Capital Collections

Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services – Image Library

Collections

Welcome to Capital Collections – a choice of images from the collections of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services. Whether you are researching your family tree or doing a school project, you can discover the historical and cultural life of Edinburgh, Scotland and the Scots through this growing image library which includes a wonderful selection of photographs, drawings, watercolours and engravings.

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Copies of many of the images are available to buy. Look at Order Images for more information.

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Exhibitions

On-line exhibitions feature selected images from the collections. Some of the exhibitions are highlighted on the right of this page and a complete listing is available from the menu choice Exhibitions.

Use of the website

Images from this site can be downloaded for personal and educational purposes. Please read the Terms and Conditions and the section on copyright for more information.

Robert Louis Stevenson: Pacific Travels

This exhibition contains images from a photograph album which belonged to Lloyd Osbourne, the step-son of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). The images cover the travels of the Stevenson family during 1889-90 through various Pacific Islands.

Robert Louis Stevenson

This exhibition highlights the Edinburgh of Stevenson's time, showing the dark narrow streets of the Old Town which were to inspire the gothic tale of Jekyll and Hyde and other locations in the city with Stevenson connections.