Patrick J Banks

Cabinet Print

Photo

1.

Kilted Soldier (outdoors)

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Kim Traynor

2.

Kilted Soldier (in studio)

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Kim Traynor

Around 1900?

Patrick J Banks is one of a few early Edinburgh photographers that appears not to have been listed in the Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory, so I cannot say when his studio operated.

However the photographs above are both Cabinet Prints.  Cabinet Prints were popular until the end of the 19th century, then their popularity faded rapidly, with very few being produced after about 1905.

The style of mounts of these photos look to me to be fairly late examples, so I expect that these photos would probably have been produced within a few years of 1900.

Perhaps somebody with a knowledge of military uniforms might be able to say whether or not that date sounds reasonable.

Meadowbank Crescent (the address on the first Cabinet Print) is fairly close to Piershill ( the address on the second Cabinet Print).

I also have a third cabinet print by Patrick J Banks.  Please click on this thumbnail image to see it:

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Family History

Thank you to Fiona Naysmith who wrote:

"I have been trying to date an old family photo taken by PJ Banks. Photographer, Piershill, Edinburgh.

I have found the following information in the Census records:

Fiona Naysmith:  November 23, 2011