Edinburgh, 1929

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2A Arthur Street.

Samples from a collection of photographs by Alfred Henry Rushbrook at the National Library of Scotland’s Flickr pages showing the St Leonards area of Edinburgh. These were taken in 1929 but the age of the buildings and the curiously fogged appearance of the prints makes them seem a lot older. The City of Edinburgh Improvement Trust commissioned Rushbrook to record views of the area before slum clearances took place. In that respect his photos are like a Scots equivalent of the famous views of Paris taken by Atget before Hausmann’s demolition teams set to work.

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2–4 Lothian Street and 3–5–7 Potterow.

Previously on { feuilleton }
Old Bunker Hill
Inondations 1910
Berenice Abbott
Jessie M King’s Grey City of the North
Eugene de Salignac
Luther Gerlach’s Los Angeles
The temples of Angkor
The Bradbury Building: Looking Backward from the Future
Edward Steichen
Karel Plicka’s views of Prague
Atget’s Paris
Downtown LA by Ansel Adams