Group Seated Outside Graveyard, Canongate

Category

Library Item

Item no

17807

Title

Group seated outside graveyard, Canongate

Description

A small group of women and girls are seated around the base of a monument. One of the girls holds a baby. Behind them is an ornate stone and metal fence which borders a graveyard. A male figure in a flat cap watches the scene from the left of the picture.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1909

Size

15.8 x 11.2 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This is a photograph from 'The Life History of a Slum Child' focusing on the community living in the Canongate. The Canongate is the section of Edinburgh's Royal Mile running from the junction with Jeffrey Street to a roundabout almost immediately outside Holyrood Palace.

Accompanying text reads, "And their resting place - in the cool of the evening - is under the shadow of the old Cross of Canongate, before the old graveyard, which is the only green spot in the old romantic street - fitting rest for the tired bodies and fitting rest for the tired eyes - each have their story of Death.

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People > Adults > Women

People > Children > Girls

Places > Edinburgh areas > Canongate

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

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