Picture Library
Around 50,000 prints, 20,000 negatives, 12,000 slides and 5,000 glass plates offer a photographic record of Dorset from the 19th century onwards.
Images include views of landscapes, towns, villages, buildings and people. They represent the lifestyles and traditions of Dorset over time. Significant photographers featured include Harry Pouncy, Francis Frith and Charles Cornish-Browne. We also hold photographs within our Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Townsend Warner collections.
We are now digitising and cataloguing these collections and can license images where digitised versions are already available. For an additional fee, it is also sometimes possible to commission the digitisation of images identified through research.
Below is a selection of images that are on permanent display in the TASTE café at Dorset Museum.
Important Announcement
Friday 22 September 2023, The Victorian Hall will also be closed all day for a private function. The Fine Foundation Dorset Story Space, next the the Thomas Hardy's Dorset Gallery will also be closed for an hour around Midday.
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Sunday: 10.00am - 4.00pm
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Admissions:
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Highlights
1941
Hall and Woodhouse Brewery Wagons outside The New Inn at Blandford St Mary
Taken by Thoedora Almack…
c.1935
A rest from haymaking on Lenthall’s Farm, Burton Bradstock
Taken by M. H. Ouseley…
c.1965
Learning kitchen skills at Summer Hill House, Herrison Hospital
Taken by L. Frisby…
c.1935
Loading dough into the oven at Rendalls Mill, Burton Bradstock
Taken by M. H. Ouseley…
1965
Taking a break during archaeological excavations at Eggardon Hill
Taken by Professor C. Wrigley…