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Adverts for many trades and businesses appeared at the back of the Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directories. Some of the early adverts had attractive engravings. Others gave an insight into Edinburgh life in the early days of photography. Below are a few categories of advert: |
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Volumes containing calotypes by Hill & Adamson and by Talbot were advertised in The Scotsman in the 1840s. |
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These adverts show some street scenes, including the locations of several Edinburgh businesses in the 19th century. |
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In attracting membership and visitors to their annual photographic exhibitions, Edinburgh's early photographic societies would have had to compete with these entertainments. Here are adverts for some of these rival attractions, together with adverts for entertainments in earlier years where I found these to be interesting. |
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Many of the scenes photographed by Edinburgh's early photographers had previously appeared in engravings. It is interesting to compare the engravings and the photos. Some of Edinburgh's early photographers were engravers before they took up photography. |
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These adverts show the scope of work of a few of Edinburgh's professional photographers, and in some cases the prices they charged. |
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These adverts include postcard publishers |
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These adverts show some Edinburgh street scenes, including several of Edinburgh's shops in the 19th century. |
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These adverts show some of the transport available, and in some cases the speed and cost of this transport, in the early days of photography in Edinburgh. |
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Transactions
of Transactions of Edinburgh Photographic Society were published monthly from 1880 until 1926. These Transactions included many adverts for photographic businesses. There are links to these adverts from the list of photographic trades. |
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