Collection of Edinburgh photographs published online

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Hundreds of images of Edinburgh from the Central Library collections are now available for viewing online at a recently-launched website.

The Central Library has thousands of images in its collections but until now access has been limited.

Funded by Edinburgh World Heritage and the Scottish Government, plans to digitise the images have been made a reality. The project officially began in July 2006 and the organisers hope to have the first phase completed by this summer with over 20,000 images online.

Currently the images available on the website come from the Edinburgh Room, which is the largest of the Central Library collections. These include images by the revolutionary Scottish photographers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson.

Long-term intentions are to digitise the entire collection.

Alison Stoddart, Heritage Projects Officer told The Journal: “We have taken a systematic approach to digitising as one of the aims [of the project] is to give much wider access to the collections, so very little is excluded from digitisation."

An exhibition, Edinburgh Past and Present, is currently taking place to launch the website.

Images from the collections, chosen by well-known residents past and present, including championship swimmer Kirsty Balfour and comedian Rory Bremner, are on display at the Central Library on George IV Bridge until Friday 11 April.

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