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    Miscellaneous Small Gifts and Deposits
    Documentation of gravestones at St Peter’s Kirkyard, Sandwick
    1990-1991
    Ref:GB 241 D1/201
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:0.13 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 2
    Records of the Orkney County Council, later Orkney Islands Council
    Orkney Community Councils
    1976-1989
    Ref:GB 241 CO14
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:0.42 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 3
    Miscellaneous Small Gifts and Deposits
    Chivers' Magazine Articles
    1935-1952
    Ref:GB 241 D1/421
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:0.01 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 4
    Miscellaneous Small Gifts and Deposits
    One act plays by Orcadian authors
    1935-c1960
    Ref:GB 241 D1/271
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:0.04 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 5
    Miscellaneous Small Gifts and Deposits
    Orkney Islands Council Environmental Health Department: pollution papers
    c1984-1987
    Ref:GB 241 D1/313
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:0.01 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 6
    Miscellaneous Small Gifts and Deposits
    Burwick to Gills Bay Crossing: paper
    1992
    Ref:GB 241 D1/441
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:0.01 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 7
    Miscellaneous Small Gifts and Deposits
    Royal Visit by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and King Olav of Norway
    1987
    Ref:GB 241 D1/409
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:0.01 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 8
    Miscellaneous Small Gifts and Deposits
    Orkney Countryside Committee: minutes and other papers
    1973-1989
    Ref:GB 241 D1/317
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:0.07 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 9
    Collection of recordings (78rpm) of a lecture given by Sir Godfrey Thomson in 1950
    1950
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1448
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    McFarland Henry Stewart Noel 1924-1973 (educationist).
    Extent:5 records
    Language:English
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  • 10
    Records of the Orkney County Council, later Orkney Islands Council
    Orkney Education Authority
    1918-1975
    Ref:GB 241 CO5/1-2
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:2.70 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 11
    Robert MacLeod papers
    1918 - 1984
    Ref:GB 249 T-MIN/26
    Location:University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    MacLeod Robert Duncan 1885-1973 bookseller and editor.
    Extent:0.2 metres
    Language:English
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  • 12
    Letter from J. R. R. Tolkien to Professor Campbell after receiving an Honorary Degree
    28 July 1973
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1729
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Tolkien John Ronald Reuel 1892-1973 (writer poet philologist).
    Extent:1 letter In a folder, in a box
    Language:English
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  • 13
    Records of the Orkney County Council, later Orkney Islands Council
    Orkney County Council: Department of Engineering and Technical Services: plans
    1905-1974
    Ref:GB 241 CO13
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:1.25 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 14
    Records of the Orkney County Council, later Orkney Islands Council
    Orkney County Council/Orkney Islands Council
    1890-1998
    Ref:GB 241 CO3
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:13.76 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 15
    Records of the Orkney County Council, later Orkney Islands Council
    Orkney County Council / Orkney Islands Council: Accounting and rating records
    1889-2000
    Ref:GB 241 CO4
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:12.79 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 16
    Miscellaneous Small Gifts and Deposits
    Freedoms of the Burgh of Kirkwall
    1945
    Ref:GB 241 D1/384
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:0.01 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 17
    Exhibition of Vladimir G. Tretchikoff work in Edinburgh, 1973
    1973-1974
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1532
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Herbert J W fl 1973-1974 (staff of Patrick Thomson's Ltd).
    Extent:1 box
    Language:English
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  • 18
    Papers of Edward Hindle, 1886-1973, biologist and zoologist, Regius Professor of Zoology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1935-1944
    1935-1944
    Ref:GB 248 DC 075
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Name of creator:
    Hindle Edward (1886-1973: Regius Professor of Zoology University of Glasgow Scotland).
    Extent:1.77 metres
    Language:English
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  • 19
    Miscellaneous Small Gifts and Deposits
    Rousay Agricultural Society records
    1887-1973
    Ref:GB 241 D1/44
    Location:Orkney Library and Archive
    Extent:0.15 Linear Metres
    Language:English
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  • 20
    Records of Blane & Co (Engineers) (Pty) Ltd, Isando, South Africa
    1973-1977
    Ref:GB 248 UGD 120/6/27
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Name of creator:
    Blane & Co (Engineers (Pty) Ltd (engineers: fl1973-1977: Isando South Africa)).
    Extent:0.3 metres
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