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Alloway Kirk [graphic] / Taken by A. Coates.
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Creator
Coates, Andrew photographer.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
Alloway Kirk [graphic] / Taken by A. Coates.
Publisher
Bristol, Pa
Publisher
PA. Bristol. 1859
Date
ca. 1859
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 7 cm.(3.25 x 6.5 in.)
Description
Shows the ruins of the church built in 1516 in Alloway, Scotland. Also shows a boy sitting in the church graveyard. Site served as the setting for Scotch poet Robert Burns's poem "Tam O'Shanter" (circa 1790) and as the burial ground of Burns's father.
Notes
Title and photographer from accompanying label.
Buff paper mount with square corners.
Paper backing pasted on verso.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of different countries.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 Tam O'Shanter.
Alloway Churchyard (Alloway, Scotland)
Churches -- Scotland -- Alloway.
Cemeteries -- Scotland -- Alloway.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Provenance:
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Coates - Religion [5754.F.48b]
Accession number
5754.F.48b
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