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 digitisation of images identified through research.

 

c.1935

Thatching at Grove House

Taken by M. H. Ouseley

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c.1935

Thatching at Grove House

Taken by M. H. Ouseley

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c.1935

Thatching at Grove House

Taken by M. H. Ouseley

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c.1935

Thatching a rick a rick at Bredy Farm

Taken by M. H. Ouseley

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1956

Milking time at Herrison Dairy

Taken L. Frisby

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c.1935

Edgar Hawkins milking at Burton Bradstock

Taken by M.H. Ouseley

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c.1960

Drink More Milk or from Producer to Consumer

Postcard

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c.1920

Carey & Grimsdell butter factory, Dorchester

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c.1935

Collecting milk from Manor Farm, Burton Bradstock

Taken by by M.H. Ouseley

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