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Description: | The collection comprises over 750,000 images of farming and country life from 1840s to present including the picture libraries of Farmers Weekly, Farmer and Stockbreeder and topographical work of some professional photographers in the Thames Valley in the early 20th century. Over 1 million images are available from the
Commercial Photo Services.
The Collection includes: Local collections : Reading, Berkshire and surrounding counties; Press collections: from the farming press, photo agencies, and professional photographers; Countryside and environment collections: covers the history of environmental change and protection in the United Kingdom; Farm machinery and engineering collections: records and photographs of Britain's leading agricultural engineering firms; Film and video collections: from agricultural engineering firms and show machines, products and processes from as early as the 1920s; Index to Places: covered by some of photograph collection.
- | Subjects: | Agriculture Rural life Crafts farming | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Redlands Road Reading Berkshire United Kingdom,
RG1 5EX | FAX: | 0118 378 5632 | Telephone: | 0118 931 8660 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4867 | Go to resource |
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