St. John's Space Victoria Street before garden, c 1890-c 1910
Scope and Contents
This space was finally identified in February 1993 by Hector Black, a student in architecture. It is behind the building at 9 Victoria Street (formerly a hall, later a bazaar market). The windows on the right are those of the Central Library. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes. A print from this glass plate negative was included in the "Open Spaces as Gardens and Playgrounds" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exibition". See Coll-1167/B/24.
Dates
- Creation: c 1890-c 1910
Language of Materials
English
French
Hebrew
Latin
Dutch
Flemish
Extent
1 glass plate negative ; 4 1/4" x 3 1/4"
Stock Check (2016-2020)
Located 2017
Previous reference
PSE/G/15; A2.151
Processing Information
The printed legacy catalogue the "Papers of Sir Professor Patrick Geddes" (1998) lists this item in both the Papers (Vol I) of the catalogue, and the Photographs (Vol II). The listing in the Papers (Vol I) does not refer to a physical item but refers to the use of a print from the negatives in a particular section of the "Cities and Town Planning" exhibition. In this new catalogue (2020), to avoid duplicate listings and to mitigate confusion, these glass plate negatives and the related prints each are only listed once in the "Photographs for the Survey of Edinburgh" series (Coll-1167/B/26 - glass plate negatives; Coll-1167/B/27 photographic prints).
Subject
Creator
- From the Sub-Series: Geddes, Alasdair, 1891-1917 (geographer and sociologist) (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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University of Edinburgh Main Library
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Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
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