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Main Street, Newhaven
Begbie, Thomas, 1857, Photograph
Main Street, Newhaven
Main Street, Newhaven
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18434
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Main Street, Newhaven
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Begbie, Thomas
Date
1857
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16.3 x 15.2 cm
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Photograph
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City Art Centre
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The Cavaye Collection of Thomas Begbie Prints ; The City of Edinburgh Council Museums & Galleries
Original caption: View in the Main Street in Newhaven
Newhaven was founded by James IV in 1504 as a royal dockyard. It became an important fishing village, famous initially for oysters and later herring. An indoor fish market was built there in 1896. Newhaven fishwives, with their distinctive striped clothes, sold their goods around Edinburgh. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson famously photographed these fishwives and other Newhaven residents in the 1840's. The area now has a population of roughly five thousand.
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