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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.

River Clyde Estuary
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/420 · Item · [c. 1893]
Part of British Isles: Scotland: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Ordnance Survey of Scotland Glasgow Sheet 30'
'Engraved at the Ordnance Survey Office Southampton under the direction of Colonel Cameron, R.E. The outline by W. Newnam, the writing by J.A. Harrison, the hills by G. de Gorlieb. Published by Colonel Sir Henry James [...] Superintendent March 1866'
'Railways inserted to January 1893'

Various authors.

Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile.

'Board of Agriculture Ordnance Survey Dec. 94' relief stamp in top margin.