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 Jewish Archives Centre

Scottish Jewish Archives Centre

Garnethill Synagogue 129 Hill Street, Glasgow, G3 6UB

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: Synagogue minute books and registers, membership lists, photographs, oral histories, testimonies, annual reports of communal organisations, books of Scottish Jewish interest, friendly society regalia, personal papers, war medals, ceremonial keys, newspapers, magazines, trophies, plaques, paintings and sculptures, immigration and naturalisation papers, passports and correspondence

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Scottish Fisheries Museum

Scottish Fisheries Museum

St Ayles Harbourhead, Anstruther, KY10 3AB

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: newspapers, Government reports, and boat registers, books and journals, photographs and slides showing fisherfolk, boats and harbours around the coast, individuals and businesses linked to the industry.

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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 Geographical Society Collections

Royal Scottish Geographical Society Collections

Lord John Murray House 15-19 North Port, Perth, PH1 5LU

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: Historical and contemporary maps, atlases, books, journals, papers, photographs, drawings, paintings, scientific instruments and personal artefacts

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Royal Scottish Academy Collections Department

Royal Scottish Academy Collections Department

RSA collections, Granton Art 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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