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From Album 3 (Red)
The opening of the War Memorial in May 1922

The album page is painted with little fairies in the corners.

The Contarini–Rosselli map was designed by Giovanni Matteo Contarini and engraved by Francesco Rosselli. It is a copper-engraved map and was published in Venice or Florence in 1506. Printed only a few years after Columbus, it shows the world from the…

From Album 3 (Red)
People gathered in St Anthony Gardens.

From Album 3 (Red)
View of the War Memorial taken from the beach at Sandy Bank.

Studio portrait. The costume includes a hooded cloak, apron and striped dress

Studio portrait.

Apocalypse of Silos, Beatus world map, with Adam and Eve and the serpent in the Garden of Eden The Mediterranean Sea is represented by a line in the centre, the Red Sea by a vertical line. The land is surrounded by water with fish swimming all…

From Album 3 (Red)
People gathered for an Armistice Service at the War Memorial at Battery Rocks, Penzance

From Album 3 (Red)
A group of people standing around the fountain in St Anthony Gardens. This fountain had originally stood in the forecourt of St. John's Hall and was moved to the Gardens in 1933. The gardens were opened on 31st May 1933.

From Album 3 (Red)
A coloured drawing of an old cottage and barn in Treneere, The name P. Taylor is written in the bottom right-hand corner.

Corner premises at the junction of The Terrace and Wood Street.
Occupied by Mr. Ellis boot and shoe maker and Mr. Langley fruiterer.
Destroyed by fire on 3 October 1882.
Also M.519 and ORCH.SL.0219

An ancient map of the world.
The slide is labelled "Strassburg 9th Century

From Album 3 (Red)

A map showing the Mediterranean area. The map is oriented with east to the top with the British Isles are in the bottom left corner and India and Sri Lanka at the top.
The slide is labelled "British Museum. COT.MS.B.V. fol 56 Anglo Saxon Map Pt…

From Album 3 (Red)

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Map from The Boke of Idrography byJean Rotz, also called Johne Rotz. He was a 16th-century French artist-cartographer, born to a Scottish father and a French mother.
The slide is labelled "British Museum Bibl. Reg. 20 E. IX John Rotz. Book of…