Charles Davis sent over This BBC Story on Images captured by Mary Dillwyn, one of the first women ever to get behind a lens, have been saved from export to America by Wales’s premier library.
some of her work has been saved for the nation after The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth paid £48,165 for an album to prevent it from going abroad. The album contains 42 prints which demonstrate the early use of photography as an art form
“It will be a fine addition to our national collection of over a million photographs dating from the dawn of photography to the new digital age.”
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