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Ben Nevis
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/416 · Item · [c. 1893]
Part of British Isles: Scotland: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Views from Ben Nevis to G[ ] [ ] [from] [ ]'
Title inscription and dedication partially removed.

Album with 53 photographs taken from the Ben Nevis Observatory, mainly showing landscapes, but also people, cloud formations etc. The photographs are mounted in pairs on cardboard pages.

'Oct. '93' caption underneath one photograph.

Anon.

Possibly associated with William Speirs Bruce, polar explorer and oceanographer who was resident in University Hall Edinburgh and was in charge of the Ben Nevis Observatory 1895-1896.

Biggar Parish
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/417 · Item · 1859
Part of British Isles: Scotland: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Biggar Parish Lanarkshire Sheet XXXIV.10'
Ordnance Survey map.
'July 1859' relief stamp in top margin.

Anon.

Scale: 1:2500

'James Masterton: Biggar Sales by Johnston & Wilson to him, 1875' endorsed on reverse in manuscript in ink.

'p. Daniel Turner, Solicitor at Law, 24 George Street, Edinburgh' endorsed on reverse in manuscript in ink.

Callander Parish
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/419 · Item · No date
Part of British Isles: Scotland: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Callander Parish Perthshire'

Ordnance Survey map.

Anon.

Scale: 1:2500.

'Supplied by W. & A.K. Johnston Edinburgh' stamped in top margin.

'Ordnance Survey Maps & Government Publications Sole Agents for Scotland John Menzies & Co Edinburgh & Glasgow' relief stamp in bottom margin.

Dumbarton
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/422 · Item · 1818
Part of British Isles: Scotland: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Plan of Dumbarton from actual Survey made by John Wood 1818'
'Engraved by T. Clark'
'Published as the Act directs Sold at Dumbarton and at No. 1 North Bridge Street Edin[bu]r[gh]'
'Cities Exhibition No. 883'

T[ ] Clark after John Wood.

Scale: 5 inches to 20 Scots chains.

From John Wood, 'Town Atlas of Scotland', 1828.