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Friends of Argyll Estates Archives
The archives of the Campbell family, dukes of Argyll
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Adopt a Glass Plate Negative!
Our current sponsorship campaign focuses on our superb collection of early glass plate negatives. A total of 97 photographic plates require expert care from skilled conservators, including individual cleaning, repackaging and stabilisation of broken plates. There are 78 plates by Scipio Mactaggart depicting Inveraray and its inhabitants in the 1860s, and a further 19 from…
Argyll Mausoleum Visitor Information Display Project
Bob Reid reports that this exciting project moves on a pace at Dunoon’s Community Shed with the final preparations for the new display unit for the Mausoleum, at Kilmun. After the Reformation the Campbell burials were moved from the KiImun collegiate church aisle to their own private burial site and mausoleum. The mausoleum is of…
New addition to the archive catalogue
We are absolutely delighted to announce that Lord Archibald Campbell’s collection of West Highland funerary monument rubbings has been added to our online catalogue. A total of 179 life-size rubbings contained within 20 bound volumes have been individually described, and high-quality digital images of each rubbing are now available to view online, for free! The…