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Viewing rooms

The Archive aims to ensure that access to the collections is as effective, efficient and informed as possible. The Archive provides access to the collections to individuals and groups, on-site at…  

Using the collection

Research, Broadcast, Community Screenings, Learning, Exhibition, Creativity, Copies For Commercial Use The Archive offers a professional service, and a research service to companies and…  

Search the catalogue

You can search for the Archive's materials from the Library. If you would like to view or listen to material from the Catalogue, you will need a valid Library Reader's Ticket. Please note: as…  

Discover

It’s always exciting to see a person or place that’s familiar to you come to life on the screen, especially if you didn’t know such footage existed. Over the years, the Archive has been collecting…  

P B Abery Collection

Before his death in 1948 Percy Benzie Abery selected 1580 of his glass negatives and gifted them to the National Library of Wales. History of P B Abery P B Abery was born in Folkestone, one of…  

William Harwood

History of William Harwood William Harwood was born in Stalybridge and brought up in nearby Dukinfield. The family lived at 29 Kay Street for over twenty years. Harwood and his three sisters were…  

Julian Sheppard Collection

Julian Sheppard is a Cardiff based photographer who studied at Guildford School of Photography. In 1967 he was first commissioned by the Welsh Arts Council to take portraits of the leading lights…  

Ancient Egypt

With the arrival of tour parties organised by Thomas Cook in the early 1860s and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 interest in Ancient Egypt surged. Suddenly photographs of temples, statues and…  

Photographs of transport

Since the earliest days of photography modes of transport have been a topic to inspire photographers. Early transport Some of the earliest photographs taken in Wales were of sailing ships at…  

Kerry characters

John Wilkes Poundley John Wilkes Poundley (1873-1932) was one of the last in the line of one of the old families of Montgomeryshire. Family tradition stated that the family accompanied Lord Clive…  

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