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Papers of the Bombay Club
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 78
Scope and Contents
Volumes of minutes, complaints and suggestions, with related correspondence and other papers.
Dates:
1867 - 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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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10
Dates:
1907 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs by A. Chand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022UUUU
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs which are attributed on the backs to A. Chand of Secunderabad, Hyderabad. However, Y3022UUUU/12, 19, 20 and 27 are stamped ‘Lala Deen Dyal’. Eleven of the prints are matt, the remainder glossy. Most are captioned on the back.
Dates:
1890 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302M
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises an album containing 187 photographs and a further 25 loose prints. Its creator is unknown, but he is likely to have been a British soldier, probably of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment, identified by the uniforms and insignia of the colour party which appears in Y302M/188. He may have been a member of the battalion’s drum corps and band, since there are several images of its members. Those photographs which are dated cover the period 1927 to 1935. ...
Dates:
1927 - 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Delhi, Lucknow and Amritsar
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022VVVV
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs, each 250 x 190 mm, probably dating from the late 19th century. The prints are captioned in pencil on the back and the titles transcribed in the catalogue.
Dates:
1860 - 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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Photographs of India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C-E
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs by Samuel Bourne, Bourne and Shepherd, and Charles Shepherd. The collection originally consisted of a heavy, custom-made wooden box containing large leather bound albums, each stamped in gold 'India 1872'. The photographs came from the firm of Bourne and Shepherd and this collection was put together by Marion and Co. It was presumably made up in commemoration of some event, possibly in memory of the Earl of Mayo who was murdered in 1872. The prints, most...
Dates:
1862 - 1872
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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Photographs of India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022DD
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 150 x 200 mm. Some of the prints are captioned on the reverse. Prints 1-4 are photographs by Albert Thomas Watson Penn and are portraits of people from the Nilgiris and Bangalore. The remaining two prints are miscellaneous items attached to the collection.Albert Thomas Watson Penn was born at Street, Wells on 30th March 1849. His first appearance in India appears to have been in around 1875, in which year he was advertising in...
Dates:
1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of India and Egypt
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302N
Content Description
A set of 86 glass slides, mostly late 19th and early 20th century, originally stored in 12 cardboard slide boxes. The content relates to India (people and places), Indian railways, including maps, and Egypt. A number of slides are marked 'Imperial Institute', some relate to the work of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee (COVIC) and some relate to the publication 'Views of Gaur and Pandua' by John Henry Ravenshaw. A significant number of slides are unidentified. Where possible,...
Dates:
undated, [early to mid 20th century]
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of India and Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe], 1890s-1930s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints of various sizes. A number of the earlier prints have evidently been removed from the pages of an album. The collection is divided up as follows:1-19 Views in India (Mussoorie, Muttra and Hurdwar), 1890s-1900s, mainly commercial work but with some amateur snapshots20-26 Postcards of India, early 1900s27-37 Snapshots of Southern Rhodesia, 1920s-1930sMost of the prints have contemporary captions, and many in addition have titles written at a...
Dates:
1890 - 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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Photographs of William Joseph Ward
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302P
Scope and Contents
Comprises a series of photograph albums relating to Ward's work and travels in India, particularly relating to Rangoon and Calcutta, and various customs houses in British India. The albums also cover Ward's war service in East Africa and Iraq. There is a small amount of personal family material which gives an indication of the social life of the Wards.
Dates:
1911 - 1938
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Queen Mary Indian collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89
Scope and Contents
Material collected during the Royal couple's two visits to India in 1905-1906 and 1911-1912 with a few items from other periods. There are printed books, many of them presentation copies, relating to India; programmes, orders of ceremonial and other items from the visits, many specially bound; and albums of photographs and other material presented to King George and Queen Mary or compiled by them as souvenirs of their visits. The material is in English with the exception of one item in...
Dates:
1881 - 1989
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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R. Elsy Collection on India and Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L
Scope and Contents
An album of albumen prints by John Edward Sache, Thomas A. Rust, Nicholas and Co., and W.L.H. Skeen and Co. It was compiled by R. Elsy apparently during a tour in the 1880s through India and Ceylon. It includes pictures of Bombay, Delhi, Agra, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Allahabad, Benares, Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore and Ceylon. The prints' pencil captions have been used as titles; titles composed by the cataloguer have been enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1870 - 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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Reminiscences
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022EEEE
Scope and Contents
Typescript autobiography by the Reverend Worthington Jukes illustrated with photographs, mostly stuck in but a few loose. The spine is lettered 'Afghan Reminscences' but the title page reads 'Reminiscences of Missionary Work in Amritsar 1872-1873 and on the Afghan Frontier in Peshawar 1873-1890'. This volume was written in the months following his retirement and typed by Jukes himself. It is a top copy, illustrated with photographs, postcards, maps and other items, and although there is a...
Dates:
1925 - 1936
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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Report on a Mission to Sikkim and the Tibetan Frontier, with a Memorandum on our relations with Tibet
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302592A
Scope and Contents
Printed volume, with original photographs inserted, written by Colman Macaulay. Macaulay undertook his mission in October-November 1885, and reported enthusiastically on the value of extending British relations with Tibet, but though he was chosen to lead a subsequent mission to promote this, an Anglo-Chinese treaty led to its abandonment. In his introduction to the present volume, he notes that 'photographs were taken on the journey' (though without indicating the photographer), and the...
Dates:
1885-10 - 1885-11
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Report with photographs of the repairs executed to some of the principal temples at Bhubanasvar and caves in the Khandagiri and Udaigiri Hills, Orissa, India, between 1898 and 1903 by M.H. Arnott, M. Inst. C.E., Executive Engineer, Bengal Public Works
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022W
Scope and Contents
Rectangular folio volume containing reports and silver prints of architecture before and after repair. Most measure either approximately 290 x 240 mm or 240 x 190 mm, with letterpress captions beneath. The prints showing the temples before repair were taken in 1892. Photographs by Marmaduke Henry Arnott.Restoration of the Bhubanesvar temples and Khandagiri Caves.The temples were constructed during the Kesari dynasty (AD 473-1131) and represent the Indo-Aryan style at its...
Dates:
1892 - 1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Representative men of Central India 1889, London : Vincent Brooks, Day and Son, 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022N
Scope and Contents
A printed book containing woodburytypes, each 195 x 240 mm, by various photographers. The volume is part of a projected series of portraits with biographical articles.
Dates:
1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Roads in Bombay
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022LLLL
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs, including three duplicates, commissioned by McKenzies Limited to illustrate their highway construction work in Bombay, other regions of India and Ceylon.
Dates:
1920 - 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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Royal Colonial Institute Competition Album of Indian views
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022X
Scope and Contents
An album containing sepia prints, each 200 x 150 mm. The prints show general views of Indian scenes and architecture. The cover is lettered 'Royal Colonial Institute Album Competition. Presented by the Government of India'. Inside is an inscription: 'These photographs, illustrating life and scenes in India, are presented in the hope that they will help to make the land and the people of the Indian Empire better known and understood. [signed] Atul C. Chatterjee High Commissioner for...
Dates:
1925-01 - 1928-11
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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School Empire Tours Record 1927-1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs, by various photographers, relating to School Empire Tours, probably compiled by Miss Margaret Best. All the prints are captioned and some also have dates and places written on the back in Miss Best's hand.It should be noted that most of the images show groups of the participants, either before setting out or in the country concerned, but there is very little to show their activities - the 1932 tour to Canada is the best in this respect. It is clear from...
Dates:
1927 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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School groups in Calcutta, ?1920s-30s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022UU
Scope and Contents
Collection consisting of loose prints of school groups in Calcutta. The schools have not been identified. Photographs by Edna Lorenz and H. Paul.
Dates:
1920 - 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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Sir Harold Smedley Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389
Scope and Contents
Diaries, official papers, correspondence and photographs
Dates:
1950 - 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
Fonds
Sir Harry Brittain Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011AAA
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints and others in an album relating to the career of Sir Harry Brittain (1873-1974).These photoraphs were selected by the Librarian from a large collection and have been chosen for their relevance to Sir Harry's Empire/Commonwealth interests. They are by various photographers, including Sir Harry himself; some of these are noted but it is probably that others were also taken by him. Among them are portraits of individuals, groups, travel scenes and some...
Dates:
1873 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Sketches in India : taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency, London : Lovell Reeve, 1862
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022F
Scope and Contents
The book consists of a frontispiece and 100 prints, each measuring 74 x 72mm. The images, which are pasted in opposite text by C.R. Weld, appear to be halves of stereo pairs. The pages are not consecutively numbered and the volume is divided into five sections: scenery and antiquities at Golconda (1-12); miscellaneous tombs and temples (13-19); views at Hyderabad and Secunderabad (20-34); sketches illustrating English life in India (35-47); sketches of people and portraits of noblemen...
Dates:
1862
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Souvenir of India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022ZZZZ
Scope and Contents
An accordion fold album containing 12 albumen prints showing domestic scenes, 143 x 100 mm in size, with pencil captions beneath each image (written over fainter pencil captions). The photographer is unknown, but a similarly titled album of the same size has been credited to the French photographer Jean Baptiste Oscar Mallitte (1829-1905).
Dates:
1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Susan Palmer’s collection of travel diaries
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 416
Content Description
Comprises six travel diaries and a small collection of photographs. The provenance of the collection is unknown. The diaries were in the estate of the late Dr Susan Palmer (died 2022). There is no obvious connection to the Palmer family, and the diaries do not appear to relate to each:
- item 1 in this collection is a private journal dating from the mid-19th century;
- items 2 and 3 are diaries of travels to Europe by an unidentified married couple;
- items 4 to 7 were...
Dates:
1839 - 1914
Found in:
Cambridge University Library