The Calotype Club. Edinburgh. Photographic albums
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History
These two albums of the Edinburgh Calotype Club, the first photographic
club in the world, are among the earliest photograph albums in the world
ever assembled. They contain over 300 images by a group of pioneering
Scottish photographers working in Edinburgh and St. Andrews.
The Club is the oldest photographic club in the world and these collections
of photographs arranged in two volumes - volume one is held at the National
Library of Scotland; a second volume, which we have termed ‘volume
two’ is held at Edinburgh Central Library. Apparently there were
no articles of association and no minutes were kept of meetings. By all
accounts it was quite an informal, convivial affair:
‘The meetings were held periodically at the houses of
the members alternately, and generally each took the form of a breakfast,
although when some greater step than ordinary had been made in advance
it was generally honoured by being introduced to the members at a formal
dinner’.