Special places archive
July 2006
The old closes and streets of Glasgow
In 1868 the trustees of the City of Glasgow Improvement Trust commissioned the photographer Thomas Annan (1829-1887) to record the slums of Glasgow. Annan’s photographs are featured in this exhibition on the Luminous-Lint website.
These photographs are amongst the earliest taken specifically as a record of housing conditions prior to urban renewal and as such they are an important milestone in the history of documentary photography. [from the website Introduction by D Spencer]
Close No 29 Bridgegate, plate 42 from The old closes & streets of Glasgow. This image is a slightly downsized version of the one on the Luminous-lint website.