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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

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: 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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Watercolours and drawings of Edward Frome

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40
Scope and Contents This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...
Dates: 1827 - 1975
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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Whaling in Falkland Islands Dependencies

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: 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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Young collection on Gibraltar

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A
Scope and Contents

A number of the images depict Gibraltar, the remainder relate to Young's service in Woolwich, Shoeburyness, and elsewhere in the U.K.

Dates: 1885 - 1888
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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Zanzibar (Chandler Collection)

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B
Scope and Contents

A collection of separate photographs and a panorama. The photographs date from Chandler's residence in east Africa, and are chiefly of Zanzibar Island, but 60-73 and 83-87 are of Dar es Salaam, 75 is probably of England, 88-89 are of South Africa and 90-96 are of the Victoria Falls.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
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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Royal Commonwealth Society 3
Arthur, Sir (Oswald Raynor, 1905-1973, Knight and colonial administrator) 2
Bermuda News Bureau 2
Burke, Norah Aileen, 1907 (novelist) 2
Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Central Office of Information 2
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Great Britain. Colonial Office. Visual Instruction Committee 2
Armytage, Lucy Frances Green, fl1935 - 1953 1
Banks, Frederick Grant, 1875 - 1954 (trader and planter) 1
Barttelot, Edmund Musgrave, 1859 - 1888 (Major) 1
Best, Margaret Mary, 1872 - 1941 1
British Association 1
British South Africa Company 1
Brittain, Henry Ernest (Harry), 1873-1974) 1
Chandler, Francis Philip, fl1920 - 1927 1
Christy, Cuthbert, 1863 - 1932 (explorer and zoologist) 1
Crews, Charles Clifford, fl1935 1
Douglas, Herbert Archibald, 1874 - 1941 1
Elliott and Fry (fl. 1863-1964) (photographers) 1
Faulder, Cecil Joseph Salkeld, 1904 1
Fisher, Alfred Hugh, 1867 -1945 (artist and photographer) 1
Flandrin, M, fl1930 - 1939 (photographer) 1
Frome, Edward Charles, 1802 - 1890 (General) 1
Gedge, Ernest, 1862 - 1935 (colonial administrator) 1
Gillman and Co 1
Gilmour, Thomas Lennox, 1859 - 1936 (journalist) 1
Green, Donald P, fl1908 - 1909 (Engineer Commander) 1
Hamond family 1
Hartley, Diana, 1894 - 1986 (nursing administrator in India) 1
Hodgson (fl 1783-1785) 1
Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas 1
Jackson, T, fl1900 (general merchant) 1
Jukes, Worthington, 1849 - 1937 (missionary) 1
Laing, John William (b c 1846) 1
Lawrence, Peter Stafford Hayden, 1913 1
Liddle, Sydney Harold, fl1910 - 1912 1
Pasha, Emin, 1840 - 1892 (governor of Equatoria) 1
Paton, Benjamin (Lewis, 1860-1936, doctor and missionary) 1
Powell, Wilfred, 1853 - 1942 (explorer and consular official) 1
Rive, Alfred, fl1924 - 1927 1
Royal Colonial Institute 1
Royal Empire Society Library 1
Royal Geographical Society 1
Rudd, G R, fl1970 1
Salkield, Tom, fl1905 - 1916 (engineer) 1
Sedgwick, Thomas E, 1929 1
Smith, James Carmichael, 1852 - 1919 1
Stanley, Sir (Henry Morton, 1841-1904, Knight, explorer, administrator, author and journalist) 1
Stuart, Sir (Colin Campbell, 1885-1972, Knight and civil servant) 1
Tyers, Sydney, fl1863 - 1896 (Lieutenant Colonel) 1
Tylden, Geoffrey, 1883 - 1970 (Major) 1
Ward, Mary Alexandria, 1866 - 1965 (nurse) 1
Young, Francis Henry, 1865 - 1932 (soldier) 1
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