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Historical paintings of the Hudson's Bay Company
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 345
Scope and Contents
A commemorative set of fourteen full colour reproductions of Hudson's Bay Company calendar paintings printed by Bulman Brothers Limited, Winnipeg, for the Company's tercentenary in 1970. The original paintings, which depict events and persons associated with the Company's history, were commissioned by the Company and painted by well-known Canadian and British artists. At the front of the portfolio is a printed description of each of the paintings. The description and captions are given in...
Dates:
1970
Conditions Governing Access:
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History of Nigeria bookshops
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 144
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Notes and extracts collected by Thomas concerning the history and administration of the Nigeria Bookshops of the Church Missionary Society, with related papers.
Dates:
1969
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'History of the Imperial British East Africa Company': photocopy of PhD thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 156
Scope and Contents
A xerox copy of a typescript Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, 345 pages, 1955, based largely on the Mackinnon Papers in the School of Oriental and African Studies. It is not known when the copy was made.
Dates:
1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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H.M. Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Gan in the Maldives, 1972
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303099A
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Collection of loose photographs, measuring 215 x 165 mm. All relate to the visit of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh to RAF Gan in the course of a tour in South East Asia and the Indian Ocean, February to March 1972. The RAF base at Gan on Addu Atoll was set up under an agreement of 1960 and remained until 1976, though the Maldives became fully independent in 1965. In 1982, the Maldives became a Special Member of the Commonwealth.H.M.Y. 'Britannia' anchored...
Dates:
1972-03-15
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Hogbin collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045S
Scope and Contents
A collection of 18 glass slides and 38 photographs. The slides were used by Hogbin to illustrate talks on her work when on furlough (leave of absence), and their captions were provided by her niece. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1931 - 1935
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Holbrook Tea Estate, Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303I
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A collection of loose prints mounted on card and measuring approximately 195 x 145 mm.
The Holbrook estate was established in the early 1870s and was situated three miles from Lindula in the Dimbula area.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
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'Hong Kong as seen from the anchorage'. Drawn by Lieutenant L.G. Heath of HMS Iris (1846)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 385
Scope and Contents
London: published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty, May 4th 1847Commander (later Captain Sir Edward) Belcher of HMS Sulphur carried out a hydrographic survey of Hong Kong Island in 1841, and it was printed as Chart 1466 on 1 May 1843. Three engravings based upon Lieutenant L.G. Heath’s drawings were prepared by the Hydrographic Office to complement Belcher’s chart, and were published in 1847 as a three part panorama, measuring 127 x 2310 mm....
Dates:
1847 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access:
Stored in the RCS Plan Chest.
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Cambridge University Library
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Hong Kong: History
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038C
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs, some of engravings.
Dates:
1840 - 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
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Howell Wright South African Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305T
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A set of photographs (glossy prints, 190 x 245 mm) of the Howell Wright Collection of Rhodesiana and South Africana as exhibited at the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library prior to its presentation to the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University. The collection features pictures, maps, documents, etc., relating to Cecil Rhodes, Paul Kruger, Dr L.S. Jameson, Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, Barney Barnato, the Americans F.R. Burnham and J.H. Hammond, and others. The photographs show the display...
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HHHH
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A book by John David Rees, with 'A Narrative of Elephant-Catching in Mysore' by G.P. Sanderson. An account of the Indian Tour of 1889 by Prince Albert Victor (1864-1892) Duke of Clarence and Avondale, elder son of Edward Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. The book is illustrated with collotype portraits produced by the Autotype Company and photogravures by Dawsons Ph. Sc., eight of them arranged two to a page. The book is stored at RCS.A.22.
Dates:
1891
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H.S.B. 'To the Kaieteur and back,' (printed for private circulation by Hatchards, London 1872)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3079C
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A printed volume containing an account of a trip to the Kaieteur Falls in British Guiana, illustrated with twenty-one albumen prints measuring approximately 200 x 140 mm., with manuscript captions. As well as an account of the journey by H.S.B. the volume reprints the report of Charles B. Brown to the Geographical Society (dated July 1871) of the latter's trip to the falls. The prints show scenes on the river taken during the journey. The expedition of H.S.B. to the Kaieteur...
Dates:
1872
Conditions Governing Access:
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Hugh Le Fleming Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 371
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The collection includes letters, postcards, photographs, art work, maps and books.
Dates:
1929 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
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Huiarua Station, East Coast, New Zealand, 23,500 acres
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089K
Scope and Contents
An album containing 95 snapshot photographs with handwritten captions beneath, most measuring approximately 105 x 60 mm, and depicting life on a New Zealand sheep station. The album also contains 2 loose uncaptioned prints. Although an amateur family album, the pictures give an interesting and varied record of the sheep farmer's life and work. Huiarua is situated in the east coast district of the North Island between Opotiki and Gisborne.
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
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'Humanitarians and imperialists': draft
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 29
Scope and Contents
An early draft of Dorothy Helly's 'Livingstone's legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian mythmaking' (1987), examining Waller and the editing of David Livingstone's last journals.
Dates:
1986
Conditions Governing Access:
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I.C. Redwood Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042E-J
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums containing prints, in addition to a further 4 albums of photographs and postcards of World War I not listed here. The majority of the photographs are stuck in the albums, but there are also 69 loose ones. Many of these are Redwood's own enlargements from his smaller photographs, and have been removed from passe-partout framing and, in most cases, inserted in the album containing the smaller versions. There are some captions, but these vary in detail and it has been...
Dates:
1891 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
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Illustrated Guide to the House of Commons of Canada 1875
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062M
Scope and Contents
There are three lists of Members’ names preceding the portraits, each of which gives the portrait number against the name of the Member. They are:Alphabetical by Members' names. This contains 201 names, including the Speaker, but when two names from the Addenda at the end of the book are added, the total is 203.Alphabetical by Constituency. This lists 206 constituencies, four of them vacant, but with one name from the Addenda this again makes 203, including the...
Dates:
1875
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Illustrations of China and its People
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377G
Scope and Contents
A volume measuring 36 x 48 cm containing plates with illustrations of various Chinese provinces, Hong Kong and Macao.
John Thomson (1837-1921) was a distinguished photographer and traveller, and this is volume I of his magnum opus, published in four volumes in 1873-74. It contains excellent Woodbury-type reproductions of his photographs taken in the early 1870s, and substantial notes on each illustration.
Dates:
1873
Conditions Governing Access:
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Illustrations of Diamond Industry from 'Mining the ground' to 'Diamonds classified for shipment'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059C
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An album containing prints measuring approximately 210 x 150 mm. with letterpress captions beneath the plates. Each plate also has a descriptive text tipped-into the page beside the print. All captions have been recorded as found. Photographs by J.E. Middlebrook, a commercial photographer in Kimberly around 1888-94 and in Durban around 1898-99. An introduction pasted on to the first sheet of the album reads:The Diamond Industry illustrated. In submitting this volume of...
Dates:
1891
Conditions Governing Access:
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Imagining Hong Kong: historic photographs at the time of change
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 111
Scope and Contents
A study of aspects of Hong Kong's history, 1841-1997, 63 pages, illustrated with black and white and colour photocopies, submitted as a dissertation at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dates:
1998
Conditions Governing Access:
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Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, Group Photograph, 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011Z
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Mounted print, 297 x 229 mm, showing a posed group of 38 staff and students, including both men and women. 'Imperial Forestry Institute Oxford 1926' is printed on the mount and the majority of those in the Group, including the Director of the Institute from 1924 to 1935, Robert Scott Troup (1874-1939), are identified in pencil on the reverse.
Dates:
1926
Conditions Governing Access:
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Inauguration of President Momoh of Sierra Leone 1986
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446J
Scope and Contents
A collection of coloured photographs of the inauguration, measuring 130 x 100 mm. H.E. Major-General Dr Joseph Saidu Momoh was inaugurated President of the Republic of Sierra Leone on 26 January 1986 at the Siaka Stevens Stadium, Brookfields.
Dates:
1986-01-26
Conditions Governing Access:
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Inauguration of the University of Ghana 25th November 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448F
Scope and Contents
An album of photographs, mostly measuring about 140 x 105 mm., bound in leather with the title on the front cover. The University was created by an Act of 22 August 1961 from the former University College of the Gold Coast, founded 1948, which had become the University of Ghana in 1957. Typed captions are stuck under each photograph, which have been used as titles and recorded as found.
Dates:
1961-11-25
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India, Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka] and Singapore
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022U
Scope and Contents
An album of albumen prints probably taken in the 1880s by varied photographers including Bourne and Shepherd, W L H Skeen and Co. and G.R. Lambert & Co. Numbers 1-39 are of India; 40-51 of Ceylon; and 52-59 of Singapore. Numbers at the end of individual photograph entries refer to the photographers' catalogue numbers.
Dates:
1860 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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India. Gardner-Waterman Kashmir Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022ZZZ-BBBB
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums of diaries of Alan Gardner-Waterman containing, in all, 237 photographs, 2 watercolour sketches and 19 maps. The diaries record hunting trips with Mrs. Gardner-Waterman to Kashmir; the entries are mostly brief, but are supported by meticulous maps and many photographs, mostly of a high standard. Most were probably taken by Col. Gardner-Waterman or by Mrs. Gardner-Waterman though there are some exceptions. The captions given are those under the photographs, with some...
Dates:
1921-03 - 1923-07
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India (Hanmer Collection)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022MM-PP
Scope and Contents
Manuscript diary illustrated with albumen prints, two albums, and loose prints. This material all relates to the Lovett and Egerton families. The following indicates the main individuals concerned:Col. Thomas Heaton Lovett (1871-1892) of Belmont (later Henlle Hall) Salop, had a brother John Richard (see Y3022PP/13), and four sons and six daughters. Of these:The eldest son, Hubert Richard (1854-1908), was educated at Cheltenham College and joined the 60th Rifles in 1873. ...
Dates:
1875 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library