John R Russell was
listed in the Edinburgh trade
directories as:
Wholesale
Stationer and Photographer.
He was listed in the trade directories from 1908 until 1929, though he appears
to have been in business earlier. Many of the postcards below were posted
as early as 1904.
Portraits
John R Russell published a series of postcards of clergymen,
many of the photos having been taken by
John R Russell published a wide variety of views in black and white, sepia
and colour in the early 1900s. A few of these bore the name of another
photographer including
James
Valentine.