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

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

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

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

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 …

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: Observatory Archives, Henderson Material, Piazzi Smyth Collection, Royal Observatory Edinburgh Plate Collection, Piazzi Smyth Collection of sketches, photographs and manuscripts

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

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.

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.