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PSS Photographic Outing |
Photographic Society of Scotland Outing to Craigmillar Castle -1856
© Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services
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PSS Photographic Outing |
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Thomas Keith Here is a stereo pair of prints of a photographic outing to Craigmillar Castle. John Hannavy suggests, in his book Thomas Keith’s Scotland, that this was a Photographic Society of Scotland Outing in 1856. That was the year that the PSS was founded He suggests that Dr Thomas Keith, a PSS Member and one of Scotland’s most talented Victorian amateur photographers, may be one of the photographers in this group. |
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PSS Photographic Outing - Thomas Keith |
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Thank you to Shelley McKinney who wrote: Thomas Keith "I recently purchased a booklet 'Thomas Keith 1827-1895 Surgeon and Photographer' [The Hurd Bequest: Edinburgh Corporation Libraries and Museums Committee, 1966].' This booklet includes a copy of this photograph of Members of the Photographic Society of Scotland on a photographic outing: The booklet says 'Though the figures are not identified, there is a strong resemblance between the hatless gentleman seated against the wall and Thomas Keith, and the foreground camera is of the size and type which was used by him.' " Shelley McKinney, Sacramento, California, USA: September 5, 2008 |
