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EPS Lectures
Round About the Farm
Jessie
Patrick Findlay provided the text and James Patrick provided the photographs for a couple
of the Edinburgh Photographic Society
Popular Meetings in the 1890s
She also presented her own paper to the first EPS Popular Evening of
1893, held in Queen Street Hall on 27 January. Popular evenings were
open to the public and attracted attendances of up to a thousand.
The title of the Paper on 27 January 1893 was: 'Round About the
Farm'.
Jessie described life away from the City and the opportunities it
offered to the landscape photographer. Her talk was
illustrated with views taken round about the farm at Swanston, at the foot
of the Pentland Hills, 'little beyond a mile o' Edinburgh toun",
with its farm and "but and ben", a small picturesque thatched
cottage in which she had lived for a month.
The slides showed scenes in summer, autumn and winter, including
field-workers, the shepherd with his crook, dogs and flock of sheep, a
group of highland cattle, the last furrow, cutting the corn and many
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