Browse Collections (43 total)

Family photos taken throughout Barbara's childhood and teenage years. The collection includes photos of her mother Marjorie, nee Stevens and other…

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

Due to the size of some of the images, zooming in will result in pixelation.

You can visit the library on Thursday from 10:00 - 12:00 and request…

The Ferguson Collection consists of colour photographs of architectural details from Cornish churches.

Taken by Dr Ferguson over a ten year period,…

Two family photograph albums related to the Armstrong family.
The larger album is embossed with the initials E.E.A.. The smaller album has a…

This is a wide ranging collection of images which includes photo albums, glass negatives and prints together with a large amount of 35mm slides by…

An album of photos was donated to the library with no information attached other than a signature inscribed inside the cover.
'Florence M. Woodman…

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…

Due to the size of some of the images, zooming in will result in pixelation.

You can visit the library on Thursday from 10:00 - 12:00 and request…

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

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

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

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

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…

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…