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Includes Harry Anthony Wheeler's travel report, a portfolio of drawings and the portfolio cover.

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

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

Includes E. McLaren's Travel Report.

GSA Archives and Collections hold 216 audiovisual files, covering a range of topics and a wide date range. The audiovisual material has been created both by GSA and by external organisations, such as the BBC (television and radio), STV and ITV, other educational institutions and the Scottish Arts Council. Media in the collection include 16mm films, 35mm films, audio cassettes, audio CDs, CD Rom, DV cassette, DVD, Floppy disk, Reel to reel audios, Super 8 film, U-matic films, VHS tapes and Video 8 tapes. The audiovisual files pertain to topics including the GSA Fashion and Degree Shows, and Activities Week; students discussing their work; lectures by architects; presentations by, and interviews and conversations with, GSA alumni; centenary of the Mackintosh Building; Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh; plays; and documentaries on GSA. Please note that this material is not yet fully catalogued and therefore some items may not be accessible to researchers. As at August 2017, only the fashion show audiovisual material has been catalogued. The remaining uncatalogued material is therefore not currently accessible for researchers.

A post-Second World War air filter used in the heating/ventilation of GSA's Mackintosh Building.

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

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

3 volumes, each consisting of text, drawings and photographs relating to the subject matter.

1. The Fair City. A review of the 18th and 19th century architecture of Perth and district. Dated 1948 – Rowand Anderson student.
2. A study of the Cantilever Principle in Architectural Design. Signed and dated 4th October 1949.
3. Contemporary Church Design. (Not signed or dated).

Collection of typewritten notes for lectures on architecture by Francis Lorne of Burnet, Tait & Lorne.

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

Contains architectural work completed by Kenneth Murray Fraser while a student at the Glasgow School of Art.

A variety of drawings and graphic designs created by Gerard V. Murphy, a former student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s. The diverse subjects of his drawings include animals, plants, architecture, human anatomy and figures. A subfonds titled 'Teaching examples' features his teaching materials as an art teacher at schools, intended for printmaking techniques and pattern design education.

Most items have been marked with his name or student registration numbers, assuming they were created during his time as a student at GSA. The dominant materials in his works are pencil and watercolour, worked on cartridge paper.

Some of this material was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. Paper conservation was completed in 2019.

Medal awarded to Robert Elder for excellence.

Medal awarded to Robert Elder for excellence.

Silver medal, blank on reverse.

Architectural study of a room interior. This item bears a label for The Glasgow School of Art, listing the 1916-1917 session, and Professor McGibbon as the teacher.

On the reverse of this item are some additional sketches.

Originally located inside portfolio folder (DC 110/1/4).

Architectural study of a room interior. This item bears a label for The Glasgow School of Art, listing the 1916-1917 session, and Professor McGibbon as the teacher.

Originally located inside portfolio folder (DC 110/1/4).

Architectural study of an interior, featuring a young girl. This item bears a label for The Glasgow School of Art, listing the 1916-1917 session; due to damage the name of the teacher is illegible.

Originally located inside portfolio folder (DC 110/1/4).

Architectural study of an archway and columns, including a caption 'ionic order'. This item bears a label for The Glasgow School of Art, listing the 1915-1916 session, and Professor McGibbon as the teacher.

On the reverse of this item are additional sketches and notes for the study.

Originally located inside portfolio folder (DC 110/1/4).

A variety of architectural drawings and studies completed by Mary Ramsay. These items are dated to her time as a student at The Glasgow School of Art, between the years 1915-1917, and bear labels details her teachers from this period. Most items are pencil on paper, with a few further studies in paint.

Architectural study of an archway and columns. This item bears a label for The Glasgow School of Art, listing the 1915-1916 session, and Professor McGibbon as the teacher.

Originally located inside portfolio folder (DC 110/1/4).

Architectural design for an altarpiece. This item bears a label for The Glasgow School of Art, listing the 1915-1916 session, and Professor McGibbon as the teacher.

Originally located inside portfolio folder (DC 110/1/4).

Elevation and section drawing depicting the fireplace in the 1st floor nursery at Duddingston House.  Completed by James Lovat Hosack Fraser - brother of Kenneth Murray Fraser - for a 1st year sketching class, likely at Edinburgh Academy.

A variety of artworks completed by Mary Ramsay, including life drawings, portraits, architectural studies, designs, prints, and illustrations. Some of these items are dated to her time as a student at The Glasgow School of Art. Most items are pencil on paper, with a few further studies in paint.

This subfond includes one item by Jessie Wilson (DC 110/1/1/18), another student of The Glasgow School of Art, with whom Mary Ramsay and Margaret Macdonald started a pottery decorating business at The Studio, Strathyre, in 1926.