- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- MacDuff
- Creator:
- Brown & Rawcliffe, Ltd (Liverpool, England
- Publisher:
- Liverpool, England: Brown & Rawcliffe, Ltd.
- Date of Original:
- 1903/1907
- Subject:
- Clans--Scotland
MacDuff family
Tartans--Scotland
Postcards--Scotland - Location:
- United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh, 55.95206, -3.19648
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (tinted halftone, divided back, 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches) titled MacDuff - The card features the Edinburgh Coat of Arms and an inset depicting Castle Rock & Ross Fountain, Edinburgh, surrounded by the clan tartan border. The Ross Fountain is not Scottish-made and was in fact a creation of the Antoine Durenne iron foundry in Sommevoire, 150 miles south-east of Paris, France. A prototype of the fountain had been commissioned to appear in the International Exhibition held in London in 1862. One of the visitors to the exhibition was elderly Edinburgh gun-maker and philanthropist, Daniel Ross, who decided to purchase it for the princely sum of £2,000 and subsequently gift it to the city of Edinburgh. The fountain was eventually shipped off to Leith in 122 pieces in September 1869. The fountain was not unveiled to the city until 1872. The abundance of naked female figures cause quite a controversy which resulted in its secluded location in the then privately accessed gardens. No descriptive text on reverse. Postage required: Inland 1/2d, Foreign 1d. *Note: B & R’s “Camera” Series was published by Brown & Rawcliffe, Ltd. (1903-1907), a publisher of lithographic postcards of Liverpool, England. These included views of England with a propensity for large Scottish tartan patterned borders and heraldry. Their tinted halftone cards were manufactured in Great Britain.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-442
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-442#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-442/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : tinted halftone. ill.
- Original Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System
- Rights:
-
