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Geoff Charles

Geoff Charles' contribution to Welsh photography is unique. His approach is characterized by both an innate talent and an empathy for his subjects.  He worked as a photojournalist in Wales…  

H W Lloyd

The H W Lloyd collection at The National Library of Wales contains over 400 negatives taken from around 1900 to 1925. The photographer is believed to have been H W Lloyd who, according to the…  

Smartify

Smartify is a worldwide app that allows you to gain access to collections on your smartphone or tablet. By scanning specific items within the Library building, that has been clearly labelled with…  

Senghennydd Disaster

22 postcards by the photographer W Benton, recording the explosion at the Universal pit, Senghennydd on Tuesday, 14 October 1913 when 439 men and boys were killed. [iframe…  

P B Abery

P B Abery, the son of a grocer and one of 13 children, originated from Folkestone, in Kent. He came to live in Builth Wells in 1898. When he was only 21 he bought a small photography business, and…  

Carleton E Watkins

Reference: NLW Photograph Album 542 In 1909 when Sir John Williams donated his collection to the National Library of Wales, among the treasures was a large bound album of photographs of scenes in…  

Photocopying

Photocopying is available in all sizes from A4 up to A0 in black and white and A4 to A3 in colour. The larger copying (A1-A0) is available only from unbound single sheet items. Reduction &…  

John Thomas

Searching the John Thomas collection You can search through John Thomas' collection on the Library's Catalogue Select ‘Digitised Items’ from the first options Under ‘Search filters' select…  

Early Swansea Photography

For about fifteen years in the middle of the nineteenth century certain people in Swansea went 'quite wild' about the new invention of photography.  Margam Castle Daguerreotype The…  

The Cased Photographs Collection

Following the public announcement of the invention of photography in the late 1830s, it became popular both as an amateur pastime and a commercial enterprise. For the first time it was…  

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