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Includes

• a selection of Christmas cards and other ephemera collected by Conrad McKenna, a former student and staff member at The Glasgow School of Art, plus typed and handwritten materials used by McKenna to deliver teaching at The Glasgow School of Art
• correspondence between Conrad McKenna and The Glasgow School of Art and members of staff, and correspondence and printed ephemera regarding The San Gimignano Summer School.

The cards and ephemera have been created by former Glasgow School of Art staff and students and friends of Conrad McKenna, including Gordon Huntly, Rosalind Bliss, Michael Moulder, Peter Sumsion, Michael Healey, Mark Severin and James Cosgrove.

This material may contain sensitive information about individuals that is protected by the Data Protection Act. Until this material has been checked for sensitive information, it will not be available for researchers. Once this Data Protection work is complete the collection will be open for access, however any sensitive information will be closed and inaccessible for 75 years from the date of creation.

A collection of work by Dorothy C Smith including Glasgow School of Art student material and teacher training college material.

Includes:
GSA student notebooks

• teacher training notebooks from her time at Jordanhill teacher training college
• essays
• architectural drawings
• figure drawings
• printed designs
• paper-cut work
• leaf prints
• designs for repeat prints
• embroidery designs
• hadow work designs
• designs for embroidered textiles
• embroidery samplers
• embroidery samples
• a wooden stool with embroidered top
• a poster
• material relating to the proposed publication "Designing for Embroidery"
• material relating to the "Unbroken Thread" exhibition
• publications related to the Needlework Development Scheme

Variety of materials relating to the works of Dorothy Doddrell, including designs relating to the creation of First World War Roll of Honours; designs created by Doddrell; life drawing studies; and reference materials.

Includes:

• fashion and jewellery sketches and illustrations
• product catalogues for companies such as McDonalds Ltd, Watt Brothers and Whitneys Ltd featuring Garcia Hunter's fashion illustrations
• newscuttings featuring advertisements using Garcia Hunter's illustrations
• annotated photographs of Garcia Hunter
• correspondence.

This material may contain sensitive information about individuals that is protected by the Data Protection Act. Until this material has been checked for sensitive information, it will not be available for researchers. Once this Data Protection work is complete the collection will be open for access, however any sensitive information will be closed and inaccessible for 75 years from the date of creation.

This collection contains:

• Family papers, 1805-1889;
• Wartime records, 1914-1916;
• Lectures and speeches, c1930-1950;
• Photographs; c20th century;
• Miscellaneous papers, c1930-1972;
• Sketchbooks and drawings; c20th century.

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3 x 2nd year GSA student notebooks belonging to Isobel Alison Mitchell Shearer:

• History of Architecture
• History of Styles
• Dyed and printed fabric

The papers listed here are the records of three private commissions undertaken by James Fulton between 1909 and 1912, while he was resident in London. The papers include correspondence with the clients, builders and tradesmen. There are rough plans only for the house for F. Hall Gibson, who appears to have been a friend of Fulton's family.

Collection includes artworks and sketchbooks made by Jimmy Cosgrove as a student at the Glasgow School of Art; while working as a Tutor and the Director of the Glasgow School of Art; and afterwards, including work relating to the House for an Art Lover, and documenting travels across Europe, North America, and Mexico.

Collection includes:

• Menus and dinner invitation to artistic gatherings with a sketch by James E Christie
• London Sketch Club ephemera including menus, invitations, cards with sketches by Shepperson, W Lee Hank, Rene Butt and Jock Bere, 1902-1906
• F. Carruthers Gould ephemera containing invites to private views
• tudies for Pictures by J Moyr Smith, 1868
• Information on John Burnet, Architect, 1814-1901
• Photograph album, c1893

The photograph album contains photographs of "The Immortals", including Jessie Keppie, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair, Frances Macdonald, Margaret Macdonald and others of their circle.

The Moyr Smith sketches are from Moyr Smith's first published book Studies in Pictures. Smith trained in Glasgow, becoming influenced by Alexander Thomson and Daniel Cottier, moving to London in 1864.

Of great importance in this collection is a sketchbook of drawings by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The sketchbook, dating from the 1890s, consists of 19 drawings of flowers, furniture sketches, and interior sketches of Craigie Hall, Pollokshields, Glasgow.

This collection comprises student work from GSA c1945-1960 and professional work as an architect for GKC, Robert Rankin, and Clydebank District Council.

Please note that this material is not yet fully catalogued and therefore some items may not be accessible to researchers.

This collection contains architectural sketches that formed part of John Hinshelwood's training as a student at The Glasgow School of Art.

These include:

• The Doric Order, 1926
• Time sketch for a Perfume Shop, Park Lane, Stranraer, Scotland, 1927-1928
• Design for a Garden Pavilion, 1927-1928
• Design for a pavilion. 0.5 inch detail, 1927-1928
• A Memorial to a Statesman, 2 copies, c1920s

This collection contains:

• Notebooks, a sketchbook, scrapbooks, and student work from John Walter Lindsay's time at The Glasgow School of Art, 1943-1950
• Recollections of staff & students and his time at The Glasgow School of Art, 1990s
• Scrapbook giving an account of his travels following the award of the Haldane Travel Scholarship, 1950
• Miscellaneous magazine cuttings concerning architecture, c1950s-1990s
• Folder arranged by Lindsay containing material relating to Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1968-1999
• Folder arranged by Lindsay containing correspondence, 1968-2006
• Photographs of Keppie Henderson Architects building models, c1950s-1990s
• Folder arranged by Lindsay containing material relating to his architectural career, c1940s-1990s

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A collection of Kath Whyte's personal papers which comprises:

• Family papers, press cuttings and photographs, c1909-1981
• School certificates, c1922
• Correspondence, 1927-1996
• Early sketches and drawings, 1920s
• ketchbooks, notebooks, photographs and correspondence from Gray's School of Art, c1922-1947
• Personal correspondence, 1922-1996
• National Identification Card, 1943
• Travel diary, c1940s
• Lecture notes, sketchbooks and notebooks, 1948-1974
• Assorted textile samples, sketch books and notebooks, 1950s-1970s
• Examples of weaving by Kath Whyte and her pupils, c1950s-1970s
• Diaries 1974-1988 and miscellaneous books owned by Kath Whyte
• Photographs (professional and personal), 1909-1996
• MBE medal and associated correspondence and photograph
• Extensive collection of undated slides
• Exhibition catalogues
• Textile and design pieces, c1930s-1970s

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This collection contains the research materials of Liz Arthur used in writing 'Robert Stewart : Design 1946 - 95'.

It includes:

• copies of press cuttings and ephemera relating to Robert Stewart
• correspondence and notes relating to the book and associated exhibition held at Glasgow School of Art in 2003
• photographs, strip negatives and slide negatives of Robert Stewart's works
• and a small number of Robert Stewart's original works, including Christmas cards and textiles.

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This collection contains works of art done by Margaret Elizabeth Galt while in secondary school; her Glasgow School of Art general course and diploma course notebooks, along with textile samples; and notebooks from after her time studying at GSA.

Various samples of embroidered weave, canvas work and applique, plus bound volumes with relevant notes.

The collection contains 6 folders, binders, or books, which hold the samples of work:

• Blue Embroidery folder, containing 14 items
• Black binder of canvas work samples
• Patterned binder of canvas work samples
• Sampler fold-out book
• Pattern Making book
• Embroidery stitches folder

Plus six loose cards with designs and worked textiles attached.

This collection includes a bound volume of student architectural notes, a student thesis, and a residential house brochure by Lanarkshire Builders Limited, plus some photocopies of correspondence.

The Anderson family archive includes material of 5 of its members, namely the sisters Violet Meikle (1873-?), Daisy Agnes McGlashan (1879-1968), Daisy's husband William Smith Anderson (1877-1929) and their two daughters Daisy M Anderson (1910-1996) and Agnes Violet Neish (nee Anderson) (c1912-2005).

The Anderson Family archive contains family papers, sketchbooks, photographs and letters from 1860 to 1969.

The archive contains a number of sketchbooks kept by family members. Those belonging to the women contain flower drawings and schemes for ornamentation whilst William Anderson's books reflect his life as a commercial traveller for an ironfounder's firm and contain scenes from London and elsewhere, as well as technical drawings and plans. As many of the members of Daisy Anderson's family attended the Glasgow School of Art, the collection throws light on the work of the School from the 1880s-1950s.

Additionally the collection includes correspondence, newscuttings and photographs. Please note that this material is not yet fully catalogued and therefore some items may not be accessible to researchers.

Some of this material was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014, and has since undergone conservation.

The collection is comprised of Lewis Ballantine's own works of art such as life drawings, self portraits, design work and sketchbooks, and photographs, as well as sketchbooks and notebooks that belonged to his mother and father.

The work in the collection by Lewis Ballantine forms a valuable record of his time at the Glasgow School of Art. They show the development of his work as an artist, and provide an example of the type of work that Drawing and Painting students were required to produce during this period.

Lewis Ballantine's mother, Alice Longmuir Nisbet was herself at Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s, and was involved in the Socialist Art Circle. The sketchbooks in this collection also contain works by other members of the group such as Stuart Henderson, Jimmy Morton, James ("Jimmy") Ogilvie, W. C. Thompson and John McLean. The photographs in the collection picture Alice Longmuir Ballantine and John ("Jack") Hendry Ballantine, and Lewis Ballantine's maternal grandfather, Robert Dow Nisbet.

Collection includes:

• Notebooks belonging to Robert Dow Nisbet, 1930s
• Sketchbook belonging to Robert Dow Nisbet, 1930s
• Sketchbook of Jack Hendry Ballantine, 1930s
• Sketchbook of Alice Longmuir Nisbet, includes sketches from other members of the Socialist Art Circle, 1936
• "Dun Breatann" Sketchbook of Lewis Ballantine, 1966
• "History of Costume" Sketchbook of Lewis Ballantine, 1967
• Photographs of Robert Dow Nisbet, Alice Nisbet, c1945, Jack Hendry Ballantine c1970, Alice and Jack Ballantine, June 1995.
• Correspondence to Alice Nisbet, 4 letters, 1938-1995

The collection includes material related to Helen Biggar, Sydney d'Horne Shepherd, Hugh Biggar, and the Kino Film Group.

• 1 file of newscuttings and articles on Fyffe Christie
• 5 photographs
• 1 teachers certificate Scotland
• 1 Glasgow School of Art diploma
• 1 letter of Newbery Medal award
• 1 Newbery Medal
• 1 publication 'Nature and Humanity: The Work of Fyffe Christie 1918:1979'.

Please note that this material is not yet fully catalogued and therefore some items may not be accessible to researchers.

The collection constists of 4 volumes containing 29 portrait carbon prints and 90 calotype prints by Hill and Adamson. The images are mainly portraits but also include some scenes of Edinburgh. Some of the portraits within the collection are of Hill and Adamson themselves and members of their families. In addition to this material, there is a volume (volume 5) of 50 photographic carbon prints printed by Jessie Bertram, Rose Street, Edinburgh in 1916 from original negatives by David Octavius Hill's and then published by Andrew Elliot, Princess Street, Edinburgh. These images consist mainly of portraits with a small number of photographs of Edinburgh included. A further 7 loose photographs also exist.

This collection is unfortunately too fragile for users to handle, however the material has been fully digitized and is available to view online both via this catalogue and on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsalib/sets/72157623414969565/

Collection of plaster casts comprising human figures, architectural fragments, plaster friezes, plaster reliefs, marble reliefs, tondos and busts.

Casts were used as an important teaching aid by the School, from the late 19th century onwards. The casts are generally based on classical statuary and were originally sourced from Greek, Roman and later Italian and medieval periods. Whilst not totally unique (most art schools in the UK and across Europe owned their own collections, purchased from established suppliers in London, Paris etc.), their continued existence within their original setting gives them an added significance. Importantly, the Glasgow School of Art's photographic archive contains many period images of how these casts have been used by staff and students since they were first introduced.

The majority of GSA's plaster cast collection was located in the School's Mackintosh Building at the time of a fire in the building on 23rd May 2014. As a result the majority of the collection suffered damage, of varying degrees, and all casts were subsequently surveyed by a conservator. Six casts were lost in the fire and eleven larger casts have undergone remedial conservation in 2016-17. The majority of the remaining casts have undergone cleaning before being repositioned around GSA's campus during 2019.

The collection consists of the surviving papers of the Needlework Development Scheme and over 100 examples of needlework. Of these examples, 28 are from Great Britain and 54 are examples of non-British work including examples from Greece, India, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey and Bosnia. Items include ecclesiatical, domestic, costume, clothing and modern embroideries, tea cosies, funeral pall, clothing, lace work, wall hangings, samplers, linen work and cushion covers.

The surviving papers include a complete inventory of 1012 items that were part of the Needlework Development Scheme prior to its dispersal in 1961. This provides information on the original numbering scheme used for the needlework examples and also provides information on the provenance of each item, although this is not necessarily the creator of the item but the person from whom the item was received, as well as a description of the item itself. There is an inventory of the parts of the collection received by the Glasgow School of Art, insurance details concerning the collection and the correspondence of the Needlework Development Scheme, 1931-1941.

This material may contain sensitive information about individuals that is protected by the Data Protection Act. Until this material has been checked for sensitive information, it will not be available for researchers. Once this Data Protection work is complete the collection will be open for access, however any sensitive information will be closed and inaccessible for 75 years from the date of creation.

This collection consists of educational certificates, weavers note books, an index to sample books, Old Glamis Fabrics stitch books and sample books of Jacquard textiles. These were generated for Donald Brothers Ltd by N & N Lockhart & Sons, flax, hemp and tow spinners, net and twine manufacturers of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, under a friendship agreement.

There are 68 sample books of Jacquard textiles. There are also 5 notebooks giving the patent and colour numbers for each design. There is a final notebook that gives a list of the patent numbers for the designs of the fabrics.

The collection consists of job files, photographs, architectural drawings and plans for projects undertaken by the architectural firm of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia between c1933 and 1987. There are also general office files containing correspondence, account papers, ephemera and artefacts.

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The archive of The Glasgow 1999 Festival Co Ltd contains many of the publications, correspondence, press releases, press cuttings and the working papers that were produced by the company in the run-up to and during the year-long celebration. Papers relating to the evaluation of the project are also included. Items not directly related to the working office of the festival company have also been kept, for instance, examples of the merchandise and associated publicity. A record was also made of many of the events and publicity surrounding the year; video and audio recordings of the lectures and photographs of successful projects and schemes.

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Includes:

Minutes, 1971-1981

Correspondence, 1971-1976

Treasurer's reports, 1972-1974

Catalogues of exhibitions, 1971-1979

Ephemera - invites etc., 1971-1979

GLA Exhibition posters, 1974-1979

Slide pack of members work, n.d.

Colour photographs of members work, 1978-1979

Photographs of GLA members, 1978-1979

Colour photographs of exhibitions of members work, 1974

GLA Print Pack, c1971-1981

Film - We're all Big Boys Now - a quick look at the GLA, 1974

Presscuttings, 1971-1974.

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Includes:

• Newsletters and circulars, 1959-1978
• Membership records, 1960-1974
• Exhibition records including catalogues, invites, visitors' books, price lists and related correspondence, 1959-1979
• Press cuttings and notes, 1959-1976.

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Cash and accounts book plus staff association magazines kept by the GSA Staff Association.
Includes:

• 4 Volumes of Staff Association Magazine, 1953-1954
• Account Book 1961-1990
• Bank Deposit book 1969-1988

Includes:

• Records of the Academic Council, 1973-2000
• Audiovisual material, c1950s-2000s
• Records of the Board of Studies, 1932-1950
• Records of the Continuing Education Department, c1988-2000
• Records of the Assistant Director and Company Secretary, c1986-2008
• Records of the Deputy Director, c1946-1993
• Records of the School of Design, c1979-2001
• Records of the Development and External Relations Office, c1997-2004
• Records of the Director, 1846-
• Records of GSA Enterprises, c1991-2000

[b]Ephemera collection, 1890-[/b]

The School's collection of ephemera includes flyers, programmes and tickets for events at the School, such as plays, fashion shows, charities week events, exhibitions and performances.

• Records of the Estates Department, c1964-2007
• Records of the Exhibitions Officer, c1990-1994
• Records of the School of Fine Art, c1978-1999
• Records of the Finance Officer, 1870-2000
• Records of First Year Studies, c1988-2000
• Records of the Board of Governors, 1847-2007

Key records include:

• Annual reports, 1847-2000 - The School's annual reports provide information on governors, staff and prizewinning students, and sometimes but not always, a headmaster's or director's report and annual accounts.
• Building Committee papers, 1883-1949 - Minutes, correspondence, estimates, specifications and financial records relating to the erection of the Mackintosh Building, as well as the School's extension scheme.
• Records of House for an Art Lover
• Records of Liberal Studies/Historical and Critical Studies, c1992
• Records of Information Services, c1900-2004
• Records of the Mackintosh School of Architecture, c1957-2002

[b]Newspaper cuttings, 1864-[/b]

The School's press cuttings include articles relating to staff and students.

[b]Photographs, c1880s-[/b]

The School's photograph collection provides an excellent record of events at The Glasgow School of Art, its students and their work.

• Records of the Personnel Office, c1987-2006
• Records of the Planning Department, 1962-1964
• Records of the Registrar, c1881-2000

Key records include:

• Student records, 1881-1997 - The School's student registers can provide student's names, dates of birth, dates of admission, educational background, addresses, occupations, courses taken and marks and awards gained.

[b]Prospectuses, 1893-1995[/b]

• The School's prospectuses provide information about staff and governors
• the organisation and administration of the School
• Summaries of the School's curriculum
• individual courses and tutors
• fees
• Scholarships and bursaries.
• Records of the School Council, 1969-1982
• Records of the Secretary and Treasurer, 1853-1996
• Records of the Senior Management Group
• Records of the School of Simulation and Visualisation
• Records of the Staff Council, 1909-1949
• Records of the Student Support Service

Includes:

• Legal and Administrative Paperwork
• Correspondence and Information on Events
• Publications (including information on starting MAC magazine).

This material may contain sensitive information about individuals that is protected by the Data Protection Act. Until this material has been checked for sensitive information, it will not be available for researchers. Once this Data Protection work is complete the collection will be open for access, however any sensitive information will be closed and inaccessible for 75 years from the date of creation.

This collection includes:

• Board minutes including company accounts, 1984-1987
• Auction catalogues, prices, photographs and item descriptions, 1992-1995
• Exhibition records including correspondence, publicity materials and photographs relating to exhibitions of works by Daghani, Nicholas Fairbairn, Brenda Lenachan, Frederick Ost, Kathleen Daly, Frank Lloyd Wright, David Hockney, Dominique Moreau, Constructed Space, Liz Knox, Scott Kilgour and Ray Charles White, Adrian Wiszniewski, past and future exhibitions, 1987-1997
• Correspondence with J Reynolds, Honeyman, Hugh Fraser, Nolde, Stephen Lee, Richard Demarco, J Campbell Brady, Wyndham Lewis and other sample files, 1988-1994

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This collection comprises predominantly student work undertaken by Dugald Cameron whilst studying at The Glasgow School of Art between 1957-1963.

In addition it contains the following publications:

• Dugald Cameron Industrial Designer
• No. 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force
• From the Karoo to the Kelvin
• Personal Passions (exhibition catalogue)

Please note that this material is not yet fully catalogued and therefore some items may not be accessible to researchers.

This material mainly relates to Ted Odling's time teaching at The Glasgow School of Art from the 1950s to the early 1980s. It contains the following items:

• Copy of a staff photograph, 1950
• CD ROM titled 'family scene part 2', 1956-68
• 9 x letters from Ted Odling to Harry Barnes, sent whilst on a Leverhulme travel award, 1965
• 4 x folders of lecture notes / preparatory material covering perception, anatomy and perspective amongst other subjects, 1970s-80s
• A letter from Ted Odling to Mr Garbett of Ulster Polytechnic regarding Ted Odling's external assessors report, July 1981
• Loose notes on stereo television
• 1 x notebook
• 38 x colour wheels
• 3 x colour swatches (red, blue and green)

Please note that this material is not yet fully catalogued and therefore some items may not be accessible to researchers.

This collection contains:

• Sketchbook - pencil drawings: landscape and portrait [15 folios], 1931-1932
• Sketchbook - pencil drawings: landscape and portrait [15 folios], 1933
• Sketchbook - pencil drawings: landscape and portrait [8 folios], 1936-1937
• Sketchbook - pencil drawings: landscape and portrait, sketches of costume [38 folios], 1938
• Sketchbook - generally portraits [46 folios], 1940-1965

A collection of carpets and textiles manufactured by James Templeton & Co Ltd, A F Stoddard & Co Ltd or subsidiary companies (which in 1998 together became known as Stoddard International plc), dating from c1840s-1960s. Designs include pictorial scenes, art deco designs, and floral, chintz or medallion-centred designs. The collection also includes a mid-19th century Paisley shawl.

A collection of sketches, designs, photographs and lithographs by Donald Melvin completed during his time as a student at Glasgow School of Art in the 1960s.
Includes work carried out as part of courses such as, for example, Interior Design, the History of Furniture, the 2nd Year General Course, the Pre-Diploma /Foundation Course and Woodcarving.

Also includes sketches carried out during GSA summer schools abroad in Florence and in Norway, and materials relating to extra-curricular activities such as photographs of productions staged by GSA Dramatic Club and Christmas ball posters.

A collection of graphic design work, product design prototypes, life drawings and graded coursework by Lindsay Wadey (née Winning), completed during her time as a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1963 to 1967. Includes work carried out as part of courses in the Graphics department and on the Section 5 course under Ted Odling. Material spans the entirety of her student career, including final projects and degree show work.