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DUNDEE IN DAYS GONE BY

Find out how your ancestors lived and worked in Dundee in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

The tenement building where your great-grandmother gave birth may no longer exist, the jute mill where she worked as a winder may long since have closed its doors, but it is still possible to breathe life into the derelict and the forgotten by looking at PHOTOPOLIS.

Photopolis is a major photographic digitisation project by Dundee City Council, which comprises mainly of photographs from the Alexander Wilson collection. Wilson recorded the changing face of Dundee architecture from the 1870’s to 1905 and subsequently bequeathed most of his collection to the city

Photographs which are not yet available on-line can be viewed in the Local Studies Department of Dundee Central Library and in Dundee City Archives.

The web address for Photopolis is www.dundeecity.gov.uk/photodb.