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Australia (Torrington Collection)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308F
Scope and Contents
Collection of modern loose prints (six of them duplicates) of historical paintings, drawings and engravings, chiefly of Australia. Numbers 1-24 are prints (measuring 248 x 172 mm) of originals by Thomas Baines (1822-1875) and all except 20 relate to his involvement with the North Australian expedition of 1855-1857 led by A.G. Gregory. Numbers 1-9, 11-17 are of paintings in the Royal Geographical Society. Numbers 10, 18-20 are of paintings on glass (originals about 2 x 3 inches) for...
Dates:
1832 - 1882
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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Australian Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308E
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints measuring 202 x 254 mm., by various photographers. As part of the preparation of the Commonwealth in Focus Exhibition held in Brisbane in December 1982, a letter was sent in January 1982 to Commonwealth High Commissioners in London seeking their help in the supply of material relating to their countries. At the request of the Australian High Commission, the Australian Information Service in Canberra sent ninety black and white prints and fifty colour slides. ...
Dates:
1982
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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Australian sketches of Richard Read
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 296
Scope and Contents
Thrity-five sketches of birds and other images, two photographs and correspondence regarding Richard Read, including biographical information.
Dates:
1820 - 1983
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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Autobiography drafts of Thomas Westgate
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 179
Scope and Contents
Typescript drafts of chapters from 'A son of the Canadian Church' covering Westgate's time in German East Africa, 1902, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1909-1912 and 1913-1914 (3 sets). There are manuscript annotations and a few pages of notes.
Dates:
1982
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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Band of the 2nd Nigerian Regiment
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043RR
Scope and Contents
Sepia photograph, measuring 105 x 80 mm, mounted on card measuring 150 x 230 mm, with the crest of the regiment and 'Xmas Greetings and Best Wishes'. A calendar for 1930 is mounted on it.
Dates:
1930
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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Bangladesh photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30223A
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs probably by official photographers. 1-3 measure 185 x 150 mm and 4-5 measure 150 x 25 mm.
Dates:
1977
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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Banso report, 1933-1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 192
Scope and Contents
A report on Banso, a district of the Cameroons, including a map. There is no indication as to the terms of reference of the report or for whom it was made, although the index is headed 'Banso re-assessment report'. At the end of the report is a range of appended material.
Dates:
1934
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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Barbados and North-West Frontier Province
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3072E
Scope and Contents
Three albums. Two of Barbados (dated 1918 and 1923) each containing photographs of both official and informal occasions as well as family members, and one smaller assorted album of thirty-six photographs including some of the North West Frontier Province (undated). All were collated by and belonged to H.E. Sir Charles O'Brien, KVCO, former Governor of the Seychelles and Barbados. Approximately two-thirds of the photographs relate to O'Brien's life as Governor. The majority are captioned...
Dates:
1918 - 1935
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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Barbara Tyrrell watercolours
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211
Scope and Contents
Sixty original watercolours (280 x 380 mm). Original titles and captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.
Dates:
1946 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Barnes family photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087I
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs of family and friends of Thomas William Barnes, an Irishman who emigrated to Australia probably around 1876. The collection consists of:(a) 11 photographs framed behind celluloid and showing scenes in the outback.(b) 55 small (approximately 57 x 90 mm) carte-de-viste portraits taken by various commercial firms in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney.(c) 15 large (approximately 100 x 137 mm) carte-de-visite portraits by various Australian...
Dates:
1872 - 1896
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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B.B.C. African Service scripts
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 231
Scope and Contents
The scripts of programmes transmitted on the African Service as part of the African Theatre and the Writers' Club.
Dates:
1960 - 1971
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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Bendigo gold production
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087F
Scope and Contents
154 x 170 mm. Mounted photograph. Shows cubes of various sizes representing the relative outputs of different mines. The fronts of the cubes have printed on them information about size, dividends and value. A printed caption stuck beneath the photograph states: 'The above 27 companies represent a paid-up capital of £437,631. Value for gold produced, £6,132,544. Dividends paid, £3,131,355. Approximate value of the 27 mines and machinery, £2,000,000.
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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Bieneman collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043XX
Scope and Contents
An album of 73 photographs, mostly three to a page, measuring 145 x 88 mm. save for numbers 16-21, 31, 34-42 and 58-66, which measure 88 x 145 mm. Subjects are, for the most part, indigenous people and their animals. An obituary from The Times, included with the album, contains a tribute to Bieneman's work from a former pupil, Aliyu Makaman Bida.
Dates:
1913
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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Bishop James Hannington collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045N
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints, most measuring approximately 40 x 55 mm., with annotations and identifications on the reverse by H.B. Thomas. The collection consists of a portrait of Hannington (1884) and seven small snapshots showing the unveiling of the Hannington Memorial near Jinja in 1939. Y3045N/1 is by Lombardi and Co.James Hannington (1847-1885) first went out to Africa as a leader of a mission party in 1882 but was invalided home to England the following year. In 1884 he was...
Dates:
1884 - 1939
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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Blackspot removals in Natal: papers collected by John Aitchison
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 218
Scope and Contents
Papers, news cuttings, copies of articles, correspondence, and photographs and negatives, collected by John Aitchison documenting the impact of the Blackspot Removal Campaign in Natal.
Dates:
1953 - 1965
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Bob Le Sueur in East and Southern Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 200
Scope and Contents
A diary describing Le Sueur's time in Africa, November 1997 - April 1998, 190 pages with a two-page index. The volume covers the journey out (pp. 1-3), Kenya (4-65), Tanzania (65-85), Malawi (65-98), Zimbabwe (99-113), Namibia (113-125), South Africa (126-152, 157-172 and 174-184), Lesotho (152-157), Swaziland (172-174) and the journey home (184-188).
Dates:
2000
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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Bombay photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022CCCC
Scope and Contents
Sepia prints on mounts. Their appearance suggests that cardboard frames, originally stuck down surrounding the photograph, have been crudely removed. The prints are interesting reflections of British social life and were the property of the grandfather of Mrs. M. Heuston (no further identification or information given).
Dates:
1900
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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Boosé Scrapbooks
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011YY
Scope and Contents
A collection of scrapbooks containing press cuttings, correspondance, photographs, tickets, invitations, menus and programmes.
Dates:
1912 - 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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Borneo in the sixties: letters from Sarawak
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 337
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Elizabeth O'Kelly in Borneo and photographs from her time on the island. The document is a photocopy of the original 1965 typescript. There are 27 letters, written from Kuching and Tarat, dating from 29 March 1962 to 16 February 1965. They are concerned principally with the background to the establishment of the Sarawak Federation of Women's Institutes, but also cover people and places of Borneo, the advent of Independence, the situation in Indonesia, the rebellion in...
Dates:
2004
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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Brian Mull Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 411
Content Description
Comprises a navigator's log and news cuttings relating to motor rally racing in East Africa in 1969. Together with a seperate small collection of news cuttings, publications and a school magazine, 'The Daily Drum', created by the Virginia Mull, daughter of Brian Mull, while a student. There are a handful of references relating to Mull's career as a teacher. John Brian Mull (1919-1975) was posted to Tanganyika (Tanzania) in 1950 as an Education Officer (Science) by the British Overseas Civil...
Dates:
1951 - 1969
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Brisbane
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085U
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs measuring mainly 90 x 63 mm. Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1950 - 1999
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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Brisbane illustrated: A series of twelve views of some of the principal public buildings and scenery of the city
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085C
Scope and Contents
A commercially produced album with printed title page and captions. Photographed and published by George P Wright, James Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
Dates:
1875
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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Brisbane; riverside scene with crowd assembled at landing point
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085X
Scope and Contents
245 x 195 mm. This sepia print has Brisbane in pencil on the back, but is otherwise unidentified. The costume suggests a date in the late 1880s.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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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'British activities in Yucatan': MA thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 272
Scope and Contents
'British activities in Yucatan and on the Moskito Shore in the eighteenth century', a M.A. thesis for the University of London, 263 pages, with maps.
Dates:
1926
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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British Cameroons 1937-42
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB
Scope and Contents
A collection of negatives (with accompanying notes) each housed in brown paper. Dalrymple's titles and annotations on the sleeves have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Two essays are also filed with the negatives: Thomas Dalrymple 'A pagan wake: the funeral celebrations for the father of the chief of Bande' and M.D. Jeffreys 'West African caps', which...
Dates:
1937 - 1942
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