Scottish National Portrait Gallery Library, Reference Section and Archive

Scottish National Portrait Gallery Library, Reference Section and Archive

1 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JD

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: auction and exhibition catalogues, periodicals, monographs and reference books. Sitters’ Files and the Artists’ Files. late nineteenth and early twentieth-century auction catalogues contain unique annotations, which provide evidence of the Gallery’s early collecting policy. a small archive of papers relating to the history of the Portrait Gallery

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Scottish National Gallery Historic Art Library

Scottish National Gallery Historic Art Library

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DR

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: monographs, catalogues raisonnés, exhibition and sales catalogues, public and private collection catalogues, journals, photographs, slides, board minutes, as well as information files for each painting and sculpture in the permanent collection

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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Library, Archive and Special Books Collection

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Library, Archive and Special Books Collection

75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DR

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: papers, drawings, sketchbooks, photographs, textiles, diaries, newscuttings and other printed ephemera relating to 20th and 21st century artists, collectors and art organisations, including the galleries own papers

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Scottish Catholic Archives

Scottish Catholic Archives

Columba House 16 Drummond Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6PL

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: Royal archives to sacramental registers; photographs and film; maps and plans. Births and baptisms, Deaths, burials and funerals, Marriages, proclamations and dispensations, Confirmations and communicants, Confessions, converts and receptions, Status Animarum, seat rents and sick calls, Lair registers, Latin forenames glossary

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Royal Scottish Academy Collections Department

Royal Scottish Academy Collections Department

Modern 2 73 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DS OR Granton Art Centre NMS Collections Centre 242 West Granton Road Edinburgh, EH5 1JA

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: Documented memory of the academy’s artists and activities. Institutional archives, holdings of artist’s personal archives, other institutions: The Society of Artists in Edinburgh 1808-12, Aesthetics Club, Smashers Club, Hospitalfield Trust. Catalogues. Minutes books, registers, letters and correspondence, newspaper cuttings, artists’ papers and ephemera. Archival photography, member portraits and …

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Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland

Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland

The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Ingliston House, Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh, EH28 8NB

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: Organisational heritage from 1784, transaction reports from 1799 digitised and online.

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National Trust for Scotland

National Trust for Scotland

Hermiston Quay 5 Cultins Road, Edinburgh, EH11 4DF

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: NTS Institutional archive. St Kilda archive from the Marquis of Bute. various collections of historic archive collections of family and estate papers, often held at Trust properties.

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National Register of Archives for Scotland

National Register of Archives for Scotland

The Registrar National Register of Archives for Scotland HM General Register House Princes Street Edinburgh EH1 3YY

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: National Register of Archives for Scotland (NRAS) was set up in 1946 to compile a record of collections of private papers in Scotland, to encourage their care, and to make information about them available to researchers and others.

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