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Giovanni Fragapane was born in Lampedusa on the 21st of September 1939, the son of a fisherman and a housewife. He had studied History of Art in Rome and had lived in different places, including Palermo and Milan. He was a professor of History of Art in Aprilia and in Lampedusa and between 1983 to 1993 he was also the mayor of Lampedusa. He had published a book about the island titled 'Lampedusa' and is considered the island's historian.

Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Loulou Mifsud Bonnici was born on the 4th of February 1928 in Sliema. Her father had been a clerk at a shipping agency, her mother was a housewife and she had three sisters. Loulou's mother was born in Smyrna (modern-day Izmir), Turkey. She had been evacuated to Malta during the Turkish offensive on the city and the subsequent large fire which had destroyed parts of Smyrna. Loulou was a teacher at St Joseph School in Sliema between 1952-1954 and she had also lived in London for a year between 1957-1958. She had one son.

These photographs were taken by members of the Griscti family of Sliema and mostly cover the period 1910s to 1930s. The collection falls into two parts. Most of the earlier photos are from around 1916 to the early to mid-1920s, and show cars of the period (the family appear to have run the Gzira garage of the E.T. Agius group during WW1 whilst members of the Muscat family who normally ran the site were away at war). The other part of the collection shows buses of the 1920s and 1930s, the bodies of which were built by the family. During the 1920s they owned and operated a number of buses from their Red Wheel Garage site in Sliema (alongside a car hire and maintenance business). During the 1930s, whilst they no longer owned and ran buses, they continued to build bodies of new buses for other owners.

12 x 35mm mounted slides of Carnival in Valletta from 1969, and 3 x 35 mounted slides from Rabat feast in 1973 and 1977.

This PDE consist of photographs taken by Mr. Harold Frederick Rodgers (born 1911, died1979) while stationed in Malta in 1938-1939. Rodgers joined the RAF in his late 20s and was a trained photographer, very often doing aerial photography.

103 B&W photographs in an album with annotations under every image.

The Collection consists of photographic prints, newspaper cutouts, hand-written notes, and short stories, etc, belonging to actor and play-write Karmenu Gruppetta (20 December 1922 - 20 February 1977). Collection donated by his niece, Sylvana Cassar. Gruppetta took part in theatre (shows such as Francis Ebejer's 'Hadd fuq ilBejt'), plays, TV programmes, and also took part in films filmed in Malta such as 'Pulp' (1972). The photos contain head shots, stage photos, childhood and family photos, etc. The collection also includes a portfolio of newspaper cut-outs, article mentions, scripts, etc.

Transparencies used in the publication 'The Siege of Malta 1565'.

1 digital surrogate of printed photograph containing father of Henry Cachia (second from left, standing). Photo was taken during filming of 'Pulp' in Malta in 1972. Photo includes actor Michael Rooney (second from right). Photo includes distant views of Torri l-Ahmar, Mellieha.

Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Maurice Mifsud Bonnici was born in Lija in 1926. He had a brother and 4 sisters. His father was a Senior Sanitary Inspector and had been officially responsible for Lija and other localities. His mother was a housewife. When he was young, he used to spend Sundays with his uncle, who worked as a store officer at Ingieret. They would climb trees and shoot birds to eat them in the evening. Maurice used to work as an engineer. He had always lived in Lija and had a child called Mark.

Theme: The Craft of Farming in the Past and How it Changed. Joseph Vella, also known as ' Tal-Kananku' was born on the 14th of May 1930 in Mellieha. He had 3 siblings. His father, Guzeppi, was a farmer and his mother, Rosanna, was a grocer. Vella was a farmer and spent a short time cutting stone. At the time of the interview he was retired but was still working in the fields. In the 1980s and 90s he had travelled to Australia (4 months), Canada (3 months) and Italy (2 weeks). Other than those times, he had always lived in Mellieha. Joseph had 8 children, 2 had already passed away. He liked swimming and hunting.

Theme: The Craft of Farming in the Past and How it Changed. Salvu Schembri was born on the 6th of January, 1924 at Zurrieq. He had 9 siblings. His father was a farmer and his mother was a seamstress. He worked with the British Navy for 13 years, then he worked with a tarmac company and afterwards with the Air Ministry. He had twin boys, Karmnu and Rokku. He was known as Tar-Rocc. He liked the local feasts and horses. He was a member of Maltese Catholic Association.

Theme: Life of a Farmer. Joseph Refalo was born on the 23rd of November 1921 at Victoria, Gozo. He had 5 siblings. His father was a farmer whilst his mother was a housewife. For a time, in the 1950s he had emigrated to Sydney, Australia were he worked at a glass factory. He also moved to Queensland, Australia for a higher paying job. In Gozo he used to work for the government and as a farmer. Apart from the time he spent in Australia, he had always lived at Xaghra, Gozo. He had 12 children and his occupation at the time of the interview was still that of a farmer.

Theme: Agriculture. Grezzja Gauci was born on the 29th of October 1920 in Mellieha. She had 7 siblings. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a housewife. For 12 years (from the age of 11 till the age of 23) she worked in the fields. She had 7 children and lived in Mellieha and Mosta until she moved to an elderly home in Mosta.

Theme: Agriculture. Frans Bezzina was born in 1943 in Haz-Zebbug. His father was a farmer and his mother was a housewife. He worked as a weigher. He lived in Haz-Zebbug and had 1 son and 2 daughters.

Theme: Agriculture. Anthony Bugeja was born in 1928 in Haz-Zebbug. He had 4 siblings. His father was a builder and a part-time farmer whilst his mother was a housewife. Anthony used to work in agriculture. He lived in Haz-Zebbug and had 2 sons and a daughter.

Documents were held by the Rizzo-Marich family. They contain records related to the V. Marich and Co. business which was located at 44, Strada Teatro, Valletta. The depositors: Doreen Curmi and Louise Zammit La Rosa are the grand daughters of the last owner of the business: Arthur Rizzo Marich.

Messrs V. Marich and Co. were of of the oldest manufacturers of hand-made cigarettes as well as cigar and tobacco merchants, exporting tobacco products to severakl countires. The business was not just a shop but also a smoking divan and a popular rendevouz point for Maltese gentry, naval and military senior officers.