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
/X: The Outlook Tower interior
/1
| Full reference code | Coll-1167/1/X/1 |
| Title | Outlook Tower - Edinburgh Room, south west corner |
| Original title | Edinburgh Room S.W. Corner |
| Date | c1904-1910 |
| Creator | Sir Patrick Geddes |
| Scope and content | This L-shaped room, with the other 'leg' at right-angles beyond the curtain on the left, now accommodates the Patrick Geddes Centre of the University of Edinburgh, appropriately since Geddes himself worked here. It is on the fourth floor of the Outlook Tower; the right-hand window commands a view of the Castle, the left-hand one of south Edinburgh to the Pentlands, and the others, at the end of the 'leg' and behind the camera, down to the Lawnmarket and over north Edinburgh. |
| Author of original title | Mabel Barker |
| Negative number | Green Box 123 |
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