Obiter visa : to Alice M. Reid, /
Reid, Arthur Sankey,1858-1930.
Reid, Alice M.,former owner.StEdNL
[Glenalmond : s.n.,
1905-1908].
69 photographs showing views of Scotland and England, dated 1905-1908.The album is in two parts with individual title pages: "Obiter visa" containing 31 photographs of views of Glenalmond College, Perthshire, family portraits and other places in Scotland; "At Glenmarkie" containing 38 photographs of views of the area around Glenmarkie, near Blairgowrie, and portraits of family and friends.
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