Photo Archives.
The photographs that we had displayed on our homepage are contained in folders below (left). Follow the year link to access individual monthly collections. Other photographic collections are also listed (right). Click on the link to view the photographs. All photographs are stored in compressed format. If you would like a higher quality copy for publication or magazine use etc. please contact us.

For a brief history of photography, follow this link.

 

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Photographs from Roscommon have also been placed on Flickr. Click on the links below for photographs by;

Queries & Questions? Odds & Ends?
Right: A stereotype photograph by Underwood & Underwood of Arlington New Jersey, entitled "Cutting peat in Allen Bog, Ireland" Card no. (81) 428.

The Bog of Allen itself does not extend into Co. Roscommon. The text on the back of the card reads "A little way out from Kiltoom, County Roscommon, central Ireland ... The famous "Bog of Allen" which extends for miles along here between Athlone (behind you) and Roscommon, ahead in the direction in which you are facing ..."

So - is this the Bog of Allen or is it Kiltoom Bog? Does anyone know? Please contact us.

There is also a lantern slide with this image and a similar stereotype from the Keystone View Company (Card No. R127) titled "Cutting Peat, The Vegetable Substitute for Coal, in Ireland"!

 

Right: Stereotype photograph by L. Black & Co. Publishers, Detroit. Title: Boyle Abbey - Ireland. No Card Number. Back is blank.

 

For more of these visit our ROSCOMMON STEREOVIEWS PAGE.

We would love to have more of these stereotype photographs in our collection - if you have them please contact us. We also want lantern slides, glass plate negatives and any other type of photograph!

 

Left: An unusual montage printed on Kodak Professional Paper. The map is from "Picturesque Ireland" by Thomas Kelly, (John Savage, New York: 1884) and the prints are Boyle Abbey from "Pictorial Atlas & Cyclopaedia of Ireland" (Murphy & McCarthy, Boston & New York. 1900 & 1905) and Roscommon Castle (after Francis Grose, "Antiquities of Ireland" (1791)).

This item came from the US and the story is that it was found in an attic! Does anyone know why it was made and / or what it was used for? If you do please contact us.

Images are not to scale.

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