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Adverts for many trades and
businesses appeared at the back of the Edinburgh & Leith Post Office
Directories.
Some of the early adverts had attractive engravings.
Others gave an insight into Edinburgh life in the early days of
photography.
Below
are a few categories of advert: |
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Books
Volumes containing calotypes by Hill &
Adamson and by Talbot were advertised in The Scotsman in the 1840s. |
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Businesses
These adverts show
some street scenes, including the locations of several Edinburgh businesses
in the 19th century. |
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Entertainment
In attracting membership
and visitors to their annual photographic exhibitions, Edinburgh's early
photographic societies would have had to compete with these
entertainments. Here are
adverts for some of these rival attractions, together with adverts for
entertainments in earlier years where I found these to be interesting. |
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Engravers
Many of the scenes photographed by Edinburgh's early photographers had
previously appeared in engravings. It is interesting to compare the
engravings and the photos.
Some of Edinburgh's
early photographers were engravers before they took up photography. |
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Menus |
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Music |
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Photographers
These adverts show
the scope of work of a few of Edinburgh's professional photographers, and
in some cases the prices they charged. |
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Publishers
These adverts
include postcard publishers |
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Shops
These adverts show
some Edinburgh street scenes, including several of Edinburgh's shops
in the 19th century. |
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Transport
These adverts show
some of the transport available, and in some cases the speed and cost of
this transport, in the early days of photography in
Edinburgh. |
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Transactions
of
Edinburgh
Photographic Society
Transactions of Edinburgh
Photographic Society were published monthly from 1880 until 1926.
These Transactions included many adverts
for photographic businesses. There are links to these adverts from
the list of photographic
trades. |
