Thomas H Douglas

and

William Douglas

Thomas H Douglas

Professional Photographer

Here is a carte de visite portrait of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Sotires Georgiades, photographed by Thomas H Douglas.

 Carte de Visite

of Sotires Georgiades

Photographer:  Thomas H Douglas

©  This photograph is included with  
National Galleries of Scotland permission.
See Copyright Conditions

Thomas H Douglas' first appearance as a professional photographer in the trade directories in 1868.   He continued to be listed in the trade directories for the next three years.

He advertised:

His name appears on the back of cartes de visite from Brown's New Photographic Rooms which opened at Tollcross in 1875.

However, on many of these cartes the name has been scored out in pencil and no other name added in its place.

Thomas H Douglas

Exhibitions

3rd PSS Exhibition, Dec 1858

Thomas H Douglas exhibited two collodion albumen landscapes in the 3rd PSS Exhibition in 1858.

He exhibited  12 cartes de visite in the 9th PSS Exhibition in 1864.

Thomas or William Douglas

Photographs in Collections

I have seen cartes de visite showing scenes of Edinburgh by Douglas, Edinburgh:

-  "High School, Edinburgh"

-  "Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh".

Which Douglas was it who took these photographs?

William Douglas

William Douglas was based  at Douglas's Photographic Studio, Edinburgh.
I have not yet discovered if and how he was related to Thomas H Douglas.  

This is one of many questions I have concerning the Douglas photographers in Edinburgh.

Thank you to Sally Douglas for giving me the following addresses of William Douglas, Edinburgh engraver.  Was he related to William Doulglas photographer, above?

Douglas Family

Douglas  Artists  -  Family Tree

Douglas Photographers  -  Glasgow

Douglas Photographers  -  Census 1861, 1871

Douglas Photographers + Artists  + questions

Stereo Views  -  Edinburgh Castle  -  enlargements

Stereo Views  -  Edinburgh Castle  -  pairs of photographs

Stereo Views  -  Donaldson's Hospital and Calton Jail  -  enlargements

Stereo Views  -  Donaldson's Hospital and Calton Hill  -  pairs of photographs

Douglas Family  -  Updates

Thank you to Sally E Douglas, Australia, for continuing to send me Douglas family details.

I wish all the best to Sally and others who are researching the Douglas family, but unfortunately I don't have the resources to do any more updating to the Douglas family pages on the EdinPhoto web site.

-  Peter Stubbs:  July 13, 2009