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The map below shows the studios in
Princes 
Street  in the 1850s and 1860s.  Princes Street is the road with 
the tramway track that runs across the bottom of the map.   Princes Street 
has an open outlook to the south, looking over Princes Street Gardens towards 
Edinburgh Castle.  The top floor rooms would have been bright and  
suitable for photography, particularly with the prospect of trade from the 
passing tourists below. This was the street 
chosen by several of Edinburgh's early photographers. 
      The number of early 
      photographic studios in Edinburgh  -  1840 
      to 
      1890 
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