Edinburgh Calotype Club

The efforts of the Club's members resulted in the production of two of the world's earliest assembled photographic albums, consisting of more than 300 images.

[1] The membership of the Club was composed of professional gentlemen from a variety of backgrounds - including clerics, academics and physicians - in both Edinburgh and St Andrews.

[1] The club's membership included many notable figures of the time, particularly from Edinburgh and St Andrews, including: The Edinburgh Calotype Club continued meeting until sometime in the 1850s; although the exact date when it ceased to exist is not known, curators at the National Library of Scotland suggest that it was likely around the mid 1850s, "when the albumen and collodion processes superseded the calotype...

"[1] The development of newer photographic technologies meant that photography was opened to a wider audience, and "spread like wildfire over the country.

"[4] Some members of the Club, in particular David Brewster, George Moir and Cosmo Innes, went on to become active in the later Photographic Society of Scotland that was founded in 1856.