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Our picture library provides quality prints from our art, history and science collections.
Can you find a 1900s photograph of your home town in Northern Ireland? The photograph displayed here is from Hilltown, Co Down c1910.
See photographs of Irish Sport including motorbike racing, car racing and golf in Northern Ireland in the early 1900s. This photograph was taken at the Dundrod racing track in Co Antrim.
Harland & Wolff commissioned photographer Robert John Welch (1859-1936) to take photographs documenting the Belfast shipyards at the time of the Titanic. This photograph shows the Titanic and Olympic side by side under construction.
Paintings in the National Collection feature work from famous Irish Artists including Conor and Luke. This photograph is from the Irish Artist Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) and is titled Daylight Raid from my Studio Window.
Our Art Collection includes prints of Irish, British and European paintings from the early 1700s right through to modern pieces. This painting is called Belfast Poor House by John Nixon (1750-1818).
William Alfred Green (1870-1958), from Newry Co Down is best known for his photographs taken in the early 1900s of rural life in Ireland including wool, flax and linen production, fishing and even Belfast City life. This photograph is taken at Donegall Square North, Belfast c1910.