Browse Collections (44 total)

Photographs which have come from multiple sources. They include a huge variety of photos of subjects which appear elsewhere.

The photo Archive has acquired a large number of glass negatives and lantern slides from various donations. The topics range from those with local…

A small collection of photos from the family of Samuel John 'Lamorna' Birch. 1869-1955, the founder of the colony of artists and writers who lived…

This collection comprises of the family photos of Carlene Edith Harry, who was born in Essex in 1937.
She was the only child of Edith Sarah Harry…

A collection of digital images from an album which is not owned by the Morrab Library. A former owner of the album has made these images available to…

Early photos of Penzance people "the great and the good". The pho of Princess Alexandra is part of a lager photo by Robert Preston. We are therefore…

Photographs of items from the Morrab Library's Dawson Napoleonic Collection

Construction of Penzance Distributor Road Started in July 1987

The Chown Collection is a fascinating portrait of Edwardian family life in the village of Townshend. Beautiful composed photographs of horse-drawn…

Caldwell Harpur, (born Elliott Calwell Harpur in Spalford, Nottinghamshire, England on 25 February 1866) kept very detailed diaries from his 14th to…

Blue-black photo album belonging to JM Bellringer containing photographs of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, dated 1895-1896.