Scope and Contents North side of the Canongate. Skinner notes this lane as "Brown's Court" and shows a very similar photograp with a posed figure at the bottom of the staircase, and a garment hanging above, but they are not the same pictures. The entrance to the close was almost opposite Bull's Close. A man stands leaning against the banister at the bottom of the staircase. Laundry hangs from a washing line between two buildings. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes. A print of this glass plate negative was...

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Looking east towards Salisbury Crags. See subsequent images in this series. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes. A print from this glass plate negative was included in the "Higher Education Developments" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities and Town Planning Exibition". See Coll-1167/B/23

Scope and Contents Identified as the north side of Buccleuch Place, in part the site of the David Hume Tower. The school may have been in the building on the left or the title written by Alasdair Geddes may be wrong. The confusion has been made worse because some negatives have at some stage been put in the wrong envelopes. See prints Coll-1167/B/26/18/9 and Coll-1167/B/26/19/7, where there is a reference to the Deaconess Hospital. The old Buccleuch Parish School (the building still stands, 1989) is to the...

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Calton Hill Road. Looking south towards Inglis Corner. The houses in the centre still exist, those on the left have been demolished. Rock House (still in existence 1989, converted into flats) should be behind the house on the left. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes.

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11 Glass plate negatives showing a variety of scenes within the Calton Hill and eastern periphery of the New Town areas of Edinburgh, which form part of Patrick Geddes' photographic survey of Edinburgh.

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11 Glass plate negatives showing a variety of scenes within the Castlehill and Lawnmarket areas of Edinburgh, which form part of Patrick Geddes' photographic survey of Edinburgh.

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3 Glass plate negatives showing a variety of scenes illustrating "Childhood and the Environment", Edinburgh, which form part of Patrick Geddes' photographic survey of Edinburgh.

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10 Glass plate negatives showing a variety of scenes within the Crosscauseway area of Edinburgh, which form part of Patrick Geddes' photographic survey of Edinburgh.

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Has this view been taken to contrast with prints Coll-1167/B/26/14/1-4? 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 and Town Planning Exibition". See Coll-1167/B/24.

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Edinburgh model from the south-east. It is possible that this model was the first exhibit in the "Outline of a Survey of Edinburgh" in the 1911 "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition". If so, it was made by Paul Reclus (1858-1941) in true relief, i.e horizontal and vertical scales the same, showing various aspects of the city. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes.