Edinburgh, Scotland

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Duplicate photographic print of Coll-1167/B/27/19/2 showing the corner of Murray Street at 52 East Crosscauseway.

Scope and Contents The original envelope containing the slide had been titled "Causewayside" but the image is actually of"Crosscauseway". The configuration of the chimney stacks and visible formation of windows and stonework (the blackened stones below the right-hand chimney stack may still be seen, (c. 1990). Image Coll-1167/B/26/19/6 suggests that the tall building in the background is a still existing (1990) tenement on the east side of St. Patrick's Street, view from the south end of Cowan's Close. The...

Scope and Contents The original envelope containing the slide had been titled "Causewayside" but the image is actually of"Crosscauseway". See Coll-1167/B/26/19/5 and note the configuration of the roof-scape of the tenement in the background almost certainly proves that it is a building still standing (1990) on the east side of St. Patrick and Clerk Street. The building on the left must, therefore, be the other side of that shown in Coll-1167/B/26/19/5. The photograph must therefore have been taken in Cowan's...

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The image shows the backs of tenements with tiled-roof buildings at the back. Back courts are bounded by stone walls. See alos Coll-1167/B/26/19/5-6. Handwritten title by R. Dykes.

Scope and Contents The original envelope containing the slide had been titled "Causewayside" but the image is actually of"Crosscauseway". The configuration of the chimney stacks and visible formation of windows and stonework (the blackened stones below the right-hand chimney stack may still be seen, (c. 1990). Image Coll-1167/B/27/19/6 suggests that the tall building in the background is a still existing (1990) tenement on the east side of St. Patrick's Street, view from the south end of Cowan's Close. The...

Scope and Contents The original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negative had been titled "Causewayside" but the image is actually of"Crosscauseway". See Coll-1167/B/27/19/5 and note the configuration of the roof-scape of the tenement in the background almost certainly proves that it is a building still standing (1990) on the east side of St. Patrick and Clerk Street. The building on the left must, therefore, be the other side of that shown in Coll-1167/B/27/19/5. The photograph must...

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The image shows the backs of tenements with tiled-roof buildings at the back. Back courts are bounded by stone walls. See alos Coll-1167/B/27/19/5-6. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by R. Dykes.

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Mounted photograph showing Register House and Waterloo Place. Label on front of card reads “lent to ‘Cities Exhibition’ (?1910) no.444." Number 123 attached to front. No. 112/25 pencilled on back. There is also a price 1/6 (=7.5p) in the top right hand back corner.

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Facsimile of a map showing Edinburgh as a royal city and capital of Scotland, c 1574. Pencilled inscription on back reads “Braun & Hagenburg, 1574”. Hand-coloured in water-colour. Engraving by Kirkwood.

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The plan of the city and castle of Edinburgh by William Edgar Architect anno 1742. Appears in Geddes' "Edinburgh Survey", no. 118 (i).