Typescript signed, with stamped envelope, for Tessier du Cros see also Janet Grierson.

Dates: 16 March 1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Thea Hunter, c1952

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2244
Scope and Contents

Letter, [n.d], Paris, Thea Hunter to Mary Grierson. Informing Grierson that Hunter is returning for another year and news of her forthcoming visit to Italy. Holograph signed, with envelope.

Dates: c1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence