List of Photographers/Publishers

Post Card Views of

 Edinburgh

Yellow background denotes an Edinburgh photographer or publisher.

Green background denotes  photographer or publisher from elsewhere.

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-  WD & Co

- Edinburgh suburbs  -  Blackford Hill

-  WDY & W

- Princes Street

-  W H  Berlin                                                                                    (=W Hagelberg, Berlin)

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Hold to Light Postcards

The company is probably the Berlin firm, Wolff Hagelberg who had an address in London at Burnhill Road.

WH produced a series of cards with very small cut-out windows and moon, intended to beheld up to the light for effect.  These are known as HTL (hold to light) cards.  The company produced HTL cards of several cities in Britain (and abroad?) including Edinbrugh.

-  Edinburgh Castle and Scott Monument (crescent moon)

-  John Knox House (crescent moon)

-  Holyrood Palace and Arthur's Seat (crescent moon)

-  Holyrood Palace and Arthur's Seat (full moon)

-  National Galleries (crescent moon)

Posted 1903-06.

Hold to Light Postcards

[further comments]

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Thank you to Phil WIlson of  Aberdeen, who read my brief comments accompanying this card  and replied:

Wolff Hagelberg

[further comments]

Thank you to John Hatfield for providing a lot more information about the Wolff Hagelberg company.  A few details from Jon's notes are included below:

- W R & S  (William Ritchie & Sons Ltd)

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WR&S appear to have produced many postcards of Edinburgh and elsewhere. Almost all are in their Reliable Series.  They have small 'WR&S shield' between the words 'RELIABLE' and 'SERIES.

There are many different styles of back. My collection of about 100 WR&S cards of Edinburgh includes about 30 different styles of back.  I have sorted these into broad categories for the table below..

Some of the cards are numbered, others are not. If you can tell me anything about the numbering and dating of WR&S cards, please e-mail me.  Thank you.

Meanwhile, here is what I have discovered to date. 

Where the number includes a '/' the first part of the number seems to indicate the location:

-  340 for many of the Edinburgh cards

-  587 for Lochgoilhead, Argyleshire, Scotland.  Thank you to Mark Morpurgo of the Loch Goil Local History Society for telling me of cards 587/39, 587/40, 587/42, 587/46, 587/49, 587/53, 587/54, 587/115, all from the Lochgoilhead area.

The table below showing some of the postcard numbers, styles of back and dates of posting may also he helpful in dating cards.

WR&S Postcard Numbers

I would be pleased to hear from anybody who has investigated the numbering systems used by WR&S.  If you are able to tell me how these numbering systems operated (e.g. can the date of publication be determined from the number?) please e-mail me.  Thank you.  -  Peter Stubbs

Reliable Series 

Castle Series 

Intaglio Series 

Waterette Series 

Unnamed Series 

Please click here for further details of W R & S publications

-  W & T

I know of only 2 cards in this series.  The first two below are in the collection of Malcolm Cant.  I was told about the third by Barb Becker, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada in January 2007.

Mayfield Series

-  Blacket Avenue, Edinburgh    Posted 1908

-  Mayfield Terrace, Edinburgh   Posted 1909

-  Minto Street, looking north, Edinburgh  (No 340/70) Posted 1907

-  Waddell, Corstorphine

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- Convalescent House at Murrayfield   (sepia)

- Rest and be Thankful, Corstorphine   (black + white)

Both cards posted 1912

-  Walker, John & Co  London

[no named series]

- Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket

Geographical Series

This series combined a map of Edinburgh, Leith and Mid Lothian engraved by Bartholemew with a small view of Edinburgh

-  Princes Street

-  Holyrood Palace

-  No. 120:  Map: Central Edinburgh  -  Photo: Scott Monument

-  No. 121:  Map: ?  -  Photo: Princes Street

-  No. 122:  Map: ?  -  Photo: Holyrood Palace

-  No. 123:  Map: Edinburgh & East Neuk of Fife  -  Photo: Edinburgh Castle + Galleries

-  No. 124:  Map: Central Scotland  -  Photo: Calton Hill

-  No. 125:  Map: Edinburgh to the Forth Bridge  -  Photo: Forth Bridge

Thank you to Julian Atkinson, for giving me details of  postcards 121 and 122, to help me to complete the list above.

Bell's Series

A sepia view

- MacVitties & Price, The Edinburgh Biscuit Works (beside the railway)

-  Walsh, A

- Comely Bank Street

-  Walter Scott

Colour Series

- Greyfriars' Kirkyard

-  Wane, M & Co

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M Wane & Co -  Photographs from the 1886 International Exhibition  'Old Edinburgh Exhibit'

-  A Booth, Old Edinburgh  -  No 53

-  Black Turnpike, Old Edinburgh  -  No 56

-  Cardinal Beaton's House, Old Edinburgh  -  No 4

-  The Nether Bow, Old Edinburgh  -  No 58

Posted 1905-06

M Wane & Co -  North British Railway Series

-  Princes Street from the Rutland Hotel

M Wane & Co, Edinbro'  ( numbered)

-  Edinburgh Castle and Ross Fountain  -  No 64

-  Edinburgh from the Castle, looking East  -  No 80

-  Holyrood Chapel  -  No 68

-  Musselburgh, Roman Bridge  - No 9

-  Musselburgh, Public Park  - No 36

-  Portobello Beach  -  No 140

-  St Giles Church  -  No 50

Posted 1903-10

M Wane & Co, Edinbro'  (not numbered)
Some of these are black + white, others are coloured.

-  A Scottish Piper, Ross tartan

-  A Scottish Piper, Murray tartan

-  A Scottish Piper, McDonald tartan

-  Calton Hill

-  Dean Bridge

-  Donkeys on Portobello Beach

-  Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket

-  Fettes College

-  Forth Bridge

-  John Knox House

-  Princes Street and NB Hotel

-  Princes Street from Rutland Hotel

-  Princes Street Gardens, Band Day

-  St Bernard's Well, Stockbridge

-  St Giles Church

-  Spectators at Royal Review (two different views)

Posted 1904-07

M W & Co, E.

-  Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket

-  Holyrood Palace

-  Princes Street from Rutland Hotel

-  Post Office and Waterloo Place

Posted 1904

M Wane & Co's Series

-  Fishing Study  -  from a Medal Photograph

-  Duddingston Church, in winter

One posted 1903

JM & Co  -  Caledonia Series

This is a little confusing.  The cards below are all attributed to MW&Co,E  (i.e. Marshall Wane) on the front, and are described as 'JM&Co -Caledonia Series' on the back.

I also have other cards in the JM & Co Series that make no reference to MW & Co, and I have yet more Caledonia Series cards that make no reference to either MW & Co or JM & Co.

-  Holyrood Palace (black + white)

-  Post Office and Waterloo Place  (black + white)

-  Princes Street from the Rutland Hotel (sepia)

-  Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket  (black + white)

Three posted 1904, one not posted.

Marshall wane also produced a set of postcards for the Caledonian Railway.
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-  The Ward Gallery  124 King's Road, London SW3

Postcard reproductions of coloured lithographs of Edinburgh

a set of at least 4 postcards

-  Bowhead House, Edinburgh (lithograph by W Leitch):  PC 701

-  Princes Street, Edinburgh (from a contemporary lithograph):  PC 702

-  Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket (from an early lithograph):  PC 703

-  New Assembly Hall, Castle Hill, Edinburgh (lithograph by W Leitch):  PC 704

-  Watson, A Swan  Leith

- Edinburgh,  Canongate Tolbooth    not posted

-  Waterson & Johnston  Leith

- The Ministers' Daughters' College in Edinburgh

Posted 1904

-  Weierter, E    Corstorphine, Edinburgh

Some postcards with black and white sketches of Edinburgh have been produced by E Weierter.  There is no date or publisher's name on the cards.

One of the cards features a few shops in St John's Road Corstorphine.  The shop on the left of the picture is 'Weierter & Son, Grocers and Provision Merchants.

All the views on the cards may well be in and around Corstorphine in West Edinburgh.  None of these cards has been sent through the post.

These are the cards that I have seen to date:

-  Corstorphine Smiddy

-  Featherhall Farmhouse and Dairy

-  Ferrybank

-  Horse-Bus Garage and Manager's House  (What is the address?)

-  Ladywell Cottages

-  Rose Cottage and Movern House

-  St John's Road, Corstorphine

-  Welsh, A

Black + white postcards

- Comely Bank Street, Edinburgh

- Comely Bank Avenue, Edinburgh

-  Wedekind & Co   Printers, London

I have seen only one postcard printed by Wedekind & Co, London.  It comes from the collection of Malcolm Cant

- Calton Hotel  (pencil sketches exterior and several interior, red)

-  White, David   Dundee

Some of these post cards were produced from GW Wilson negatives

- Central Edinburgh

-  White, J B Dundee

For further details of J B White's business, please see:

- Coloured postcards

- History of the company

- Postcard Numbering

- Thumbnail images

- Trademarks

Best of All Series

-    Tartan border postcards:
 - 5 Central Edinburgh
 - 1 Forth Bridge

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2.  Sepia postcards:
- St Giles Church
- Arthur's Seat.
Many more were produced, including many photographs by R A Rayner.

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3.  Black + White postcards:
- Princes Street looking west
- Scott Monument

None of the above have been posted.

I know of thee unpublished albums of postcards produced by this company.  I believe that these were used by company representatives selling J B White postcards to shops.  The albums are titled:

R A Rayner

Many of the cards in these albums use photographs taken in and around Edinburgh  by  R A Rayner.

-  Whiteholme of Dundee   Is this a continuation of Whitehouse, Dundee?

Jigsaws

Whiteholm also printed jigsaw puzzles.  I have been shown one titled:

'The Pipe Band of the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards'.

I don't know when these were made or what other titles they sold.

-  Wilberforce Lodge IOGT

I have seen only one postcard from this publisher. 

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- Portobello (six views) Posted 1906

-  Wilson, G W Aberdeen

Some are black and white post cards in black oval surrounds; 

Others are coloured post card.

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- Central Edinburgh (several different post cards)

- Newhaven Fishwives

Posted 1903-04]

The George Washington Wilson (GWW) archive of photographs is held by Aberdeen University Library.

-  Wood, WM, 28, Broughton Street, Edinburgh

I have only seen one postcard with this name printed on the back.  It is a Valentine postcard, so presumably WM Wood, Broughton Street is the shop where the card was sold.  The card comes from Malcolm Cant's collection

- Catholic Apostolic Church and Broughton Street, Edinburgh  (JV 60747)

-  Woodmansterne Publications Watford

Produced for the National Trust

- Gladstone's Land  (A1094)

- The Georgian House in Charlotte Square  On sale 2001

- The Georgian House in Charlotte Square  (interior views, A1082, A1083, A1084, A1085))

-  Woolstone Bros  London

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Milton Art Record Series

- Market Cross in Edinburgh Royal Mile

Milton Fac-Simile Sunset Series

- Register House

Milton Glazette Series

- Calton Hill  (tartan border)  

- Scott Monument  (tartan border)

Posted 1910

Milton Photolete Series

- Castle, Princes St.

Posted 1920

Milton Renowned Series

Several small views

- Scottish American War Memorial

- Portobello

Milton [no named series]

- Edinburgh Zoo Entrance

Posted 1930

-  Wrench   London

The company was established as E Wrench in 1900 at 20 Haymarket, London, and soon moved to Arthur Street, London.

The company became E Wrench Ltd in 1902   It held a large percentage of the postcard market in the early 1900s but ran into trouble through exclusively selling its own cards. 

The company became Wrench Postcards in 1904 but soon ran into difficulties and closed (I have read 'in 1904' and 'in1906' from different sources). The company's problems were caused by exclusively carrying their own products in their many shops.

I have a number of cards.  All have the name 'WRENCH' in an oval and s 'Wrench Series' number.  One of my 'undivided backs' cards [No 269} was printed in England.  The other three of my 'undivided backs' cards and all my 'divided backs' cards were printed in Saxony

Undivided Backs

-  Edinburgh:  No 266 **

-  Museum of Antiquities:   No 267   Posted 1905

-  Waterloo Place:  No 268 *

-  Scott Memorial:   No 269   Posted 1903

-  St Giles Cathedral:   No 270 *

-  Edinburgh Castle:  No 271  Posted 1930

-  The Forth Bridge:  No 272 **

-  Arthur's Seat:  No 273 **

-  Queen Mary's Bedroom, Holyrood Palace:  No 274 **

-  Holyrood Palace:  No 275  Not posted

Divided Backs

-  The Beach, Portobello:  No 2527   Posted 2010

-  West Sands, Portobello:  No 2529   Not posted

-  Portobello High Street:   No 2530   Not posted

-  Duddingston Loch, from Queen's Drive:   No 8095  Not posted

-  The Esplanade, Joppa:  No 8319 Not posted

-  Joppa, General View:   No 8324   Posted 1904

-  Edinburgh Castle, from the Grassmarket:  No 11,260 Not posted

*  I have included these cards in the list, even though they are not in my collection. I don't know anything about these cards apart from its title and number.  However, thank you to Derek Robertson for telling me about its title and number (Feb 8 + Apr 23, 2012)

** Thank you to Derek Robertson for also telling me about these three Wrench cards. all currently being offered for sale on eBay when Derek contacted me. (May 1, 2012).)

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