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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…  

Welsh Tithe Maps

The Library holds a set of tithe maps and associated schedules for Wales. Tithes were payments charged on land users, and payments were originally made using commodities like crops, wool, milk and…  

Nautical Maps

The National Library of Wales has a large collection of charts, mostly modern Admiralty and commercial charts, but also antiquarian charts. Nautical charts (also known as marine or hydrographic…  

Administrative Boundary Maps

The delineation of boundaries is one of the fundamental purposes for which maps are made, both by private individuals and governments.  The history of the mapping of official boundaries in…  

The Welsh National Book of Remembrance

The Welsh National Book of Remembrance for the First World War contains the names of 35,000 servicemen and women, as well as members of Welsh Regiments, who lost their lives in the First World War.…  

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