Echoes from the vault
The University Library’s Special Collections blog highlights items from the collections to explore their past and context.
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In the second part of the blog series on the Franki Raffles Photography Collection, Weitian Liu picks several highlights of the collection…
Date 19 February 2021
Category Photographic Collection
In this blog, student Emma Sibbald shares highlights from her research into the reading practices of Elizabeth Foulis, a regular user of…
Date 5 February 2021
Category Muniments Collection
With the completion of a 26-month project, the Franki Raffles Photography Collection has now been fully catalogued. The online catalogue…
Date 29 January 2021
Category Manuscript Collection
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December 25: Girls pulling Christmas cracker, ca.1950.
Girls pulling Christmas cracker, ca.1950 (GMC-EC-11b). A 5×4 ins. plate glass negative from the George M Cowie Collection. Our last image brings us in from the cold, to a cosy Christmas morning and we wish all our blog…
December 24: Icicles on Stob Binnein (Binean), January 1908
Icicles on Stob Binnein (Binean), January 1908 (RMA-S-464B). A quarter plate (4.25×3.25 ins.) film negative from the Robert Moyes Adam Scottish Landscape Photography Collection. Robert Adam was the photographer at the…
December 23: A Carter’s sleigh on Dominion Square, Montreal, ca. 1900
A Carter’s sleigh on Dominion Square, Montreal, ca. 1900 (JV-102721). A print from the James Valentine Photographic Collection. Valentines of Dundee produced prints and then postcards of topographical views for the…