Aberdeen Harbour Board: Glass Plate Negatives and Lantern Slides Most of the glass plates were contained in wooden boxes with a slot for each plate, and the boxes had index sheets pasted into the lids, but some had been rehoused in other containers. The labelling on the original boxes was not always accurate, indicating that the records had been rearranged at some point. The notes from the labels and indexes on the original packaging have been detailed in the catalogue entries for each box (at the sub series level) but may not be accurate. The original order has been retained, and the details from the original boxes is given at the sub series level. 7000 additional glass plate negatives owned by the Harbour Board were transferred to the University of Aberdeen Special Collections Centre in 1999 (reference MS 3595) and can be searched and viewed on their website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/harbour/. It is believed that the glass plates are gelatin plates. The images are a mixture of subjects: Aberdeen harbour and other harbours around Scotland; family holidays; and engineering work (pavements, bridges, railways, these are largely the lantern slides). 1888-1948