Describes his early years as a student and engineer at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College.
Sans titreRegister of members of the Board of Governors and committees of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow and the Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow.
Sans titreDiary of student's teaching practice at Allan Glen's School, 1933-1934. Lessons recorded are on art and design.
Sans titrePanoramic photograph (by the London Panoramic Company) of staff and students of Jordanhill Training College 1931-1932 standing in front of the College. It shows the first ever third and second year students to study for the Diploma in Physical Education. These students had previously begun their training at Dunfermline College of Hygiene and Physical Education. It also shows the first year of the Scottish School of Physical Education students.
Written on the back of the frame was 'Photograph shows the first 3rd year ever for the College diploma (2 years previously at Dunfermline). Also the 2nd year men for the College diploma (1 year previously at Dunfermline). Also the first 1st year of the SSPE (on the g[ras]s in front in white flannels).'
Sans titreSigned and indexed minutes of meetings of the Pharmacy School Committee of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow.
Sans titreGroup photograph by Weir. Reproduced from New Dominie (student magazine), vol. 4:3, June 1926, p.108.
Sans titreLetter of application (including testimonials) by William Kerr for the professorship of mechanical engineering at the University of Sheffield.
Sans titreLetter of application by John Andrew for the post of Professor of Metallurgy at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow.
Sans titreFormal group photograph of the female 'non-University' two-year General Certificate course cohort of 1919-1921. The students are pictured with several male and female staff members. The photograph was possibly taken outside the Stow Building in Cowcaddens, one of several sites on which students of the Glasgow Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers were taught up to 1921. The Committee took possession of a new, purpose-built training college at Jordanhill in December 1919, and students were taught there from September 1921. The photograph is pasted onto a cream cardboard mount, on the bottom-right corner of which is embossed 'Turnbull & Mainds, 10 Jamaica Street, Glasgow'. There are no other annotations on the photograph or the mount.
Sans titre10 tinted lithographs printed on wood-pulp paper and glued together to form a rolled panorama (total dimensions approximately 50.8 x 1402cm). The original designs were created by Murdoch for a decorative frieze which his friend Patrick Geddes proposed for the exterior of the Castlehill Water Reservoir. Although the scheme never came to fruition, Murdoch published an edition of lithographs from his designs, accompanied by a descriptive booklet, for use as a teaching aid or for interior decoration. This was entitled 'A Procession of the Kings of Scotland from Duncan & Macbeth to George II & Prince Charles Stewart with the Principal Historical Characters in their Proper Arms and Costumes' (1902). A larger edition of the lithographs, also with an accompanying booklet, was published in 1917 and entitled 'A Procession of Scottish History, Showing the Succession of Scottish Kings and the Principal Figures of their Reigns, from the Time of Duncan and Macbeth, in their Proper Arms and Costumes'.
This copy is the larger edition of 1917, but does not have its original container or accompanying booklet.
Autograph book of Louisa Jessie Fletcher, student at the Glasgow Provincial Training College from 1914-1916, and James Maxwell Dewar Teape, Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. The book contains autographs, sketches and verses that are individually dated from 1916-1920. It appears to have passed from Louisa's possession into James's possession around the second half of 1916. The earlier sketches and signatures are those of Louisa's fellow College students and staff, and the later ones are those of James's fellow servicemen. The nature of the relationship between Louisa and James is not known, but he was not a student of the College. He worked as a Gas Department Clerk after the First World War and married a Glasgow schoolteacher, Isabella Breckenridge Falconer, in 1920.
Sans titrePhotocopy of an extract from the autograph album of Annabella McNab, a student at the Glasgow Provincial Training College. Contains signatures of students, 1916-1917, and comic rhyme satirising college staff.
Sans titrePhotocopy of the autograph album of Jean Purdie, a student at the Glasgow Provincial Training College. Contains signatures of students, 1916-1917, including residents of Redlands House, and photograph of resident students.
Sans titreFolio songsheet containing lyrics by William A. Macfarlane and music by J. Parnie Dansken (Glasgow : Duncan Campbell & Son, c 1914).
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