Thank you to Ron Cosens who runs
the
Victorian
Image Collection web site for sending
me this copy of a carte de visite by Cumming Brothers.
It has a rubber stamp impression for J D Cumming, Tranent, on the back.
Tranent is in East Lothian, about
ten miles to the east of Edinburgh. In comparison to Edinburgh I would not
have thought there would have been a lot of demand for photography in Tranent.
This carte de visite seems to
demonstrate a connection between Cumming Brothers and J D Cumming, but who was J
D Cumming? Was he James Cumming (above) or was he John Cumming
(above)?
Question
Ron who supplied this image
says.
"Do you know what sort of hat the sitter is
wearing?
Is he in some specific sort of Scottish
workman's clothes?"
I don't know the answers to
these questions. If you can help to answer them, please
e-mail me. Thank you. -
Peter Stubbs