The Morrab Library Collection contains 125 years of visual records of Dramatic Events - historic happenings, civic events,  shipwrecks, portraits and townscapes - the work of Penzance-based artist photographers, brothers William Richards and Ernest Richards.  An exhibition based on this collection, with annotated catalogue, was held at Penlee House, Penzance, January-March 2006.

In 2011, further photographs by the Richards Brothers, were included in the Penlee House Exhibition, 'The Marvellous Everyday', as curated by Jeremy Rice.