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Edinburgh, Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs for the Survey of Edinburgh - contact prints, c 1985

 Item — Box Outsize Box 1: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/28/7
Scope and Contents

A folder containing sheets of contact prints relating to the corresponding series of glass plate negatives and prints, covering Coll-1167/B/26/21-22and Coll-1167/B/27/21-22

Dates: c 1985

Photographs for the Survey of Edinburgh - contact prints, c 1985

 Item — Box Outsize Box 1: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/28/8
Scope and Contents

A folder containing sheets of contact prints relating to the corresponding series of glass plate negatives and prints, covering Coll-1167/B/26/23-24and Coll-1167/B/27/23-24

Dates: c 1985

Photographs for the Survey of Edinburgh - duplicate prints, c 1910 - c 1985

 sub-series — Box Box 7 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/30
Scope and Contents

A random series of duplicate photographic prints from Patrick Geddes' Photographic Survey of Edinburgh. It is probable that these duplicate prints were created c. 1985, the original glass plate negatives being created between c. 1890 and c. 1914.

Dates: c 1910 - c 1985

Photographs for the Survey of Edinburgh - original glass plate negative processing boxes, c 1890-c 1910

 sub-sub-series
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/26/26
Scope and Contents

8 original card glass plate negative boxes, labelled the Imperial Dry Plate Co. Ltd, Cricklewood, London, N.W., which held the glass plate negatives from Geddes' photographic survey of Edinburgh, until they were transferred to acid free storage in c. 1985.

Dates: c 1890-c 1910

Photographs of Edinburgh by Thomas Vernon Begbie, c 1914

 Item — Box PC6/2: Series Coll-1167/B; Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/11/11
Scope and Contents

9 photographs of Edinburgh by Thomas Begbie on 1 mount. 1. Cardinal Beaton’s House, Cowgate. (demolished) 2. Site of Alan Ramsay’s Shop, north side of High Street. 3. Entrance Gate, Moray House, Canongate. 4. Lower End of Canongate, North side (demolished). 5. Canongate Tolbooth, North side of Canongate. 6. Huntly House, Canongate, South side. 7. Queen Mary’s Bath, (tenement on right demolished) 8. Abbey Hill (demolished) 9. Abbey Strand, Holyrood.

Dates: c 1914

Plan of Edinburgh and Leith suburbs with railways highlighted, 1876, c 1914

 Item — Box PC6/2: Series Coll-1167/B; Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/16/1
Scope and Contents

Plan of Edinburgh and Leith with suburbs. From Ordnance and actual survey, constructed for the Post Office Directory, 1876, by John Bartholomew. Railways highlighted by hand. Probably not in the touring "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition". Torn paper map in envelope inscribed, "Leith (Plan) Abercrombie (1945) (Colour)."

Dates: c 1914

Plan of Edinburgh dedicated to the Right Honourable David Stewart, Esq., 1790, c 1914

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/13/3
Scope and Contents

Dedicated to the Right Honourable David Stewart, Esq., Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh. By John Ainslie, 1790 showing the First New Town in course of building.

Dates: c 1914

Plan of Edinburgh Old and New Town and Leith, 1804, c 1914

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/15/5
Scope and Contents

Shows the New Town in course of building June 20th, 1804. An extract from the catalogue of the "Cities and Town Planning Exhibition", Dublin, (1911), (Ui Breasail), p. 42, reads; "The decay of Old Edinburgh was increased by the making of great avenues and bridges at right angles to the Old Streets."

Dates: c 1914

Plan of projected improvements of the Old Town of Edinburgh, 1866, c 1914

 Item — Box Box C: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/22/2
Scope and Contents

Early facsimile. Date 1866 (in pencil) in top margin. It is unclear whether this refers to facsimile or original. Shows improvements suggested by Lord Provost Chambers.

Dates: c 1914

Plan of the City of Edinburgh and Castle, 1742, c 1914

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/5/9
Scope and Contents

Plan showing the city of Edinburgh and its castle around 1742, by William Edgar.

Dates: c 1914