John Rutherford of Jardington Photograph Albums

Albums containing images of scenes and buildings in and around Dumfries, including Crichton Royal Institution, Friars Carse, Dumfries Acadmey, Beattock, Nithsdale, Solway Fishery and the Birrens. Annotations which are no longer visible due to the photographs being attached to card have been recorded on the mount board.

1882-1897

5 volumes (170 photographs)

John Rutherford of Jardington (1843-1925) was an accomplished photographer whose photographs were used to illustrate several published works, including Peter Gray's, 'Dumfriesshire Illustrated I. Nithsdale' published in 1894 and James Carmont's, 'The Crichton Royal Institution', published in 1896.

Carmont, James - The Crichton Royal Institution, DGH1/6/18/42. Gray, Peter - Dumfriesshire Illustrated, Dab (91), held at the Ewart Library, Dumfries.

Enquiries for reproduction for commercial purposes should be directed to the Archivist, Dumfries and Galloway Archives and Local Studies

The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.

These albums were passed to the Health Board Archivist by the Medical Administrator, George Stirling when he retired in 1987. It is thought they were originally deposited at Crichton Royal by one of John Rutherford's relatives. Originally there were two volumes of photographs, but as they required conservation treatment they were remounted and placed in five volumes in 1992/93.