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
/2
| Full reference code | Coll-1167/1/X/2 |
| Title | Outlook Tower - Biological Room |
| Original title | Outlook Tower Biological Room |
| Date | c1904-1910 |
| Creator | Sir Patrick Geddes |
| Scope and content | This is the entrance to the Camera Obscura on the fifth floor of the Outlook Tower. This roof-top pavilion was constructed in 1850 to the design of Marie Therese Short to house her Victorian optical instrument, and was originally called "Short's Observatory". Geddes bought the whole building in 1892 and changed the name to "The Outlook Tower". The "Biological Room" appears to have been formed by covering the roof-top terrace with a temporary cover to protect the plants, of which some are shown here. |
| Author of original title | Mabel Barker |
| Negative number | Green Box 76 |
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