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Call Number: |
PH-00002 |
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Collection Name: |
Hill & Adamson Photography Collection |
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Creator: |
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No. of Items: |
109 photographs |
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Span Dates: |
1843-circa 1910 |
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Description: |
The Hill & Adamson Collection is comprised of 1 calotype (paper negative) and 37 loose salted paper prints made by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson (Hill & Adamson), 47 carbon prints made by T. & R. Annan from Hill & Adamson negatives, 1 carbon print made by Thomas Annan of his portrait of Hill, 1 carbon print made by J. Inglis from a Hill & Adamson print, 20 photogravures and 1 bromide print made by J. Craig Annan from Hill & Adamson negatives, and 1 lithograph by J. Smyth. Depicted are the life and landscape of eastern Scotland, including fishermen and women of Newhaven, scenes of Edinburgh, particularly around Greyfriars’ and Calton Hill, and scenes of St. Andrews. The collection also contains portraits of prominent men and women of the day, and friends and acquaintances of Hill and Adamson. |
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Accession No(s): |
964:0062:0001-0089; 964:0063:0001-0020 |
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Finding Aid URL: |
https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00661 |
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Location(s): |
Special permission required 10 osb (Boxes 1-9, Calotypes album) |
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See Also: |
Views in Perthshire call no. f DA 880 P4 H5 HRC-P The Land of Burns... vol. 1-2 call no. PR 4334 W6 1840 HRC-P Lake Price Album: Lake Price Album (964:0581:0024) call no. f TR 655.11 P853 HRC-P 100 Calotypes by D. O. Hill. R.S.A. and R. Adamson: 100 Calotypes by D. O. Hill. R.S.A. and R. Adamson (a.k.a. Stanfield album, 100 Calotype Sketches) call no. f TR 395 H553 HRC-P Robert Adamson Photography Collection David Octavius Hill Photography Collection Camera Work: Camera Work, issue 1905 no.11, call no. q TR 1 C5 HRC-P |