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Collection of various animal prints including sheep, cows, horses, dogs, and deer with focus on different parts of the anatomy (full body, heads, horns, hoofs, tails, etc). Many prints with French labels. Some prints signed by Robert Hills (1769-1844).

Includes two copies of architectural sketches for an early English doorway, entrance to Chapter House, Glasgow Cathedral. Sketch is dated 28 January 1903, supplement to The Builder's Journal and Architectural Record, measured and drawn by Charles Forsyth. Also includes collection of architectural lithograph prints, sketches, and watercolours of various locations including Paris, Rome, Cairo, and throughout the UK, some by E. Hildebrandt. Two have a stamp on corner of work, "Department of Science and Art, Specimen presented to schools". Also includes coloured prints of various rooms in the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia. Views include halls, courtyard, indoor garden, holy vestibule, throne room. Labelled in Russian and French, some include English labels written in pencil. Also includes collection of printed architectural plans and designs including two ordinance surveys of Garnethill and City Centre/Sauchiehall St., three copies of a poster of "100 Years of British Architecture" by The Observer, a floor plan of the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow, a poster of "James Caldwell & Co. Abbotsford Stained Glassworks" designs, and three small architectural sketches/plans/designs of Grey Friars Church in Edinburgh, Chartres Cathedral in France, and Candlish Memorial Church in Glasgow.

Brochure for Pettigrew & Stephens Ltd. Advertisements contained inside and on the back cover date the brochure to the 1919-20 season.

Located inside folder: Item DC 094/1/3/10 - Folder of calligraphic life studies

Brochure of the mural panels created by Maurice Greiffenhagen, commissioned for the Men's Cafe and Smoke Room at Pettigrew & Stephens Ltd. 16 page brochure, image of the panel is accompanied by passages of classical writing.

Located inside folder: Item DC 094/1/3/10 - Folder of calligraphic life studies

Located inside folder: Item DC 094/1/3/10 - Folder of calligraphic life studies

The cover image features two women and a man.

The cover image features a group of soldiers on the frontline. The back side of the cover shows photographs of Meadowhead Camp (Irvine) and the cooks.

The cover image features a group of soldiers marching to the frontline. The back side of the cover shows a range of advertising, including foodstuffs, printing and stationery, laboratory supplies and 'The Scots Pictorial' magazine.

The cover image features twelve regimental crests.

Printing block with Glasgow style female figure, stylised trees and flowers forming the border design. 
Central text block with

• The Glasgow School of Art address
• Local prize awarded to: 
• For excellence in:
• Session:

Greetings cards and printed ephemera collected by Conrad McKenna during his time as a student and teacher at The Glasgow School of Art. Including Christmas cards and printed ephemera such as: tickets, menus, exhibition signage, exhibition catalogue and materials produced by The Glasgow Art Club.

Donald A. MacKenzie, author of 'Tales from Northern Sagas', gives insight into viking armours and weaponry for a correct design of the book covers.

The letter shows two sketches of soldiers on the reverse.

Collection of prints and sketches of flowers, fruits, and other plants. Includes empty portfolio used to store the collection of flower prints. Written in pencil on the front cover, "Photographs and Coloured Illustrations of Flowers".

Four printed graphic designs featuring school magazine covers, annotated "Coatbridge Secondary School Magazine" and "Airdrie Academy Magazine." The designs are attached to backing paper and two of them are dated 1937 and 1938. This work was used as teaching material in schools in Scotland, as marked the level of students "Fifth year."

Four pieces of teaching examples for pattern designs, attached to backing paper. These pattern designs, featuring an interplay of waves and geometric shapes, were used as teaching materials in schools in Scotland, as marked the level of students "First year."

Blackie & Son Ltd. requests two cover drawings for a book titled 'Olaf the Glorious' and enquires about Archibald Haswell Miller's interest in designing a cover in cloth for 'The Buccaneers of Boya'.

Blackie & Son Ltd. provides Archibald Haswell Miller with their requirements for the covers of the books 'Olaf the Glorious' and 'Westward with Columbus'.

Blackie & Son Ltd. requests a colour frontispiece for a book titled 'Tales form Northern Sagas' by Donald MacKenzie.

Blackie & Son Ltd. requests colour jackets for two books titled 'For Life and Liberty' by Gordon Stables and 'Silas Verney' by Edgar Pickering.

Blackie & Son Ltd. informs Archibald Haswell Miller that a new cover drawing is not needed for one of their books.

Blackie & Son Ltd. requests Archibald Haswell Miller to remove the knife in the hand of a figure from the cover image of a book referred to as the 'Eagle'.

Blackie & Son Ltd. informs Archibald Haswell Miller that the prices he charged for the covers of 'Tales from Northern Sagas' by Donald MacKenzie are above the company's normal scale. The publisher states the rates they can offer for the different drawings.

Blackie & Son Ltd. requests covers and a cloth design for a book titled 'The Rover's Secret'.

Blackie & Son Ltd. requests a new cover design for a book titled 'A Lad of Grit'.

Blackie & Son Ltd. requests a cover sample for a book titled 'The Buccaneers of Boya' by Percy F. Westerman.

Double sided. Print of twelve pen drawings that comprise of 'The Baby Who Would Not Apologise' by Cora Gordon. Reverse shows 'Anniversary Address' designed and executed by Robert Gibbings, with a small extract of an article.

Located inside folder: Item DC 094/1/3/10 - Folder of calligraphic life studies

A variety of designs completed by Archibald Haswell Miller, including book covers, commercial artworks, and religious designs. Some of these items are dated to his time as a lecturer at The Glasgow School of Art.

A variety of designs, correspondence, ephemera and photographs related to Archibald Haswell Miller. A large amount of items are dated to his time as either a student or a lecturer 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.