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
/3
| Full reference code | Coll-1167/1/X/3 |
| Title | Circular Device or Globe |
| Original title | Circular Device or Globe |
| Date | c1904-1910 |
| Creator | Sir Patrick Geddes |
| Scope and content | Photographed at the parapet of Outlook Tower. The globe was made by Elisee Reclus which symbolised earthwide relationships. Reclus was a French geographer exiled during the French Civil War in 1871. Two globes by Reclus are extant in the Patrick Geddes Centre in need of conservation. |
| Author of original title | |
| Negative number | Green Box 170 |
| Note | See Boardman's biography of Professor Geddes ?The Worlds of Patrick Geddes?, chapter 6 and p. 24. |
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