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Yard between Springvalley Terrace and Morningside Road, c 1890-c 1910

 Item — Box: Box 4 of 7
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/26/22/9

Scope and Contents

Yard between Springvally Terrace and Morningside Road, first version. Looking east towards Morningside Road; the building in the centre right is the Public Library, opened 1905. Tenements on the east side of Morningside Road are visible beyond. The foreground is (1989) the car park of a public house. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes. A print of this glass plate negative was exhibited in the "Strata of Edinburgh: Breakdown of Formal" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exihibition." See Coll-1167/B/18.

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

Blind cracks; conserved 2018, sink matted, stored in larger box to core series of glass plate negatives

Related Materials

Coll-1167/B/18; Coll-1167/B/27/22/9

Stock Check (2016-2020)

Located 2017

Previous reference

PSE/V/9; A2.121

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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