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  • black and white portrait photograph of a person. They are wearing a suit with a bow tie, and they have a long, full beard.

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    Alexander Bain

    Inventor of the fax machine and electric clock

  • Black and white photograph of a person wearing a suit and tie seated at a table. They are looking into the camera and holding a large book in their hands, as if reading.

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    Charles Glover Barkla

    1917 Nobel Prize winner for Physics

  • Black and white portrait photograph of a person standing in a library holding an open book. They are wearing a dark suit and tie and round glasses, and are looking directly at the camera.

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    Max Born

    Key developer of quantum mechanics

  • A painting of a person sitting wearing fine clothes, including a gold waistcoat and a fur-lined gown. They have their legs crossed and are looking confident.

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    James Boswell

    Author, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson

  • A pencil drawing of a person dressed in 19th Century ladies clothing and wearing a pearl necklace. They are looking at the viewer and smiling.

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    Mary Brunton

    Best-selling early 19th Century author of novels centred on strong female characters.

  • Sepia toned, older newspaper image of woman sat for portrait photo facing at a 45 degree angle. She is wearing period clothing, appears to be wrapped in a shawl and holds her round metal glasses in her right hand.

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    Mary Burton

    Social and educational reformer, suffragist and first female director of Heriot-Watt College.

  • Portrait oil painting of an artist in his studio. Next to him stands a large jug filled with paint brushes, and behind is a colourful painting hanging on the wall.

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    Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell

    A celebrated Scottish colourist

  • A very early era black and white photograph of a person intently staring at the camera. They are wearing a suit jacket and waistcoat, with a white shirt and cravat.

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    Frederick Douglass

    African American author, philosopher, anti-slavery activist and statesman

  • A black and white drawing of a person looking away from the viewer, the drawing is of their face, and they have dark hair tied back behind their head.

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    The Edinburgh Seven

    Britain’s first female medical students

  • A sketch of a person

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    Faed Family of Artists

    Two generations of celebrated painters and engravers

  • Black and white photograph of a person from the shoulders up. They are wearing a dark coloured top and an elaborate beaded headdress that runs across the forehead and falls down over both ears.

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    Cicely Fairfield AKA Rebecca West

    Lifelong political activist, renowned writer and reporter on the Nuremberg trials

  • Black and white illustration of a person wearing nineteenth century clothing, including a large frilled bonnet and an extravagant, expensive looking dress.

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    Susan Ferrier

    Popular nineteenth-century novelist

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