Today ARA Scotland are asking for #ColourfulArchives for #Archive30
so here’s a reminder of how colourful geology maps can be. Here’s Mull 😍
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Just because our collection remit focuses on paper-based records, doesn’t mean our documents aren’t bursting with colour! Here is a selection of colourful documents found in our collections.
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#Archive30 #ColourfulArchives my husband’s Nan collected postcards that were sent to her,many just to say someone would be seeing her later that day! A sort of early text! Some v interesting ones inc the Lusitania (she lived in Liverpool)
Some of our favourite items to look through are our gorgeous theatre and concert programmes. We have ephemera boxes full of them! #ColourfulArchives #Archive30
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Check out the bright blue dress the figure of Justice is wearing in this 1792 portrait by John Theodrick.
In preparation for the weekend, we like to share some pretty things we came across during cleaning and repacking #NRSConservation #ColourfulArchives
We are bringing some colour today with these eye-catching designs by former pupil Owen Jones (1809-1874).
These hand painted drawings form part of a body of work that went on to be published in 'The Grammar of Ornament' in 1856.
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Though more likely drawing in ink and pencil, Lyell does like a splash of colour in his geological sketches 🎨 and it’s tempting to think, perhaps, someone else carefully picked out the details in watercolour….
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Both before and after the institution of the #NHS , offering healthcare to officers was a valuable recruiting tool, with divisional and chief surgeons and later a Medical Centre as part of the complex at Hendon. #Archive30 #ColourfulArchives
This lovely colour-coded map shows the Surgeon's districts of Glasgow, c.1831. The surgeon assigned to each district was responsible for visiting the poor for free.
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This copy of The Laws of Harmonious Colouring by Dr R. Hay, housepainter and decorator to the Queen, 1838 at the The Signet Library #ColourfulArchives
For #Archive30 #ColourfulArchives we delve into the sample text books our volunteers have been listing as part of a project to index files from VPRS 794 (Central Registered Correspondence Files of the Education Department). These range from 1873-75. Aren't they colourful?
It’s not all beige documents! Splashes of colour can be found throughout our strongrooms, including these lovely marbled volumes #ColourfulArchives #Archive30
#Archive30 #ColourfulArchives Sharing the brilliant reds, bright yellows & intense blues of our permanent exhibition - colours inspired from #Godrej product catalogues & brochures from the 1970s & 80s - inducing a certain warmth & welcome feeling archives.godrej.com/virtualtour/
How's this for a blast of cheerful Spring colour on a dreary day? Surveyor Daniel Caley, who created many of the Tithe Plans for the parish of Jurby, frequently used a yellow pigment which still pops over 180 years later! #ColourfulArchives #Archive30
It's day 3 of ARA Scotland's #Archive30 & #ColourfulArchives is more of a stretch for us as we have predominantly B&W images, but how about this false-colour infra-red survey of Essex from 2001? #surveyphotography #aerialphotography #infrared #Essex 1/
