Browse Collections (42 total)

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

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

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

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…

The Angove Collection consists of over 3000 photographic prints. Collected by Dick Angove (1917-1992), a prolific writer on all aspects of Cornish…

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

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

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…

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

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

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…

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…