Edinburgh, Scotland

Scope and Contents Richmond Place. The title detailed on the original envelope read "Ethylotragedy Arithocomedy (O T garden & neighbour). A tragedy for ethyl (a sad state for the chemical or for alcohol) and a comedy in numbers (at least four bits of glass) illustrates the writer's sense of humour. He means that the glass slide (or plate) has been broken. The writer has been identified as Alasdair Geddes. He may have been recording his father's words. For comments on Geddes' habit of "inventing extravagant...

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A series of a random selection of prints, many appear to be duplicate copies of other images, relating to Edinburgh, Scotland and elsewhere which were added to the teaching collection at the Outlook Tower at some point after Patrick Geddes' death and before 1990. Some are marked and are therefore copyright of W. Reid; Balmain Photographers, Edinburgh; and The Scotsman - some of these may belong in Coll-1167/C/2

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A series of a random selection of prints, many appear to be duplicate copies of other images, relating to Edinburgh, Scotland and elsewhere which were added to the teaching collection at the Outlook Tower at some point after Patrick Geddes' death and before 1990. Some are marked and are therefore copyright of W. Reid; Balmain Photographers, Edinburgh; and The Scotsman - some of these may belong in Coll-1167/C/2

Scope and Contents Adam Smith, author of 'Wealth of Nations' lived here from 1778 until his death in 1790. His house is out of sight to the east. The house beyond the washing, Cadell House, was also still standing 1989. North side of the Canongate. A women holding a child stands in the shadow, laundry is strung across the alleyway from the first floors. Handwritten title by Alasdair Geddes. A print of this glass plate negative was exhibited in the "Squalor and Romance" section of Geddes' replacement "Cities...

Scope and Contents Adam Smith, author of 'Wealth of Nations' lived here from 1778 until his death in 1790. His house is out of sight to the east. The house beyond the washing, Cadell House, was also still standing 1989. North side of the Canongate. A women holding a child stands in the shadow, laundry is strung across the alleyway from the first floors. Handwritten title on the original envelope containing the corresponding glass plate negatives was written by Alasdair Geddes. A print of the corresponding...

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Duplicate photographic print of Coll-1167/B/27/5/13 showing an area on the north side of the Canongate.

Scope and Contents MS GOO 1.1. Address presented by the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in connection with the Free Church of Scotland, to the Rev. William Henry Goold on the occasion of the 50th Jubilee of his ordination as a minister of the Church. Edinburgh, 6 October 1890. 5 illuminated leaves. The title page is elaborate and mostly filled with imagery, whilst the latter pages are text-based with illuminated borders. Contains a list of names of members of the Synod. In a tooled leather case, with...

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7 items which were exhibited in or deemed to be related to the "Parks and Parkways" section of Geddes' "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition".

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Reported to have been presented to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society by J.G.Bartholomew, L.L.D. Secretary of the Society, 1884-1919.

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Likely to be a reproduction copy removed from a printed book. The original was published before 1740. Parliament House was built by Edinburgh Town Council in 1639. Framed.