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2 photographs of Newfoundland inserted in 'The History of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1754-1783', M.A. Thesis by Gordon O. Rothney (1934)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061C
Scope and Contents
Photographer unknown. The prints form part of the thesis (RCMS 236) and are stored with it.
Dates:
1934
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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2 photographs taken at the opening of the second House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084E
Scope and Contents
Two loose black and white prints with typewritten captions attached to reverse, taken by W Pedersen for the Australian News and Information Bureau.
Dates:
1968
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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[5 photographs of Auckland. c.1897]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089P
Scope and Contents
Loose photographs, some captioned, measuring approximately 210 x 150 mm, and showing views of Auckland and Waitemata Harbour.
Dates:
1897
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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A brief historical memoir of Delhi and guide to points of interest together with the official programme in detail of the Imperial Coronation Durbar of 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022JJJJ
Scope and Contents
Leather-bound booklet, measuring 6¾ x 8 inches, of 153 pages, illustrated by photographs stuck in. The majority of the photographs are by Johnston and Hoffman.
Dates:
1911
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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A collection of Photographs illustrative of the Railway System of New South Wales 1887
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E
Scope and Contents
A collection of albumen prints by an unknown photographer. The prints were originally in an album with a printed title page reading 'Charles Potter, Government Printer, presented by C.A. Goodchap, Commissioner of Railways'. Some of the pages have decorative designs round the mount, but only a few have captions, and the following details have been derived from various sources. Plates 21-25 have not been researched in the same detail as plates 1-24 and, unless otherwise stated, they are...
Dates:
1887
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'A grave without a cross'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 185
Scope and Contents
A translation by Trevor Jaggar from the Kiswahili of the 1990 reprint of Kareithi's novel, with a translator's note and preface, 54 pages. In his note Jaggar explains that his purpose in translating Karethi's work was 'to enable British and other readers of English to learn something of what the Mau Mau War felt like to a Kikuyu striving for the independence of Kenya from British colonial rule'.
Dates:
2000
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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A journey in French West Africa in 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 145
Scope and Contents
An account of a journey undertaken by White, then 23, and two companions, from Dakar through St Louis, Kayes (on Mungo Park's route to the Niger), and Djéné on the Bani River, arriving finally at Bobodiulasso, 15 pages. There are references to the activities of Samori and comments on colonial policy. The account is accompanied by a covering letter from White to the Secretary of the Royal Empire Society, 12 July 1948, and the Secretary's reply, 21 July 1948.
Dates:
1948
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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A journey to Asia and Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011MMM-XXX
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...
Dates:
1935-09 - 1936-03
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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A memoir of life as a colonial officer in Sierra Leone, West Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 376
Scope and Contents
Memoir (228 pages) accompanied by notes and rough drafts (circa 100 pages). An index is filed with the collection.
Dates:
1961 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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A mythology of Nova Scotia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 254
Scope and Contents
An unpublished collection of typescript prose and poetry fragments, 162 pages, described by the author in a letter to the R.C.S. Librarian, 26 September 1996: 'This resulted out of a year spent in Cambridge in 1979-80 and the literary effort trying to mend the split in my mind between Cambridge and Nova Scotia/Canada'.
Dates:
1996-07
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'A patriarch of Empire': typescript autobiography
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 55
Scope and Contents
A memoir of Sir Frederick Young with related papers.
Dates:
1933 - 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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[A photograph of a drawing of Napier in 1864]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089O
Scope and Contents
A print, mounted on card, and measuring 142 x 100 mm, with a caption stating 'Napier, N.Z. 1864' and signed 'E.J. Mountier. 1894'. The photograph is a reproduction of a painting of the young settlement viewed from an overlooking hill, with the sea at the left and houses and enclosed land in the foreground.
Dates:
1894
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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A short history and description of the Parliament House, Melbourne
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087M
Scope and Contents
Printed book illustrated by six photographs purchased in 1904. There is also a lithographed plan and a cross-section elevation.Victoria's Parliament House was designed by Peter Kerr and J G Knight; building began in 1856 and the first stage was completed in 1860. In 1877 a Royal Commission on the Parliament Buildings with G H Jenkins, author of the book, as Secretary was set up. Further construction was carried out as a result of its recommendations, and in 1885 a tender for the...
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'A short history of Paterson, Simons & Company'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 368
Scope and Contents
This is a manuscript history of the Singapore company, which was established on 1 May 1859, and during the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, acted as agents for the Johor government, and insurance, shipping, planting and rubber companies. The history describes the company’s founders, who had been active as shippers and merchants under other names in Singapore before 1828, and traces its operations up to 1974. It is accompanied by notes, correspondence and other research...
Dates:
1879 - 1976
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 95
Scope and Contents
A work on the constitution of the Kandyan Kingdom, the last independent state in Sri Lanka, which had its capital at Kandy, 414 pages. The manuscript is endorsed at the end 'Copied by J.H. Direckize Translator of the Ratnapura Kachcheri (?) 28th Octr. 1892'.
Dates:
1892
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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A view in Belize
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3078D
Scope and Contents
240 x 155 mm. A photographic copy of a mezzotint by A. Bayntun showing the Bridge across the Belize River which joins the northern and southern section of the city. This illustration forms the frontispiece of the 'Honduras Almanack for 1829', of which the Royal Commonwealth Society Library holds possibly the only extant copy. The other illustrations in the book have also been copied with negatives numbered as follows:A view in Belize - CN 2503Title page with coat of arms - CN...
Dates:
1979
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'A walk to the Nyassa country'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 221
Scope and Contents
An account of Edward Steere's journey to Lake Nyassa written in Zanzibar, Lent 1876, 24 pages. There is an accompanying letter from Steere to Major Evan Smith, Consul General, 23 August 1875, informing him of his plans for the expedition.
Dates:
1875 - 1876
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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A.B. Brewster photograph album
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. modern copies of original prints.
Dates:
2006
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'Abolitionist societies 1787-1838: a half-century of abolition': University of London MA thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 28
Scope and Contents
380 pages.
Dates:
1935
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Aboriginal Australian Art
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308K
Scope and Contents
Loose prints produced by the Australian Information Service. The printed captions on the reverse have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1973
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Aboriginal Australians
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308J
Scope and Contents
Book containing two portrait images.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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A.C. Barnes collection on East Africa, Nigeria, and Fiji, 1914-1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468CC
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs on 64 album sheets with 24 loose prints. 225 relate to British East Africa (Kenya), German East Africa (Tanganyika) and Uganda, 55 to Nigeria, 4 to the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 16 to Zanzibar and 35 to Fiji (including some duplicates).The album sheets appear to have come from five albums, as follows:A Light brown, 230 x 275 mm. (Plates 1-56 on nine sheets)B Dark grey, 220 x 268 mm. (Plates 57-134 on nineteen sheets)C Dark brown,...
Dates:
1914 - 1933
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Accounts of the siege of Minorca
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 61
Scope and Contents
The volume begins with 12 pages of documents, transcribed in a contemporary hand, relating to the siege of Minorca. These are followed by 'The sentence of the court-martial...for the trial of the Hon. Lieut. Gen. James Murray...taken in shorthand by Joseph Gurney', 100 pages, printed in 1783. The remaining 12 pages are blank, except for the writing 'the evidence of the many witnesses brought forward in support of the prosecution of the preceding trial appeared to be so much the result of...
Dates:
1783
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Accra Post Office. circa 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448B
Scope and Contents
A collection of uncaptioned loose prints, measuring approximately 200 x 145 mm. The collection was exhibited in the Gold Coast section of the British Empire Exhibition 1924 and were deposited at the Royal Colonial Institute on the instruction of Major W.T.E. Wallace, Acting Postmaster General of the Gold Coast (see letter accompanying prints). Prints 11 and 12 show other Post Offices in the colony. Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Achimota College (A.W.E. Winlaw collection)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints with duplicates measuring, unless stated, approximately 210 x 160 mm. The collection contains a variety of photographs, some of them taken by the Information Services of the Gold Coast/Ghana, while others are amateur photographs. Nos 1-5, showing Fraser in the Principal's house are clearly pre-1935, when he left Achimota. The majority date from Mr Winlaw's Headship and include a number of views of buildings put up in that period, particularly the Assembly Hall...
Dates:
1924 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library