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• Junior Student's Certificate, Vale of Leven Academy, 31 July 1917
• Certificate of Merit in Singing, Glasgow Provincial Training College, session 1917-1919
• Training Record, Glasgow Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers, 26 June 1919
• Classes for the further training of teachers: Domestic Science (First Course) Certificate, Glasgow Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers, session 1927-1928
• Classes for the further training of teachers: Domestic Science (Second Course) Certificate, Glasgow Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers, session 1928-1929
• Portrait photograph of Mary McDonald by Studio Cecil, Glasgow, 1918. Black and white; 45 x 78 mm on 61 x 100 mm mount
• Group photograph of female Chapter III students (Section F), taken outside the Stow Building, June 1919. Includes Mary McDonald (back row, 4th from left) and her lifelong friends Effie Brown (back row, 5th from left) and Jessie Bennett (back row, 6th from left). Black and white; 262 x 177 mm on 354 x 267 mm mount
• Studio photograph of Mary McDonald (seated on left) and five female friends, including Effie Brown (standing on right) and Jessie Bennett (seated on right). By Clarke Barry, Glasgow, 8 February 1919. Black and white; 135 x 86 mm
• Photograph of student group (Mary McDonald seated front row, second from left), one girl holding a tennis racquet. Annotated on reverse: 'Taken [in] Jordanhill Gardens, 21st May [19]19.' Black and white; 86 x 52 mm
• Photograph of Mary McDonald (standing, centre) and three friends, one holding a tennis racquet. Annotated on reverse: 'Stow College [,] June 1919'. Black and white; 60 x 60 mm
• Photograph of Mary McDonald (second-back row, second from left) and nine friends, one holding a tennis racquet. Annotated on reverse: 'Tennis [,] Jordanhill [,] 1919'. Black and white; 64 x 64 mm
• Photograph of student group (Mary McDonald pictured back row, third from left), annotated on reverse: 'Loch Shore [,] F2 Picnic [,] 15th June [19]18'. Black and white; 74 x 53 mm
• Photograph of student group, annotated on reverse: 'Loch Shore [,] F(2) Picnic [,] 15th June [19]18'. Black and white; 68 x 47 mm
• Photograph of students and staff, annotated on reverse: 'Milngavie [,] 24.2.19 [,] Botany Excursion'. Black and white; 88 x 60 mm
• Photograph of five female students, annotated on reverse: 'Milngavie [,] 24.2.19 [,] Botany Excursion'. Black and white; 60 x 88 mm
• Photograph of Mary McDonald (on right) with a female colleague, standing outside a building. Annotated on reverse: 'College St. School [,] 1921'. Black and white; 59 x 84 mm
• Photograph of Mary McDonald's sister-in-law, Jeanie Middleton Hamill, wearing the College blazer, c.1921. Jeanie attended the Glasgow Provincial Training College from 1921-1923 and married Mary's brother, Peter, in 1936. Black and white; 59 x 85 mm
• Autograph album, received by Mary McDonald on her 20th birthday and subsequently filled with sketches and verses by fellow students, friends and family members. Includes a list of students in Section F, 1917-1919; sketches on the theme of the First World War, and a sketch of the French and British flags contributed by Mary's brother, Peter McDonald

Two personal letters from James Young; letter from Sir David Anderson to Miss A.M. Thom; print of Young as an old man; publications by H.R.J. Conacher, F.M. Cook, Scottish Oils Ltd and Lothian Regional Council/BP.

Collection of books, mainly on literature, science and 19th century history. Also contains mechanics magazine publications.

Lecture notes; University of Strathclyde Department of Geography information booklets; draft versions of book chapters; copies of published articles; press clippings; speeches; photographs; neckties; programmes; invitation cards; medallions.

Conversations between Neil Rafeek and two men who spent their working lives as laggers in the Clydeside heavy industries. Topics covered include childhood and growing up in Glasgow, the Clydebank blitz, housing, domestic life, social life, football, sectarianism, gang culture, National Service, working conditions, trade unions, health and safety, asbestos.

Includes notes and draft publications relating to a project about the working culture and notions of masculinity in Clydeside heavy industries.

Digital documents (word documents, Excel spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, JPEGs) all relating to Michael Lees' research of asbestos in schools and the activities of the Asbestos in Schools campaign began by Michael. Michael Lees began researching asbestos in Schools following the death of his wife, Gina, who worked in an infant school and died of mesothelioma. Files are arranged into thematic folders and include:

• briefing papers;
• asbestos photos; articles;
• meetings papers- agenda, questions, minutes etc;
• photocopies of documents from FOI requests e.g. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions;
• Michael Lees articles 2088 - 2023;
• documents about legal cases;
• presentation files, Michael Lees, 2009 - 2013;
• Parliament meetings papers c2008 - 2014;
  And further similar documents.

Collection of titles on psychology and various subjects.

The collection also includes serial publications:

• Mind, volume 1-12, 1876-1887
• Proceedings of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, volume 7-18, 1870/71-1886/87
• Symon's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, volume 6-19, 1871-1884

The books have the monogram 'H.M.' embossed on the spines.

Collection, from the library of the National Council of Labour Colleges, of mainly 20th century publications on socialism. Also includes Labour Party publications, literature and history.

Samples of needlework and knitting created by Jean Struthers, a student at Jordanhill College of Education.

Samples of needlework created by Maureen Hope, a student at Jordanhill College of Education.

Two booklets of needlework samples created by Margaret Brown, a student at Glasgow Provincial Training College.

Collection of around 500 items relating to new towns in Britain and internationally. The material mostly dates from the 1920s until the present and includes reports, town plans and planning proposals, and maps. The collection also includes archival material relating to new towns in Scotland, with particular emphasis on Livingston.

Collection of books and pamphlets, mainly on socialism and communism.

Certificate of merit; photographs; reminiscences about the School of Navigation.

Student notes from second, third and fourth year Naval Architecture course at Royal Technical College, Glasgow.