Edinburgh Calotype Club Album

 Volume 1  -  Tennent's Album

Views

Auction in December 2001

This album was sold by auction in December 2001. 

The auction catalogue illustrates several of the portraits from the album.  I will reproduce some on this web site if I can get copyright permission to do so.

Views

Landscapes in the album include:

-  a photograph by Adamson of his own house

-  overseas views of Naples, Malta and possibly Australia

-  views of Durham,  Peeblesshire, Ayrshire and St Andrews, Fife

There are Edinburgh views of: 

-  Heriot's Hospital

-  Donaldson's Hospital

-  The Scott Monument

-  St Giles Cathedral

-  Edinburgh & Glasgow and North British Railway Station

-  Athol Crescent

-  Greyfriars' Churchyard

-  Charlotte Square

-  Royal Institution

-  National Monument

-  Trinity Chapel

-  St George's Church,

-  John Knox house

Pencils of Light

To see all the photos in the two Edinburgh Calotype Club Albums, please see the National Library of Scotland's web site Pencils of Light.  This site was launched in November 2002.  It displays the photographs as they appear in the original albums, and also has a search facility for finding photographs by subject, location , photographer and keyword.

 

 

Edinburgh Calotype Club

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Newhaven Fishwives  -  from Edinburgh Calotype Club Album  Portraits             Scott Monument  -  from Edinburgh Calotype Club Album  Views

Edinburgh Calotype Club:

Background        BJP Report         Albums

Tennent's Album:

Story           Portraits         Views

Montgomery Family's Album:

Story           Portraits         Views

Photographers

Members        Montgomery       Brewster

National Library of Scotland:

Web Site Link

 

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