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Glimpses of New Zealand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089J
Scope and Contents
An album containing 39 mounted black and white prints, measuring approximately 195 x 140 mm, and 11 coloured reproductions of scenes in New Zealand. All the photographs are mounted on thin card which has printed on it a caption followed by descriptive notes on the picture. The album contains an advertisement for holidays in New Zealand.
Dates:
1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Goepel Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3021C
Scope and Contents
A collection of modern copies of photographs taken by John Goepel. The photographs have been inserted into Goepel's typescript 'Journeys in Arabia' which contains letters to his parents written during his time in Aden, April-November 1939. The typescript is stored at RCMS 67.
Dates:
1984
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Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Castles
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448N
Scope and Contents
A series of photographs of castles.
Dates:
1945
Conditions Governing Access:
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Gold rush watercolours
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 391
Scope and Contents
These small painted figures, animals and scenes illustrating the Australian gold rushes were created by an unknown artist. The donor W.H. Carter recorded in a letter filed with the collection, 'They were given to my mother in Adelaide at the time of an early gold-rush by a local artist about the year 1851.’ They may be the work of George Hamilton (1812-1883), who emigrated to Australia from England in 1839 and became a clerk in the South Australian Treasury in 1848, an inspector of mounted...
Dates:
1851
Conditions Governing Access:
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Government Railways of New South Wales rolling stock 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086D
Scope and Contents
An album containing albumen prints, 270 x 220 mm. The volume has a printed title page: 'Photographs of Rolling Stock used on the Government Railways of New South Wales, each description of vehicle being illustrated'. There are no captions. No detailed identification of this volume has been attempted. The following is a summary: 1-35 locomotives; 36-74 passenger coaches; 75 guard's van; 76-80 luggage vans; 82 horse boxes; 83 prison van; 84-94 miscellaneous freight wagons: 88 meat van, 92...
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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Grand Harbour, Malta, 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3017I
Scope and Contents
Panoramic view of the Grand Harbour, taken from the northern (Valletta) side, probably the Upper Barracca Gardens, and comprising five juxtaposed prints (1,433 x 200 mm overall). The left and right-hand prints bear the embossed stamp 'S.I. Cassar, Photographer, Malta'.On the extreme left of the panorama are the Lower Barracca Gardens (Fort St Elmo, beyond, is not visible) showing Grecian style monument to Sir Alexander Ball (1757-1809), Malta's first British governor. Opposite, on...
Dates:
1926
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Grave of Commander Hugh Clapperton, Sokoto
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043AA
Scope and Contents
80 x 55 mm. A loose snapshot, by James Packman.The print shows the modern grave of Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827) the West African explorer who died at Sokoto. Part of the accompanying letter from James Packman reads:'It seems (but I have not verified this) that he died and was buried in a village nearby, but later, when a British settlement was made, his original grave was opened and he was re-interred in the European cemetry just outside the walls of Sokoto, with the...
Dates:
1958
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Greg album of photographs of Jamaica and Dominica, 1880s-1897
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307H
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints with handwritten captions, breaking down into geographical locations:1-18, 21, 34: general views in Jamaica, in good condition, mainly measuring approximately 215 x 135 mm, commercial work. The first prints show scenes at the Jamaica Exhibition of 1891 and the other photographs may have been purchased at this time: they were certainly taken, however, in the 1880s, since several are duplicates of material in Y307A, an album compiled in that decade. ...
Dates:
1880 - 1897
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Grenada scrap book
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 262
Scope and Contents
An office desk diary for 1876, 5'' x 12½'', blank save for 22 pages of inserted press cuttings and leaflets relating to political and personal controversies in Grenada, including attacks by G.W. Williamson, a member of the Legislative Council, on various officials; criticisms of E.K. Moylan, Attorney-General, a colleague of Williamson's who was suspended in 1883; Moylan's accusations against Irving Maling, Colonial Secretary; and charges by Williamson and Francis Batt, a Member of...
Dates:
1878 - 1883
Conditions Governing Access:
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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:
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H.A. Douglas Indian collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022ZZ-MMM
Scope and Contents
This collection spans the whole of Douglas's career, reflecting both his military service, his family and friends, and his hobbies. His son recalls him as a keen sportsman, joining in the 'Boys v Fathers' Match at his prep school, and reminiscing about the hunting trophies which hung on the walls of his house in Paris. He was an enthusiastic polo player, and an amateur actor in plays and the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. All these are reflected in the albums, as well as his activities as a...
Dates:
1890 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
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Halifax Memorial Tower Lions
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3064B
Scope and Contents
Framed, hand coloured photographs each 275 x 190 mm in frames 380 x 290 mm.In April 1912, Sir Sandford Fleming, who had given the ground on which the tower was built, suggested that the Royal Colonial Institute might contribute two lions to flank the base of the tower. This proposal was approved by the Institute's Council on 18 June and subscriptions were invited. Two bronze lions, each 10 feet in length, were designed on the general model of those at the base of Nelson's column by...
Dates:
1913
Conditions Governing Access:
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Hawkes collection of Indian Railway Photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S
Scope and Contents
An album containing albumen prints of various sizes by R. Phillips of Darjeeling, Samuel Bourne and others. The name of F.A. Hawkes, who was an engineer on the North Bengal State Railways from 1871-1879, appears frequently in it. The photographs include the construction of the North Bengal State Railway, scenes in Darjeeling, amateur theatricals, portrait groups and Sir Richard Temple's camp at the Delhi Durbar of 1877.
Dates:
1868 - 1894
Conditions Governing Access:
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Hawkins collection on Nigeria
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043WW
Scope and Contents
A collection of Kodachrome transparencies of Nigeria from the collection of Canon David and Mrs Lois Hawkins. The transparencies are all captioned as listed. It is believed that they were used by the Hawkins in deputation work in England during their periodic home leaves.
Dates:
1950 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access:
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H.E. Hebbert collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120
Scope and Contents
Photographs, slides, journals, notes, panoramas, maps and plans relating to Hebbert's time in Africa, with some biographical material.
Dates:
1914 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access:
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Helen Wallis Collection on Sarawak
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035F
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs, framed singly or in groups, were taken and collected during 1953-64 by Helen Wallis. Some were certainly taken by Hedda Morrison.
Dates:
1953 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
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Henry Burney Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65
Scope and Contents
Archives created by the British soldier and diplomat Henry Burney relating to his service in Burma [Myanmar] and Siam [Thailand]. The cataloguing of the collection has occurred in several stages. In 1921, the RCI Librarian Evans Lewin listed the main English language material in four series, assigning each a letter, A to D. In 1958, Dr D.K. Wyatt examined the Siamese material, including some as yet uncatalogued European material. He listed it in three sections, with the letters E, F, and...
Dates:
1784 - 1845
Conditions Governing Access:
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Henry G. Vennor, 'Our birds of prey, or the eagles, hawks, and owls of Canada' (Dawson Bros., Montreal, 1876)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062H
Scope and Contents
Printed volume containing as plates albumen prints. The majority of the photographs measure approximately 105 x 140 mm. and have letter-press captions beneath them. All the photographs are of stuffed specimens.
Dates:
1876
Conditions Governing Access:
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Henry Muoria Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 405
Scope and Contents
Nine unpublished manuscripts written by the Kenyan journalist Henry Muoria.
Dates:
1944 - 1985
Conditions Governing Access:
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Henry Rudland Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe] photographs, 1914-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052F
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints consisting of fifteen snapshots, most measuring approximately 85 x 55 mm., and eight postcards (original prints). The photographs have explanatory captions on the reverse; the postcards, which are stamped and postmarked on the print rather than on the reverse, were sent to Rudland's parents, Alderman and Mrs. H. Rudland of Sunderland, from the British South Africa Police Depot at Salisbury. Photographers unknown, but probably Henry Rudland and...
Dates:
1914 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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'Henry Selfe Selfe and Canterbury': MA thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 302
Scope and Contents
'Henry Selfe Selfe and the origins and early development of Canterbury', a M.A. thesis for the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 298 pages.
Dates:
1972
Conditions Governing Access:
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H.H. Davies collection on India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Q-R
Scope and Contents
Two albums containing prints collected by Herbert Howel Davies (HHD), Principal of the Colvin Taluqdars School, Lucknow. It includes a number of professional photographs of places visited by HHD (notably Lucknow, Delhi, Benares, and Agra) and also many smaller amateur prints, presumably taken by him, of his life at the school and his travels, particularly to Kashmir. Y3022Q/52-60 are non-Indian photographs, presumably taken on leave.Sir Auckland Colvin (1838-1908) was appointed...
Dates:
1902 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Hicks Pasha and his staff
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042D
Scope and Contents
115 x 85 mm. Woodburytype frontispiece, to Colborne (1884).
William Hicks Pasha (1830-1883) served in the Indian Army. In 1883 he was appointed by the Egyptian Government to command a field force against the Mahdists, which entered Kordofan, but was defeated at Kashgil, an engagement in which Hicks and all his staff were killed.
Dates:
1883
Conditions Governing Access:
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Historic Photographs of Alberta c.1875-1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30686A
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 240 x 190 mm, with modern captions on the backs. Many of the photographs also have contemporary captions on the prints themselves. The collection consists of modern copy prints of photographs in the Provincial Archives of Alberta, from originals by Boorne and May, C.W. Mathers, Ernest Brown, Harry Pollard and others (see below).The collection breaks down into three categories:1-4 Provincial Archives of Alberta general...
Dates:
1875 - 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
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Historical and General views of Cyprus
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018J
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints. All are 250 x 200 mm unless otherwise stated. There are brief typed captions on the backs of the prints, some of which have been elaborated or amended for this catalogue. Some of the prints are organised by subject: 12 - 19 concern the Turkish invasion and its aftermath; 20-26 are images of people and places; 27-28 concern antiquities.
Dates:
1950 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library