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The St Ives Trust is a charitable organisation that was set up in 1967 to educate the public in the history, architecture, geography and natural history of St Ives and District.The Centre collects information about the arts community. It holds at least 350 files on individual artists, sculptors, potters, crafts people and photographers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present who have worked and/or lived in St Ives for some part of their lives. Much of the information in the files relates to their life and work that was produced or exhibited in St Ives itself.There are also nearly 70 files on galleries and societies, both in St Ives and around the country, as well as a growing collection of photographs of the artists and their work, exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues, art journals, films on videotapes, audio recordings and students dissertations.The Centre has an incomparable archive on Tate St Ives including a complete collection of press cuttings from 1989, when the St Ives Tate Action Group was formed to raise money to build the gallery, to the present time