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Edinburgh Industrial Brigade and Home portrait
Unknown, 1870, Photograph
Edinburgh Industrial Brigade and Home portrait
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21043
Title
Edinburgh Industrial Brigade and Home portrait of No. 28 on Register.
Description
The portrait of a boy is mounted on a page. The boy has short hair and wears a blazer and beret style hat. The oval portrait is framed by a rectangular border. Above the border the page is titled 'Home for Destitute and Homeless Boys' in stencilled lettering with flourishes. Below the portrait a biblical motto is printed in gothic script.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1870
Size
22.2 x 16.4 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Accompanying text from the The Edinburgh Industrial Brigade and Home for the Rescue of Destitute and Homeless Boys: "I have both a Father and a Mother, but my Father says "I am no his" and will not allow me to call him my Father. I don't know what this means. He lives with my grandmother; he could not live with my Mother, she drinks and is so wild. ...I had a terrible time when I was with Mother, suffering from want of Meat and Clothes-I thought myself well off if I got a biscuit to serve for my Breakfast and Dinner-I never got any supper.
At last my Gandmother took compassion on me, and took me away from my Mother and put some clothes on me-sometime afterwards my Mother got me in the streets and took all my clothes off me. She did this four times. This is the reason my grandmother brought me up to the Brigade."
The Edinburgh Industrial School and Home for the Rescue of Destitute & Homeless Boys was on Grove Street in Fountainbridge. The school took in homeless boys, provided them with education, and found them positions training as apprentices in various trades.
This image comes from a bound volume that contains a photograph and transcription of the life story of each boy.
This item was digitised as part of the Whose Town? project, an educational resource for schools. Unique archival material was gathered together to create a snapshot of a person's life at a particular point in Edinburgh's history.
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Whose Town? Levi Prinski Scott
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