Historical photographs of Manchester

Manchester Archives and Local Studies & The Greater Manchester County Record Office hold two key photographic collections:

• The Manchester Local Image Collection provides a unique photographic record of Manchester, its people, streets and buildings from a period stretching well over 100 years. Our full collection of over 80,000 images is available online. 
• The Documentary Photography Archive is a special archive held at the Greater Manchester County Record Office which documents the life of the Greater Manchester region. The vast majority of the images have been catalogued, and these catalogues are now available online on a searchable database at the Access to Archives site. A selection of images from the collection can now be viewed on our Flickr photostream.

The slideshow below includes images from the Local Image Collection and the Documentary Photographic Archive:

The photographs above may also be viewed directly on the Flickr site at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/sets/72157625849485893/