Manchester City Council

Libraries Archive and Local Collections

Photographs and Illustrations

Rochdale Canal (frozen) at Waulk Mill, 1895 The Manchester Room@City Library & 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 (DPA) is a unique archive held at the Greater Manchester County Record Office which documents the life of the Greater Manchester region. A selection of images from this collection can now be viewed on our Flickr photostream.

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