Browse Collections (42 total)

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

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

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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

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

Taken by Dr Ferguson over a ten year period,…

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

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

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

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…