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Charles
McKean
Portobello Photographer |
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Cabinet Prints |
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John and
Charles McKean
I have seen many cabinet
prints by John McKean, but just two by Charles McKean. Here they
are. Please click on them to enlarge them.
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The style of the mounting of
the Charles McKean cabinet print looks to me as if it may have been
produced around 1900.
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Thank you to Archie
Foley and to Margaret Munro, both of Portobello, for telling me about the
Charles McKean cabinet print.
Thank you also to Isabel l Dominy for sending me (on
February 11, 2008) a photograph of another cabinet print by Charles
McKean. |
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Promenade Studio |
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Studio
Addresses
The Charles McKean cabinet prints above have the
address:
Charles McKean, Promenade
Studio, Portobello.
I don't know the number of Charles McKean's studio on the promenade,
but in the early 1900s, there were several photographic
studios on Portobello Promenade, at nos.
24, 25a, 26, 26a, 29 and 47, the last of these being John McKean's studio,
1900-03.). |
UPDATE 1
Thank you to Isabel Dominy, Reading, Berkshire for letting me know that
Charles McKean was, in fact, the son of John McKean
[1901 census]. So, it seems likely that
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UPDATE 2
Thank you to Archie Foley who wrote:
"George Baird's book 'Places of Entertainment in Edinburgh'
(Portobello) has the following entry:
1908-09
Portobello Street Directory
No. 47 Promenade, Next Victoria
Terrace
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This places the studio at the foot of present day Marlborough Street.
I
recently saw a picture postcard showing a large banner advertisement for
the Promenade Studio on that very site."
Archie Foley, Portobello, Edinburgh: February 15,
2008.
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EPS Exhibition |
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Charles McKean may have been the same photographer as the Edinburgh
Photographic Society member, Charles McKean, who was awarded an Honorary
Mention in the EPS Members' Section of the EPS Open Exhibition in 1905 for
his photograph titled "Snow Scene". |
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Question |
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John and
Charles McKean
Is it likely that Charles McKean and John McKean were related?
- Peter Stubbs: August 17, 2007 |
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Update 1 |
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John and
Charles McKean
I have looked again at the Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directories.
These include the Portobello directories. I have found that:
- Between 1882 and 1900, John McKean's address was often given as Junction Bridge Studio, 1,3 Ferry Road,
Leith, though many variations were used, both in the trade directories and on
the back of his photographs.
- Between 1900 and 1903, John McKean appears to
have moved a short distance along Ferry Road to No 15, and to have
opened a studio at 47 Promenade, Portobello.
- John McKean's home address, as listed in the trade
directories, changed in 1899 from 6a Summerside Street (close to his
Ferry Road studio) to Straiton Lodge, Wellington Street (close to his
Portobello studio).
- Charles McKean does not appear to be listed in
the trade directories (at least for the directories that I have checked
- up to 1903). However, the address on his cabinet print is given
as Promenade Studio, Portobello.
This would seem to lend some weight to the idea that John and Charles
McKean may have been related to each other.
The Promenade
Incidentally, Portobello Promenade is first listed in the
Portobello directory in 1900. Perhaps that is when houses,
photographic studios, etc. first began to appear on the promenade.
- Peter Stubbs: August 18, 2007 |
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Update 2 |
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Thank you to Archie Foley, Joppa, Edinburgh who wrote:
The Promenade
"Sections of
the promenade were built at different times had different names and there
were houses and other buildings as can be seen on the 1894 Ordnance Survey
map.
It was Royal
Terrace from around Bath Street to the Pier, then Prince of Wales Terrace
and then Victoria Terrace."
- Archie Foley: August 18, 2007 |
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