National repositories in Wales
National History Museum, St Fagans, Cardiff CF5 6XB
- Collection: The photographic collection includes buildings in Wales.
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Access: Open to the public, though new readers need to apply for a reader's card.
- Collections:
- The Manuscript Collection includes the family and estate records of some large landowners in Wales. It also holds Welsh diocesan records, including the diocesan copies of tithe maps and apportionments.
- The Welsh Landscape Collection consists of around 14,000 prints which can be dated between 1750 and 1850.
- There is a collection of architectural drawings of buildings and other structures, mainly in Mid and South Wales.
- The collection of maps is the largest in Wales and includes the tithe maps for Welsh parishes.
- The national photographic collection comprises 750,000 images of Welsh interest dating from the earliest days of photography to the present.
- Catalogues and databases:
- The full online catalogue includes maps, graphic materials and manuscripts catalogued after 1999. To restrict your search to topographical images, click the keyword tab, then select Welsh Landscape Collection in the drop-down menu. Thumbnail images are included in results.
- Manuscripts catalogued before 1999 have a separate online catalogue.
- Electronic resources can be searched at ISYS by selecting a specific database, such as the photographs index or archives and manuscripts. The former does not include images. The latter includes digitised transcripts of deeds and catalogue descriptions.
National Monuments Record of Wales, Plas Crug, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 1NJ
- Collection: The collection of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
- Catalogue: the online database Coflein can be searched by mapping or text search. It records thousands of archaeological sites, monuments, buildings and maritime sites in Wales, as well as indexing the drawings, manuscripts and photographs held in the NMRW archive collections. Some photographs have been digitised and more will gradually become available online. See also the map-based Historic Wales.
National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff
- Collection: The Print Room collection includes watercolours, drawings and engravings of many buildings in Wales.
- Catalogue: Williams, I., A Catalogue of Welsh Topographical Prints (1926).
Archives Network Wales
An online searchable catalogue of collections held by record offices, universities, museums and libraries in Wales.
Local archives in Wales
Information from the Archives Council Wales.
Some national repositories in England have collections covering the whole of the British Isles.