Browse Collections (36 total)

The collection came from the Zennor Wayside Museum which was housed at the old mill in Zennor. It was privately run and when the owners retired the…

This collection contains views and images of people taken in the latter part of the 19th early 20th centuries.

It is not possible to identify…

The surname comes from the farm of Trevaskis standing close by Gwinear parish.
W.J. Trevaskis was in a geographically-constrained way a successful…

A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance.
References:
CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1:…

The Stanley Opie Archaeology collection (1001 quarter plate glass negatives) covers archaeological sites and excavations from the 1920s to 1950s. It…

Album with photos and postcards glued in place. Some pages are collaged and some have captions

Serena Wadham (1930-2006) was a photojournalist who was based in Islington from the late 1960s until 1987, when she retired to Cornwall, spending her…

The Richards Collection represents the work of one Penzance family of professional photographers over several generations - from the early 1850s until…

The collection consists of 422 photos which were donated by the St Just in Rosalind and St Mawes Heritage Group. The collection consists of images of…

A collection of images relating to the Penzance County School for Boys which became Penzance County Grammar School and then Humphry Davy Grammar…

The Newlyn Collection, collected and donated by Dr Eric Richards depicts many aspects of life and work in Newlyn between 1880 and 1930. Many of the…

Items digitised from collections in the Morrab Library's archive.

This was started by David Puddifoot as a place to keep photos taken for a calendar in 2022.

Various digitised images from the Morrab Archives. Each with the archival number expressed using dots instead of slashes.

Photos which do not fit into other categories

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