Patrick Geddes: front row centre; Anna Geddes behind Patrick Geddes to the left; Thomas R. Marr: front row, furthest to the left.
'Audet et Gaulard lith.'
'Imp. Firmin Didot et Cie Paris'
'D'après un dessin de Janet, du Cabinet de l'Editeur.'
'Humblot inv.'
'Tom. 6. pag. 390.' endorsed in top margin.
[The Ablution of the black man after Hendrick (III) from Cleve]
'I Sadeler sc. et ex.'
Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (Leipzig: Engelmann, E.A. Seemann, 1907-1950), 29. p. 301, No. 4; see also Hollstein, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich, Dutch and Flemish etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 (Amsterdam: van Gendt, 1949- ), 21, p. 179, no. 581.
'E. [Alister] 1899 Hubert [ ] M. Walker N.Y. Elizabeth [ ] Jackson Ernest [ ] Jackson [Lev[ ][ ]' card signed in various manuscript in pencil.
On the reverse photo engraving of a ship 'Naval Review-Fleet Saluting'
From The Evergreen, No. 1, spring 1895, p. 39.
'Sir E. J. Poynter FRA'
'Reproduced by permission from the original in the possession of the Liverpool Corporation' endorsed in top margin
'No 1131 Florence, Offices.' endorsed in bottom margin
Maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of Afghanistan, Africa, Algeria, Antarctica, Arabia, Arctic and North Pole, Asia, Australasia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, British Isles, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Indies, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland and Greenland, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Natal, Nepal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, North America, Norway, Nyasaland Protectorate, Pacific Islands, Palestine, Panama, Persia, Poland, Polynesia, Portugal, Rhodesia, St. Helena, Scandinavia, Siam, South America, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tibet, Transjordan, Turkey, Uganda, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United States of America, West Indies, The World, Yemen and Yugoslavia, various countries and unidentified and unallocated cities, landscapes, gardens and architecture. There is also a series of ideal and speculative town planning schemes and architectural designs.
The series reflects the national-political background against which Geddes was pursuing his idea of regionalism.