Coll-1167: Archives of the Patrick Geddes Centre for Planning Studies
The Photographs from the Survey of Edinburgh are part of a larger collection formerly held within the Outlook Tower on Castlehill. The collection as whole was catalogued while still at the Outlook Tower, this catalogue published as a 2-volume set Catalogue of the archives of the Patrick Geddes Centre for Planning Studies, the second volume focussed solely on the Edinburgh Survey photographs. It is this volume which has now been revisited, its contents keyed, with minor alterations, into a database, accessible below.
It is hoped to address the rest of the collection in due course. Meanwwhile a full digital copy of the first volume is available in pdf format (9MB file)
/1: Photographs from the Survey of Edinburgh
/W: Models, maps, diagrams
/4
| Full reference code | Coll-1167/1/W/4 |
| Title | Bird's Eye view of Edinburgh from the south |
| Original title | Bird's Eye view from South |
| Date | c1904-1910 |
| Creator | Sir Patrick Geddes |
| Scope and content | The date of the original is c. 1450; signed " F.C.M.", who was Frank C. Mears, Professor Geddes' collaborator and, after 1915, his son-in-law, who was the artist. A very similar, but not identical drawing was among the exhibits in the 1911 Exhibition; it had a rather long inscription noting the various constituents of all medieval towns, and showing how the grouping could vary to meet conditions of site. |
| Author of original title | Mabel Barker |
| Negative number | Box 4, 6 |
| Note | See 'Introduction' to Volume II of the printed catalogue "The Photographs for the Survey of Edinburgh by Sir Patrick Geddes". |
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