This exhibition features a personal choice of images from Capital Collections by significant people connected with the City.
Images have been selected by:
Douglas Kinloch Anderson - Director of Kinloch Anderson
Kirsty Balfour - International swimmer
Rory Bremner - Satirical impressionist
Sandy Crombie - Group Chief Executive of Standard Life
Rt Hon George Foulkes - MSP
Jamie Fraser - Managing Director of Hamilton & Inches
Malcolm Fraser - Architect
Rt Hon George Grubb - Lord Provost
Rt RevSheilagh Kesting - Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
John Leighton - Director General of the National Galleries of Scotland
Gavin MacDougall - Director of Luath Press
Sheena McDonald - Journalist and Broadcaster
Professor Charles McKean - University of Dundee
David McLetchie - MSP
John McLellan - Editor of the Evening News
Geoffrey Nicholsby - Managing Director Geoffrey (Tailor) Kiltmakers & Weavers
Aileen Patterson - Artist and author
Mike Pringle - MSP
Tony Singh - Head Chef and co-founder of Oloroso Restaurant
Rt Rev Brian Smith - Bishop of Edinburgh
The exhibition gives a unique and personal insight into the lives of some very familiar Edinburgh names and faces and the fabulous image collections of the Edinburgh Room. Collections of photographs, engravings, drawings and watercolours acquired through donation and purchase since the Central Library opened in 1890.
The image library for the collections of Edinburgh Libraries and Museums and Galleries