Wanderings with a camera in Scotland : the photography of Erskine Beveridge
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Erskine Beveridge (1851-1920) was the owner of a Dunfermline based company specialising in the production of fine table and bed linen, with an active interest and enthusiasm for archaeology and history. This illustrated volume highlights a selection of the finest photographs taken by Beveridge between 1880 and 1919. Erskine Beveridge (1851-1920) was the owner of a Dunfermline based company specialising in the production of fine table and bed linen, with an active interest and enthusiasm for archaeology and history. He undertook archaeological excavations in North Uist, carried out detailed surveys of graveyard monuments in Fife, compiled a Bibliography of Dunfermline and West Fife, published volumes on Coll and Tiree, and North Uist, and studied place names and folklore. Beveridge was also a keen amateur photographer, taking pictures on his travels throughout Scotland. From black houses in the Western Isles and Highland crofts in the shadow of Ben Nevis, to remote castles in Argyll and harbour views in Fife, the full collection held in "RCAHMS" contains some 750 of his original glass plate negatives, which were saved from destruction in a mill building in the 1960s. This lavishly illustrated volume highlights a selection of the finest photographs taken by Beveridge between 1880 and 1919. With a biographical introduction by Lesley Ferguson, "The Photography of Erskine Beveridge" illustrates one of Scotland's most remarkable photographic collections.
Main title:
Wanderings with a camera in Scotland : the photography of Erskine Beveridge / Lesley M. Ferguson.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh : Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Mon : [distributor] BookSource, 2009.
Collation:
170 pages : colour illustrations, 150 full ; 22x28 cm.
Notes:
Hardback.Illustrations and text on inside cover.Photographs in the chapter on Fife are as Follows: St. Leonard's Hill House (Dunfermline), St. Leonard's Mill Warehouse (Dunfermline), Erskine Beveridge Bookplate, Charlestown Harbour and limekilns, Anstruther Easter Harbour, Anstruther Wester Harbour, Anstruther Wester Esplanade, Anstruther Wester Old Cornmill and High Street, Boarhills, Craighall Castle, Crail High Street, Crail Marhetgate Denburn House, Crail Marketgate Kirkmay House (interior), Crail Market Cross, Crail Marketgate, Crail Shoregate, Crail Harbour, Crail Rumford, Crail Tolbooth, Hill House (Dunfermline), Earlshall (Leuchars), Earlshall detail of painted ceiling, Kellie Castle, Kilconquhar Church, Kilrenny Church and Village, Kingsbarns Windmill, St. Athenase Parish Church (Leuchars), Lower Largo Harbour, Lower Largo Harbour and flax spinning mill, Newmills, Pittenweem East Shore Harbour, Pittenweem the Gyles and Harbour, Pittenweem Tolbooth and Church, St. Andrews view from St. Rules Tower, St. Andrews Cathedral, St. Andrews Harbour, St. Monance Church and Village, St. Monance East Shore Harbour, Tulliallan Old Parish Church, Upper Largo Church and Village.Ill. and text on inside cover.
System details:
12001.
ISBN:
9781902419527 (hbk)1902419529 (hbk)
Dewey class:
914.11779779.364779.9941779.36411
Local class:
914.11779.36411779.36941.1F/VIEWSF/VIEWS*
Language:
English
Subject:
Beveridge, Erskine, 1851-1920Beveridge, Erskine, 1851-1920Excavations (Archaeology) -- Scotland -- Pictorial worksPhotography, Artistic -- ScotlandPhotographs: collectionsPhotographyLandscape photography -- ScotlandArchitectural photography -- ScotlandScotpubmatScotland -- Rural conditions -- Pictorial worksScotland -- Pictorial worksPhotography -- Collections
Index terms:
OrkneyHoyKirkwallStromness
BRN:
954842
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