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Fisher photograph collection

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher
Scope and Contents Collection of 29 albums consisting of approximately 3864 photographs taken or collected by A.H. Fisher for the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee 1907-1910. The numbering of the collection is problematic and details are provided for each separate album. Photographers: Some of the names which appear are:Hutchins: donor of some photographs of India, but not otherwise identifiedFirebrace: donor of some photographs of India, but not otherwise identifiedRighi: ...
Dates: 1900 - 1910
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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Gibraltar from end of Old [mistitled] Mole. c.1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016B
Scope and Contents 1206 x 221 mm. A panoramic view composed of 5 joined prints, cloth-backed. The panorama shows a view looking towards the south part of the town from the New Mole. At the right of the photograph ships and hulks are moored at the dockyard with the town beyond. Among the prominent buildings identifiable are the South Barracks behind the town, the Barrack Chapel directly in front, and the Station Hospital on the skyline at the right of the picture. The panorama follows the sea wall and the...
Dates: 1880
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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Group outside Gibraltar Cathedral, January 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016G
Scope and Contents

215 x 105 mm. In the centre are the Ven. G.H. Warde, Dean of Gibraltar 1928-1933, the Rt. Rev. F.C. Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Gibraltar 1927-1933, and Canon Richard Shiers-Mason, Chaplain to Seamen. Around are members of the choir.

Dates: 1931-01
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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Journey to Cochin [Kochi]

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302O
Content Description A collection of lantern slides and two loose photographic prints, documenting a journey from the United Kingdom, via Gibraltar and the Suez, to Cochin in Kerala, India. The provenance of the collection is unknown. There appears to be a connection to the firm, William Goodacre & Sons, established in Kerala in 1862, an export/import business still operating out of Alappuzha producing coir rugs, door mats, brush mats and related products. Several of the slides are captioned Goodacre and...
Dates: undated, [early 1900s]
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Malta, the Holy Land, etc

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011A
Scope and Contents

A collection of albumen prints which include views of the Middle East, Malta and Gibraltar by Robertson, Beato and others. The majority are of European works of arts and townscapes (many of the latter unidentified). There are also scenes at Woolwich. Plates 68-80 are uncaptioned and consist of miscellaneous engravings of weaponry, armour and archaeological sites.

Dates: 1850 - 1869
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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'The post-war economic development of Gibraltar': BA dissertation

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 60
Scope and Contents

'The geography of the post-war economic development of Gibraltar, 1946-70', a B.A. dissertation for Durham University.

Dates: 1970
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).