Photographs

The Priaulx Library has a large and important collection of local photographs, including part of the Carel Toms photograph collection. The boy in Toms' photograph above has just found a local delicacy, an ormer; the delight on his face is familiar to all Guernseymen and women!

In July, 2008, the Library staged a very successful exhibition of some of its 19th-century photographs at the Gallery in Mansell Street, St Peter Port. The Gallery hosted a second exhibition of a new set of photographs in late 2009. Althought the exhibition has ended, reproductions of the photographs are now for sale. New: A preliminary catalogue of the photographs from the 2009 exhibition is now online; a full catalogue is in preparation.

A selection of reproductions from 2008 is available to buy. Here are just some of the photographs shown in the 2008 exhibition: all images are ©The Priaulx Library. A catalogue of the 2008 prints is available for download as a .pdf file.

If you would like to purchase a print from either of the exhibitions, please contact the Gallery. More images and photographs can be purchased from the Priaulx Library shop.