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Panorama of Accra, circa 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448A
Scope and Contents
A collection of uncaptioned loose prints, each measuring approximately 290 x 200 mm. Joined together the prints form a panoramic view of about 180 degrees. The viewpoint of the photographer is from an unidentified building between the High Street and the sea a few hundred yards east of Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral. Photographer unknown, but see print 5.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Panorama of Bombay
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 85
Scope and Contents
A coloured panorama mounted on linen, 5487 x 355 mm. in size. The picture is described on the back as an 'original unpublished panorama of Bombay taken from the top of Sir Jenisedjie Jeejeebhoy's house - drawn and coloured on the spot by T. Wingate'. There are inscriptions indicating points of interest.
Dates:
1837
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Cambridge University Library
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Panorama of Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089M
Scope and Contents
Two prints joined to measure 557 x 189 mm and with the title handwritten at the top of the print. The panorama shows the small settlement at the end of the North Shore, with houses and bungalows gathered round the far side of the small beach in the foreground. At the left of the print is a jetty leading out into Waitemata Harbour, with Auckland visible in the distance across the water.
Dates:
1870
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Panorama of Grand Harbour, Valletta, 1860s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3017F
Scope and Contents
A panoramic view of Grand Harbour composed of three joined prints, linen backed and measuring in total 861 x 199 mm. The panorama forms part of the collection of General Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890) of the Royal Engineers and was probably acquired by him during his period of service in Gibraltar as C.R.E. from 1862-68. This view is taken from the ramparts of Valletta, probably from somewhere in the vicinity of the Upper Barracca Gardens, and looks south across Grand Harbour. Kalkara...
Dates:
1860 - 1869
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Panorama of Larnaca, 1878
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018D
Scope and Contents
A panorama composed of 6 joined prints measuring 1092 x 151 mm. A small part of the caption is illegible having been inked over. The panorama is taken from a pier in the harbour looking back towards the waterfront. At the left (south) are waterfront houses and jetties with a landing wharf piled high with barrels and sacks of provisions in the centre. At the right, four soldiers on a jetty watch the photographer. Photograph by E. Carletti and Co.
Dates:
1878
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Panorama of Ootacamund [i.e. Udagamandalam] by A.T.W. Penn
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022EE
Scope and Contents
A panoramic view of Ootacamund (also known as Udagamandalam) made from four jointed prints, measuring a total of 1074 x 205 mm. The prints are linen backed and contained in boards stamped with the title. The view is taken from Elk Hill looking northwards and encompasses the lake at the west, the centre of the town and the outlying bungalows running to the head of the valley in the east. Points of interest in the view include: Ooty Lake, at this period with its eastern end still...
Dates:
1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Panorama of Simla
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 86
Scope and Contents
The panorama is approximately 3810 x 534 mm. in size. An accompanying note indicates that it was painted from sketches in Rugby during the 1860s. As the panorama includes Christ Church, completed in 1854, the sketches may have dated from after the death of Lady Tennant's husband.
Dates:
1865
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Panorama of the sea prospect of Fort St. George
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 82
Scope and Contents
A panorama watercolour on paper, mounted on coarse linen, 31.57 x 152.4 cm. in size. Fort St. George was built on the shores of the Bay of Bengal at Madras by the East India Company in 1644. Notable places are identified, and there is a key at the foot of the picture. The panorama is undated, but probably originates from the mid-18th century.
Dates:
1750
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Panoramic view of the Shanghai Bund, 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377F
Scope and Contents
2220 x 198 mm. A panoramic view, composed from 8 joined prints contained in boards with a leather titlepiece on the cover reading 'Shanghai Bund Tuck Tai Photographer'. The only identification given with the panorama is that of the Customs House in the fourth section. The view is taken from the south (Pootung) side of the river on the headland formed by the 90 degrees curve of the Whangpoo. The panorama embraces an angle of view of some 250 degrees and shows the following landmarks (from...
Dates:
1898-10-30
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Papeles Curiosos
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7638
Scope and Contents
Copies of various letters and historical extracts in Spanish. Possibly by Bartolome Leonardo and Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Papeles Varios
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7639
Scope and Contents
Poems and historical notes.
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Paper money (?), Philatelic Collection, no place
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.761
Dates:
c. 1600
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Paper specimens
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8578
Scope and Contents
Album of ca. 200 leaves, numbered as far as 170. Specimens are tipped onto the album leaves, starting with fol. 23 and ending with 155. The title page is inscribed in the hand of Bagford: 'A collection of specementes of thi variate of seviral sortes of paper: as from China Est India Persia Turkia Italia ffrance: Germany fflanders Holland and England bouth Antient and Moddern: about a hundred sevirall sortes'. Fol. 1r contains an incomplete alphabetical index also in Bagford's hand to various...
Dates:
1707 (Date from Gatch, 453.)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers accumulated by Henry Winston (Peregrine) Churchill
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PCHL
Scope and Contents
The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre includes: letters from Lady Randolph Churchill to her younger son, John S Churchill, and also to Winston Churchill; letters from Lord Randolph Churchill; letters from Winston Churchill; the correspondence of John S Churchill ("Jack"); the correspondence of Jack's wife, Lady Gwendeline Churchill ("Goonie"); letters from Peregrine's elder brother John G Churchill ("Johnny"); letters and papers relating to Peregrine Churchill himself; family...
Dates:
1850 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Papers accumulated by John Goodridge relating to Robert Bloomfield and John Clare, including correspondence and writings of Ronald Blythe
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10203
Scope and Contents
A collection of original documents relating to Robert Bloomfield and members of his family, together with correspondence and papers of Ronald Blythe, principally relating to John Clare and the John Clare Society.
Dates:
1802-2014
Conditions Governing Access:
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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Cambridge University Library
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Papers and glass plate negatives of Louis Cobbett
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10282
Scope and Contents
Contains:
Box 1 - Offprints of publications by Cobbett and others on diptheria and turberculosis, some annotated
Box 2 - Laboratory (2) and research (1) notebooks , correspondence and reviews of The Causes of Tuberculosis, publication by Cobbett
Box 3 - Lecture notes (6 folders)
Boxes 4-5 - Wooden boxes containing glass plate negatives (2 boxes)
Box 6 - Further material from the Department of Pathology.
Dates:
1893-1935
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers and photographs of Fergus Wilson
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 162
Scope and Contents
A memoir and photographs of Fergus Wilson's time in East Africa, papers concerning agricultural education, material relating to Makerere University College, the Food and Agriculture Organization and other organisations, and miscellaneous items. A file of papers regarding the collection is with RCMS 162/1.
Dates:
1933 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers and photographs of J.M. Coote
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 316
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, a printed pamphlet and photographs relating predominantly to Coote's time in East Africa, but with a few photographs from Persia.
Dates:
1903 - 1962
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
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Papers and photographs of Reginald Pringle
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 75
Scope and Contents
A wide range of papers relating to Pringle's time in India and photographs taken in India and other countries.
Dates:
1900 - 1980
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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Cambridge University Library
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Papers and photographs of Thomas Buckley
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 107
Scope and Contents
Material relating to the Buckley family's time in Malaya and Kenya and a collection of menus from ship journeys.
Dates:
1936 - 1957
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
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Papers associated with the Mitrokhin Archive, but deposited by other sources
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MITN AS
Dates:
1999 - 2000
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Papers collected by Roy Acheson about Wickliffe Rose
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROSE
Scope and Contents
The photocopies of papers were collected by Roy Acheson in the course of his research on Wickcliffe Rose and mainly comprise copies of the following: records of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation; records of its International Education Board; Rose's diaries and personal correspondence; a small amount of material on the League of Nations Health Organisation and World Health Organisation; records of the United States Southern Education Board; and material on the...
Dates:
1899-1955
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Papers concerning excavations at La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612
Dates:
1950-1995
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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Cambridge University Library
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Papers concerning General Charles George Gordon
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8128
Scope and Contents
Material relating to General Gordon's visit to China in 1880, mainly correspondence between his brother Sir Henry Gordon and Thomas Wade. The papers concern the controversy attached to Gordon's visit, such as H.W. Gordon's claim that Wade and others had encouraged Li Hung-Chang to rebel against the government in Peking, which Wade denied.The collection concerns General Charles George Gordon (1833-1885) and his visit China in 1880, which was prompted by a telegram he received from...
Dates:
1880-1886 (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
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Papers concerning Margaret Thatcher's time as Member of Parliament for the Finchley Constituency, 1948-1992.
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FINC
Scope and Contents
Including in and copy-out constituency correspondence answered by Margaret Thatcher and her constituency office staff, 1986; constituents' cases and surgery files, 1987-91; details of Mrs Thatcher's constituency engagements, 1971-87 (incomplete); annual yearbooks of the (then) Finchley and Friern Barnet Conservative Association, 1948/9-55/6, 1983, 1985/6-89/90; and other miscellaneous material, ca. 1983-92
Dates:
1948 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access:
Closed while uncatalogued. Much of the material relates to individual constituents and would require closure on data protection grounds.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre