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General photographs of British Honduras [i.e. Belize]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3078C
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose photographs measuring approximately 205 x 155 mm., with comprehensive captions pasted on to the back of the prints. The collection includes views from various parts of the country as well as photographs illustrating education, industry and agriculture.
Dates:
1965
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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General photographs of East Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468Q
Scope and Contents
A collection of eight loose prints, most measuring approximately 250 x 195 mm, with captions on the reverse, showing scenes in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Dates:
1965
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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General photographs of Guyana
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3079B
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose photographs, most measuring approximately 200 x 155 mm., with comprehensive captions pasted on to the back of the prints. The collection includes views from various parts of the country as well as photographs illustrating education, industry and agriculture.
Dates:
1960 - 1965
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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General photographs of Kenya 1960s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046E
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints of various sizes originally forming part of the Society's Visual Aids Loan Collection. Most are from the Kenya Information Office, but some are from East African Railways and Harbours and other sources.
Dates:
1960 - 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).
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Cambridge University Library
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General photographs of Mauritius, 1960s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30483B
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints approximately measuring 190 x 240 mm, with typescript captions on the reverse.
Dates:
1960 - 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).
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Cambridge University Library
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General photographs of Sarawak, 1960s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035E
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 150 x 105 mm, with typewritten captions pasted to the reverse. Photographs by the Malaysian Federal Department of Information, Sarawak.
Dates:
1960 - 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).
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General photographs of Sierra Leone, circa 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446H
Scope and Contents
A collection of mounted prints, in two sizes (295 x 230 mm and 240 x 190 mm), with typewritten captions on the reverse of the mounts.
Dates:
1965
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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General photographs of Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469B
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs of industry and agriculture in Tanganyika. Numbers 10-25 (and duplicates 26-50) were issued as a series 'Tanganyika's Three Year Development Plan' and have a separate typed list of captions. 51-68 are dated 31 August 1965 and have captions on the reverse.
Dates:
1960 - 1965
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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General photographs of Uganda
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045K
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 210 x 150 mm. with typewritten captions on the reverse. The views show industrial, agricultural and town scenes. Photographs by the Public Relations department, Uganda Protectorate and the Ministry of Information, London.
Dates:
1960 - 1965
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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General views of India, 1950s-60s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022VV
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 205 x 155 mm (1-20) and 250 x 195 mm (21-41), with typewritten captions. Prints 21-41 are mounted on card with sellotape. Photographs by Photo Division, Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (1-20) and unknown (21-41).
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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General views of Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052H
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints, the majority mounted on card and measuring approximately 240 x 190 mm., with typewritten captions pasted on the mounts. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1959 - 1967
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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General views of Singapore, 1960s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311A
Scope and Contents
Prints measuring approximately 205 x 140 mm with typewritten captions pasted to the reverse.
Dates:
1960 - 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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General views of South-East Asia, 1960s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302D
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, mostly measuring approximately 190 x 140 mm, with typewritten captions pasted to the reverse. The collection contains general views of landscape and architecture in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Brunei and Borneo.
Dates:
1960 - 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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General views of Zambia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30521A
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints (several duplicates) measuring approximately 205 x 160 mm., with typed captions on the reverse of the prints.
Dates:
1956 - 1960
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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George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K
Scope and Contents
Collection of 197 negatives and 6 modern prints. The negatives measure 60 x 60 mm, save for 160-163 which are 35 mm. Apart from nos. 60-112 which are in a negative album, they are all in small envelopes with the subject written on by Mr Cansdale, some have also been numbered by Cansdale. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions...
Dates:
1938 - 1948
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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George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V
Scope and Contents
Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.
Dates:
1938 - 1948
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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German East Africa, 1900s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A
Scope and Contents
An album containing amateur prints of indifferent quality and a few commercial postcards. Its main interest is as a record of domestic life in a white family in German East Africa during the first decade of the twentieth century. The family was apparently based at Amani and may have been named Unger (see prints 115 and 116). There are hand-written captions on the backs of some of the photographs and these have been used as the basis of the following captions. However, the writing is...
Dates:
1900 - 1909
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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G.H. Williams collection on Egypt 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041D
Scope and Contents
An album, measuring 200 x 260 mm, containing sepia photographs measuring 140 x 90 mm, with eight gaps (plates 7-8, 13-14, 16, 19, 26, 38) taken in Egypt January-March 1925. All are inserted upside-down, so the ornamentation on the cover appears on the back.They cover part of a trip in January-April to Egypt, Palestine, and other areas of the Middle East recorded in two volumes of a diary - details of which are given in the main entry for the Williams collection in the Manuscript...
Dates:
1925-01 - 1925-03
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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G.H. Williams' collection on North Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304H-L
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums containing postcards and photographs of French North Africa.These form part of the G.H. Williams' collection, details of which are given in the RCSM 53 entry. This includes a diary kept by Williams during a visit to North Africa 6 March - 10 April 1922. It has several references to collecting postcards (11, 47, 48, 105-106) and mention of photographs is made on almost every page - these have been noted on pages 4,6,7,11,14-22 (some pages with several...
Dates:
1922
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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G.H. Williams postcard collection on Canada
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062I
Scope and Contents
Album of coloured, monochrome and photographic postcards by various photographers, including a separate envelope containing nine duplicates. The period covered by the album corresponds to the 2-volume diary kept by Williams on a visit to Canada, whose general contents are described in the Manuscript Collection.In his diaries, Williams makes various references to taking photographs, e.g. at Niagara 'I took a number of photographs as we went' (p. 89) but mostly in pessimistic terms,...
Dates:
1921-09-15 - 1921-11-21
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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[Gibraltar aerial view]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016H
Scope and Contents
208 x 155 mm. Glossy black and white print of an aerial view of Governor's Parade and Garrison Library. Probably taken from an aircraft of HMS 'Furious', circa 1927.
Dates:
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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Cambridge University Library
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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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Cambridge University Library
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Ginger Lilies (Hedychium coronarium) 1891
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3079A
Scope and Contents
178 x 117 mm. Showing a kneeling Indian boy holding a large bunch of lilies and was used as a Christmas card by Sir Everard Im Thurn. The mimeographed message on the reverse reads 'Ginger lilies' (Hedychium coronarium). Xmas 1891. With best wishes from Everard F. Im Thurn.' Im Thurn's fine collection of ethnographical photography is in the possession of the Royal Anthropological Institute (of which society he was President 1919-20).
Dates:
1891
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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Girl Guide activities in Nigeria (Mary Johnson collection)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043II
Scope and Contents
A collection of, chiefly amateur, snapshots collected, and in some cases possibly taken, by Mary Johnson M.B.E. They measure up to 120 x 90 mm in size. Only numbers 34, 58 and 72-75 have titles on the backs. Numbers 1-59 have been identified through the help of Miss Josephine Shelley, contacted through Mrs V. Vaughan-Cox, who took the photographs to Nigeria (where she is a member of the Guide Executive) and discussed them with veteran members of the Movement such as Lady Abayomi (née...
Dates:
1930 - 1951
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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Girl Guiding in Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031F
Scope and Contents
Collections of prints of various sizes. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms.
Alexander Cavendish served in Malaya from 1901 to 1933 and became Director of Co-operatives. His wife, Mrs Jean Cavendish, had been appointed Organising Commissioner for Malaya by Lady Baden-Powell in 1920 and became Chief Commissioner in 1921, a post she held until retiring to England in 1933.
Dates:
1922 - 1933
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