University of Aberdeen, Photographic Collections

Historic Collections,
King's College,
Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
AB24 3SW
Scotland

Website

On line catalogue

www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Catalogue_online.shtml

E-mail

Special Libraries & Archives

speclib@abdn.ac.uk

Telephone

Special Libraries & Archives

01224 272598

Fax

Departmental Office

01224 273891

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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The University of Aberdeen has in its large and varying photographic collection the George Washington Wilson Collection, which consists of over 40,000 glass plate negatives produced by the Aberdeen photographer's company during the second half of the 19th century. These range from all Britain covering the simple grandeur of Fingal's Cave, to the bustle of London's Oxford Street. His son Charles Wilson, and staff photographer Fred Hardie toured the colonial townships of South Africa and Australia, providing vivid pictures of gold miners and early settlers and the native Aboriginal way of life. This collection also contains images of Gibraltar and the South of Spain, Morocco and Tangiers. Thanks to his proximity to Balmoral Castle he developed a royal connection, taking photographs of the Royal Family of the time. A vast collection of Aberdeen Harbour Board glass plates are also in this collection. Both have been digitized.

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Archive

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Mon-Fri 9.30 - 4.30

Closed: Christmas & New Year Period and certain public holidays

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Historic Collections,
King's College,
Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
AB24 3SW
Scotland

Website

On line catalogue

www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Catalogue_online.shtml

E-mail

Special Libraries & Archives

speclib@abdn.ac.uk

Telephone

Special Libraries & Archives

01224 272598

Fax

Departmental Office

01224 273891

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Collection details

Archives, Photography

Collections services

  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Public access available to collections information
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Historic Collections,
King's College,
Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
AB24 3SW
Scotland

Website

On line catalogue

www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Catalogue_online.shtml

E-mail

Special Libraries & Archives

speclib@abdn.ac.uk

Telephone

Special Libraries & Archives

01224 272598

Fax

Departmental Office

01224 273891

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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