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A photographic print showing an image of a map of the "Forth and Lothians". This map has also been previously been entitled "Edinburghshire I". It is assumed the 'shire' title was written on the original maps (images of which are shown in Coll-1167/B/27/23/13 and 14). The corresponding glass plate negatives had at some time been taken out of their original envelopes and inserted into new envelopes, with no inscriptions.

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A photographic print showing an image of a map of the "Forth and Lothians II". This map has also been previously been entitled "Edinburghshire II". It is assumed the 'shire' title was written on the original maps (images of which are shown in Coll-1167/B/27/23/13 and 14). The corresponding glass plate negatives had at some time been taken out of their original envelopes and inserted into new envelopes, with no inscriptions.

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A photographic print showing an image of a map of the "Forth and Lothians", including Peebleshire. Poor quality image. It is assumed the 'shire' title was written on the original maps (images of which are shown in Coll-1167/B/27/23/13 and 14). The Photographic prints had at some time been taken out of their original envelopes and inserted into new envelopes, with no inscriptions.

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A photographic print showing an image of a map of the "Forth and Lothians" including Peebleshire. Poor quality image. It is assumed the 'shire' title was written on the original maps (images of which are shown in Coll-1167/B/27/23/13 and 14). The corresponding glass plate negatives had at some time been taken out of their original envelopes and inserted into new envelopes, with no inscriptions.

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A photographic print showing an image of a data table recording a comparison of routes through Scotland with reference to the Forth and Clyde Canal. See correspondence in the University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections relating to the development of canals in Scotland and the USA and describing a study carried out with George Guyo on proposed Forth and Clyde Canal (GB249 T-GED2/4/6; T-GED/7/10/13)

Scope and Contents A photographic print showing two drawings 1. Profile of Leven Route. 2. Reclaiming of land, Forth and Clyde canal, Leven Route. The document is evidently related to Coll-1167/B/27/23/17, but to understand the details, it would be necessary to see the original documents [not extant within the University of Edinburgh Collections]. See correspondence in the University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections relating to the development of canals in Scotland and the USA and describing a...

Scope and Contents Outlook Tower, Edinburgh Room. This L-shaped room, with the other "leg" at right-angles beyond the curtain on the left, accomodated the Patrick Geddes Centre for Planning Studies of the Unversity of Edinburgh, (c. 1989 - c. 2000). It was on the fourth floor of the Outlook Tower. The right-hand window commands a view of the Castle, the left-hand one of south Edinburgh to the Pentlands, and two others, at the end of the "leg" and behind the camera, down the Lawnmarket and over North Edinburgh....

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..

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This image shows children working in garden. See series Coll-1167/B/27/10. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by Alasdair Geddes.