British Journal of Photography

and other photographic journals - 1861-1880

Transactions of EPS

1880-1926

Edinburgh Journal

1926 to 1950

Bulletins

Since 1947

 Minute Books

From 1866

Transactions of EPS

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Syllabus

from 1920s

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Edinburgh Photographic Club

1881-1948

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"Originally conceived as a clearing house for new ideas and processes, a sort of upper chamber where the more advanced chemical and physical aspects of photography could be discussed and weighed in the balance of experience."

Old Correspondence

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EPS History

Informal Beginnings

1858

“The Council of PSS understand that it is contemplated to form another Society as an offshoot from this but limited in its Membership to professional gentlemen and directed mainly to the manipulatory departments of the photographic art."

Late-1850s

Informal Meetings were held because there had been no informal discussions after PSS Papers

Early Members - 1867
Presidential Address

“In a good working society, there should be a thorough admixture of different classes of the community among the Members, such as:

-   professionals

-  working amateurs of all ranks

-  others calling themselves amateurs who may have only a general hankering after photographic pursuits.” 

“Ornamental Members, useful from their position and influence in giving a certain status to a society, not to be despised, and in assisting to augment the funds.”

Membership

-  162 Members by 1870

-  374 Members by 1880.

-  343 Members in 1890

    In 1892 EPS bought its own premises

-  509 Members by 1900

    a figure not reached again until 1965.

Annual Subscriptions

Membership Cards  -  1884-85

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Membership Cards  -  1885-86

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Membership Cards  -  1886-87

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EPS Members

Honorary Members - 1862

J Traill Taylor

Founding member and first Secretary of EPS  -  1861

Editor of BJP from 1864

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J Traill Taylor

Portrait  -  Published 1895

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James Valentine

One of the founding members of EPS  -  1861

Later of Valentine & Sons, postcard publishers, Dundee

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Archibald Burns

Founding member of EPS  -  1861

Studio at Rock House

Cartes de Visite, Stereo Views

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of Scotland.  See Copyright Notice

Archibald Burns

Carte de Visite

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Archibald Burns

Carte de Visite

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Archibald Burns

Stereo View 

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EPS Councils

Professional Photographers

EPS Presidents:

• John Thomson 1874-76

• William Neilson 1883-84

• John Moffat 1892-93

• Alex Ayton jun 1894-95

• Frank P Moffat 1896-97

• James Patrick 1897-98

EPS Secretaries:  

• Edwin Musgrave 1867-68

• Edward R Yerbury 1874-76

• Alex Mathison 1876-77

• William T Bashford 1882-85

• George C Mitchell 1886-88

EPS Treasurers:   

• Thomas Pringle 1872-76

• Alex Mathison 1877-79

Alexander Ayton Jun

President of EPS, 1894

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Family of Alexander Ayton Jun.

© The Ayton family.  Reproduced with acknowledgement to Elizabeth Trubuhovich
 (great-granddaughter of Alexander Ayton).  Also husband Ron, sister Alison and niece Christine.

 Alexander Ayton's

Photographic Convention of the UK visits Edinburgh 1892

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Photographic Convention (zoom-in)

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John Moffat

Princes Street Studio

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Talbot by Moffat

Taken at Moffat's Princes Street Studio, Edinburgh, 1864
following a meeting at Photographic Society of Scotland

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by courtesy of the Science and Society Picture Library.

Gladstone by Moffat

Mr & Mrs Gladstone on Mr Binko's Electric Railway  -  1884

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Robert Louis Stevenson by Moffat

Robert Louis Stevenson

 Aged 3

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Robert Louis Stevenson

 Aged 7

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Robert Louis Stevenson

 Aged 15

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Robert Louis Stevenson

 Aged 20

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Archibald H MacLucas

'The grand old man of EPS'

A H MacLucas  -   as a young man

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A H MacLucas  -   in later years

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Norman MacLucas

Newspaper Seller

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Norman MacLucas

Newspaper Seller

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Norman MacLucas

Flower Seller

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Norman MacLucas

Boot Cleaner

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Hippolyte J Blanc

Architect  -  EPS President 1888-92

Hippolyte J Blanc

Raising of St Cuthbert's Parish Church Bell  -  1902

Gracie Alison

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Presentation to Gracie Alison  -  1964

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Portrait by Gracie Alison

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