Folder containing black and white contact sheets and negatives of photographs taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Includes; Ashkenazy rehearsing at the Macrobert arts centre in Stirling, Compton McKenzie, Billy Connolly, Mayfest at the Third Eye with Whoopi Goldberg, John Byrne gable, Duke Ellington at the Glasgow Apollo, and Humphrey Lyttelton at the Clyde Fair.
Folder containing black and white contact sheets and negatives of photographs taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Also includes a handwritten list. Includes: Leith docks 1966, Edinburgh, cars, Catterline, Crail, Rossyln Chapel, Festival of Britain 1951, start of Monte Carlo Rally at Blythswood Square in 1955, vintage motor cars in various locations, Richmond Horse Show 1948 and Glasgow.
Folder containing colour and black and white negatives, slides and photographs taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Also contains handwritten lists of images. Includes: Richard Demarco, children on Glasgow streets, Kelvingrove, City Chambers and general scenes around Glasgow.
Folder containing black and white negatives and contact sheets of photographs taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Includes: negatives of photographs taken of a Russell lantern slide of a R34 airship, Donald long ship model, clocks in various locations, Glasgow and Rolls Royces.
Folder containing contacts and negatives of photographs taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Includes: Glasgow School of Art Fashion Show in 1989, paper workshop, Glasgow books, Bently, gable ends, Hungarian reception, Dick Wing Royal Infirmary, Port Glasgow, McLean Museum and Crieff shops.
Folder containing black and white contact sheets and negatives of photographs by George Oliver. Some are annotated. Includes: Festival of Youth Art 1974, Goethe Institute and Hopetoun House ceramics workshop.
Folder containing black and white negatives and contact sheets of photographs taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Includes: children with boats, skating on the pond, Pollok house and the Burrell Collection.
Folder containing some of George Oliver's work relating to transport. Includes: reviews for his book, ink sketches, newspaper and magazine articles written by George (including some rough drafts), published photographs and illustrations by George and a copy of 'The Scots Magazine' Feb. 1981.
Folder containing work by George Oliver in relation to early photography. Includes: research notes, correspondence, magazine cuttings, articles, 3 photographs and photocopies of articles.
Folder containing black & white negatives and contact sheets of photographs taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Includes: 1951 Festival of Britain, 1949 Richmond Horse Show, London buildings and cars, Bath, Rye, Dover and Canterbury. The original packaging contains technical photographic information including the type of camera used.
Folder containing black and white photographs of landscapes taken by George Oliver. Some have been annotated. Includes: Brasov and Bucharest (Romania), Grangemouth, Aberdeen and various Scottish countryside scenes.
Folder containing black and white contact sheets and negatives of photographs of people taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Also contains a typed list of the people who are photographed. Includes: Dr. Lillie Recital, Edwin Morgan's 65th birthday at the Third Eye Centre, poetsound Festival at Third Eye Centre, Sir Compton Mackenzie and Sir William Mactaggart.
Folder containing photographs taken by George Oliver and of various sizes - many of which are prints of photographs in DC 066/2/60. Some have been annotated.
Folder containing 34 black and white and colour photographs of Joan Eardley and her work taken by George Oliver. Also contains exhibition catalogues and cuttings from such, press releases and postcards.
Folder containing black & white photographs and contact sheets taken by George Oliver. Most are unidentified. Includes: Milan, Florence, interior of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan showing Biffi Caffè, and a replica of Michaelangelo's David in Florence.
Folder containing 50 black and white photographs of buildings of various sizes, taken by George Oliver. Some annotated. All buildings featured are in Glasgow except one of a pub in London which dates from 1948. Also contains 2 photocopies of a line drawing by Thomas Williams depicting a busy cityscene beside a river. Photographs include: Templeton's Carpet Factory, Hampden Park, Glasgow Cathedral, St Enoch Station and Bute Hall.
Small bound essay written by George Oliver. Appears to have been a Glasgow School of Art assignment. Inscribed, "V.G. An interesting & concise effort" and contains illustrations and photographs.
Folder containing 5 black and white photographs of the murals of the Catholic Pavilion at the 1938 Empire Exhibition and Crawford's painting 'Tribute to Clydebank'.
Folder containing black and white contact sheets and negatives of photographs by George Oliver. Some are annotated. Includes: clocks in Kilmarnock, GSA's Mackintosh Building and Victoria street, Edinburgh.
Folder containing 84 black and white photographs taken by George Oliver, of various sizes and depicting Glasgow city scenes from the 1950s-1980s. Some have been annotated. Images include: St Enoch Station, Glasgow Coliseum, Lesser Hampden, Gorbals tenements, Glasgow Central Mosque, Exhibition Centre and Pollokshields.
Folder containing 68 black and white photographs of various sizes. Taken by George Oliver and depicting Glasgow cityscenes from 1948-1980s. Most have been annotated. Also contains a programme for Glasgow Coliseum dating from 1924. Includes general scenes of Glasgow including: Merchant City, construction of new flats at Anderston, Charing Cross and high rise flats of the Gorbals.
Folder containing 68 black and white photographs taken by George Oliver, of various sizes and depicting Glasgow streets and buildings. Some have been annotated. Includes: Exhibition Centre, Gorbals, Necropolis, West End. "Moon 4.3.5/f8 AB/1"; "60/f8 AB1 Wj 50/f8 AB1 Simbey (?) 70/f8c"; "51/f5.6 Kantor 45/5.6" annotated on original packaging.
Student work by George and Cordelia Oliver relating to their time at The Glasgow School of Art. Also includes collected material for the 2001 exhibition 'Art Booms with the Guns: the War Years at The Glasgow School of Art.'
A folder containing 62 black and white photographs of Glasgow people and children, taken by George Oliver and of various sizes. Mostly unidentified. Includes: general street scenes, the Gorbals, Hutchesontown, demolision of tenements, Barrowlands, Ibrox, Glasgow Green, shops, and the Old Fruitmarket. Also includes a leaflet for 'Swing Hammer Swing' Citizen's Company, May 1996.
Folder containing 85 black and white photographs depicting Glasgow city scenes of various sizes. All taken by George Oliver apart from two dated c1897. Includes images featuring the Barrowlands, the Gorbals (high-rise flats and tennements), St. Enoch Station and Hotel, West End, New Bedford Cinema, Ingram Street, and the Old Fruitmarket.
Folder containing 19 black and white contact sheets of photographs taken by George Oliver. Some are annotated. Includes: Pollok House, Exhibition Centre, various Glasgow street scenes, the Clyde environment, high-rise flats and tenements.
Folder containing 65 black and white photographs and 1 colour photograph of Glasgow's architecture, of various sizes, all taken by George Oliver. Some are annotated. Includes: Trongate, Templeton's Carpet Factory, The Mackintosh Building, Merchant City, towers of Park Church and Trinity College, St Andrews Parish Church, Adelphi Street UCBS bakery, fish market Clyde Street and Charing Cross Mansions.
Folder containing 49 black and white photographs of various sizes. All are taken by George Oliver with the exception of one which has been taken by Flora Ritchie, the cousin of George's wife, Cordelia Oliver. This photograph depicts a street scene in Townhead, Glasgow, c1950s. The remaining photographs depict various street scenes in Glasgow from 1948-1980s, most of which have been annotated. The earliest photograph dates from 1948 and depicts traction engines pulling North British Loco. Co. engine along Sauchiehall Street en route for the docks. Other scenes include: the construction of the M8, Gorbals, Queen Street Station and trace horses on West Nile Street c1948.
Folder containing general correspondence of George Oliver. Includes correspondence from Penguin Books dating from George's early career as a commercial artist.
Folder containing black and white contact sheets and negatives of photographs taken by George Oliver. Some are annotated. Includes: Catterline, Fife, Caithness, Mull and various cars.
Folder containing some of George Oliver's work relating to motor cars. Includes what are presumably drafts for articles (some accompanied by the final published article), various published articles written by George, some correspondence and newspaper cuttings.
Two magazines featuring car illustrations by George Oliver. Includes: 'Le Mans: Des Voitures Et Des Hommes' c1970, and 'The Sunday Times Magazine' 28th July 1963.
Folder containing black and white contact sheets and negatives of photographs of people taken by George Oliver. Also contains a typed alphabetical list of the people photographed. Includes: Whoopi Goldberg performing at the Third Eye in 1984, Sir Alexander Gibson, Alasdair Gray and Allen Ginsberg at Traverse Theatre.
Folder containing black and white negatives and contact sheets of photographs taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Includes: Labour Party Eurofest at the Edinburgh Playhouse in 1984 as part of their election campaign for the European Elections with Neil Kinnock, Robin Cook and Donald Dewar speaking at such, Oriental Figurines and Scottish Crafts Trade Fair.
Folder containing 76 black and white photographs of various scenes in Edinburgh, taken by George Oliver and of various sizes. Some annotated. Also contains a newspaper cutting of a picture taken by George of a horse and cart on the Royal Mile. Most date from the period that the Olivers lived in Edinburgh as their Edinburgh address is given on many of the photographs. Includes: Playfair Library, glass houses at the Botanic Gardens, Life Association of Scotland Building, Princes Street, George Street, George Street lane sales, Leith Docks and the New Town.
Folder containing 8 contact sheets and 114 negative strip of photographs taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Although the folder is entitled 'Edinburgh', some of the material is of scenes outwith Edinburgh and of cars. For example: scenes of George's Rolls Royce at Doune, Broughton House and an Albion car dating from 1920. The Edinburgh material includes: Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh University, New Town and George Street lane sales. Some negatives relate to photographs in the previous folder entitled 'Edinburgh Prints'.
Folder containing 22 contact sheets and 224 negative of photographs taken by George Oliver. Majority are annotated. Includes: Museum of Childhood, Royal Scottish Museum, Henry Moore statues at Inverleith, New Town, Edinburgh University and Greyfriars graveyard.
Folder containing black and white negatives and contact sheets of photographs taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Includes: Joan Eardley exhibitions, Mackintosh furniture and the work of Jessie M. King.