Strata of Edinburgh, c 1914
Scope and Contents
Items within the "Strata of Edinburgh" section of Geddes' "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition", Dublin (1911) were categorised (i) New and Old; (ii) Best of New Town; (iii) Breakdown of formal plan; (iv) Workshops behind present day tenements; (iv) Old cottages; (vi) Squalid life of back streets. Only one item is listed here, the remainder being made up of photographs from Geddes' photographic "Survey of Edinburgh" under the headings listed above. See Coll-1167/B/26/1/4-6; Coll-1167/B/26/2/9; Coll-1167/B/26/6/2; Coll-1167/B/26/11/4; Coll-1167/B/26/15/1-2; Coll-1167/B/26/13/4-5 and 7; Coll-1167/B/26/22/9-10 - glass plate negatives. See Coll-1167/B/27/1/4-6; Coll-1167/B/27/2/9; Coll-1167/B/27/6/2; Coll-1167/B/27/11/4; Coll-1167/B/27/15/1-2; Coll-1167/B/27/13/4-5 and 7; Coll-1167/B/27/22/9-10 - photographic prints.
Dates
- Creation: c 1914
Creator
- From the Fonds: Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) (Person)
Language of Materials
English
French
Hebrew
Latin
Dutch
Flemish
Full Extent
5 item : Photographic print, plan
Processing Information
Many items which were recorded in this section of the printed legacy catalogue the "Papers of Sir Professor Patrick Geddes" (1998) were described twice, once in the papers catalogue and then again in volume two of the catalogue which covered the photographs of the "Survey of Edinburgh". These can now be found within the "Survey of Edinburgh" photographs series - see Coll-1167/B/26-28. The series heading is retained to indicate the exhibition arrangement only.
The Patrick Geddes Centre continued as a teaching facility until the 1990s, while Coll-1167 pertains predominantly to the papers amassed by Patrick Geddes himself, there appear to have been some later acquired items added to the printed legacy catalogue (1998) in error but are retained here.
Geographic
Repository Details
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