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This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Job applications and testimonials; correspondence; scientific notebooks; papers relating to Glasgow University honorary degree; publications; newspaper cuttings; medals.

Minutes; record of proceedings; lists of attendees at annual proceedings; research papers and accompanying photographs and other material; programmes; exhibition catalogues; correspondence; tape recordings; menus.

Minutes, 1929-1930; programmes for performances, 1927-1932; letter from George Stewart to Blodwen Lloyd inviting her to take part in play, 1928.

Reproductions, made c 1977, of photographs taken in 1890 by William Ellerton Fry of the trek of the Pioneer Column from the Macloutsie River in Northern Bechuanaland to the high veld, Matabeleland and Fort Salisbury, Mashonaland, through Providential Pass. The photographs document the progress of the trek and record the contact of the Pioneer Column with the local African population. In addition to the photographs, there is some biographical information about William Ellerton Fry and a press cutting about the unveiling of a memorial to the Pioneer Column in Providential Pass.

Published papers of Blodwen Lloyd; correspondence; newscuttings; photographs, mainly of academic staff at Royal Technical College, Glasgow; job application and testimonials.

Autobiographical account of Miette Dernbach's life in Mexico. The memoir ends at the time of Miette's marriage in 1928.

The majority of the collection comprises xerox copies of articles, papers, and correspondence written by, or about, Henry Dyer, engineer and educationist, in the 1870s-1890s.
Original materials in the collection include:

• newspaper cutting: 'some urgent educational problems in Glasgow', likely to be from the Glasgow Herald, c. 1898
• a list of articles, books etc written by Dyer, compiled by Shoji Katoh, Nagoya, Japan, December 1975

Material by and about James Blyth including testimonials; patents; papers; drawing; obituaries and biographical information; correspondence.
-Items 1 to 13 and 26 are contemporary with Blyth's time and work
-Items 14 to 25 are papers from later- the 1950s-2000s- relating to Blyth

Research for and drafts of two published works by Ludovic Kennedy - 'Ten Rillington Place' (published 1961) and 'The Trial of Stephen Ward' (published 1964) - and two unpublished works - 'Lieutenant' and 'Saying Goodbye to Big Daddy’.

The collection also includes correspondence between Kennedy and his typist and copy-editor, Eileen O'Neill, 1966-c.2009; two photographs of Kennedy and his family, c. 1960s; an auction catalogue for the sale of Piers Place, Old Amersham (Kennedy's home), 1965; newspaper cuttings about Kennedy, 2004-2009; Kennedy's cigarette case, c.1960s.

Birth and marriage certificates; biographical information; personal memorabilia; lecture notes; correspondence; awards and marks of esteem; honorary degree scroll; producer’s chair; photographs; videotapes and dvds; obituaries and tributes.

The collection covers most periods of Geddes’s life, and nearly all of the places in which he lived and worked. It comprises correspondence, notes, pamphlets and books, photographs, maps, plans, prints and drawings, including Geddes' famous 'thinking machines'.

University charter, statutes and ordinances.

Many records relate to the establishment of the mixed denominational Chaplaincy Centre of the University of Strathclyde and the move to the St Paul's Building.