Photograph of Viscount Esher standing in academic robes at the entrance of the Architecture building, with the mural in the entrance hall visible through the glass doors. Caption ‘Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett the fourth Viscount Esher Doctor of Letters D.Litt’.
Photograph taken outside the entrance to the Architecture building includes (left to right): [ ], Viscount Esher, Samuel Curran, William F Robertson, [ ], George P Richardson.
Photograph of Viscount Esher and Samuel Curran, standing and wearing academic robes, outside the entrance to the Architecture building.
On reverse ‘School of architecture, building science and planning: entrance hall and [concrete] mural’.
Photographic portrait of William Francis Robertson standing beside a chair with a University of Strathclyde crest. Caption ‘William Francis Robertson Doctor of Laws LL.D.’
Photograph includes (left to right): George P Richardson, William Francis Robertson, Lord Todd, Samuel Curran; standing in academic robes.
Photograph shows Robertson standing, wearing academic robes, in front of the seated platform party. Lord Todd is seated in the foreground.
Exterior photograph of the building taken from Richmond Street (?), architecture building also in view.
The Colville building was formerly known as the Metallurgy building.
Exterior photograph of the Colville building taken from the patio of the architecture building.
Label on reverse ‘Colville building – March 1974 Housing Metallurgy and Civil Engineering University of Strathclyde’.
Exterior view of the Colville building.
Label on reverse ‘Colville building March 1974’.
Exterior view of the Colville building taken from a building in Rottenrow.
On reverse ‘Colville Building, housing Dept of Metallurgy & part of Dept of Civil Engineering’.
From caption below photograph: Back row (standing): Thomas Rae Craig LL.D, The Rt Hon the Lord Provost of Glasgow John Johnstone LL.D, Registrar George P. Richardson, The Rt Hon The Lord Clydesmuir of Braidwood Ronald John Bilsland Colville, Harold Montague Finniston; Front row (seated): Chairman of Court[William Francis Robertson], Chancellor [Lord Todd of Trumpington], Principal [Samuel Curran].
Group photograph of honorary graduates, with their presenters (?) standing wearing academic robes including (left to right): Harold Montague Finniston, [ ], Lord Clydesmuir Ronald John Bilsland Colville, [ ], Thomas Rae Craig.