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Edinburgh Photographer
Claude Low |
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Claude Low
Cabinet Print |
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3 Generations of the Young Family
©
Reproduced with acknowledgement to Russell
Young, Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Thank you to Russell Young, great
grandson of the Edinburgh and Hawick photographer,
George Oman, for providing this
photograph.
- The child in this photo is
James Young, (b.1901)
Grandson of the photographer,
George Oman
- The young man is David Young
(b. 1872).
He married Jemima Oman daughter of
George Oman
(1900).
- The older man is James Young (b. 1837),
father of David Young
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Early 1900s
This cabinet print appears to have been
produced around 1903, about the time that Claude Low's studio opened in
Aberdour.
Cabinet prints were very popular from the late
1860s until around 1900, but most photographers seem to have moved on to
other formats in the very early 1900s. |
Claude
Low - More Postcards
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Please
click here to see thumbnail images of more
Claude Low postcards |
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Claude Low?
Postcard |
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©
Copyright:
For
permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
Here
is another post card, with a similar backdrop to post card 1 above. Was
this also taken by Claude Low. It has no name and address on the
back.
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Claude Low
Comments on the Postcards |
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Cars and
Plane
The
first postcard above features a car in front of a backdrop showing a scene looking to the East along
Princes Street towards the National Galleries of
Scotland, the Scott Monument and the North British Hotel. The
address on the back of this postcard us Claude Low's studio at 72 Princes
Street.
The
other two postcards above also have Claude Low's address at 72 Princes
Street on the back.
I
have also seen a cabinet print by Claude
Low featuring a group sitting in a studio boat with a backdrop of the
Forth Rail Bridge, on display in Robert D Clapperton's Daylight
Photographic Studio, Selkirk.
This cabinet print bore the address: Claude Low,26 Montrose
Terrace, Edinburgh. This is not a studio address that I have found
in any of the trade directories. |
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Question |
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Can anybody tell me
where these photos were taken. My original thought was that they
would have been taken at the address on the back of the picture.
i.e. Claude Low's studio at 72 Princes Street.
However, it has now
been suggested to me that they may have been taken at the Waverley Market
Carnival.
The negative numbers have been placed on the car radiator.
The car seems to have been well used. I have postcards with numbers:
- 493: two men in bowler hats
- 1206: two young men in flat caps
- 1751: family
With acknowledgement
to Stanley K Hunter for raising this question.
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Claude Low
Studios in other Cities
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Claude
(or Claud) Low had studios in Edinburgh between 1896 and 1910.
On the back of his carte de visite from 54 Cockburn Street, he advertised
studios in:
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Aberdour
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Portobello
- Roslin
According to
the Fife trade directories, Claude Low's studio in Aberdour appears
to have operated from 1903 until 1914. It was based at Shore Road,
Aberdour.
From 1914 onwards, the studio at this
address was M Low & Co. I don't know who M Low was.
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Another
of Claude Low's adverts also listed branches at:
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London
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Blackpool
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Rothesay
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Dunoon
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Largs
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etc.
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