Early Swansea Photography

Early photographs from the Swansea area (1840-1860).

 

 

 

 

Carleton E. Watkins (Photo Album 542)

An album by Carleton E Watkins (1829-1916), one of the finest American landscape photographers of the nineteenth century.

 

 

 

John Thomas

The land and people of Wales through the lens of John Thomas (1838-1905), Liverpool.

 

 

 

Senghennydd disaster (Photo Album 1863)

A series of postcards depicting the biggest pit disaster in the history of the Welsh coal industry, 1913.

 

 

 

Geoff Charles

The immense archive of the photojournalist Geoff Charles (1909-2002).