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Copy of the log book of 'the Mountegue'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 3
Scope and Contents
Comprises 261 copies of photographic prints taken from the original log, collected by Dr J.G. Gubbins in 1932, as part of efforts to restore the University of Witwatersrand Library which had been destroyed by fire in 1932. The log book relates to a voyage from London to Surat in Gujarat, India, between 1699 and 1702.
Dates:
1932
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Coral lands
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309F
Scope and Contents
A publication, in two volumes, 'Coral lands' by H. Stonehewer Cooper, illustrated with six photographs. The publication is about life in the Pacific islands (Fiji, Samoa, and the Solomon Islands) in the latter part of the 19th Century.
Dates:
1880
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Corfu
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30193C
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Reproduction of a drawing by T. Allom, engraved by W. Floyd, and published by Fisher, Son & Co., 1840.
Dates:
1900 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Coronation of Kabaka Mutesa II (King Freddie of Uganda), Budo, 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045J
Scope and Contents
One loose print measuring 204 x 150 mm, showing Kabaka Edward Frederick Mutesa II seated on a throne wearing his coronation robes and the crown which the Rt, Revd. Cyril Edgar Stuart (1892 - ?), Bishop of Uganda 1934-53, has just placed on his head:'Finally, dressed in the royal robes, which had been designed for the occasion and were splendidly golden, if a little heavy, I returned to the Church and received the crown and ring of Buganda from Bishop Stuart. Although it had been...
Dates:
1940
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence and papers of Robert Walker
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 339
Scope and Contents
Letters from Robert Walker in Uganda to his family, letters to the Walker family from other correspondents and miscellaneous items connected to Walker's missionary work in Uganda.
Dates:
1888 - 1995
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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Correspondence and papers of Sir Philip Smyly
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 137
Scope and Contents
Letters from Smyly to his mother from Sierra Leone; correspondence and papers relating to Smyly's time in the Gold Coast.
Dates:
1895 - 1996
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence of Kenyan settlers, Robert Hall and Ione Minnie Hall (née Varley)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 413
Content Description
The collection comprises letters between Robert and Ione Hall, and between the Halls and Ione's parents, Cromwell Oliver Varley and Minnie Caroline Varley, 1921-1938, relating to life in Kenya, the purchase of various properties, Robert and Ione's separation and the eventual breakdown of their marriage. The correspondence concerns the purchase of land in Gilgil and Naivasha from 1917, farming life in the 1920s and 1930s, growing of flax, wheat and wattle, as well as dairy farming,...
Dates:
1915 - 1938
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence of William Wallace
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 148
Scope and Contents
Letters and related papers concerning William Wallace's life in Africa and his retirement.
Dates:
1916 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'Countries westward of the Rocky Mountains'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 250
Scope and Contents
'Remarks on the countries westward of the Rocky Mountains with reference to the rough chart by David Thompson', 4 pages. The document is signed and dated by Thompson. The chart referred to is not present.
Dates:
1813-04-19
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Crichton family portraits
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086V
Scope and Contents
Prints showing Anne and Robert Crichton. The prints form part of the Crichton Manuscript Collection (RCMS 297) and are stored with that collection.
Dates:
1890 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Cruise of H.M.S. 'Lancaster'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011HHH
Scope and Contents
Album of photographs by various photographers inscribed 'H.M.S. Lancaster; Mediterranean Photographic Album: Diary of Events and Important Places Visited during the Commission 1910-1912' on the cover. This album was the property of Sydney Harold Liddle, whose name also appears on the front cover.There are two unnumbered plates followed by 190 prints, 140 x 97 mm numbered from 9 to 197, followed by a further unnumbered print. There is no indication as to why numbers 1-8 are not...
Dates:
1910 - 1912
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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Cruise of the Yacht St George, 1880s-92
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011P
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose modern prints measuring approximately 245 x 180 mm. This prints were copied from an album containing 53 prints compiled during the voyage. Included with the prints are xeroxes of the original explanatory captions. The R.Y.S. 'St George' was owned by Ernest James Wythes (1868-1949); the compiler and/or photographer has not been identified.
Dates:
1979
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Cuthbert Christy Album of India 1899-1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V
Scope and Contents
Album containing photographs of various sizes together with three loose prints. From internal evidence it was compiled by Dr Cuthbert Christy, but was not with his papers and photographs received from the Royal African Society in 1972. The photographs in this collection are chiefly of two types, large albumen or collodio-chloride prints and small (?) collodio-chloride prints which are generally inferior in subject and quality. Some of the larger ones are clearly professional work; others...
Dates:
1899 - 1901
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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Cuttings on the Queensland sugar industry
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 294
Scope and Contents
A bound volume containing 212 pages of 'newspaper cuttings relating to the Queensland Sugar Industry 1878-1884. Hy Ling Roth, late Hon Secretary Mackay Planters and Farmers Association'. The newspapers include the 'Queenslander', 'Mackay Standard', 'Mackay Mercury', 'Australasian', 'Maryborough Chronicle', 'The Week', 'Brisbane Observer' and 'Queensland Punch'. The subject matter includes many aspects of the Australian sugar industry and reviews, mostly hostile, of Roth's book, 'A report...
Dates:
1878 - 1884
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Dacca [i.e. Dhaka] University Football Club, winners of the 'Ronaldshay Shield', Dacca [i.e. Dhaka] Sports Association, 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022XX
Scope and Contents
Print, measuring 285 x 234 mm, mounted on card. The photograph is a group portrait of the football team, with inset head and shoulders portraits of two unidentified players. Mr (later Sir) Philip Joseph Hartog (1864-1947), first Vice-Chancellor of Dacca University 1920-25, is seated in the centre of the group. The only other identified figures are P. Mitra, Captain of the Football Team and Manmatha Roy, Hon. Secretary. Photograph by the Coronation Studio, Dacca.
Dates:
1924
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Dedication of Jamaica War Memorial 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073F
Scope and Contents
Collection of uncaptioned photographs by Cleary and Elliott, Kingston, Jamaica. The Memorial, a cross of island stone in front of the East Block of the Public Buildings in Kingston, was unveiled and dedicated on Armistice Day, 11 November 1922. Details for each photograph are derived from an accompanying Order of Service and the Jamaica Annual Report 1922.
Dates:
1922-11-11
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Delegates to the Agricultural Society, Brisbane, 1st meeting
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085N
Scope and Contents
205 x 140 mm. A mounted sepia print of twenty-four delegates (plus one looking through a window behind) posed for the camera. Stamped on mount with : 'Peabody, Photo. Rockhampton.' Delegates not identified.
Dates:
1909-08
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Delhi Durbar 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022SSSS
Scope and Contents
A collection of framed panoramic photographs.
Dates:
1911-12-12 - 1911-12-14
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Departure from Auckland Harbour
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089N
Scope and Contents
Uncaptioned mounted prints, measuring approximately 200 x 80 mm. These three photographs are a series of consecutive pictures showing the departure of two steampowered battleships, dressed overall with flags, from Waitemata Harbour. The precise occasion has not been determined.
Dates:
1895
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Derek Holt West African photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints and one modern copy print. These photographs presumably relate to the activities of John Holt and Co. They fall into three main groups: mounted photographs (1-3), unmounted photographs (4-31), and carte de visite photographs (32-67). In the first category are the important Mary Kingsley groups (1-2) and the Morel family photograph (3). Included in the second are a number of prints (9, 11-17, 24-25) which appear to have been removed from an album or other...
Dates:
1890 - 1986
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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Descriptive album of the country and people of Sarawak
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A
Scope and Contents
An album containing platinum prints, most measuring approximately 145 x 105 mm, with letterpress captions pasted beneath the prints. 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 album is stamped 'Sarawak' on the front cover but contains no further publication details: the title here given is taken from Appendix II of Hose (1927).The...
Dates:
1884-03 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Destruction of Nelson Boys' College
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089DD
Scope and Contents
Greetings card with montage of four scenes of the fire at Nelson Boys' College on the 7th December, 1904, and portrait of J.G.M. Jacobsen, builder 1850.
Dates:
1904-12-07
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'Development of the white community in Natal, 1845-72': PhD thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 208
Scope and Contents
A Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, including a map and diagrams.
Dates:
1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'Developments in British Honduras': B.Litt thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 271
Scope and Contents
'Social and administrative developments in British Honduras, 1798-1843', a B. Litt. thesis for Oxford University, 300 pages, with a map.
Dates:
1958
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'Developments in colonial status': typescript essay
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 25
Scope and Contents
'Developments in colonial status in the British Empire, 1900-22', 84 pages. The typescript is bound in a light blue cloth, with the title, coat and arms and 'The George Ludolf Siddle Prize 1923' on the front. The essay is described as 'an attempt to ascertain and to appreciate the changes which have taken place since the beginning of the present century in the relations between the various component parts of the British Empire. Treating the Empire as a united whole both the internal and...
Dates:
1923
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library