Of the 10000 images to be included in the Unnetie online archive, 7500 will be taken from the Unné Collection held at Library Headquarters at Northallerton.

Bertram Unné was a remarkable photographer, one of the best ever connected with Yorkshire. He specialised in people and scenes of the Three Ridings, documenting folk activities and the landscapes of farming and coastal communities. In particular he recorded the way of life in the Dales and the Yorkshire countryside between 1940 and 1979.

Shortly before his retirement in March 1979, Unné sold his entire photographic collection to North Yorkshire County Council for £5,000. The Victoria and Albert Museum contributed half of the total purchase price and the British Library donated a supplementary grant.

A further 2400 images will be taken from the collections of Harrogate and Scarborough libraries, including 200 postcards from the Kruckenberg Collection.

Louisa Kruckenberg was a talented amateur photographer, born in Grewelthorpe in 1885. In 1911, the family moved to the vicarage at Dunsforth, near Great Ouseburn. It is this area that Louisa has portrayed in an illuminating collection of photographs and postcards. The scenes that she has captured document farming life in the surrounding countryside at the beginning of the twentieth century as well as the seasonal activities of her father’s Dunsforth parishioners.

From a sale of her effects after her death in 1958, the County Library acquired an album holding around 220 of her photographs produced as postcards.

Why not take a look at ’Two Yorkshire Photographers’