[Edinburgh Improvement Trust photographs /
Burns, Archibald,1831-1880.
Edinburgh Improvement Trust (Edinburgh)
still image
[Edinburgh : Archibald Burns,
ca. 1870]
24 photographs were taken by Burns in November and December 1870 as a record of the empty buildings that were about to be demolished in the area between the Cowgate and Chambers Street, Edinburgh. Two additional photographs were also taken of the Old Customs House on the Netherbow, on the Royal Mile, which was about to be demolished.
Salt paper prints from wet collodion negatives.
Also includes, in Box 1, plan of the Cowgate area,  with location of where the photographs numbered on the plan, and sketch of buildings in Lawnmarket.
Prints were originally pasted in to a 19th-century album, they have been removed from the album and placed in window mounts and arranged in the numerical order of the location of the photographs on the plan of the Cowgate area.
Box 1: 1. Gaelic Church, College Street -- 2. Gaelic Church, College Street -- 3. Head of Horse Wynd -- 4. East side of Horse Wynd -- 5. East side of Horse Wynd -- 6. West side of horse wynd -- 7. Back of houses on east side of Horse Wynd -- 8. West side of Horse Wynd -- 9. Corner of Horse Wynd & Cowgate looking east -- 10. Symson the printer's house in the Cowgate -- 11. In the Cowgate -- 12. Back of the east side of Horse Wynd.
Box 2: 13. Back view of house east side of College Wynd -- 14. East side of College Wynd -- 15. College Wynd  (houses on west side of College Wynd) -- 16. Houses at head of College Wynd -- 17. Head of College Wynd -- 18. College Wynd -- 19. College Wynd -- 20. College Wynd -- 21. College Wynd -- 22. North side College Street -- 23. Hastie's Close -- 24. Hastie's close from College Wynd -- 25. Old Customs house, Netherbow -- 26. Back of Old Custom's house, Netherbow.
Purchased from George P. Johnston in 1929.