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Canadian demonstrations 1983-84
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062O
Scope and Contents
Coloured prints, taken by D.H. Simpson, relating to demonstrations in Canada.
Dates:
1983 - 1984
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Canadian Oil Production. c.1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062G
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints most measuring approximately 240 x 190 mm, with detailed explanatory captions. The photographs illustrate research, geological surveying and drilling operations. Y3062G/1 and Y3062G/9 are by Ronald Vickers.
Dates:
1965
Conditions Governing Access:
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Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069A
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted prints measuring approximately 245 x 190 mm and with handwritten captions beneath the prints. The name J. Walker Marsh is signed inside the front cover. The album shows the path of the railway through the Fraser Canyon.Origins of the Canadian Pacific Railway.From its first conception in the 1860s the difficulties attendant on building an ocean-to-ocean railway across Canada centred as much on a complex of economic and political factors as on the...
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069B
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted prints measuring approximately 245 x 190 mm, with handwritten captions beneath the prints. The name J Walker Marsh is signed inside the front cover. The album shows the path of the railway along the Thompson River, past Kamloops and towards Eagle Pass.David Mattison has identified numbers 1, 3-6, 8-9, 11, 13 and 16-18 as the work of the British photographer Charles Macmunn (1840?-1903). Macmunn was a native of Manchester, England, who worked out of...
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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Canton Disturbances, December 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377D
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted prints, measuring approximately 125 x 80 mm and captioned in ink beneath the prints. The album shows scenes of executions and destruction after the disturbances of December 1927. The compiler of the album is unidentified, but was presumably a member of the British merchant community in the city. Plates 1-3 are commercially produced work, the remainder amateur.Background to the 1927 disturbances.The abdication of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912 and the...
Dates:
1927-12
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Cape Coast
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Z
Scope and Contents
Little is known of the provenance of this collection of uncaptioned glass negatives. It features pupils gathered round a sign which reads 'Cape Coast Wesley Technical Institution.' It is likely, therefore, that the rest of the images relate to the school's students and activities.
Dates:
1900 - 1960
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cape Town anti-convict petition
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 196
Scope and Contents
460 x 29 cm. In 1841 it had been suggested that criminals from India might be brought to Cape Town, and in 1842 that young offenders might be more suitable, but both ideas had been opposed. Then, on 7th August 1848, Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies, sent a public despatch to the Governor of Cape Colony, Sir Harry Smith, in which he suggested men with tickets of leave might be a useful addition to the labour force and sought local views on the matter. Local reaction was...
Dates:
1849
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cape Town, the Gateway to South Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059U
Scope and Contents
A collection of small images measuring 82 x 63 mm with captions on the prints. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Photographs by Charles F. Kimble and Sons.
Dates:
1950
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Capt. A. Liston Blyth, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., F.R.C.I., Resident Magistrate, Delta Division Papua and Native Constabulary
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084D
Scope and Contents
205 x 160 mm. A loose black and white print. Captain Blyth posed among native policeman armed with rifles and bandoliers. A. Liston Blyth appears in Colonial Officers records for Papua from 1915, when he was a patrol officer, until 1930. He was Resident Magistrate in the Delta Division, from 1926-1930.
Dates:
1926 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
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Captain James Cook Memorial, Kealakeakua Bay, Hawaii, circa 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309992A
Scope and Contents
A collection of three glass plate negatives measuring 215 x 165 mm, briefly captioned and signed by the photographer, S.H. Davis. Modern prints have been made from the negatives.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cartes-de-Visite of paintings of the Transvaal
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059M
Scope and Contents
Two photographs by James Edward Bruton. Bruton (also known as Brunton) was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. His parents had settled in South Africa in 1820. He first opened a photographic studio in 1858, opposite the Lyceum in Port Elizabeth. In 1859 he moved to Jetty Street, Port Elizabeth, working as a photographer and tobacconist. Bruton married Mary Ann Woodman and eventually had five children. In 1874 he moved to Cape Town. Between 1876 and 1897 he appears to have been located at...
Dates:
1880
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cataract Dam and Broughton's Pass Weir
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086I
Scope and Contents
Mounted prints measuring approximately 285 x 240 mm. With ornate handwritten captions on the mounts. The prints are signed on the reverse 'J.M. Creed'.
Dates:
1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cathedral Church of All Saints, Nairobi
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 388
Scope and Contents
Material collected by Hopkins during his time as Provost, the majority relating to the funding, planning, construction and consecration of the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Nairobi, 1952.1 Ceremony of the Laying of the Foundation Stone for the Extension of All Saints' Cathedral, Nairobi (1949) 2 The Form and Order of the Civic Service of Thanksgiving for the Granting of the Royal Charter to Nairobi (1950)3 Civic Ceremony Invitation to Prayer (1950)4 The...
Dates:
1949 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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CCCS Collection. Canada and Australia: CCCS Activities
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)
Scope and Contents
A collection of glass lantern slides measuring 82 x 82 mm. The collection reflects the CCCS's work among rural communities in Canada and the Australian outback. It includes slides of missionary vans, schools, hospitals, hymn slides, a few historical scenes and many slides demonstrating rural life. Rather more than half have identifying captions and, as far as possible, they have been arranged geographically, in both countries from east to west. It has not been possible in the case of...
Dates:
1910 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
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Central Office of Information photograph collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises twenty-three boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. The majority of photographs are of Heads of Government, meetings and other conferences held in the U.K; conferences leading to constitutional progress and, in most cases, independence, of individual countries; visitors from overseas including those training in the U.K; and organisations, exhibitions etc., in the U.K. relating to the Commonwealth. Most were taken by COI...
Dates:
1948 - 1987
Conditions Governing Access:
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Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka] 1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P
Scope and Contents
Album of prints measuring approximately 275 x 210 mm. or 210 x 265 mm., generally one to a page and each with a typed caption. 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. The photographs show groups and portraits of people in Ceylon, especially Kandy, and views of the outlying country, including surf boats, fishing canoes, railways, Buddhist...
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Charles Alexander Gordon, 'Our trip to Burmah [i.e. Myanmar], with notes on that country' (London, 1875)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029G
Scope and Contents
A printed volume (now disbound) containing woodburytypes mounted as illustrations, most measuring approximately 140 x 90 mm, with letterpress captions. The views are of architecture and people of different ethnic origins.Surgeon General Sir Charles Alexander Gordon (1820-1899) accompanied the Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army to Burma in December 1874 and the book records his observations of the country and its people.The prints included in the volume are not...
Dates:
1874 - 1875
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Charles Edwin Spooner collection, 1904-1907/09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031I
Scope and Contents
A collection of modern copy prints made from copy negatives. The copy negatives were made from original prints in the possession of the granddaughter of C.E. Spooner, Mrs Diana Messenger. Charles Edwin Spooner was born in Wales and after education at Trinity College Dublin and engineering training, commenced his career with North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways. From 1876 to 1891, he worked in Ceylon for the Surveys Department. In 1891 he was appointed State Engineer for Selangor and...
Dates:
1904 - 1988-03
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Chateau Tongariro and Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089X
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 80 x 60 mm, captioned in the negative. The prints are a commercial souvenir set contained in a printed envelope. Photographs by New Zealand Tourist Department.
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Chief Malaboch
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055F
Scope and Contents
82 x 120 mm. Showing the aged Chief Malaboch wearing a European overcoat and hat and seated in front of a thatched hut. A woman, possibly a wife, is seated beside him. A note on the reverse of the print, in Mrs. de Kock's hand reads in part: ‘Chief Malaboch (over 86? [in fact, about 92 in 1936]) Blauwerg Mts near Zoutpansberg/Louis Trichardt. Transvaal ... Still flew the Union Jack in 1936 on the Kopje on which he has his Kraal. Withstood a long siege against the Dutch. His taunting...
Dates:
1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Chief Olowa at Jubilee Durbar, Lagos, June 22 1897
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043K
Scope and Contents
A print measuring 207 x 139 mm. The print is mounted on card, on the reverse of which is the carefully printed caption reading: 'Chief Olowa and other representatives from His Majesty the Awajale of Jehu at the Durbar held at Lagos on the 22nd of June 1897 on the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Orange House, Lagos, West Africa'. A group photograph showing Chief Olowa and retinue gathered in the garden of Orange House, Tinubu Square,...
Dates:
1897-06-22
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Childers papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37
Scope and Contents
Political papers relating to Childers' public career and private papers concerning his family, first wife Emily (nee Walker, 1827-1875) and their eight children.
Dates:
1683 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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China, Hong Kong and Siam [i.e. Thailand]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A
Scope and Contents
Album of albumen prints, by unknown photographers, with pencilled captions. The majority of the photographs show scenes in China, but there are also some of Hong Kong and, towards the end, Siam, though the different countries are intermixed.
Dates:
1860 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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Christ Church, Munnar, Travancore [i.e. Kerala]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022NNNN
Scope and Contents
A collection of mounted photographs. The photographs belonged to Albert and Ethel Wright, members of the original congregation, when living in Madupatty Estate, one of a group of James Finlay tea estates in the area. Hatch (1933, p.166) notes: 'One of the most beautiful mountain sections of Travancore is found in the northernmost part - the High Range... This particular section is called the Plateau of the Anamalais. The plateau is over 5,000 feet above sea level, and possesses a most...
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
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Christy collection of photographs on Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A
Scope and Contents
Contains loose photographs relating to various of Christy's travels; some photographs are his own and some are by professional photographers. Subjects include: scenes on the Nile including pyramids; railway views in Kenya; rubber trees and cultivation in Nigeria, Uganda and the Cameroons; scenes in the Congo including sufferers of sleeping sickness and ethnic groups of Central Africa of shorter than average height described as Pygmies; scenes in India; scenes from travels in Norway,...
Dates:
1880 - 1913
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library