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The Frith Photo Library is a rights-managed library of historical photographs offering nostalgic images which depict the enormous physical and social changes that have taken place throughout Britain since the 1850s.

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We currently offer over 120,000 digitised images, from the total of over 360,000 topographical photographs in the Collection, all taken between c1860 and 1970.
Our images depict 7,000 cities, towns and villages all over the British Isles, many taken at regular intervals and so offering Now and Then comparisons.
All images are available to search by place name and date, with 17,518 currently also searchable by Key-word, but this number is expanding every month.
Images may be viewed and a price quote obtained online, but high resolution files will be provided by email, via FTP, or sent on disc according to your needs.
View our images for free - but we do ask you to register if you want to save your searches.
Where possible we will scan on demand if you require a detailed crop or part of an image, but this may take longer.

To purchase images ready-mounted or framed or for other gift ideas from The Francis Frith Collection, please click here.
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