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tales from the daily herald picture library

Friday 12 October 2007 - 1 June 2008

To mark the Museum’s recent name change we look at how photography, fi lm, television, radio and computers are represented within the Daily Herald Picture Library. This is an opportunity for the Museum to show material related to these topics.

The Daily Herald ran from 1912 until 1964, and at its peak had one of the biggest circulations of any national newspaper anywhere in the world. In 1964 the Herald was sold and re-launched by its new owners as The Sun. The Herald picture library continued to grow under The Sun until the early 1970s, which explains why some of the photographs shown were taken after the Herald’s demise in 1964. As time passed the old fashioned Herald picture library was used less and less by The Sun, until eventually it passed into our care in 1983.
For a longer history of the Daily Herald please download this pdf (73KB)

What you see here is only a fraction of what is one of the Museum’s most important photograph collections.