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Valentine Post Cards

Rock House Studio

 Calton Hill

Rock House is the building at the right-end of the upper row of houses in the picture on the postcards below.

 

Waterloo Place and Calton Hill

Postcards  -  Valentine & Sons

Valentine & Sons made good use of their negatives.  Sometimes, the same negative would be used as a basis for many issues of postcard, perhaps published over several decades.

All seven postcards below have used the same 1902 negative.  It sometimes appears in black and white, sometimes in sepia, sometimes hand-tinted, and with and without tartan border, and in the later years with some of the transport removed.  This card continued to be sold up to the late-1930s.

 

Calton Hill  -   Post Card 1

This view looks along Waterloo Place to Calton Hill.

Rock House Studio is at the right-hand end of the upper row of houses.

This card was sent through the post in August 1904.

Valentine Postcard 1 - Waterloo Place and Calton Hill

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

Calton Hill  -   Post Card 2

Here is the same view but cropped a little.  The cable car is less obvious here.

Valentine Postcard 2 - Waterloo Place and Calton Hil

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

Calton Hill  -   Post Card 3

The view has been converted to mat sepia and cropped more.

The only transport left in this photo is the horse and cart.

Valentine Postcard 3 - Waterloo Place and Calton Hil

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

Calton Hill  -   Post Card 4

The card is now produced as glossy sepia

The horse and cart have now been removed, but not the men standing behind it.

This card was sent through the post in July 1934.

Valentine Postcard 4- Waterloo Place and Calton Hil

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

Calton Hill  -   Post Card 5

Here the picture has been colour tinted.

The artist seems to have forgotten about the pavement in the foreground.

Valentine Postcard 5 - Waterloo Place and Calton Hil

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

Calton Hill  -   Post Card 6

This time, the photo has been given a clear blue sky and a tartan border.

Valentines added a range of tartan borders to many of their Edinburgh views.

Valentine Postcard 6 - Waterloo Place and Calton Hil

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

Calton Hill  -   Post Card 7

Here it is again.  The previous two tinted views were glossy.  This one is mat.

Valentine Postcard 7 - Waterloo Place and Calton Hil

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

 

Detail from the Post Cards

Valentines sometimes added poeple or vehicles to their postcards to add more interest or to create a different atmosphere, perhaps elegantly dressed ladies would be added to the streets in the suburbs of Edinburgh.

Below we see  Valentine not only removed some of the transport from their photo, but also added a couple of walkers

Detail from Valentine's
Postcard 2 above (in sepia)

Rock House - Valentine post card 3 - detail ©

Detail from Valentine's
Postcard 3 above

Rock House - Valentine Post Card 4 - detail ©

 

 

 

Rock House Studio

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EdinPhoto - Home Page      Please send me an e-mail ... with your questions, comments, suggestions or news.      At any time, you can search for a word - perhaps a photographer's name or a photographic topic. The search will produce a list of pages on the EdinPhoto web site where this word appears.            At any time, you can search for a word - perhaps a photographer's name or a photographic topic. The search will produce a list of pages on the EdinPhoto web site where this word appears.

Photographs and Other Images - These include portraits of photographers - photographic outings - Princes Street views - Newhaven Fishwives - etc.  Early Photography in Edinburgh - Talbot, Brewster, Hill & Adamson, Early Professional Photographers in Princes Street, etc.  Professional Photographers in Edinburgh - 1840 to 1940 - Their names, dates of business and studio addresses.  The Photographic Society of Scotland - 1856 to 1873 - Lectures, Exhibitions, Outings, etc.  The History of Edinburgh Photographic Society - 1861 to date - Lectures, Exhibitions, Outings, Poems, etc.  EPS Publications - EPS Handwritten Records - Photographic Journals - Trade Directories - Books - etc.  Thanks to all who have encouraged and supported me in creating the EdinPhoto web site - including descendants of photogrpahers - researchers - providers of photographs and other material  Background notes on the research thal led up to the creation of this site - together with lists of new material added to the site since its launch.  Brief comments on how this site might be used - Just browsing? - Seeking specific information?  Please add your questions, suggestions or other comments to the Guest Book.  Links to other web sites - Photographic Societies - Photographic History - Family History - etc.  Click here to find the link to the Edinburgh Photogrpahic Society web site.  Details of who owns the copyright of photographs and other mateiral on this web site.

A selection of my photographs, many from Edinburgh throughout the year. Also photos from Scotland, London, Iceland, Italy, Hong Kong and elsewhere    Many old maps of Edinburgh (Old Town, New Town, while City), Leith and Newhaven. Includes several old transport maps and a comparison of old maps with recent aerial photos.   Old engravings, mailly of Edinburgh scenes. Some from the 1820s, some from the 1890s, some others - includes many hand-coloured examples from the 1820s.   News from Edinburgh today - Events, Collections, Buildings and Gardens, Transport   This site includes 1. Post card portraits taken in studios in Edinburgh: 2. Post card views either takeen/published by Ediburgh photographers or views of Edinburgh, or both.y Edinburgh    Views of Edinburgh, grouped into three sections: 1. Street views: 2. Buildings: 3. Around Edinburgh   Views of transport around Edinburgh - Horse drawn trams and buses, cable cars, electric trams, buses and a few railway photos. Also several maps of Edinburgh's bus and tram routes.   Summary of the updates added to this site each month since the site was launched   Frequently Asked Questions

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