Finding Aids for Historic Images of Buildings in the British Isles
- Barley, M.M., A Guide to British Topographical Collections
(1974). This valuable book describes local and national collections
of topographical drawings, watercolours, prints and photographs in England,
Scotland and Wales. It is now dated, so repository locations in some cases
have changed.
- A Complete
List of the Plates and Wood-Cuts in the Gentleman's Magazine from ... 1717
to 1818 (1821).
- Country Life Cumulative Index lists all Country
Life articles on country houses and gardens since 1897. New editions
appear periodically. And see below under 19th century.
- Harris, J., The Artist and the Country House: a history of country
house and garden view painting in Britain 1540-1870 (1979).
Incorporates a fully illustrated catalogue covering the British Isles.
- Harris, J., A Country House Index (1971). Index to country
houses in the UK and Ireland illustrated in 107 books published between
1715 and 1872.
- Holmes, M., The Country House Described: an index to the country
houses of Great Britain and Ireland (1987). Index to illustrations
and descriptions.
- Holloway, M., Steel Engravings in Nineteenth Century British
Topographical Books: a bibliography (1977).
- Richardson, R. and Thorne, R., The Builder: illustrations index
1843-1883 (1994).
- Image collections of broad geographical and period scope held by museums
and other repositories are listed under the relevant institution in archives, with any
available catalogues.
- Amalgamated image databases of broad geographical and period scope are
listed on the museums and art
galleries page.
- Online image databases specific to a time or place are listed below
geographically (England, Channel Isles, Isle of Man, Ireland, Scotland and Wales) and by period.
Online images and maps: England
- England general: See below under the period and also archives: England and museums and art galleries.
- By historic county:
- Bedfordshire:
- Berkshire:
- Buckinghamshire:
- Cambridgeshire:
- Cheshire:
- Chester Image Bank:
historic photographs, postcards, sketches, prints and water colours of
Chester and district from Chester City Archives.
- e-mapping Victorian
Cheshire: all the tithe maps for Cheshire online with modern maps
and aerial photography for comparison. There is also a database
containing details from the related apportionments.
- Genmaps:
Cheshire makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- Picture Halton Runcorn
Widnes: searchable database of historic images from Halton Borough
Council.
- Cornwall:
- Cumberland:
- Genmaps:
Cumberland makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- Cumbria Image Bank:
images from Cumbria County Council Libraries and Archives Service
covering the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.
- Derbyshire:
- Devon:
- Devon
Libraries Map Search provides a database of map information and
links to some online maps of the county.
- Tithe
Maps of East Devon: Tithe maps and apportionments covering all 29
modern day parishes of the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural
Beauty.
- Devon
Local Studies Illustrations: search for early topographical prints
and old photographs, from Devon Library and Information Services.
- Etched
on Devon's Memory: Maps: Devon Library and Information Services
makes a series of historical maps of Devon available online, accessible
via a key map. These are by Christopher Saxton (1575), Benjamin Donn
(1765) and C. and J. Greenwood (1827).
- Genmaps:
Devonshire: makes available scans of a large collection of
maps.
- Historic
Devon gazetteer: Devon Libraries Local Studies Service provides
information for each parish, including historic maps and images.
- Modbury: Historical
Photos from The Baker Collection at West Devon Record Office,
hosted by The Unique Heritage of Modbury, which also has transcripts of
parish records and the tithe apportionment schedule.
- Plymouth:
- Plymouth
and West Devon Record Office Photo Gallery: includes
collections from the Western Morning News, and the
Local Studies Library.
- Plymouth
Pictured: City through a Lens: documents, images and film clips
from Plymouth city's heritage services.
- Plymouth
Pictured: 1890s-1910s: Images from Plymouth City Museum and Art
Gallery, arranged by area and street.
- Plymouth
Pictured: An Edwardian Album: Images from Plymouth City Museum
and Art Gallery, arranged by topic.
- Plymouth
Pictured: 1949-1962: Images from Plymouth City Museum and Art
Gallery, arranged by area and street.
- Steve Johnson, Ye Olde
Maps of Ye Plymouthe reproduces a number of maps, but does not
date and identify all of them. For further information see
Elisabeth Stuart, Lost Landscapes of Plymouth: Maps, charts
and plans to 1800 (1991).
- South West Image
Bank: photographic collection covering Devon and Cornwall,
particularly Plymouth, mainly from the Western Morning
News 1945-2003.
- Totnes: Totnes Image Bank
and Rural Archive: photographic record of Totnes and the
surrounding areas, mainly in the South Hams. Online galleries present a
sample of the thousands of images available.
- Dorset:
- Durham:
- The Durham Record is a
searchable online collection of photographs from museums, libraries and
archives around County Durham. It has links where relevant to the Keys
to the Past site (see below).
- Genmaps:
Durham: makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- iSee Gateshead: thousands
of images from image collection of Gateshead Local Studies.
- Keys to the Past
provides a guide to the archaeological record of County Durham and
Northumberland. It includes parish histories with modern and historic
maps.
- Pictures in
Print: printed maps and topographical prints of County Durham
created before 1860 held by Durham University Library, Durham County
Library, Durham Cathedral Library and the British Library.
- South Tyneside
Images: historic photographs, prints and drawings of Hebburn,
Jarrow, South Shields and region.
- Essex:
- Genmaps:
Essex: makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- See also Middlesex/London
- Gloucestershire:
- Genmaps:
Gloucestershire: makes available scans of a large collection of
maps.
- Bristol: Know
Your Place: Bristol City Council provides an interactive approach
to historic maps and images of Bristol. It includes 600 images from The
Braikenridge Collection of drawings and watercolours of Bristol that
were commissioned in the 1820s and 1830s by George Weare Braikenridge,
about 200 pen and ink drawings by Samuel Loxton in the first decades of
the 20th century, and old photographs from the public and from museum
and archive collections.
- The Changing Face of
Bristol was created by local historian Paul Townsend to make
available some 7000 old photographs of the citry, which can now be
searched on his Flickr
photographic database.
- Hampshire:
- Genmaps:
Hampshire: makes available scans of a large collection of maps of
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
- Hantsphere: digitised
local studies collections from across Hampshire, including Southampton
and Portsmouth. Includes old photographs, postcards and prints.
- Jeans, G.G. (ed.), Memorials of
Hampshire (1906). Photographs scanned.
- The North Hampshire
Tithe Map Project: aims to digitise all the Tithe Apportionments
and Tithe Maps for that area of North Hampshire covered by the present
Borough of Basingstoke and Deane.
- Old
Hampshire Mapped: county maps and itineraries, with notes by Jean
and Martin Norgate, Geography Department, Portsmouth University.
- Sense of Place South East:
collections of museums and libraries in West Berkshire and Hampshire,
Slough, Reading, Windsor and Maidenhead.
- South
Stoneham, Hampshire Tithe Map c.1845. with associated details from
the apportionment.
- Herefordshire:
- Hertfordshire:
- Genmaps:
Hertfordshire: makes available scans of a large collection of
maps.
- Hertfordshire
Archives and Local Studies Image Gallery offers a small sample of
the drawings by J. C. Buckler in its collections.
- Herts Memories
includes historic photographs of places in the county and some drawings
from the collection of Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies. The
project was launched by Hertfordshire County Council, but is maintained
by volunteers. Photographs can be donated.
- Huntingdonshire:
- Genmaps:
Huntingdonshire: makes available scans of a large collection of
maps.
- Peterborough Sense
of Place: database of the collections of Peterborough City Council,
Burghley House, Thorney Museum and Nene Valley Railway, which include
photographs, maps and plans.
- Kent:
- Genmaps:
Kent: makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- Here's History
Kent: a range of local history materials for the towns and parishes
of Kent, including old photographs and other images.
- Lancashire:
- Gallery
Oldham Collections Online: objects and artworks from the gallery's
collections include topographical paintings.
- Genmaps:
Lancashire makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- Lancashire
Lantern: local photographs, postcards and other images held in
libraries across the county.
- Manchester Local Image
Collection: over 80,000 photographs and other visual images of
Manchester and its suburbs from Manchester Archives and Local Studies
at Manchester Central Library.
- Old Maps
of Lancashire: maps mainly from the Lancashire Record Office,
including OS first edition
town maps, the Tithe Map of Caton parish and a bird's-eye map of
Preston in 1715. There is also a bird's-eye view of Ormskirk in 1609
from Ormskirk Library.
- Picture
Blackpool: photographs of Blackpool and the neighbouring area
from Blackpool Central Library.
- Tameside
Image Archive: old photographs from the collection of Tameside
Local Studies and Archives Service.
- Leicestershire:
- Genmaps:
Leicestershire: makes available scans of a large collection of
maps.
- My
Leicestershire History is a free and fully searchable online
resource containing photographs, films, sound recordings, and books
about the history of Leicester and Leicestershire, from Leicester
University's Special Collections.
- Lincolnshire:
- Genmaps:
Lincolnshire: makes available scans of a large collection of
maps.
- Lincs to the Past is a
hub for research and local information and covers items held in
Lincolnshire’s archives, libraries, museums and Tennyson Research
Centre. It is a search engine that provides a single place from which
to search through a wide range of cultural collections from across
Lincolnshire. Online are images of historic Ordnance Survey maps,
photographs and paintings of places in the county.
- North
Lincolnshire Image Archive: thousands of photographs from the North
Lincolnshire Council's Museums Service and Library Service.
- Middlesex/London:
- Ackermann, Microcosm
of London (1808): scanned images of all engravings at
Motco.
- Collage is a
searchable online image database with 20,000 items from the Guildhall
Library and Guildhall Art Gallery.
- Crace
Collection of Maps of London: c.1200 printed and hand-drawn maps
from the British Library charting the development of the city from
around 1570 to 1860. Includes some building plans.
- Depford
Plans and Drawings: 130 drawings and plans of the area around the
royal dockyards, from the 17th to the 19th century, from the British
Library.
- Genmaps:
London: makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- Hackney
Historic Images On-Line: a database from Hackney Archives.
- Ideal Homes: Suburbia in
focus: this history of London's suburbs from the University of
Greenwich is illustrated by old images and maps from archive and local
history collections of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham,
and Southwark.
- Kensington
Turnpike Trust drawings: 30 drawings of Regency London from the
British Library.
- Lambeth Landmark: the
Lambeth Archives image collection.
- London Genealogy hosts
engravings of London buildings c.1830 after the drawings of Thomas H.
Shepherd, and interior views from London Interiors
[1841].
- London:
A Life in Maps: 40 maps and drawings from the British Library
collections, accessible via a Google map interface.
- Malton, Thomas, Picturesque Tour of London and
Westminster (1792) : scanned images of all engravings at
Motco.
- Mapco has
scanned maps and views of London and environs, including plans and
elevations of the public buildings in the Borough of St. Marylebone
taken from a 1834 map of St. Marylebone by F.A. Bartlett.
Maps: individual maps and panoramas of London online
include:
- Woodcut
map of London c. 1550 at British History Online.
- Panoramas of
London at Wikipedia: Wyngaerde 1543, Van Visscher 1616,
Wenceslaus Hollar 1647. If you click to enlarge the Hollar, be
prepared for a very large, slow-loading image.
- Leake's
survey of London after the Great Fire, engraved by Wenceslaus
Hollar 1667, at British History Online.
- Ogilby
and Morgan's large scale map of the city as rebuilt by 1676, at
British History Online.
- Morgan's
map of the whole of London in 1682, at British History
Online.
- James
de la Feuille's map of London c. 1690 (derived from Hollar's
'New Mapp' of 1675) at British History Online
- John Rocque, London,
Westminster and Southwark 1746, at Motco.
- Greenwood's Map
of London 1827, at Bath Spa University.
- The Charles Booth Online
Archive at LSE includes his poverty map of London 1898-9.
- Moto UK Directory and Image
Database: print and map-seller with a large online reference
catalogue, particularly rich in images and maps of London.
- PhotoLondon: photographs
of London from the Guildhall Library, Museum of London, London
Metropolitan Archives, Westminster City Archives and National Monuments
Record.
- Norfolk:
- Genmaps:
Norfolk: makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- Norfolk Historic
Map Explorer: compares aerial photographs of 1946 and 1988 and
historical maps of Norfolk from the county record office. It includes
nearly 700 tithe maps, which cover about 85% of Norfolk, over 100
enclosure maps and the first edition OS.
- Picture
Norfolk has thousands of photos of Norfolk life and history,
showing Norfolk places, people and events from the past 200 years,held
by Norfolk Library and Information Service.
- Northamptonshire:
- Northumberland:
- Nottinghamshire:
- Genmaps:
Nottinghamshire: makes available scans of a large collection of
maps.
- Picture the Past:
thousands of historic photographs, postcards and engravings from the
collections of the libraries and museums of Derby, Derbyshire,
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
- Oxfordshire:
- Shropshire:
- Somerset:
- Genmaps:
Somersetshire makes available scans of a large collection of
maps.
- Historic
images of Somerset: around 1200 historic postcards, engravings and
views from the Somerset Record Office, including about 200 photographs
from the archive of Francis Frith and Company.
- Bath in Time: historic
images from public and private collections of Bath and the surrounding
villages.
- Bath:
Victoria Art Gallery: hundreds of drawings, watercolours and prints
of local scenes from the gallery's collection.
- Freshford.com: this local
history website covers Bath and selected villages around it in Somerset
and Wiltshire. It includes historic maps and images for Bath,
Bradford-on-Avon, Freshford, Hinton Charterhouse and Limpley Stoke.
- Heritage of the
Ile: An online selection of 100 images from the 4,000 in the
photographic archive of Ilminster at the Somerset Record Office.
- Staffordshire:
- Suffolk:
- Surrey:
- Genmaps:
Surrey: makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- See also Middlesex/London
- Sussex:
- Genmaps:
Sussex: makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- Holmes, Edric, Seaward
Sussex illustrated by Mary M. Vigers (1920).
- Old Sussex Mapped: two centuries of Sussex county
maps put online by Dominic Fontana, Geography Department, University of
Portsmouth.
- West Sussex Past
Pictures: the official database of heritage photographs, prints,
drawings and paintings provided by local museums and the County Library
Service.
- Brighton
and Hove Historical Maps: a small selection of maps from 1792
onwards illustrates the growth of the town.
- Warwickshire:
- Birmingham Lives:
Historic photographs of the city, together with other material, from
the Carl Chinn Birmingham People’s History Archive.
- Digital
Handsworth: Birmingham City Council offers a history of the parish
together with images including views by Allen Edward Everitt
(1824-1882).
- Genmaps:
Warwickshire: makes available scans of a large collection of
maps.
- Morley, G., Warwick and
Leamington, Beautiful England series (c.1920). Scans of all
the water-colours by Ernest Haslehust.
- Pictures of
Coventry: photographs from Coventry Libraries and Information
Services.
- Windows on
Warwickshire: digital database of local history including old
photographs, maps, and paintings.
- The
Warwickshire Photographic Survey contains over 20,000 photographs
from 1890 onwards, which are in the process of digitisation.
- Westmorland:
- Cumbria Image Bank:
images from Cumbria County Council Libraries and Archives Service
covering the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.
- Genmaps:
Westmorland: makes available scans of a large collection of
maps.
- Wiltshire:
- Freshford.com: this local
history website covers Bath and selected villages around it in Somerset
and Wiltshire. It includes historic maps and images for Bath,
Bradford-on-Avon, Freshford, Hinton Charterhouse and Limpley Stoke.
- Genmaps:
Wiltshire: makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- Wiltshire
Community: town and parish histories from Wiltshire Libraries and
Heritage, illustrated with maps and photographs from the
collections.
- Wiltshire Treasures:
individual and combined online catalogues of certain Wiltshire museum
collections and the c. 60,000 historic photographs and prints owned by
Wiltshire Council. Only a few images have been digitised.
- Worcestershire
:
- Genmaps:
Worcestershire makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- Worcestershire
Prints: This collaboration between Worcestershire County Council
libraries, archives, archaeology and museums makes available online a
selection of local photographs, topographical prints, drawings,
watercolours and oil paintings, historical maps and plans,
archaeological illustrations and objects. This is a limited selection,
clearly chosen for visual appeal, as all can be purchased.
- Yorkshire:
- Calderdale Council, From
weaver to web: 23,000 images of historical documents relating to
local history, mainly from the Horsfall Turner collection donated to
the Central Library in Halifax. Includes some 300 old photographs and a
few drawings and illustrations.
- Calderdale
Maps Online: Includes historical OS maps from 1851 to 1948.
- Genmaps:
Yorkshire makes available scans of a large collection of maps.
- Home, Gordon, Yorkshire
Painted and Described (1904).
- Imagine York: searchable
database of historic photographs from York Library and City
Archives.
- Kirklees Image
Archive: over 60,000 images from the Tolson Memorial Museum,
Huddersfield.
- Leodis: a photographic archive
of Leeds, from Leeds Library and Information Service.
- Now then: West Yorkshire
Archive Service makes local historical materials from its own
collection and other community archives.
- Picture Sheffield:
around 11,000 pictures from the collection of Sheffield Local Studies
Library.
- Tracks in Time: The
Leeds Tithe Map Project: West Yorkshire Archive Service provides
online access to fifty-eight historic tithe maps which together span
the modern Leeds Metropolitan District area, along with historic OS
maps. The twin map browser makes it possible to compare historic and
modern maps or aerial photographs of any part of the area. There is
also a searchable database of the tithe apportionment data.
- Twixt Aire and
Calder: searchable online database of around 10,000 Wakefield
District images from the Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Libraries and Information Services.
- Wakefield & District
Family History Society has made Tithe Maps of Alverthorpe,
Crigglestone, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe and Thornes available for download
in pdf format.
Online images and maps: Channel Isles
Online images and maps: Isle of Man
Online images and maps: Ireland
- Ask About Ireland a national
collaboration of libraries, museums and archives to make available online
publication of material from their local studies collections, including
photographs, maps and documents.
- BBC:
London Companies: maps of the London Companies (Plantation of
Londonderry) by the cartographer Thomas Raven, commissioned in 1622.
- Cork Past and
Present: Maps and Images: Cork City Libraries has put online an
impressive collection of maps from 1545 onwards, and collections of old
photographs. Some of this material is also available on the Ask About
Ireland website (listed above).
- Foto:
Clare County Library Images Online has made available online local
photographs, postcards, engravings and drawings from its collections.
- The Irish Historical Picture Company
covers the whole of Ireland. It is commercial.
- Irish
maps c.1558-c.1610: 60 different maps depicting plantations,
fortifications and townships in Ireland during the reigns of Elizabeth I
and James I can be dowloaded from the National Archives for a small fee
each. The places shown on them can be searched free.
- Mayo Maps
Online: Mayo County Library has put a large number of estate maps
online. To view them you need the SVG-Viewer or the DjVu-Viewer plugin.
- OSI's Mapviewer: the
6-inch and 25-inch Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland to view free.
- Philip's Handy
Atlas of the Counties of Ireland (1882).
- Scenery and
Antiquities of Ireland (c.1841). Scanned images of all
engravings.
- Wright, G.N., Ireland
Illustrated (1881). Scanned images of all engravings.
- And see archives: Ireland for online
catalogues of national museums, archives and libraries.
Online images and maps: Scotland
- Am Baile provides a digital
archive of the history and culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands,
with material from archives, libraries, museums and private collections,
including old photographs of buildings.
- Beattie, William, Scotland
Illustrated (c.1840). Scanned images of all engravings.
- Charting the
Nation is a collaborative digital imaging and cataloguing project at
the University of Edinburgh covering maps of Scotland and their associated
texts c.1550-1740.
- The
Drawn Evidence: This was an online collection created by the University
of Dundee of 10,000 architectural plans, drawings and related material held
by repositories across Scotland. The website is no longer live, so this
link is to an archived copy, which does not have all the images, but still
functions as an index of the material. It may be slow.
- Edwardian Scotland: Slideshows of postcards 1890-1900 on YouTube: South Scotland; North Scotland.
- Maps of Scotland from the National
Library of Scotland. It has over 20,000 maps of Scotland, including large
scale OS maps of Scottish towns
(1847-95), the Pont Maps (1580s-1590s), a selection of estate maps and
county maps, and the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654, with text translated
into English for the first time.
- Genmaps:
Scotland: makes available scans of a large collection of maps. See also
their pages by Scottish county.
- National Galleries of
Scotland has an online database including some of their collection of
topographical paintings.
- Pencils of Light: two
albums of the Edinburgh Calotype Club, the first photographic club in the
world, digitised by the National Library of Scotland. Includes images of
castles and churches and views of towns in Scotland, Italy, Belgium and
Malta.
- Scran: 360,000 images, movies and
sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media, hosted by The Royal
Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, in
partnership with over 300 cultural institutions in Scotland and the rest of
the UK.
- Shetland Museum and
Archives Photo Library: a searchable database of thousands of
photographs.
- Slezer's Scotland: more than 70
engravings from John Slezer, Theatrum Scotiae (1693),
digitised by the National Library of Scotland.
- Scotland's Images: a
picture library taken from Scotland's national collections, including
material from The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments
of Scotland.
- Scotland's Places
enables search across different national databases using geographic
location. Includes photographs from The Royal Commission on the Ancient and
Historical Monuments of Scotland, maps and plans.
- Dumfries: Dean
of Guild plans for the Royal Burgh of Dumfries are being entered into
an online database.
- Edinburgh:
- The
Panorama: The Edinburgh Virtual Environment Centre presents the
panoramic paintings of Old Edinburgh begun in 1796 by Robert
Barker.
- Capital
Collections: images from the collections of Edinburgh City
Libraries and Information Services. Includes an area search.
- Cassell's Old
and New Edinburgh: six volumes from the 1880s with numerous
illustrations.
- Edinphoto: Peter Stubbs
has collected not only old photographs, but maps and engravings of
Edinburgh, together with details of local topographical artists and
photographers.
- Shepherd, T.H., Modern
Athens or Edinburgh in the 19th Century (1829). Scans of all
images.
- Glasgow:
- The Glasgow Story: This
history of the city is illustrated with thousands of images from the
collections of the city's libraries, museums and universities,
including maps, prints, paintings and photographs.
- Maps
of Glasgow and Scotland: historical city maps and OS maps of
Scotland from the collection of the University of Glasgow.
- Virtual
Mitchell: photographs of Glasgow housed in the Mitchell Library,
together with images from Glasgow Museums and private owners.
- See also archives: Scotland for
online catalogues of national museums, archives and libraries.
- For Great Britain generally see below under the period and see museums
and art galleries.
Online images and maps: Wales
Online images and indexes by period
Medieval images:
- The
Unveiling of Britain: hundreds of maps and views of the British Isles
created between 800 and 1600, from the British Library.
- The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi is an
international research project dedicated to the publication of medieval
stained glass. The section for great Britain has made thousands of images
available online in a searchable database.
Seventeenth-century images:
- Dummer, E. and Wiltshaw, T., South Coast Harbours
1698: a report to the Admiralty assessing 18 harbours along the south
coast of England from Dover to Land's End, with harbour charts. From
Hampshire County Council Museums Service.
- Magalotti, L., Travels of Cosmo
the Third 1669: illustrations scanned.
- Schellinks,
Esselens and Doomer: list of drawings with sample images.
- Speed, J., Theatre of the
Empire of Great Britain (1612), has bird's-eye views of major
towns inset in the corners of his county maps. Most of his town maps are
provided online by Occidental College at Speed:
Cities and Towns.
- And see primary sources in print:
Stuart.
Eighteenth-century images:
Nineteenth-century images:
- Allingham, Helen: online
galleries of her paintings of country cottages 1880s to 1920s. And see
below under 20th century: Holme.
- Country Life Picture
Library has a selection online from its archives.
- Illustrated London
News 1842-2003. Although there are many illustrations of
buildings in London, it also depicted buildings in other parts of the
British Isles, and sometimes further afield. A complete archive of the
newspaper is available online via Gale Cengage Learning. A selection of
images online in the Mary Evans Picture
Library. Another selection is available at London Genealogy.
- Daniell, William, Voyage Round Great
Britain (1814-25) : scanned images of all engravings at Motco.
- Early
photographically illustrated books: 1,500 early photographic prints
from the British Library.
- The Francis Frith Collection:
over 700,000 photographs of places in the British Isles taken by the
Victorian photographer Francis Frith.
- Knight, C., Old
England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal
and Popular Antiquities (1844).
- Rock's Topographical
Vignettes 1845-1870 from the collection at The North Devon Anthenaeum
in Barnstaple, digitised by Motco.
- Turner, J.M.W., Picturesque Views in England and
Wales (1838) : scanned images of all engravings at Motco.
- Westall, William, Great Britain
Illustrated (1829) : scanned images of all engravings at
Motco.
- And see primary sources in print:
Victorian.
Twentieth-century images:
- Baedeker's Old
Guide Books: Great Britain 1910: the maps.
- Ditchfield, P. H., English
Villages (1901).
- Ditchfield, P. H., Vanishing
England, illustrated by Fred Roe (1910).
- Gotch, J.A., The
Growth of the English House, A Short History of its Architectural
Development from 100 to 1800 (1909). Scanned images of all
illustrations: plans and photographs.
- Green, William (1907-83) Online
collection of ink drawings of historic buildings mainly in the West
Midlands, including many timber-framed houses.
- Holme, C. (ed.), Old
English Country Cottages (1906). Scans of water-colours by
Herbert Alexander and Helen Allingham and line drawings by Sydney R
Jones.
- And see photograph collections held by national institutions, listed
under archives.