Benjamin Franklin as Printer
Beth Dumas, Rare Books Cataloguer and a US citizen, takes a look at a fellow-countryman of note! When Joe Biden took office as President of the United States this January, one of the first things he did was redecorate…
Category: University Collections
Shopfronts in St Andrews
Over the last year, fourth-year International Relations and Arabic student Natalie Pereira, has enjoyed looking online at the photographic collections held by the University Libraries and Museums. In this blog Natalie…
The anatomy of an enquiry, part 1: unlocking answers in the archive
Julie Greenhill may be a familiar name if you have ever sent an enquiry to Special Collections. Here she reflects on a key role the reading room team play in helping remote users. At Special Collections we offer a…
The Franki Raffles Photography Collection Part II
In the second part of the blog series on the Franki Raffles Photography Collection, Weitian Liu picks several highlights of the collection as an introduction to this substantial body of work. Instead of offering an…
Miss Elizabeth Foulis, an Invisible Borrower
In this blog, student Emma Sibbald shares highlights from her research into the reading practices of Elizabeth Foulis, a regular user of the University Library in the 1800s. In early-nineteenth century Scotland, there…
The Franki Raffles Photography Collection
With the completion of a 26-month project, the Franki Raffles Photography Collection has now been fully catalogued. The online catalogue of the photographs in this collection is now available on the Special Collections…
December 25: Girls pulling Christmas cracker, ca.1950.
Girls pulling Christmas cracker, ca.1950 (GMC-EC-11b). A 5×4 ins. plate glass negative from the George M Cowie Collection. Our last image brings us in from the cold, to a cosy Christmas morning and we wish all our blog…
December 24: Icicles on Stob Binnein (Binean), January 1908
Icicles on Stob Binnein (Binean), January 1908 (RMA-S-464B). A quarter plate (4.25×3.25 ins.) film negative from the Robert Moyes Adam Scottish Landscape Photography Collection. Robert Adam was the photographer at the…
December 23: A Carter’s sleigh on Dominion Square, Montreal, ca. 1900
A Carter’s sleigh on Dominion Square, Montreal, ca. 1900 (JV-102721). A print from the James Valentine Photographic Collection. Valentines of Dundee produced prints and then postcards of topographical views for the…
December 22: Maiden Rock Snow Scene, St Andrews, New Year 1894
Maiden Rock Snow Scene, St Andrews, New Year 1894 (JHW-C-84). A lantern slide from the John H Wilson Magic Lantern Slide Collection. John Hardie Wilson was a botanist and lecturer in the University of St Andrews from…