Browse Collections (28 total)

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

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

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

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

An album of 'Cartes de Visites' taken in the 1860s, representing a record of the Penzance middle and upper classes of this era.

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

Photos which do not fit into other categories

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

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

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…

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