Kyles

34 Bath Street, Portobello

Cartes de Visite

1877

Enlargement of a carte de visite by William Kyles

The original photograph is mounted on card 4 ins x 2.5 ins.

Carte de visite  -  Kyles  -  34 Bath Street  -  Group

© For permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

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Keith Donaldson

Peebles, Borders, Scotland

Thank you to Keith Donaldson who wrote:

William Kyles

Actors' Troupe?

"I've discovered that the photographer, William Kyles ,  was my Great Grand Uncle, through his sister Margaret who married William MacKay.  Their daughter, Euphemia married my father's father William Donaldson.

I've been intrigued by this photo of a group on the EdinPhoto site.  I've come across this photo before, when it was described as showing an actors' troupe"

Carte de visite  -  Kyles  -  34 Bath Street  -  Group ©

Family Portrait?

"However, and possibly, and rather fancifully, I wonder if this photo might be a family group of William Kyles' own (or possibly my) family.

The sitters in the group appear to have taken up rather relaxed poses in the presence of the photographer - a little unusual in Victorian tim es."

Keith Donaldson, Peebles, Borders, Scotland :  June 8, 2013

Cartes de Visite

Kyles: Thumbnails No address 36 Regent St 33 Bath St 34 Bath St

Kyles & Law: Thumbnails No address 206 High St + 33 Bath St

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