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371 photos and 566 illustrations tagged scotland, from 23 members of Flickr Commons.

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• bldigital
• publicdomain
• mechanicalcurator
• vol0
• large
• pubplacelondon
• rotated
• sherlocknet:tag=house
• sherlocknet:category=landscapes
• sherlocknet:tag=beauty
• sherlocknet:tag=john
• sherlocknet:tag=place
• organization:library=nationallibraryofscotland
• owner:name=nationallibraryofscotland
• nls:source=solrxml
• medium
• sherlocknet:tag=land
• sherlocknet:tag=side
• photographicprints
• railway
• railroadbridges
• nls:dodprojectid=74466699
• sherlocknet:tag=london
• sherlocknet:category=nature

Members using this tag

• British Library 561 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Scotland 184 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 106 photos & illustrations
• National Galleries of Scotland Commons 19 photos & illustrations
• Nasjonalbiblioteket 12 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 11 photos & illustrations
• IWM Collections 8 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 6 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 4 photos & illustrations
• Archives of the Law Society of Ontario 4 photos & illustrations
• The National Archives UK 4 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 3 photos & illustrations

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Iona Cathedraland St. Orans Chapel (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  Iona Abbey , see

• Art Siegel said:

  The J.V. abbreviation indicates it is from Valentine and Sons of Dundee Scotland, founded by early Scottish photographer James Valentine. "Valentine and Sons was a printing company founded in Dundee, Scotland in 1851 by James Valentine (1815–1879), that grew to become Scotland's leading manufacturer of picture postcards." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_%26_Sons en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Valentine_(photographer)

Forth Bridge construction: Queensferry cantilever from end of approach viaduct

from National Library of Scotland

• Flickr said:

  Congrats on Explore! ⭐ January 15, 2024

• Sigurd Krieger said:

  Congrats on Xplore!!

• gato-gato-gato said:

  Absolut gelungen!

• Ian Betley said:

  Congrats on Explore! ❤📷❤ great image! regards.

The wonder of the age!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 20 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  Hmm ... "G. W. W." was George Washington Wilson, a Scottish photographer - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Wilson
  What's going on?

• beachcomber australia said:

  Yes! Here is the original via the University of Aberdeen - digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R/KHTR3U2T8IJS4CT86AHJLH7EPFD7NJ3MV9X...
  
  "G.W.W." took heaps of fabulous Forth Bridge photos - digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R/KHTR3U2T8IJS4CT86AHJLH7EPFD7NJ3MV9X... (4 pages)
  
  Ed. B#&&%R! Links have timed out! Anyone know how to get a permanebt url?
  Ed.2 - Home page - www.abdn.ac.uk/special-collections/george-washington-wils... and search for "Forth Bridge south 10285"

• derangedlemur said:

  I'll have to check when I get home but I think that's the image used in J.F. Gairns' book "Railways For All".

• beachcomber australia said:

  I think the photographer was about here, going by the hills between the spans - goo.gl/maps/96amKMzefBaZmAgb7
  
  Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge , which includes an interesting animation of various notable bridges - upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Comparison_of... , specially for Morning Mary!

• Foxglove said:

  there is a flickrerer (longyester) who has recently (last week or so) posted a morning image of the rail road and new Caledonia crossing all lined in series, definately worth a visir