Photographic Archives
The Archives hold tens of thousands of photographs from the early days of photography to present day digital images including:
- Main photographic collection - a cumulative collection of over 10,000 photographs, which do not form any part of another archival group
- Photographic survey of Glasgow schools, c.1916 and c.1960
- Clyde Navigation Trust photographs: including groups and individual portraits, construction of works, buildings and sheds, cranes and equipment, ships and views of the Clyde (including aerial views)
- Department of Architecture and Civic Design
- Assessors Department
- Department of Planning
- Ralston Collection - a firm of marine photographers who were commissioned by the Clyde-based shipbuilding firms
- Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and predecessors - photographs of over 600 ships built on the Clyde, many during construction
- Parker Smiths of Jordanhill - includes a series of photographs, travel albums, family albums, glass negs, portraiture, cartes des visites, daguerro and ambro types dating from c1850-1920
- Negatives of the firm ‘Vista of Glasgow’, 1954-1981