Photography As an Aid to Local History.

The article presents discussion of the value of photography as a method of preserving and promoting local history. The benefits of photography as a historical research source are highlighted and the author reflects on how effectively local historic research could be conducted with access to consistent pictures of local places, buildings or people. Specific reflections are then offered for the possible use of photography for documenting farms, mills, villages and other common features of everyday life in the late 19th century.