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The Annexe (?) at the Deaconess Hospital shown also in the previous image Coll-1167/B/26/20/6. This view is looking south. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

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The north side - doubtless some, or a continutation of the buildings shown on the left of the previous print Coll-1167/B/26/20/9 looking north. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

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The building on the left has been demolished, and the whole court, which formerly contained stables was much improved in 1969. The buildings, off Causewayside, a little to th north of its junction with Grange Road, date originally from c.1700-1800.

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...

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Obviously a defective a damaged exposure but showing a different view of the Edinburgh model by Paul Reclus (1858-1941). Handwritten title by Mabel Barker.

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An additional negative, showing a further view of Paul Reclus' Edinburgh model.

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An additional negative, showing a further view of Paul Reclus' Edinburgh model.

Scope and Contents A glass plate negative showing an image of the Outlook Tower Open Spaces Committee's Survey of Open Spaces in the Old Town of Edinburgh. Below the plan is seen a list of 75 existing and potential open spaces. The inscription in the top left hand corner records that on seven sites, gardens had been made already by the Outlook Tower Open Spaces Committee, 1909-1910. A print from this glass plate negative was included in the "Open Spaces as Gardens and Playgrounds" section of Geddes'...

Scope and Contents This is the entrance to the Camera Obscura on the fifth floor of the Outlook Tower. This roof-top pavilion was constructed in 1850 to the design of Maria Thérèsa Short (fl. 1827-1869) to house her Victorian optical instrument, and was originally called "Short's Observatory." After her death in 1869, her husband continued to run the attraction until Geddes bought the whole building in 1892 and changed its name to "The Outlook Tower". The "Biological Room" appears to have been formed by...

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Photographed at the parapet of the Outlook Tower. "Geddes' Tower from its ground floor, where a globe made by Élisée Reclus sybolised earthwide relationships..." Reclus was a French geographer exiled during the French Civil War of 1871. Two globes made by Reclus are extant and held by the University of Edinburgh Archives and Special Collections..