Edinburgh Photographers

Alexander Hutcheson & Son

William J Hutcheson

R C Hutcheson

William J Hutcheson was listed as William J Hutchison in one directory.

The Hutcheson Family

The Hutcheson family were based in Colinton, South of Edinburgh, now within the Edinburgh boundary.

In 1922:  Alexander Hutcheson was Stationer and Newsagent 
William J Hutcheson  [his son?] was Photographer.

1925-58: Alexander Hutcheson & Son were: Stationers, Photographers, etc.

1959-66: Alexander Hutcheson & Son were: Stationers Photographic Dealers, etc.

Alex J Hutcheson

However, Alexander Hutcheson appears to have been producing photographs many years before he first appeared in the Edinburgh trade directories in 1922.

Below is one of several post cards views of Colinton that he produced.  This card by A Hutcheson was published by JR Russell, Edinburgh and has a post mark dated 1905.

Post Card

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View of Water of Leith near Colinton

Alex Hutchison

Questions

1. There was a photographer, Alexander Hutchison, bases at 29 Cockburn Street .  He produced portraits on his cartes de visite.  He advertised on the back of them:

Was this the same man as Alexander Hutcheson of Colinton?

Here are two of his cartes de visite.

I have not found any mention of of this photographer in the trade directories, so do not know when his studio at 29 Cockburn Street operated.

Perhaps somebody with a good knowledge of 19th century fashions will e-mail me and suggest a date for these photos.

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 All the images above are reproduced with acknowledgement to the Scottish Genealogy Society

Question 1

Reply

I've not been able to trace any reference to an Alex Hutcheson in any of the 19th century trade directories, so don't know the dates of the cartes de visite above.

However, I'd like to thank Michael Melrose for sending me images of the front and back of one of his cartes de visite by Alex Hutchison.

-  The front is a studio of a lady standing beside what appears to be the same chair as appears on the two cartes de visite above

-  The back is simpler than above.  It just gives Alex Hutchison's name and address in four lines of print without any artwork.  However his address is the same as above and the same message appears along the bottom of the card:

'Tombs, Monuments &c. photographed'.

There is also a hand-written message on the back, which reads:

'Got this Carte de visite, Oct 1875'.

This suggests to me that the two cartes de visite above may date from around mid- to late-1870s.

Michael Melrose, Greenbank, Edinburgh:  March 2, 2011

Was Alex J Hutcheson of Colinton related to the earlier Edinburgh photographer, RC Hutcheson who had a studio at 4 West Maitland Street, close to the West End of Princes Street, in 1891?

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