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Fonds
Original photographic views of Calcutta old and new used in illustrating Mr Montague Massey's 'Recollections of Calcutta for over half a century', in aid of the Red Cross Fund
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA-BB
Scope and Contents
Albums containing photographs of street scenes and architectural views of buildings in Calcutta, in various sizes with the majority captioned. Titles of uncaptioned prints which have been composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. The majority of the prints are blue toned collodio chloride prints and in several the contrast is rather harsh. This is particularly true of the older material which are either later prints from the original negatives or copy prints made by...
Dates:
1864 - 1918
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ortelius: the papers of Abraham Ortelius
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/ORT
Scope and Contents
The principal item in the collection is Ortelius's 'Album Amicorum'. There are also copies of research relating to the 'Album'.
Dates:
c. 1574-1598; 1914 - 1999
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Orwell School, Cambs.: list of books
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.16
Dates:
1909
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Oscar Browning: Life of George Eliot
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6442
Scope and Contents
Chapters I-IV of Oscar Browning's Life of George Eliot, 199 folios.
Dates:
1889
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Other Deposited Collections Relating to Sir Winston Churchill
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WCHL
Scope and Contents
The 'Churchill Additional' collection is distinct from Sir Winston Churchill's own papers because the 'Churchill Additional' material has a different provenance (it was not maintained with Sir Winston's own archive) and cannot be considered as having been generated by the same processes as Sir Winston's papers. Much of the collection was not generated, accumulated or received by Churchill, but came from various different sources. It includes a diverse range of material: correspondence, with...
Dates:
1693 - 2024
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Closures are noted in the catalogue.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Ottorino Respighi: 'Trittico Botticelliano', Reducció de Piano de G. Graetzer
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8999
Scope and Contents
Piano reduction of 'Trittico Botticelliano' by Guillermo Graetzer, with pencil annotations and stage directions, and typescript ballet choreographic sketch by Margherita Wallmann.
Dates:
1900-1936 (Circa, undated)
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Our Celebrities
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011JJJ
Scope and Contents
A collection of studio portraits by M. Walery, with accompanying biographical essays, published in five volumes 1889-1891. Each photograph is approximately 180 x 250 mm, on a mount 295 x 410 mm, and all have facsimile signatures. Their excellent preservation suggests that they were probably carbon prints. The collection is contained in one half-leatherbound (Volume 1) and four cloth-bound volumes (Volume 2 parts 1 and 2, Volume 3 parts 1 and 2); it was perhaps issued in monthly...
Dates:
1889 - 1891-06
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Our Own Magazine
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6232
Scope and Contents
Vol. 2, 1867.
Dates:
1867
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Outward Bound Movement: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8270
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
Dates:
1939-1970 (Circa)
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ove Arup Oral History Project
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AROH
Scope and Contents
Audio tapes and typescript summaries of interviews with architects, engineers and other people who worked with or knew Ove Arup.
Dates:
1995 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Overture to Carlo Maria von Weber's 'Der Freischutz'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2684
Scope and Contents
Full score, 'from a foreign copy.' fo. 1: 'W. W. B.'
Dates:
1850 (Circa. Year inferred from 19th-century hand)
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Overture to Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Creatures of Prometheus'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2683
Scope and Contents
Full score. Wrongly described on title page (fo. i) as 'Sinfonie'.
Dates:
1850 (Circa. Year inferred from 19th-century hand.)
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ovington Rectory, Norfolk: Letters, testimonials of candidates etc.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.24
Dates:
1902-1907
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Owen (Sir Richard): Draft of Rede Lecture
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8063
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notes for the first Rede lecture, on the classification of the mammalia, including inserted printed items.
Dates:
1859
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Owen: The Papers of Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen (1922-1982), scholar of classical philosophy
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/OWEN
Scope and Contents
The papers range in date and content from undergraduate notes from the 1940s to complete drafts of unpublished manuscripts and working papers presented at seminars, up to Owen's death in 1982. Correspondence is minimal for the papers that originate from Owen's rooms at King's College, Cambridge.
However, the papers that originate as a donation from Owen's widow Sally, mainly consist of correspondence to Owen dating in the main to the 1960s.
Dates:
1940-1982
Fonds
Ownstede?, Radwinter, Essex
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.694
Dates:
1548
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Oxenden Pedigrees
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6316
Scope and Contents
Transcripts from the papers of Henry Oxenden, 19th century, 95 folios. There are pedigrees and genealogical and other notes on the Oxendens and related families, and copies of deeds and wills, with numerous tracings of signatures and rubbings of seals pasted in. The following are inserted: (between pp. vi and vii) an engraved portrait of Henry Oxenden; (between pp. x and 1) an autograph note by Henry Oxenden of his lands in the manor of Barham (before 1643); (between pp. 20 and 21) an...
Dates:
800-1500
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board (OCSEB)
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/2086/OCSEB
Scope and Contents
Records of Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board (OCSEB). Includes administrative and committee papers, personal papers, and publications produced by the organisation. Also includes some exam material, such as syllabuses, question papers and reports.
The records held by Archives & Heritage chiefly represent those of the Cambridge side of the Board, principally from the 1940s onwards.
Dates:
1913 - 1997
Found in:
Cambridge Assessment Archives & Heritage
Fonds
Oxford and Cambridge Zoologists' Club: minutes and accounts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9880
Dates:
1923-1949
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Oxford University: Petitions and Declarations
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4409
Scope and Contents
Copies of petitions, declarations and assertions of religion issued by Oxford University and its members during the Commonwealth.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Oylarin Tümü Denktaş’a
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 403
Scope and Contents
Turkey had invaded Cyprus on 20 July 1974, fearing that the rights of the island’s Turkish minority were threatened by the recent EOKA coup advocating union with Greece. Once the fighting ceased, the island remained divided, and the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus was founded on 13 February 1975 in the northeastern area under Turkish control. This Turkish Cypriot political poster was collected in 1975 by the geologist Edward Spooner, who was surveying a copper mine at Limni on the...
Dates:
1975
Conditions Governing Access:
Stored in the second drawer of the RCS plan chest.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Paget Family: Diaries
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8568
Scope and Contents
Four diaries and one sketchbook, including some printed items.Contributors include:Samuel Paget, banker, shipowner and brewer, of Great Yarmouth, married Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Tolver of Chester. Their children included Arthur Coyte Paget (1808-1833); Sir George Edward Paget (1809-1892), Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge, 1872-1892; Sir James Paget (1814-1899), 1st Baronet, physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, 1839-1884, and Vice-Chancellor of...
Dates:
1830-1854
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Paintings of native Indian figures on talc from Trichinopoly 1869'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 352
Scope and Contents
Miniature coloured portraits of 36 Indian figures, painted on very thin sheets of flexible mica in Trichinopoly, southern India, in 1869. Trichinopoly was the British name for Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu. Mica paintings were produced in standard sets for the colonial tourist market, and imitated paintings on glass which were popular in Europe. They were also used in India by artists for preserving tracings of their family paintings and to decorate glass for temple lanterns. The name of...
Dates:
1869
Conditions Governing Access:
May only be viewed by appointment with curator or conservator.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Pakistan industrial scenes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30222C
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs, many of which are enlargements of others within the RCS Photograph Collection. 8-11 are now in Bangladesh.
Dates:
1965
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Palmerston Hotel, Port Elizabeth
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059K
Scope and Contents
177 x 146 mm. An albumen print mounted on card bearing the letterpress: 'J.E. Bruton, Photographer, Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope' (thus certainly dating the print to before 1874 when Bruton left Port Elizabeth to set up a studio in Cape Town). The print shows the front facade of the two- storied stone built hotel with a group of men and women posed on the verandah for the photographer. The name of the proprietor, James R. Rumsey, can be read above the entrance. The hotel, situated...
Dates:
1865
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library