Photographic Collection of A. Burn-Murdoch

Collection consists of documentation, miscellaneous papers, photograph and prints 1912-1953; stereoscopic slides and coloured transparencies 1924-1954; artefacts; photograph albums and additional slides 1912-c.1937.

Alexander Burn-Murdoch was an Edinburgh solicitor whose hobby was photography, particularly the taking of autochrome stereoscopic slides. He pioneered stereoscopy with Lumière plates and was a member of L'Association de Lumière in 1911. He was the fifth son of John Burn-Murdoch of Gartincaber, Perthshire and Mary Harriet Burn Callander of Prestonhall, Midlothian. Burn-Murdoch was commissioned in the 8th Royal Scots, serving in France and Ireland during WW1. In 1929 he married Aline, the daughter of Rev WJ Macdonald of Kirkaldy and the widow of Cecil Blake. As Writer to the Signet, Burn-Murdoch lived in Edinburgh, but also kept a house at Boat of Garten

Usually chronological within series.

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The records were donated by Dr Berry in 1989

Alexander Burn-Murdoch was an Edinburgh solicitor whose hobby was photography, particularly the taking of autochrome stereoscopic slides. He pioneered stereoscopy with Lumière plates and was a member of L'Association de Lumière in 1911. He was the fifth son of John Burn-Murdoch of Gartincaber, Perthshire and Mary Harriet Burn Callander of Prestonhall, Midlothian. Burn-Murdoch was commissioned in the 8th Royal Scots, serving in France and Ireland during WW1. In 1929 he married Aline, the daughter of Rev WJ Macdonald of Kirkaldy and the widow of Cecil Blake. As Writer to the Signet, Burn-Murdoch lived in Edinburgh, but also kept a house at Boat of Garten

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The records are on paper and glass and include photographs and artefacts.

Description compiled by Durham Burt, 23rd March 2010

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After Burn-Murdoch's wife's death, a cousin, Dr J Berry, inherited the photographic collection.

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Catalogued

MS 104