Great Britain. Colonial Office. Visual Instruction Committee
Organization
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
File
Colonial Visual Instruction Committee Correspondence, 1913
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between COVIC and the British Association concerning the photographs. This file also contains two papers describing the work of the committee.
Dates:
1913
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
COVIC lantern slide: ‘Set 3. India Slide 31 – Darjeeling.’, undated, early 1900s
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302N/3/2
Scope and Contents
Image shows a view of the town, with mountains in the background. The image appears in the list of slides in ‘The Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office: Eight lectures on India’ prepared for the committee by H.J. Mackinder, 1910, p. 138. The text accompanying the slide is as follows: 'Darjeeling is about seven thousand feet above sea level, on a ridge overlooking northward the gorge of the Rungeet River. In the early morning, if we are fortunate in the weather and rise before...
Dates:
undated, early 1900s
Item
COVIC lantern slide: ‘Set 7. India. Slide 17 – The Hall of Private Audience, Delhi Fort.’, undated, early 1900s
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302N/4/1
Scope and Contents
Image shows exterior view. The image appears in the list of slides in ‘The Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office: Eight lectures on India’ prepared for the committee by H.J. Mackinder, 1910, p. 143. The text accompanying the slide is as follows: 'We pass next to the innermost court of the Fort-palace, the Hall of Private Audience, the Diwan-i-Khas, ninety feet long and seventy feet broad, built of white marble with many inlaid flowers of jewels. Beneath the cornice runs the...
Dates:
undated, early 1900s
File
Diary letters, 1907 - 1910
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/1
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Fisher to Halford Mackinder describing his travels (circa 2,000 pages).
Dates:
1907 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Fisher photograph collection
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher
Scope and Contents
Collection of 29 albums consisting of approximately 3864 photographs taken or collected by A.H. Fisher for the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee 1907-1910. The numbering of the collection is problematic and details are provided for each separate album. Photographers: Some of the names which appear are:Hutchins: donor of some photographs of India, but not otherwise identifiedFirebrace: donor of some photographs of India, but not otherwise identifiedRighi: ...
Dates:
1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Papers of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10
Dates:
1907 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Photographs of India and Egypt
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302N
Content Description
A set of 86 glass slides, mostly late 19th and early 20th century, originally stored in 12 cardboard slide boxes. The content relates to India (people and places), Indian railways, including maps, and Egypt. A number of slides are marked 'Imperial Institute', some relate to the work of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee (COVIC) and some relate to the publication 'Views of Gaur and Pandua' by John Henry Ravenshaw. A significant number of slides are unidentified. Where possible,...
Dates:
undated, [early to mid 20th century]
File
Volume XXV : South Africa, 1910-01
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 25
Scope and Contents
Though the album is inserted here to avoid a gap in the numbering, it is not part of the Fisher Collection as such. It is however an album of the same type as those containing Fisher's own photographs and is labelled on the spine 'VIC South Africa Lectures IV, V, VI'. It appears to be a record album of the lantern slides used to accompany the Visual Instruction Committee lectures. From the captions it originally contained illustrations for the three lectures mentioned: Lecture IV: Karoo...
Dates:
1910-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Whaling in Falkland Islands Dependencies
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795C
Scope and Contents
Three postcards and two prints, probably collected as part of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee material (see introduction to Fisher Collection). The photographs are captioned on the backs.
Dates:
1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).