Scope and Contents Castle from Outlook Tower. The image shows the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the white drill tunics which they wore specially when doing drill. Six companies are present; four are drawn up on the left, and are changing formation with the arrangement on the right. The Band is at the top right. The Regimental Sergeant Major is in the middle distance. Note the Royal Arms on the Gateway, and absence of the statues of Wallace and Bruce now (2020) on either side of it. A print of this glass...

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Said to the back of the High Street (south side) between Niddry Street and Blackfriars Street, taken from some point between the Cowgate and High Street.

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This shows the Church House which stands next to St. Patrick's Church. It has been taken fom the west courtyard, showing St. Ann's School behind and South Gray's Close left - a wider view of Coll-1167/B/26/4/9. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

Scope and Contents As per Coll-1167/B/26/14/1. Area Garden, St. Andrew's Square. The photographs in this section show how, in Geddes' estimation, dull basement areas may be improved by plants. This is not simply a statement of the obvious fact, it is a manifestation of an ecological and "green" culture, as a botanist and town planner. 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...

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A glass plate negative showing an image of a drawing by Frank C. Mears (1880-1953). This appears to be a rough map rather than a diagram, but the title has been copied from the inscription of the negative.

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A glass plate negative showing an image of Frank C. Mears' "Bird's Eye View of Edinburgh, from the south, c. 1450." (See Coll-1167/B/4/1). A very similar, but no identical drawing was among the exhibits in Geddes' "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition"; it had a rather long inscription noting the various consituents of all medieval towns, and showing how the grouping could vary to meet conditions of site. Handwwritten title by Mabel Barker.