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Sarvajnagunalankaraya
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 97
Scope and Contents
A palm-leaf manuscript from Sri Lanka containing a description of the virtues of the Omniscient One (Buddha). It is comprised of a collection of writings on various topics that were of interest to the devotee. This is a nineteenth-century copy of the original work.
Dates:
1850
Conditions Governing Access:
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Scenes in Pakistan 1960s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30222B
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints, chiefly of projects financed by the World Bank or the International Finance Corporation, Washington D.C.
Dates:
1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access:
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School Empire Tours Record 1927-1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs, by various photographers, relating to School Empire Tours, probably compiled by Miss Margaret Best. All the prints are captioned and some also have dates and places written on the back in Miss Best's hand.It should be noted that most of the images show groups of the participants, either before setting out or in the country concerned, but there is very little to show their activities - the 1932 tour to Canada is the best in this respect. It is clear from...
Dates:
1927 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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School groups in Calcutta, ?1920s-30s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022UU
Scope and Contents
Collection consisting of loose prints of school groups in Calcutta. The schools have not been identified. Photographs by Edna Lorenz and H. Paul.
Dates:
1920 - 1939
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).
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Shanghai Racecourse, circa 1870
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377E
Scope and Contents
Albumen prints mounted on card and measuring approximately 275 x 200 mm. Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1870
Conditions Governing Access:
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Singapore
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311G
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs most of which are by G.R. Lambert and Co. Unless otherwise stated they are 270 x 210 mm. The captions are those on the prints; where there is no caption, one is given in brackets.
Dates:
1880 - 1900
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).
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Singapore 1982
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311C
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose colour prints each 360 x 240 mm. Some descriptive captions have been added, but most of the information was supplied with the photographs, and has not been updated.
Dates:
1982
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).
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Sir Harold Smedley Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389
Scope and Contents
Diaries, official papers, correspondence and photographs
Dates:
1950 - 2000
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).
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Sir Harry Brittain Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011AAA
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints and others in an album relating to the career of Sir Harry Brittain (1873-1974).These photoraphs were selected by the Librarian from a large collection and have been chosen for their relevance to Sir Harry's Empire/Commonwealth interests. They are by various photographers, including Sir Harry himself; some of these are noted but it is probably that others were also taken by him. Among them are portraits of individuals, groups, travel scenes and some...
Dates:
1873 - 1974
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).
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Sir John Bagnall Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 367
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Bagnall's account of his evacuation from Singapore during the Second World War immediately before its fall to the Japanese in Feb. 1942. It is accompanied by photographs of the home he occupied at the time.
Dates:
2007
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).
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Sir Ralph Hone collection : South Arabia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3021B
Scope and Contents
An album containing scenes in the Federation, probably by official photographers. Most of the prints measure 210 mm x 160 mm, though a few are slightly smaller, and all are excellent photographs.Between 1959 and 1965 sixteen states and the British Colony of Aden joined to form the Federation of South Arabia. In 1965 Sir Ralph Hone and Sir Gawain Bell were appointed to make recommendations for a constitution for the Federation. They reported early in 1966, but the constitution...
Dates:
1965 - 1966
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).
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Sir Raynor Arthur Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs and slides, by various photographers, relating to the career of Sir Raynor Arthur. Apart from one photograph of Cyprus, the photograph collection relates to Arthur's last three posts (Bermuda, the Falkland Islands and the Bahamas), and, as well as more general scenes, includes images of several special events and distinguished visitors. Most of the Bermuda and Bahamas material consists of professional photographs; those of the Falkland Islands and Falkland...
Dates:
1937 - 1960
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).
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Sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 96
Scope and Contents
'A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom', the last independent state in Sri Lanka, which had its capital at Kandy, c. 1835, 186 pages; a memorandum on the law of inheritance, 30 pages; rules for administering justice, 25 pages; Sir John Doyley's notes on the Kandyan law of inheritance, 8 pages; Singhalese law of inheritance, etc., 47 pages; and notes on the law of marriage, etc., 30 pages.
Dates:
1835
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).
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Sketches in India : taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency, London : Lovell Reeve, 1862
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022F
Scope and Contents
The book consists of a frontispiece and 100 prints, each measuring 74 x 72mm. The images, which are pasted in opposite text by C.R. Weld, appear to be halves of stereo pairs. The pages are not consecutively numbered and the volume is divided into five sections: scenery and antiquities at Golconda (1-12); miscellaneous tombs and temples (13-19); views at Hyderabad and Secunderabad (20-34); sketches illustrating English life in India (35-47); sketches of people and portraits of noblemen...
Dates:
1862
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).
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Souvenir of India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022ZZZZ
Scope and Contents
An accordion fold album containing 12 albumen prints showing domestic scenes, 143 x 100 mm in size, with pencil captions beneath each image (written over fainter pencil captions). The photographer is unknown, but a similarly titled album of the same size has been credited to the French photographer Jean Baptiste Oscar Mallitte (1829-1905).
Dates:
1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sukkur Bridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30244A
Scope and Contents
This album was created to celebrate the opening of the Lansdowne Bridge, which spans part of the Indus River between Sukkur and Rohri in the Sindh province of Pakistan. During the British colonial era, the North Western Railway had been extended to Sukkur by 1879, but relied upon a steam ferry to cross the river between Rohri and Sukkur, which was limited, slow and unwieldy. The Indus was bridged at Attock in 1887, enabling trains to run from the Khyber Pass in the West to Calcutta, but an...
Dates:
1885 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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Taj Mahal
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022MMMM
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145 x 195 mm, on card mount. A montage showing the Taj as seen across the Jumna River, framed in an arch which is actually situated on land. The photograph was presented to Miss Diana Hartley on 16 December 1935 by staff and students of the Thomason Hospital, Agra, to commemorate her visit, as Secretary of the Trained Nurses Association of India, in November 1935. The photograph is stored at RCMS 77.
Dates:
1935
Conditions Governing Access:
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'Tales of India written for my grandchildren'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 400
Scope and Contents
This is a photocopy of a typescript memoir written by Ross in 1952 for his four grandchildren. As its title suggests, the memoir is anecdotal in nature, largely describing leisure activities and memorable incidents from his life in India, including tours of inspection by horse and elephant in remote places and camping scenes. The final sections, however, shed light upon his official duties, beginning with an account of his extreme isolation when appointed to Hamirpur just after the First...
Dates:
1952
Conditions Governing Access:
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Tennant family papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 357
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Brigadier-General Sir James Tennnat and his son Lieutenant-General James Francis Tennant
Dates:
1805 - 1916
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).
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The Ceylon War Council, 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303J
Scope and Contents
216 x 144 mm. The photograph is a group portrait of the members of the Ceylon War Council. The only figures identified are the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Andrew Caldecott (fourth from the left in the front row) and Brigadier Sir Patrick Alexander Bruce McKerron of the Malayan Civil Service. McKerron was seconded as Political Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon during the Second World War.
The National Archives in Colombo, Sir Lanka, holds another copy of this image. The...
Dates:
1942
Conditions Governing Access:
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The de Lucy family and Malaya
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 378
Dates:
2011
Conditions Governing Access:
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'The face in the mirror': autobiography of John Morley
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 44
Scope and Contents
The autobiography of John Morley, written during the 1970s, 122 pages.
Dates:
1970 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access:
The thesis may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the permission of the author.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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The Himalayas 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022RRRR
Scope and Contents
Framed panoramic photograph made up of two prints joined, 380 x 105 mm. The photograph shows a view of the Himalayas taken at sunrise on a trek from Darjeeling to Kanchenjunga in 1932 by J.P.Perry. The frame measures 453 x 188 mm.
Dates:
1932
Conditions Governing Access:
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The History of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi, held on the 1st January, 1877
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022M
Scope and Contents
Printed volume of 248 printed pages by James Talboys Wheeler containing Woodburytypes. These include studio portraits of the Queen, Lord Lytton, and eleven Indian rulers; a group of the Khan of Khelat with Chiefs and Ministers; seven views of historical remains in Delhi; and five of scenes at the Durbar at which Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India. 'The original photographs, with some exceptions, were taken by Messrs Bourne and Shepherd' (Wheeler 1877, p.vi) but there is no...
Dates:
1877
Conditions Governing Access:
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The Holy Land [i.e. Palestine], Egypt, Constantinople [i.e. Istanbul], Athens, etc. etc. 1865
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214D
Scope and Contents
Printed volume with text by W.M. Thomson illustrated with photographs taken by Francis Bedford. The photographs were taken whilst Bedford accompanied the Prince of Wales on his tour of the Middle East in 1862 and were published as an inexpensive alternative to Bedford (1863). The accompanying text in this volume is described as 'designedly of a popular character'.
Dates:
1865
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library