Documentary Photography Archive

Details

• Over 80,000 photographs from schools, workplaces, studios and Manchester streets dating back to 1840.
• Donated photographs from photographic businesses and societies.
• Panora school negatives from 1968 to 1985.
• An oral history collection.
• Contemporary commissioned works from the mid-1980s to the 1990s, including:
• *Retailing in the Borough of Salford by Martin Parr.
• *Manchester International Airport : A Typical Day by Shirley Baker at Manchester Airport, July and August 1987. Includes 547 black and white 35 mm negatives, 38 colour 35 mm negatives, 72 black and white prints and 12 colour prints.
• *Care in the Community – Rainhill Hospital by Tom Wood. Rainhill Hospital before its closure.
• *Cammell Laird Shipyard, Birkenhead by Tom Wood. Cammell Laird shipyard in Liverpool before its closure.
• *Photographs by Clement Cooper.
• *Photographs by John Darwell.