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Calton Road looking west, c 1890-c 1910

 Item — Box: Box 2 of 7
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/26/16/5

Scope and Contents

Calton Jail with the Governor's House on the right. The clock of the North British Hotel is in the distance beyond the (former) General Post Office buiding. Note the old fashioned railway signalss on the left, on the still used but now modernised railway line running east, and ultimately south, from Waverley Station. A print from this glass plate negative was included in the "New Town of Edinburgh" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exibition". See Coll-1167/B/13.

Dates

  • Creation: c 1890-c 1910

Language of Materials

From the Fonds:

English

French

Hebrew

Latin

Dutch

Flemish

Extent

1 glass plate negative ; 4 1/4" x 3 1/4"

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Crystalline deposits; conserved 2018

Related Materials

Coll-1167/B/13; Coll-1167/B/26/16/1-6; Coll-1167/B/27/16/1-6

Stock Check (2016-2020)

Located 2017

Previous reference

PSE/P/5; A2.94.3(v)

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). In general (with occasional exceptions) 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 online 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). Cross-references are documented in the catalogue descriptions where necessary.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository

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