A HAVEN FOR HISTORY – THE PORT OF ABERDEEN ARCHIVE
Unidentified vessel entering harbour c1914 I mages from t he historical records of the Port of Aber deen are the focus of an exhibition in gallery 2 at Aberdeen Art Gallery that has been curated by members of the Archive team and which opened on the 8 th June . A bustling Market Street c1914 Aberdeen railway station c1914 Th e Port of Aberdeen collection compris es 80 linear metres of records spanning 1800 to 1960 that were transferred to Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives in 2019 . It includ es financial ledgers , logs of vessels entering and leaving the harbour , correspondence , plans, promotional material and many thousands of photographs . The collection was catalogued during 2020, following a successful bid to the funding stream, Archives Revealed. The blog detailing that cataloguing project can be found here . Fraserburgh harbour c1914 Barrels being prepared for shipping c1914 The exhibition concentrates on a sample of 30 amazing i...
