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Views of Kuching and Labuan, 1890s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035C
Scope and Contents
Loose albumen prints, measuring approximately 270 x 185 mm, captioned and numbered in the negative.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Views of New Zealand
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089F
Scope and Contents
An album containing coloured 40 half-tone reproductions, 37 monochrome reproductions and 15 original black and white prints by various photographers. The coloured reproductions measure approximately 245 x 180 mm. In the catalogue the titles are given but no further details. The same procedure is followed in the case of the monochrome half-tones, which are of various sizes. The original photographs are mostly panoramas consisting of more than one print.
Dates:
1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Views of Nyasaland [i.e. Malawi] 1885-86
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3051A
Scope and Contents
Collection of albumen prints mounted on thick cards, originally contained in four slip-cases discarded after war damage, but the subdivisions A, B, C and D have been retained in the list. They are captioned in clear handwriting. The photographs include the work of the Church of Scotland Mission, the Free Church of Scotland Mission and the African Lakes Company, as well as many of the prominent Yao, Angoni and Makololo chiefs.Thomas Joseph Last (1847-1933) who undertook an...
Dates:
1885 - 1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Views of Port Darwin Harbour and Gold-mining District
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3083A
Scope and Contents
Ten mounted prints, uncaptioned and measuring approximately 205 x 140 mm. showing views of the harbour and town, and of the gold mining districts inland.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Views of Port Elizabeth and Cradock
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059Q
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 210 x 155 mm or 150 x 105 mm, with handwritten captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Photographs probably by Revd. Alfred Hall.
Dates:
1906
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Views of scenery in the West Indies
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307J
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of 12 halftone prints and two sheets of paper, which both have handwritten inscriptions in ink. The photographer was W.M.H. Ward & Co. Although there are 14 captions listed on one of the accompanying sheets of paper, only 12 prints are present. Images corresponding to captions 1, 3, and 7 are absent. There are 11 unique images, with two prints for the image which corresponds to caption 6. The collection’s creator is unknown, but this set of prints...
Dates:
1897
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Views of St Helena
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30482B
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose blue-toned collodio-chloride prints measuring approximately 205 x 145 mm, with pencilled captions on the reverse.
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Views of the Victoria Falls
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052E
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints, most measuring approximately 275 x 205 mm., with brief pencilled captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Numbers 1-5 are platinum prints, distinguishable from silver prints by the delicacy and softness of tonal gradation. This fine process, substituting platinum for silver compounds as the light reactive substance in the paper, died out at around the time of the Great War due to the increase in the price...
Dates:
1903 - 1904
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Views on Mr C B Fisher's Northern Territory Cattle Stations
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3083B
Scope and Contents
Ten mounted prints, uncaptioned and measuring approximately 205 x 140 mm.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Village settlements: River Murray
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B
Scope and Contents
A collection of fourteen prints mounted on board, with printed captions, most prints measuring 270 x 220 mm. Photographer unknown. Beneath each photograph is printed 'Surveyor General's Office, Adelaide. A. Vaughan. Photo-Lithographer.' Vaughan became photo lithographer for the Survey Department in 1892 and although it is unlikely that he was also the photographer it indicates that the work was done on behalf of a Government department. Possibly Lindt was the photographer.The...
Dates:
1892
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Vincent Wing and John Wing: astronomical volumes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10425
Scope and Contents
MS Add.10425/1: Vincent Wing (1619-1668); annotated by John Wing (c. 1662-1726). Astronomia instaurata: or, A new compendious restauration of astronomie. In four parts. London: printed by R. and W. Leybourn, for the Company of Stationers, MDCLVI. [1656].MS Add.10425/2: Vincent Wing (1619-1668); Annotated by John Wing (c. 1662-1726). Astronomia Britannica: in qua per novam, concinnioremq[ue] methodum, hi quinq[ue] tractatus traduntur.... Londini: typis Johannis Macock, impensis...
Dates:
1656-Early eighteenth century
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Vine Press Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9861
Scope and Contents
The Vine Press was the private press of John Peters (1917-1989) and Peter Foster (1919-2010) in the village of Hemingford Grey near Cambridge. From 1957 to 1963 the Press produced six books and a few ephemera. The business was run by Peters, and the archive consists mostly of his files. These cover all the books and prospectuses, and most of the ephemera, with trial settings, layouts, proofs, and much correspondence with authors and suppliers; as well as almost all the wood-engraved blocks,...
Dates:
1956-1971
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Virginia Woolf: On Being Ill
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8472
Scope and Contents
'On being ill', a holograph manuscript of 24 October 1925. There are accompanying letters by Virginia and Leonard Woolf and V. Sackville-West, 1936-1966, and an extract from a sale catalogue of 25 July 1978, concerning letters of Virginia Woolf.
Dates:
1925-1978
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Viscount St Albans, Autographed letter
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7565
Dates:
1875-1918
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to Hongkong [i.e. Hong Kong] in 1869
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038B
Scope and Contents
A printed book compiled from local journals and other sources, with prints of photographs by John Thomson inserted.Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1834-1900), second son of Queen Victoria, served in the Royal Navy, and in 1866 was promoted Captain. From 1867-68 he commanded HMS 'Galatea' on an extensive cruise which was cut short when he was wounded in Sydney. After returning to the U.K., 'Galatea' sailed for the Far East, and in the course of this cruise visited Hong Kong from...
Dates:
1869
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Visit of H.M. The Queen Mother to Uganda
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045R
Scope and Contents
The Queen Mother's visit included Kenya (5-18 February) and Uganda (18-27 February).
Dates:
1959
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Visit of H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to Bermuda, 28-29 April 1959, the last step on his 3 month Commonwealth Tour
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070E
Scope and Contents
Photographs measuring 255 x 205mm, taken by the Bermuda News Bureau.
Dates:
1959-04-28 - 1959-04-29
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Uganda 1925
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045I
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose mostly uncaptioned prints, chiefly relating to the visit of Duke and Duchess of York (later H.M. King George VI and H.M. Queen Elizabeth) to Uganda in February-March 1925. An attempt has been made to identify the photographs from the published programme of the visit, and cuttings relating to it, which were presented with the photographs, and also other printed works such as 'King George VI: his life and reign' by John Wheeler-Bennett (1958). It seems likely that...
Dates:
1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Visitation of Cambridgeshire, 1619
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3141
Scope and Contents
Coats of arms inserted in pen-and-ink, but several shields left blank. Occasional additions to the pedigrees in later hands. fo. i: 'The Booke belongeth to Mr Wm. Ayloffe', 'Acknowledged by me John Iuory' (late 17th-cent. hands). much scribbling inside covers. fos 54-9: torn out. fos 60v-62: index.
Dates:
1630
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Visitorial Jurisdiction
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1934/VIS
Dates:
1788 - 2006
Found in:
St Catharine's College Archive
Fonds
Visitors' album (album amicorum) of the Aub family
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10175
Scope and Contents
An album containing texts and graphic illustrations principally by visitors to the residence of the Aub family in Mexico City. Contributors include Octavio Paz and Peter Scott.
Dates:
1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Vita S. Gildae
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6317
Scope and Contents
'Vita S. Gildae Abbatis Ruyensis cognomento Sapientis, Auctore Monacho Ruyensi anonymo, qui saeculo undecimo ineunte vixit. Ex MS. cod. Ruyensi prodit integrior', transcribed from Luc D'Achery and Jean Mabillon, Acta sanctorum Ordinis S. Benedicti, Saec. I (Paris, 1668), p. 138, for Henry Bradshaw. The writing is in the hand of A. Rogers. There are 56 folios, with the versos blank throughout.
Dates:
1886 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Vocabulary of Bajau
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 106
Scope and Contents
A vocabulary of Bajau (Sra) as spoken by the Bajans of the East Coast of British North Borneo, 84 pages, containing English and Bajan words in parallel columns, in alphabetical order of English. Some pencilled notes give the Tempasuk equivalent of certain words.
Dates:
1914-12
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Volta River project: Tema Harbour, Preliminary Works
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448T
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints, measuring 115 x 100 mm, reprinted from original negatives (measuring 3½ x 2½ inches). The originals were taken by Mr. F.L. Simpson when he was handling the Tema Harbour Schedule at the Ministry of Communications and Works as an Assistant Secretary (Administrative Officer). Simpson provided the identifications and notes.
Dates:
1953 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Volumes of Sales Particulars
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3296/Maps/Maps.PSV
Scope and Contents
Bound volumes of sales particulars for properties and land, mostly though not exclusively, in the Cambridge area. Probably compiled by E & E Foster, Solicitors (some items appear to be addressed to them, e.g. Maps.PSV.1.35). Many include manuscript annotations of prices, etc. Further sales particulars can be found by searching Cambridge University Library's Map Deaprtment's card catalogue and the Library's online catalogue (iDiscover).
Dates:
1793 - 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
This item or collection is available for consultation by researchers in the Map Room at Cambridge University Library. Contact details and Map Room opening hours can be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/maps/map-department-contact-details. Anyone wishing to use the collection must first acquire a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket, see https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/using-library/your-library-membership
Found in:
Cambridge University Library