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Albyn's Anthology: A Select Collection of the Melodies and Local Poetry Peculiar to Scotland and the Isles
Partial contents: Jock of Hazeldean -- Nora's vow -- Pibroch of Donuil Dhu -- Macgregor's gathering -- Mackrimmon's lament -- Donald Caird's come again -- Lullaby of an infant chief.
Album. A large book bound in red leather. The book is open on the first pages. On the left page is an illustration of shinty sticks with ribbons and scrolls. The right page is richly decorated with colour illustrations of a ship, crossed swords, the University of Aberdeen's coat of arms, the Littlejohn of Invercharron Challenge Vase, an elderly white man in a black gown and an another in highland dress, King's College, a student in a red gown, and Marischal College. Colourful gilded borders of knotwork border the illustrations.
The 'Littlejohn of Invercharron Challenge Vase Album', illuminated, leather bound. Records the details of Alexander Littlejohn offering Aberdeen University Athletic Club a 'shinty trophy' in 1905.
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Agitations of the Month
The editor of the Aberdeen Shaver takes a satirical look at popular demonstrations occuring in Aberdeen in January and February 1839. Chartism had taken hold in Aberdeen by this time, but as it was well connected with the Temperance Movement, The…
