Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Glasgow Improvements Act, 1866 : photographs of streets, closes, &c. taken 1868-71.
Call Number
Oversize 2007-0023E
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc2j62sg446
Publisher
[Glasgow? : s.n., 1872?]
Language
English
Date Created
1872
Extent
[1] leaf, 31 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 56 x 44 cm.
Provenance
GAX copy: Bookplate: Faculty of procurators library, presented by Messrs Ronald H. Morrison and Leslie S. Morrison, 2nd May 1928; Bookplate: Kerr & Richardson, wholesale stationers, booksellers, and account-book manufacturers, Glasgow.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
Plate 1. Tontine Buildings, Trongate
plate 2. Trongate, from Tron Steeple
plate 3. High Street, from the Cross
plate 4. High Street, from College Open
plate 5. Close, No. 37 High Street
plate 6. Close, No. 65 High Street
plate 7. Close, No. 75 High Street
plate 8. Close, No. 83 High Street
plate 9. Close, No. 93 High Street
plate 10. Close, No. 101 High Street
plate 11. Close, No. 115 High Street
plate 12. Broad Close, No. 167 High Street
plate 13. Close, No. 80 High Street
plate 14. Old Vennel, off High Street
plate 15. Close, No. 118 High Street
plate 16. Close, No. 148 High Street
plate 17. Bell Street, from High Street
plate 18. Close, No. 29 Gallowgate
plate 19. Saltmarket, from Bridgegate
plate 20. Close, No. 18 Saltmarket
plate 21. Close, No. 28 Saltmarket
plate 22. Close, No. 46 Saltmarket
plate 23. Close, No. 122 Saltmarket
plate 24. Close, No. 128 Saltmarket
plate 25. Close, No. 136 Saltmarket
plate 26. Close, No. 31 Saltmarket
plate 27. Close, No. 61 Saltmarket
plate 28. Closes, Nos. 97 & 103 Saltmarket
plate 29. Close, No. 139 Saltmarket
plate 30. Close, No. 157 Bridgegate
plate 31. Main Street, Gorbals, from Rutherglen Loan.
Notes
Cover title.
Photographs by Thomas Annan; commissioned by Glasgow City Improvement Trust.
Mounted albumen prints.
GAX copy: Each plate has printed label mounted in lower right corner with corresponding number and title from printed contents list; some boards have blind impression from seal: "T. Annan Photo, Glasgow."
GAX copy: Lithograph portrait inserted [Wsh. A. D. Dean's Cornfels?]; removed to British prints collection.
Binding Note
GAX copy: Bound in contemporary green half-morocco portfolio over green buckram boards; gilt Glasgow coat of arms and lettering on cover; "Faculty of procurators in Glasgow" red morocco label with gilt lettering mounted on cover; edges gilt; banded spine gilt in six compartments; green closure ribbons; marbled endpapers and portfolio flaps.

Discovery Information

Subject
Annan, Thomas 1829-1887
Streets—Scotland—Glasgow—Pictorial works
Glasgow (Scotland)—History—Pictorial works
Albumen prints—Scotland—19th century
Armorial bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
41

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e9018977-6899-4ac5-a040-9556e6c1aec4/manifest