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A military recruiting poster urging patriotism.

Newspaper Article that records the Balkan Crisis (following the Crimean War) and its leading to WWI.

A painting by Vanessa Bell of her sister, the author Virginia Woolf, entitled Virgina Woolf in a Deckchair, (1912).

A newspaper ad talking about the new technology for housekeeping, the vacuum. An example of the home appliances becoming available in the twentieth century.

A photograph of St. Ives fishermen using seine nets to catch pilchards.

The page from the Godrevy Lighthouse visitors book with the signatures of the Stephens family, documenting their second visit in 1894.

After 1836, Trinity House was resonsible for collecting lighthouse dues and sending them to the House of Commons to be used in lighthouse upkeep and keeper wages.

Newspaper article from 1929 discussing the tourism industry of Cornwall and the changes in accesibility taking place after the way.

A painting by French artist Paul Gauguin entitled "Three Tahitians," dated 1899.

A newspaper article explaining how the steamboat Nile was wrecked near Godrevy Island and the coast of Cornwall, prompting Trinity House to build a lighthouse there.