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Church Missionary Society photograph collection
Cinnabar and antimony mining in Sarawak, circa 1868
C.J.S. Faulder Vol. III 1876-80 [Faulder Album of India 1876-1880]
Disbound album, containing albumen prints of various sizes. The contents include family photographs, scenes of the outward voyage (including France, Italy and Egypt), views in India including the 1877 Delhi Durbar, portraits and groups, including theatrical ones, maps and newspaper clippings (non photographic items are unnumbered). Also included is an envelope containing some of, what appears to be the original captions cut from the album. The collection is well captioned.
Claude Sitwell and Uganda 1895-1899
Clearing a fallen tree, East Africa (?Mombasa)
A collection of three uncaptioned loose prints measuring approximately 210 x 150 mm. There is no indication with the prints of what they depict and their source is unknown. The pictures illustrate attempts to remove a tree which has fallen across the path of a narrow gauge rail track. From the smallness of the line, it is possible that this is the trolley line on Mombasa Island.
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Cobham Collection
The majority of the photographs in the collection concern antiquities and historic buildings.
Cochin
Collard collection
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Colombo Harbour completed 1885 [Construction of South-West Breakwater, Colombo Harbour, 1875-1885]
Colonial, Imperial and Commonwealth Conferences photograph collection
Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee water colours
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company.
'Colonial reformers as an imperial factor, 1815-1855'
Chapter II, pp. 27-91, of a work of circa 500 pages, identifying twenty-four colonial reformers in Britain. There are six pages of introduction, which include the author's thanks to C.E. Carrington, and a three-page summary of the contents of the book. It is not known if the completed work was published.
Colonial surveys in Tanganyika
The volume contains two short papers on surveying compiled from notes kept during Dickson's time in Tanganyika: 'Colonial surveys in Tanganyika', a potted history, and 'A colonial surveyor in Tanganyika', a personal view of the Colonial Survey Service in the 1950s. There is an accompanying folder containing correspondence with Peter Fox, Cambridge University Librarian, regarding the gift of the collection to the R.C.S., and an additional copy of pages 25-30 of the second paper.
'Colonialism: before and after'
'Colonies in their commercial relation to the Mother Country': essay
A fair copy of an essay, with corrections and insertions, c. 60-70 pages. The inserted material includes several press cuttings, among them an excerpt from 'The Times', 16 July 1870, with an article on the petition for state aid to the colonies.
Commonwealth citizens in the United Kingdom, 1964-65
A collection of loose prints produced by the Central Office of Information. The prints measure approximately 205 x 155 mm and have detailed story captions on the reverse. The collection illustrates the assimilation of citizens from Commonwealth countries (the majority from India) into English life and highlights some of the efforts made by various authorities and private individuals to facilitate this. It is possible that there were originally 20 photographs in the collection.
Commonwealth engravings
Commonwealth in Focus Slides
Commonwealth miscellanea
A wide range of papers and artwork relating to the Commonwealth in general. Many of the collections are comprised of single items, such as paintings and letters. There is also a significant amount of photocopied material.
'Commonwealth periodicals': MA (librarianship) dissertation
An M.A. (Librarianship) dissertation for the University of London containing a historical descriptive narrative and a list of 125 periodicals, 94 pages.
Commonwealth Royal Tour, 1953-1954
The principal part of the collection is a set of programmes and guides prepared for the different legs of the Royal Tour. These are supplemented by related correspondence and papers compiled by the Royal Empire Society and others. The collection is in English with the exception of one item in English and Arabic.
Commonwealth Universities
Communications in East Africa
Collection of loose prints, 240 x 195 mm., showing various aspects of transport and communications, taken by staff photographers. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Construction of the Aswan Dam
This collection of photographs by D. S. George, F. Fiorillo and G. Lekegian provides an important record of the construction work on the dam, with great detail discernible in some of the larger pictures. In addition there are photographs reflecting aspects of British social life in Egypt (plates 40-60) and the outbreak of war in 1914 (plates 61-67). The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.