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Photographs of Antigua
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30741C
Scope and Contents
Coloured photographs. The collection was made in connection with a proposed hotel development and the first fifty-two prints show scenes on the Ffryes Point Estate, on the west coast, about seven and a half miles from St. John's and twelve from the airport, where the hotel was to be built. The next thirty-one are of St. John's and the last seven of English Harbour. A map of Antigua has been inserted. There is a list of captions with the album, the references to English Harbour have been...
Dates:
1980 - 1984
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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Photographs of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302M
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises an album containing 187 photographs and a further 25 loose prints. Its creator is unknown, but he is likely to have been a British soldier, probably of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment, identified by the uniforms and insignia of the colour party which appears in Y302M/188. He may have been a member of the battalion’s drum corps and band, since there are several images of its members. Those photographs which are dated cover the period 1927 to 1935. ...
Dates:
1927 - 1937
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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Photographs of Barbados, circa 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3072B
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose photographs (some duplicates) measuring approximately 200 x 140mm, most with pencilled captions on the backs of the prints. Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1905
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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Photographs of Belleville, Ontario. c.1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y306796A
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 160 x 120 mm with typewritten captions on the reverse.
Dates:
1913
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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Photographs of Bermuda
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070C
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 240 x 185 mm, with explanatory captions pasted to the back of the prints. The collection shows views in various parts of the island and is mainly concerned with tourist activities. Photographs by the Bermuda News Bureau plus two by BOAC.
Dates:
1967
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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Photographs of Bermuda 1908-1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A
Scope and Contents
Mounted snapshots of various sizes with handwritten captions (the captions have, in some instances, been abbreviated for this catalogue). Photographs are by Engineer Commander Donald P Green and others. They were taken in the course of one commission on board HMS 'Cornwall', a twin-screw armoured cruiser, at that time serving as a cadet training ship. During the course of 1908 'Cornwall', under the command of Captain (later Admiral) William Hall, (1870-1943), visited Malta, Canada and...
Dates:
1908 - 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).
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Photographs of British Honduras [i.e. Belize], 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3078B
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints measuring approximately 125 x 100 mm. (Six of the photographs are postcards by Avery measuring approximately 135 x 85 mm). The prints are captioned on the reverse. The photographs, which show scenes in and around Belize City and Stann Creek (also known as Dangriga) as well as events during the coronation celebrations for George V in 1911, are sharply defined and of professional quality.
Dates:
1911
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Burma [i.e. Myanmar]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints by Frederic Thesiger Williams (? and others) arranged in four groups.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Burma [Myanmar]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029M
Scope and Contents
This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1852 - 1906
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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Photographs of Burma [Myanmar]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029D
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints. The prints are captioned on the reverse with credits to photographers:
1, 3-16 J. Jackson. Note that item two is credited to J. Jackson, but is far more likely to have been taken by Felice Beato.
17-18 Watts and Skeen.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1890 - 1899
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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Photographs of Bushmen, Herero and Ovambo
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3057C
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, mostly measuring approximately 55 x 85 mm, with handwritten captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation.
The term Bushmen was used to describe a group of Khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherers who lived in the Kalahari Desert.
Dates:
1927
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Cambridge groups and scenes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9723
Scope and Contents
Probably collected by J. Hawtrey May. Formerly mounted in an album. Only Cambridge subjects and 'Spy' and 'Ape' cartoons are listed 1. 'Magpie and Stump mock trial  1892' (a Trinity College Debating Society). Names listed, not always accurately. 2. 'The Epicureans' (on same board as [1]). A University debating society. Only Oscar Browning and G.E. Moore identified. 3. 'Cambridge dons. Procession to Gt St Marys for Memorial Service to Edward VII'. 6. 'The Hydahs Missionary Band 1900'. 7....
Dates:
1892-1907 (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).
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Photographs of Canada
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose photographs of Canada, mostly measuring 240 x 190 mm. Most prints are mounted on card with typed captions.The collection has been broken down into geographical locations thus:1-18 Newfoundland19-23 Prince Edward Island24-25 Nova Scotia26-45 New Brunswick46-61 Quebec62-110 Ontario111-140 Manitoba141-166 Saskatchewan167-206 Alberta207-230 British Columbia231-236 General...
Dates:
1950 - 1967
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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Photographs of Canada
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062R
Scope and Contents
Eighteen loose professional photographs and two engraved prints, mainly showing Canadian landscapes. The collection also includes four photographs of Australia. Several of the images are captioned on the reverse.
Dates:
1890 - 1920
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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Photographs of Canada, c.1897-1904
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062C
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 240 x 190 mm. Most of the photographs have captions on the prints, a couple have them on the reverse.
Dates:
1897 - 1904
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Canada circa 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062D
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 135 x 80 mm, and captioned and signed in pencil on the reverse. The prints show scenes in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
Dates:
1912
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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Photographs of Cape Province
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059Y
Scope and Contents
A collection of high quality photographs, measuring 210 x 160 mm, mounted on black album sheets. They are uncaptioned but most have been identified from books on the Cape and on South African architecture; 25-31 are almost certainly photographs of Zulu peoples; the remainder are less clearly identified. Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1920 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Ceylon
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303O
Scope and Contents
Framed photographs (frames 400 x 500 mm, photographs within mounts 230 x 280 mm). 2-7, 9 are marked as by the notable Colombo photographers 'Skeen and Co'; the others are not marked with any photographer's name. The captions are taken from those written on the mounts.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Ceylon, 1960s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303L
Scope and Contents
Prints of various sizes, with typewritten captions pasted on the reverse.
Dates:
1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], (?)1950s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303K
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints mounted on card, measuring approximately 245 x 175 mm, with typewritten captions pasted onto the mounts. Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1936 - 1959
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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Photographs of Cyprus. c.1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018G
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 150 x 105 mm, with pencilled captions on the reverse. An accompanying letter to the Librarian of the Royal Colonial Institute, J.R. Boosé, dated April 17 1900, gives some additional information about the photographs and promises further prints 'if these are of any use'.
Dates:
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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Photographs of Cyprus, circa 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018H
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose photographs, most measuring approximately 225 x 170 mm, with typed captions pasted to their reverse side.
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).
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Photographs of Delhi, Lucknow and Amritsar
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022VVVV
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs, each 250 x 190 mm, probably dating from the late 19th century. The prints are captioned in pencil on the back and the titles transcribed in the catalogue.
Dates:
1860 - 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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Photographs of Edmonton and Central Alberta. c.1910-1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y306861A
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints, mounted on card, measuring approximately 165 x 115 mm. All prints are captioned on the mounts, most in addition having captions on the prints. Captions used here are from the mounts. The collection contains some good views of Edmonton and farming scenes in the Edmonton area.
Dates:
1910 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Egypt and the Sudan, 1870s-80s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B
Scope and Contents
A collection of albumen prints measuring approximately 210 x 280 mm, captioned either in the negative or in pencil on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The collection contains several duplicates and appears to contain photographs from several sources. Prints 1-10 show architectural and landscape views in Egypt (Cairo, the Pyramids and the Suez Canal), the remainder are...
Dates:
1870 - 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