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Reference:BrMS 7/3/2
Collection:Records of St. Margaret's Church, Lochee, Dundee
Date:1891-1903
Description:St. Margaret Men's Association account book (including cricket and gymnastic club accounts and membership list).

Reference:BrMS 15/2/4/2/33
Collection:St Mary's Church, Broughty Ferry
Date:1925
Description:Letter from Boy Scouts' Association Scottish Headquarters re 3rd Broughty Ferry Troop

Reference:MS 6/1/6/3
Collection:COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:1890
Description:Letter from John Robertson, Secretary, Lochee United Cricket Club to Messrs Cox Brothers. Thanks for the gift of the public recreation ground.

Reference:MS 6/7/4/3/3-5
Collection:COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:1940s
Description:Programme and posters for 'Sgt Cinders, a fantastic Xmas fantasy, L.S.L.A repertory company.

Reference:MS 6/7/5/10
Collection:COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:10 Oct 1939
Description:Photograph of group at a meet, caption reads '... Lord and Lady Mansfield, Viscountess Massereene and Ferrard, Sir Ian Stewart-Richardson, Miss Chrichton- Stuart, Mr Skeffington, and Miss Gelda Macgregor at the Games.'

Reference:MS 6/7/6/1
Collection:COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:1938
Description:Skiing certificate Awarded to Margot Cox for good skiing at the slalom competition at Vatnahalsens.

Reference:MS 6/7/8/1
Collection:COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:1923-1947
Description:Margot Cox's sketchbooks

Reference:MS 6/7/8/5
Collection:COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:c1940s
Description:Watercolour paintings mainly Italian views, some by Margot Cox

Reference:MS 6/7/10/2/9
Collection:COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:c1892
Description:Photograph. Uppingham School cricket team?

Reference:MS 6/7/10/2/65
Collection:COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:c1919
Description:Photograph. Edward J Cox in Stanmore Park School [cricket?] team

Reference:MS 6/7/10/2/128
Collection:COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:c1932
Description:Michael Cox in a [rugby team?] at [Stanmore?]

Reference:MS 11/5/5(16)
Collection:Baxter Brothers and Co. Ltd. Linen and Jute Spinners and Manufacturers Dundee.
Date:1950
Description:Statement: Mr McIntyre to R. Gillanders, bagpipe makers, Dundee; purchase of a practice chanter

Reference:MS 11/5/46
Collection:Baxter Brothers and Co. Ltd. Linen and Jute Spinners and Manufacturers Dundee.
Date:22 August, 1863
Description:Letter. Kilmaron, Cupar, Fife. Sir David Baxter to John Anderson of the Three United Trades. Concurs with Anderson's suggestion that the Three United Trades should participate in the inaugural procession of Baxter Park and act as trustees of the Park. [Photocopies] [2pp] [Originals in the Dundee Archives and Record Centre].

Reference:MS 11/7/29
Collection:Baxter Brothers and Co. Ltd. Linen and Jute Spinners and Manufacturers Dundee.
Date:1860
Description:Photograph of plan of proposed public park (now Baxter Park), between Pitkerro Road and Arbroath Road, Dundee. [Colour] 1860. [See also MS 11D/32].

Reference:MS 17/9/11/1
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:1828
Description:Walking Tour through some of the Southern Provinces of France, made in company of Lieutenants Bertram Mitford Atherton and Felix Edwin RN, during the months of August and September.

Reference:MS 17/9/11/2
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:1832
Description:Walking Tour made by James Dalyell.

Reference:MS 17/9/17/12
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:c1864
Description:Newspaper cutting. On one side is the 'Farmers Corner' which shows the agricultural report. On the other side is an article entitled 'Fight for the Championship' relating to a boxing competition.

Reference:MS 17/9/17/13
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:c1864
Description:Newspaper cutting relating to a new golfing club established in Perth.

Reference:MS 17/9/17/14
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:1864
Description:Newspaper cutting showing a letter from a 'young golfer' to the editor of the Dundee Advertiser about golf at Carnoustie. 3rd September 1864.

Reference:MS 17/9/17/15
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:c1864
Description:Newspaper cutting relating to a golf match between Carnoustie and Montrose.

Reference:MS 17/9/17/17
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:c1864
Description:Newspaper cutting reporting of a woman on a train from Newtyle who thought that the train was not going to stop at her stop (Auchterhouse) and so opened the door and tried to jump out. She was not injured. Also an article about a golf match between Carnoustie and Taymouth Golf Club and Montrose Mechanics, Club.

Reference:MS 17/9/17/18
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:c1864
Description:Newspaper cutting about a golf match between Montrose Mechanics Golf Club and the Carnoustie and Taymouth Golf Club.

Reference:MS 17/9/17/21
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:c1864
Description:Newspaper cutting relating to a golf match that was played for the 'Silver Subscription Medal'.

Reference:MS 17/10/1/26
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:October 1860 - October 1870.
Description:'Green Money Book' kept by John James Dalyell. The book is prefaced: 'It is expected that all players contribute something annually towards the keeping up of the Course. All donations to be recorded in this book'. Also contains record of property loaned by the Caledonian Union Golf Club to Panmure Golf Club, both of Carnoustie.

Reference:MS 17/10/3/1
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:25 October 1871
Description:Draft details of the Annual Autumn Meeting of the Caledonian Union Golf Club, held at Carnoustie.John James Dalyell, Honorary Secretary.

Reference:MS 17/10/3/15
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:N.D.
Description:A collection of manuscript pages describing a comic golf match, written by John James Dalyell. [Incomplete] [Approx. 58 pp

Reference:MS 17/10/3/16
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:N.D.
Description:Untitled comic account of a cricket match, written by John James Dalyell. [Complete] [15pp]

Reference:MS 17/10/4/2
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:1858
Description:'Book-Keeping by Single Entry', a cash book and day book, January - March 1857, written by John James Dalyell. Also contains 'Jotting of my Tour in the Highlands 1854'. [8pp]. At the back of the book is a pencil-written note entitled 'Memo of a Shooting Excursion in the Highlands'. [10pp]

Reference:MS 17/10/4/3
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:1858
Description:'Recollections of a Shooting Excursion in the Highlands in the Autumn of 1858'. The trip lasted for six days. [50pp] At the back are fingering instructions for playing various tunes on the cornet: including 'Believe me if all those endearing young charms & ', 'Kate O'Shane', 'Partant pour la Syrie'. The rear cover depicts the consequences of late arrival in class. (John James Dalyell)

Reference:MS 17/10/5/1
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:1853
Description:Sketch book belonging to John James Dalyell, dated 1852 and 1853. Subjects include naval and military scenes, portraits of humans and animals, and a drawing showing the 'Uniform of the Carnoustie Cricket Club, 1853'.

Reference:MS 17/10/5/2
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:1859
Description:A Catechism of Photography, published by Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London.

Reference:MS 17/10/5/7
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:N.D.
Description:Letter from Elie, Alex Hay Miln to John James Dalyell inviting him for a golfing weekend at Elie.

Reference:MS 17/10/5/8
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:c1867
Description:Printed announcement of a golf tournament to be held on Carnoustie links, 1867, under the patronage of Earl Dalhousie and Miss Kinloch.

Reference:MS 17/10/6/1
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:14 April 1856
Description:Letter. Trinity College, Glenalmond. William Stephen to John James Dalyell. Asks him if he would like to visit the college: '... the fresh mountain air of the Perthshire hills, in lieu of the smokey atmosphere in Dundee, would quite re-invigorate your lungs'.

Reference:MS 17/10/7/1-15
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:1859-1873
Description:Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of John James Dalyell, concerning the activities of local golf and cricket clubs.

Reference:MS 17/10/12
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:21 May 1868 - 22 January 1872
Description:Private letter book of John James Dalyell, [Wet copy]. Contains correspondence relating to Dalyell's business interests, as well as letters concerned with his social activities. These primarily involve the Angus and Mearns Rifle Association, the 3rd Forfarshire Artillery Volunteers, in which Dalyell was a Lieutenant and later a Captain of B. Battery, the Caledonian Union Golf Club, of which Dalyell was Captain and then Honorary Secretary, and the affairs of Dundee Cricket Club. Includes(pp.214-215) 8 and 15 July to J.C. Fyle, Liverpool. Concerns some effects on mineral transportation to be expected on the completion of 'the Great Tay Bridge'.

Reference:MS 17/10/13
Collection:The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans
Date:24 February 1872 - 11 July 1873
Description:Private letter book of John James Dalyell, [wet copy]. Contains mainly personal correspondence, with some letters relating to Caledonian Union Golf Club, 3rd Forfarshire Artillery Volunteers and Dalyell's business interests, including his attempt at establishing himself as a wine agent for Wm. Shiels & Co, Leith. The personal correspondence becomes primarily concerned with the effects of a severe and ultimately incapacitating illness

Reference:MS 32/1/Bundel 3
Collection:James Banks & Sons, Rope and Twine Merchants, Perth
Date:c1900s
Description:'Volume II'. Sports meeting samples, 'Edwards'

Reference:MS 32/2/3-4
Collection:James Banks & Sons, Rope and Twine Merchants, Perth
Date:1895-1896
Description:Photographs of Fishing at Bellamore [River Tay]. Shows river frozen in winter

Reference:MS 38/1/13/12
Collection:Torrance Collection
Date:Oct 1925
Description:The start of the picnic to the Arab Sheik's tent at Nazaradine"

Reference:MS 38/2/5/103
Collection:Torrance Collection
Date:1952
Description:Picnic on the way to Mountfort.

Reference:MS 38/4/4/111
Collection:Torrance Collection
Date:c 1954-1974
Description:"Picnic lunch" below Naqsh-i-Rustum.

Reference:MS 45/7/9 (2)
Collection:Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart
Date:c1900
Description:Photograph. Kirkcaldy Rugby Football Club 2nd XV; includes Lewis Grant and lists team members on reverse.

Reference:MS 49/1/4
Collection:Hugh Stannus Stannus
Date:c1910
Description:Glass negatives. Views, buildings, colleagues and natives, people playing tennis, golf and cricket. Includes a photograph of part of a train of the Shire Highland Railways.

Reference:MS 56
Collection:Henry Boase
Date:1900-1955
Description:Various reports of Birds in Tayside area compiled by Henry Boase and corresponence relating to said reports.

Reference:MS 58/1 (6)
Collection:Robert Leighton. Scottish poet
Date:24 June 1839
Description:Letter from Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton. Concerns his intention to visit Edinburgh. Includes a reference to a boat race 'o'er at Fife

Reference:MS 58/1 (10)
Collection:Robert Leighton. Scottish poet
Date:8 August 1839
Description:Letter from Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton. Description of visit to race meeting at Monifieth.

Reference:MS 64/4/3
Collection:Forfar Medical Association
Date:1926-1973
Description:File; includes details of the Annual Golf Outing and Dinner.

Reference:MS 64/5/6
Collection:Forfar Medical Association
Date:1987-1989
Description:File; includes correspondence regarding the organisation of AGMs, dinners and golfing, 1987-1989

Reference:MS 68/1/24
Collection:Dr William Christie
Date:c.1960
Description:'L...Misc', miscellaneous newspaper cuttings relating mainly to Lord Lyon, local politics and leisure. Includes index to an unidentified source on local government.

Reference:MS 68/1/46
Collection:Dr William Christie
Date:c.1959
Description:'Songs - correspondence file', newspaper cuttings relating to Scottish songs and miscellaneous notes n.d.

Reference:MS 80/1-4
Collection:Dundee Naturalists Society
Date:1876-1983
Description:Dundee Naturalists Society Collection. Includes Annual Reports,Syllabuses, programmes and tickets relating to meetings and other activities of the Dundee Naturalists' Society, and miscellaneous records

Reference:MS 82/4/10
Collection:The Wilson Family Papers
Date:1902-1908
Description:Letters to Alexander Steven Wilson while he was in Nürnberg from his immediate family in 'Heathcote', Upper Tooting, London: Include refrence to Buffalo Bill's Wild West show

Reference:MS 82/5/3 (11)
Collection:The Wilson Family Papers
Date:1918
Description:Programme for 'Reprisals - A Play of the Times' by C.M. Hale.

Reference:MS 82/6/10 (450-460)
Collection:The Wilson Family Papers
Date:1904
Description:Letters from James Blackburn Wilson at [Dollar], Woodham Ferris and Felixstowe to his brother Alexander in Germany. Letters contain mainly news of James Blackburn Wilson's activities including gardening, walking and playing football and cricket.

Reference:MS 82/WB/13/1 (9)
Collection:Wilson Bros (Alva) Ltd
Date:1919
Description:Wilson Brothers, programme, Victory Social, Friday 11 April, 1919.

Reference:MS 88/2
Collection:JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE, JOURNALIST AND POET (1876-1949)
Date:1926-1946
Description:Journals kept by Joseph Lee while sub-editor on the News Chronicle and after his retiral in September 1944 and return to Dundee. Include drawings, concert programmes, cuttings etc.

Reference:MS 88/3/3
Collection:JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE, JOURNALIST AND POET (1876-1949)
Date:c.1920
Description:Book of pencil sketches of nude figures drawn by Joseph Lee [presumably when he attended classes at the Slade School of Art, London, c.1920]. Includes two unrelated drawings: pen and ink drawing on card of 'Wallace Knocking Stone, Longforgan'; 'The Auld Bear-Stane', signed 'J.L.' n.d., and pen and ink drawing of part of an unidentified ruined building, unsigned, n.d. [These and two loose Slade sketches are contained in an envelope at back of book.]

Reference:MS 88/4
Collection:JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE, JOURNALIST AND POET (1876-1949)
Date:29 April 1914
Description:Photograph album/scrapbook relating to a performance of 'Fra Lippo Lippi, Painter of Florence'. The play was written by Joseph Lee and performed by students of the Dundee Technical College and School of Art. Includes photographs of scenes from the play, sketches, souvenir programme, press cuttings and chronological notes.

Reference:MS 88/6/1 (1)
Collection:JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE, JOURNALIST AND POET (1876-1949)
Date:25 March 1911
Description:Letter from Martin Harvey, Dundee, to the Editor, the Dundee Advertiser. Gives thanks for the positive interest shown by the journal in 'our' performances that week at Her Majesty's Theatre, Dundee.

Reference:MS 88/6/1 (7)
Collection:JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE, JOURNALIST AND POET (1876-1949)
Date:13 January 1918
Description:Typed letter from Martin Harvey, Theatre Royal, Brighton, to Joseph Lee, c/o Dundee. Comments on Lee's captivity and includes dates of his tour of Britain during 1918. Gives other information about family and friends and gives positive response to possibility of Lee writing a book about his experiences as a P.O.W.

Reference:MS 93/I/8/2/9/2/9
Collection:D J MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee
Date:n.d.
Description:Copy of speech presented to 'Players of the Green and Blue Select' regarding a football game that is being played in aid of the Royal Infirmary. Also a page addressing Downfield about the juveniles of Dundee

Reference:MS 93/I/9/120
Collection:D J MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee
Date:n.d.
Description:Photograph. D.J. MacDonald football team pictured with dog

Reference:MS 93/I/9/121
Collection:D J MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee
Date:n.d.
Description:Photograph. D.J. MacDonald football team pictured with trophy [shield]

Reference:MS 94/VI (71)
Collection:Thomas C. Keay Ltd. Engineers and Mill Furnishers Dundee.
Date:c. 1965
Description:Photograph of TCK golf ball with drawing of TCK logo (negative)

Reference:MS 98/5/1
Collection:H. & A. SCOTT. TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE
Date:c.1964-1968
Description:Files of H.G. Scott mainly receipts relating to the Boys Brigade.

Reference:MS 100/17/2/4
Collection:DON & LOW [HOLDINGS] LTD
Date:11 August 1970
Description:Miscellaneous file. Includes: Poem 'The Champs' relating to game of Golf.

Reference:MS 102/1/1-3
Collection:PETER CARMICHAEL OF ARTHURSTONE (1809-1891)
Date:Nineteenth Century
Description:Peter Carmichael's Reminiscences and Life and Letters. Provide many details of author's recreational activities including fishing and traveling.

Reference:MS 105/XI/1-3
Collection:Shiell & Small Collection
Date:1863-1908
Description:Baxter Park Trustees' Minute and Letter Books

Reference:MS 116/3/66-67
Collection:Glass Plate Negatives
Date:12 July 1913
Description:Image showing Bathing Boxes (Carnoustie?). Include a man on a horse and lots of adults and children playing in the sea.

Reference:MS 116/3/71
Collection:Glass Plate Negatives
Date:29 July 1913
Description:Image of pony rides (Carnoustie?).

Reference:MS 116/38/195
Collection:Glass Plate Negatives
Date:1909
Description:Image of Tennis courts. The first four at the front of the picture are empty. The next ones are fenced off from these and the first of these has a group of people at either end, they do not look as though they are playing a match but rather are getting some kind of coaching. There are more courts behind this and they do look like they have people

Reference:MS 117/5/4/2
Collection:Robert L. Fleming Ltd
Date:1984
Description:Calendar, 'Robert L. Fleming Limited. Since 1932, 113th St Andrews Open Golf Championship, 1984.

Reference:MS 138
Collection:Grampian Club
Date:1895-1999
Description:The Grampian Club organises hill walks and more strenuous mountaineering activities, including rock climbing and skiing, within the local area, and abroad. For full list of items in this collection see catalogue.

Reference:MS 138/4/4/7
Collection:Grampian Club
Date:1977
Description:'Walkings in Tayside' notes and pamphlet

Reference:MS 138/15/2/2
Collection:Grampian Club
Date:1930 & 1936
Description:Dundee Rambling Club Dinner Programmes

Reference:MS 138/B
Collection:Grampian Club
Date:19th and 20th Centuries
Description:Large collection of books relating to climbing and hill walking.

Reference:MS 141/2/2/1-12
Collection:Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee
Date:1933-1970
Description:Photographs of the Boys' Brigade

Reference:MS 141/7/1/1
Collection:Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee
Date:1953
Description:Table tennis certificate

Reference:MS 141/8/2/1-2
Collection:Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee
Date:1959-1963
Description:Scrapbook of cutouts of exercises to music entitled 'keep fit with Eileen Fowler'. Based on BBC TV series 'Mainly for Women and Book Stay Young For Ever by Eileen Fowler, with preface by Barbara Cartland. Contains advice on ' the easy way to youth, vitality and beauty'.

Reference:MS 141/8/2/3-7
Collection:Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee
Date:1980s
Description:Records relating to the Scottish Women's Keep Fit Association.Includes records of classes taught by Sheila Dingwall, Tayside association details and national records.

Reference:MS 141/10/1-10
Collection:Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee
Date:1926-1956
Description:Records Relating to the Boys' Brigade. Include membership cards, material relating to camps, jubilee material and 5th Dundee Company [Chalmers Church] Ex- Members Reunion Diamond Jubilee Dinner Programme 1956.

Reference:MS 141/11/14-19
Collection:Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee
Date:c1933-c1970
Description:Badges. Boys Brigade, Life Boys and Girls Brigade

Reference:MS 141/11/20
Collection:Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee
Date:c1980
Description:SWKFA [Scottish Women's Keep Fit Association] metal badge

Reference:MS 141/11/21
Collection:Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee
Date:1982
Description:Women in Sport carrier bag 1982

Reference:MS 155/1
Collection:Dundee Working Men's Field Club.
Date:1892-1935
Description:Scrapbook, 1892-1935. Mainly newspaper cuttings of reports of meetings held by the club and articles on natural history. Includes: obituary notices of Robert Smith, assistant lecturer and demonstrator in University College, Dundee, d. 1900 and notice of Professor D'Arcy Thomson's jubilee, 1935. Also includes invitation cards, programmes and notices of club meetings.

Reference:MS 155/1
Collection:Dundee Working Men's Field Club
Date:1892-1935
Description:Scrapbook. Mainly newspaper cuttings of reports of meetings held by the club and articles on natural history. Includes: obituary notices of Robert Smith, assistant lecturer and demonstrator in University College, Dundee, d. 1900 and notice of Professor D'Arcy Thomson's jubilee, 1935. Also includes invitation cards, programmes and notices of club meetings.

Reference:MS 155/2
Collection:Dundee Working Men's Field Club
Date:15 March 1902
Description:Programme of a 'Conversazione', held in Mathers' Hotel, Dundee, comprising music, recitations, and 'Lecturettes', exhibitions and experiments on topics in natural history.

Reference:MS 155/3
Collection:Dundee Working Men's Field Club.
Date:2006
Description:Dundee Working Men's Field Club Saturday Afternoon Excursions and Winter Sessions. Twenty seven pages of typescript research notes detailing activities and history of the Dundee Working Men's Field Club 1885-1918 compiled by James K. Cook, private researcher, during his research into the club. 2006.

Reference:MS 183/1
Collection:'Our Scotch Tour'
Date:1902
Description:Copy transcript of a diary containing a handwritten account of a Scottish holiday undertaken by 2 sisters, Mary and Meta. Describes the journey, including visits to Selby, Selby Abbey, York, Durham, Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Kinross, Dunkeld, Birnam, Birnam Hill, the Sma' Glen, Amulree, Rumbling Bridge Falls, the Queen's View, the Soldiers Leap, Aberdeen, Dunnottar Castle, Dundee

Reference:MS 234/1/1-2
Collection:Diary and transcript of personal accounts of John Sturrock
Date:1864-1865
Description:Diary 'How I spend my leisure time'. Gives an interesting picture of social life in Dundee, and local events, with some reference to his work. Topics include family visits, visits to fairs, circus, and other amusements, Dundee shipping and dock activities, newspapers and journals read by the diarist, local volunteer regiments, church going, injuries and illnesses, wages and hours of work, comment on American Civil War

Reference:MS 234/2
Collection:Diary and transcript of personal accounts of John Sturrock
Date:1865
Description:Personal accounts, income and expenditure for 1865. Income is mainly from wages; entries under expenditure are very detailed and include for example newspapers, railway fares, postage stamps, stationery, meals, 'sweeties', fruit, church collections, board and lodgings, medicines, boot repairs, clothes, beer. [Copy typescript].

Reference:MS 241/1
Collection:Small notebooks compiled by James Nicoll
Date:1943
Description:From Country Life, 8 October 1943: article by Guy Paget on proposed national collection of sporting pictures. With miscellaneous newspaper clippings on sporting art.

Reference:RU 354
Collection:Contact
Date:1970s-
Description:Includes reports and photographs relating to staff and student socities and sporting activities

Reference:RU 357
Collection:Annasach
Date:1967-1994
Description:Includes reports and photographs relating to student socities and sporting activities

Reference:RU 358
Collection:MacDougall
Date:1993-1996
Description:Includes reports and photographs relating to student socities and sporting activities

Reference:RU 360
Collection:Student Times
Date:1996-
Description:Includes reports and photographs relating to student socities and sporting activities

Reference:THB 1/10/1
Collection:Dundee Royal Infirmary
Date:1933-1963
Description:Nurses' Tennis Club Minute Book 1 volume

Reference:THB 1/10/2
Collection:Dundee Royal Infirmary
Date:1962-1972
Description:Hospital Sports File. Includes tournaments and provisions for squash, football and golf, throughout Tayside 1 file

Reference:THB 1/10/3
Collection:Dundee Royal Infirmary
Date:Dec 1977
Description:Dundee Health Services Social and Recreational Club News. Includes details of conversion of the Tivoli Cinema into premises for the Club

Reference:THB 23/14/1/2
Collection:Sunnyside Royal Hospital
Date:1880s
Description:Programme:Musical and Dramatic Entertainment by the Montrose Harmonic Union at the Royal Asylum, Sunnyside.

Reference:THB 23/14/1/3
Collection:Sunnyside Royal Hospital
Date:28 Nov 1884
Description:Programmes: Dramatic Entertainment ''A Blighted Being'' and ''Betsy Baker'' - at the Theatre Royal, Sunnyside.

Reference:THB 23/14/1/4
Collection:Sunnyside Royal Hospital
Date:17 Feb 1886
Description:Programme: Entertainment ''When the Cat's Away the Mice Will Play'' - at the Theatre Royal, Sunnyside.

Reference:THB 23/14/1/6
Collection:Sunnyside Royal Hospital
Date:20 Jun 1981
Description:Poster: The Royal Grand Fete. On the occasion of the visit of H.R.H. Princess Alexandra to Sunnyside Royal Hospital for the Bi-Centenary Celebrations.

Reference:THB 23/14/2
Collection:Sunnyside Royal Hospital
Date:22 June 1897
Description:Notice of gratuity and holiday. To staff from the House Committee of Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum on occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Celeberations.

Reference:THB 23/14/4
Collection:Sunnyside Royal Hospital
Date:1959
Description:Cricket Scoring Book

Reference:THB 23/14/5
Collection:Sunnyside Royal Hospital
Date:1963
Description:Certificate Awarded to Sunnyside (Montrose) Football Club as Runners-Up in the Fettercairn and District Summer Football Amateur League Championship Competition.

Reference:THB 23/19/7/8
Collection:Sunnyside Royal Hospital
Date:c1950
Description:Photograph. Game of cricket on hospital grounds

Reference:THB 23/19/7/9
Collection:Sunnyside Royal Hospital
Date:c1950
Description:Photograph. Game of cricket on hospital grounds

Reference:THB 23/19/7/10
Collection:Sunnyside Royal Hospital
Date:1954-1955
Description:2 photos showing the Sunnyside Football Team.

Reference:THB 23/19/7/14
Collection:Sunnyside Royal Hospital
Date:c1930
Description:Photograph. Sunnyside Cricket Team

Reference:THB 25/4/1/15
Collection:Perth College of Nursing and Midwifery
Date:c1970
Description:Group of children outside the hospital's cinema

Reference:THB25/4/1/21
Collection:Perth College of Nursing and Midwifery
Date:8 Mar 1974
Description:Group of people sitting reading.

Reference:UR-SF 3/1 (12)
Collection:JOHN EDWARD ALOYSIUS STEGGALL
Date:19 November 1907
Description:'Nature Art and the People'. Paper given to Dundee Art Society

Reference:UR-SF 3/1 (35)
Collection:JOHN EDWARD ALOYSIUS STEGGALL
Date:Christmas 1897
Description:Address to Dundee Photographic Association

Reference:UR-SF 3/4 5)
Collection:JOHN EDWARD ALOYSIUS STEGGALL
Date:1887
Description:Photograph of Y.M.F.S. Picnic

Reference:UR-SF 32/1/11
Collection:Enid Gauldie
Date:1946
Description:Programme 'Concert by BBC Scottish Orchestra' Student's Charity Campaign

Reference:UR-SF 34/7/60
Collection:R.P. Cook
Date:1945
Description:Correspondence between R.P. Cook and Sir Alfred Munnings regarding painting and art galleries, includes press cuttings regarding Dundee

Reference:UR-SF 52/1/2/9
Collection:Professor John Anderson
Date:1905
Description:Photograph of the Aberdeen University Rugby Team

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