{"id":501,"date":"2020-09-08T14:06:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dev.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/?page_id=501"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:44:12","slug":"alex-and-uod-archives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/alex-and-uod-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex and UoD Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photographer Alex Coupar photographed Scotland and the Scots for over fifty years, recording the minutiae of ordinary lives as well as civic and national events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dundee University Archive Services are fortunate to have Alex’s collection of work diaries, negatives and prints, dating back to the 1950s until his retirement in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Alex Coupar collection, MS 258, is in the process of being arranged and listed and will hopefully be available for people to use soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information about the Archive and all the collections is available at www.dundee.ac.uk\/archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can contact us at archives@dundee.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alex looking through his collection at UoD Archive Services<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Young sculptor, c1960<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Boat repair, 1960s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Anechoic chamber, University of Dundee, 1970s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dozing in Dundee City Square, c1965<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Daffodil train, Newtyle, 1950s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claypotts Castle, Broughty Ferry, c1960s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Overgate, Dundee, c1975<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lochee Station and tram, 1950s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some images dating from mid-1966 and earlier are potentially copyright of DC Thomson & Co Ltd where Alex was employed as a staff photographer.\u00a0All other images are copyright of Alex Coupar.\u00a0Audio is copyright University of Dundee Archive Services. Nothing to be reproduced without permission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photographer Alex Coupar photographed Scotland and the Scots for over fifty years, recording the minutiae of ordinary lives as well as civic and national events. Dundee University Archive Services are fortunate to have Alex’s collection of work diaries, negatives and prints, dating back to the 1950s until his retirement in 2000. The Alex Coupar collection, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":646,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-501","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}