An exhibition at the National Photographic Archive called Power and Privilege: photographs of the Big House in Ireland 1858-1922 will be on display until Spring 2011. The archive depicts from glass plates and period photographs life during the mid 1800s and early 1900s. The exhibition features Irish life from gardens and landscape; employees; transport; entertainment and recreation; the arts and sciences; and family life.
The pictures are drawn from the National Photographic Archive’s collection located in Temple Bar, Dublin. The Archive’s store over 630,000 images, the world’s largest collection of Irish photographs dating from 1840s to the present.
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