The island of Eigg, /
Reid, Arthur Sankey,1858-1930.
Reid, Alice M.,former owner.StEdNL
[Glenalmond? : s.n.,
1898-1901.]
79 photographs depicting the geography and people of Eigg, dated 1898-1901.
The album was produced by Arthur Sankey Reid, a Scottish geologist and science master at Glenalmond College, a private school in Perthshire. The photographs are matte collodion-on-paper. In this process the photographs are printed directly onto the collodion paper by placing the paper under a negative and then developing them by light exposure. The album was a present to his wife Alice M. Reid.
Bound in blue half morocco gilt over buckram.
Collodion process