Calton Road looking west, c 1890-c 1910
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
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
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.
Creator
- From the Sub-Series: Geddes, Alasdair, 1891-1917 (geographer and sociologist) (Person)
Repository Details
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