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Description: | The archive collection at the museum is highly significant and the Courtney Library, which houses it, is one of the main sources for the study of the history and culture of Cornwall.
The library is strongest on Cornish subjects and includes lengthy runs of original files of local newspapers and periodicals. There are archives of various leading local families; and extensive holdings of documents originally collected by the local historian Charles Henderson and bequeathed to the museum in the 1933.
There is also an extensive collection of autographs dating from the 17th century; and printed and manuscript plans, maps and engravings. | Subjects: | Archives | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01872 240514 | Telephone: | 01872 272205 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2936 | Go to resource |
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