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Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085A
Scope and Contents
A commercial album containing ten mounted prints mainly 205 x 150 mm, with printed title page and captions. Published by Watson and Co., Queen Street, Brisbane. Photographed by John Watson.
Dates:
1873
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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Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery, second series
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085B
Scope and Contents
A commercial album containing ten mounted prints mainly 227 x 175 mm, with printed title page and captions. Published by Watson and Co., Queen Street, Brisbane. Photographed by John Watson.
Dates:
1873
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
Fonds
W.B. Redfern: Drawings for The lantern of the Cam
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7971
Dates:
1871-1873 (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
Weatherstone Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of reproductions and originals of nineteenth-century prints, postcards, early and modern photographs, and watercolours which feature in two books on the tea industry written by John Weatherstone. Weatherstone’s works are distinguished for the wealth of their illustrations, which vividly bring to life the planter’s working and living conditions.
Dates:
1830 - 2008
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
Wedd: The Papers of Nathaniel Wedd
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/NW
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises poetry, novels, essays, memoirs, journals, correspondence, photographs and other personal papers of Nathaniel Wedd, as well as papers given after Wedd's death. It also includes the papers of his wife, Rachel Wedd, whom he originally met as one of his pupils at Newnham.
Dates:
1880 - 1940
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Wei Hai Wei [i.e. Weihai] circa 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30382A
Scope and Contents
Photographs measuring 145 x 100 mm.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Werner Milch: Thesis on Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7975
Scope and Contents
English and German versions of a thesis entitled 'Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the philosophical, theological and political background of his poetical work', which was submitted for a Ph.D. to the University of London in 1945. The English version is a 129-page typescript, with an index, bibliography and manuscript annotations. Attached to the front cover is a note by Dr W. Rose, L.S.E., and a letter from Edna Purdie to Dr Rose, 15 May 1945, regarding the thesis. The German version is a 126-page...
Dates:
1945 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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West African photographs. 1950-60s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043R
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints, by various photographers, of various sizes and the majority with captions on the reverse. The prints break down geographically thus:
1-60 Nigeria
61-79 Sierra Leone
80-83 The Gambia
84-109 Ghana
110-116 Miscellaneous.
Dates:
1950 - 1969
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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West African Railways
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448W
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs created by the railway engineer Charles Bell Swan. The discovery of gold at Tarkwa during the 1890s provided the stimulus for the establishment of the Gold Coast Government Railway. Sekondi was chosen as the terminal port to support mining operations and construction began there in 1898, reaching Tarkwa in 1901. The line was extended to Kumasi in 1903. Items 1-18 and 44 document the building of the harbour facilities and station at Sekondi, and the European and...
Dates:
1902 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
West African trading activities
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043NN
Scope and Contents
An album containing photographs showing aspects of European trade in the West African coast.
The photographs occupy 28 pages of an album; plates 21-27, 30-31 and 32-34 each occupy one page. There are a number of blank pages at the back. Most of the prints have brief captions, which have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. They are not always reliable: see, e.g., plates 10 and 15.
Dates:
1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
West Indian documents
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 263
Scope and Contents
Loose papers and one newspaper from Patrick and his son James Colquhoun's correspondence files. RCMS 263/1-9 have a cover headed 'Nevis 1820' and RCMS 263/11-31 are in a similar cover '1832 West Indies'. Each has a note of contents, but these do not tally exactly with the items now present.
Dates:
1820 - 1832
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
Westcott Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8316
Scope and Contents
Letters and papers of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, and also letters of his wife, Sarah Louisa Mary Westcott, and their son, Arthur Westcott. Comprises both personal and professional correspondence, as well as some letters evidently retained as part of a collecton of autographs. Correspondents include: 3rd Marquess of Bute; various landowners in County Durham, including 9th Lord Barnard, 6th Marquess of Londonderry and 2nd Earl of Ravensworth; Arthur Westcott, principally to Sarah...
Dates:
1880-1949
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
W.G.: Letter to the Earls of East Friesland
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.88
Scope and Contents
English translation of letter originally written between 1564 and 1572. The original cover appears to have been directed to Daniel Wigmore (d. 1646).
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Whaling in Falkland Islands Dependencies
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795C
Scope and Contents
Three postcards and two prints, probably collected as part of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee material (see introduction to Fisher Collection). The photographs are captioned on the backs.
Dates:
1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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White Kennett: materials collected for his anonymously published Complete History of England
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.89-90
Scope and Contents
Much of the material concerns James I, the English Civil War and its aftermath.
Dates:
1700-1706 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Whitley Stokes: additions to E. O'Reilly's Irish-English Dictionary
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.705-706
Scope and Contents
A transcript of the additions written by Whitley Stokes on his interleaved O'Reilly.
Dates:
1869 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Whitting Collection on Nigeria
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043Q
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, mostly taken by Mrs. C.E.J. Whitting. Captions are chiefly derived from information written on the backs of the prints. There is some duplication of prints, particularly towards the end of the list.Charles Edward Jewel Whitting was born on 10 June 1900, and educated at Haileybury, which he left in 1918 for Sandhurst, followed by service in the Northumberland Fusiliers. He entered St. John's College, Oxford in 1920 (B.A. 1922, M.A. 1928) and went to...
Dates:
1930 - 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Whittle Associated Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WHTL AS
Scope and Contents
These papers were deposited by people who knew or worked with Frank Whittle. The contents are mainly reports produced for Power Jets Limited during World War II.
Dates:
1939 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Management Group
Whittle : file of papers relating to dealings with Frank Whittle's company, Power Jets. BT-H 'Special File no. 14750. Power Jets. Quantity Production'
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/WHITTLE
Scope and Contents
Letters, blueprints, drawings, orders, memoranda, telegrams.
Dates:
1940-01-26 - 1941-06-04
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5995
Scope and Contents
Transcripts made by Henry Pidcock of documents from Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire. Pidcock's name appears inside the front cover of both volumes. Vol. 1, 32 pages: (fo. 1) decree for fines certain, 16 February 1626; (fo. 15) copy of the will of Adam Kelfull; (fo. 20v) account of tithable arable land and leys in Whittlesea; (fo. 22) list of donations to St Mary's and St Andrew's churches, Whittlesea, 1713-1766; (fo. 23) terrier of lands belonging to the same; (fo. 24) particular of the lord's...
Dates:
1839 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Whittlesea Mere, Huntingdonshire: Drainage Plan
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8827
Scope and Contents
'Thoughts upon and a Plan to Drain Whittlesea Meer' (anonymous)
Dates:
1819 (Circa, undated (has watermark of 1819))
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire: Copies of Documents
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4369
Scope and Contents
Copies of documents dating from 1626-1795, with the watermark 1806, 128 folios: (p. 1) copy of an inspeximus, 12 February 1684; (p. 48) list of lots; (p. 69) 'The manner of tything in Whittlesey'; (p. 80) copy of the decree for fines certain, 1626; (p. 100) contents of the fens; (p. 106) account of arable lands; (p. 107) copy of the writ of execution of the decree upon the statute of 43d of Elizabeth, 5 June 1668; (p. 123) copy of the exemplification of judgement in Budd v. Hemmant and...
Dates:
1806
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire: manorial surveys and rentals
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3826
Scope and Contents
(fo. 2) title page; (fo. 4) bounds of manors of Whittlesey St Mary's and Whittlesey St Andrew's; (fo. 5) survey of same, 1603; (fo. 8) rental for manor of Whittlesey St Mary's, 1603; (fo. 21) copies of leases in the same; (fo. 26) rental for manor of Whittlesey St Andrew's, 1603; (fo. 36) terrier for both manors. fos 7, 24: blank. Inside back cover: 'Toyer Forster his book', the name repeated five times, and the date 1699. The name also occurs, with much scribbling, inside front cover.
Dates:
1603 (Transcribed in late 17th cent. hand.)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Who built the bandwagon? A study of the founders of the Colonial Society of 1868': D.Phil. dissertation
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 8
Scope and Contents
A D.Phil. dissertation in History for the University of California, San Diego, 335 pages.
Dates:
1993
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Widdrington : letters and orations.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/WIDDRINGTON
Scope and Contents
pp. 1-76 from front and 1-25 from back. Many blanks between.Front:1-9: Oratio panegyrica habita in Aula St Joh. Cantab. Die initiationis Regis Jacobi. Presumably 1684, though the account in Cooper’s Annals, iii. 606 does not indicate a university-wide event in St John’s hall.10-20: Oratio in Inauguratione Augustissimi Regis Caroli. [May 1660]21-6: Gloriosior Jupiter fulmine quam Imbre Aureo. 166927-9: untitled and undated address to the U. Possibly soliciting...
Dates:
1650 - 1684
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library