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Views in India, circa 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints measuring 69 x 95 mm, with handwritten captions. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The flyleaf is inscribed 'To Lieut. Colonel G.S. Walker, I.M.S. with compliments and thanks from the photographer. 1901.' George Lemon Walker (29.7.1849-31.5.1901) was born in Kingston, Ontario and served in the Madras Medical Service...
Dates:
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).
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Views of Bendigo
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C
Scope and Contents
A commercially produced portfolio containing fifty-two mounted prints measuring approximately 180 x 125 mm., showing views in and around Bendigo and giving a detailed photographic coverage of the city and its suburbs. Each print is pasted to an elaborately printed mount with a decorative border, 'Views of Bendigo' and the print number at the top, and a title and explanatory key beneath the picture. Beneath each plate is also printed 'N.U. Claire Photo. Sandhurst' and 'Welch.Typo.' Some...
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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Views of Hobart
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3088D
Dates:
1850 - 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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Views of Port Darwin Harbour and Gold-mining District
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3083A
Scope and Contents
Ten mounted prints, uncaptioned and measuring approximately 205 x 140 mm. showing views of the harbour and town, and of the gold mining districts inland.
Dates:
1890
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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Views on Mr C B Fisher's Northern Territory Cattle Stations
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3083B
Scope and Contents
Ten mounted prints, uncaptioned and measuring approximately 205 x 140 mm.
Dates:
1890
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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Village settlements: River Murray
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B
Scope and Contents
A collection of fourteen prints mounted on board, with printed captions, most prints measuring 270 x 220 mm. Photographer unknown. Beneath each photograph is printed 'Surveyor General's Office, Adelaide. A. Vaughan. Photo-Lithographer.' Vaughan became photo lithographer for the Survey Department in 1892 and although it is unlikely that he was also the photographer it indicates that the work was done on behalf of a Government department. Possibly Lindt was the photographer.The...
Dates:
1892
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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Warwick
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085D
Scope and Contents
Presentation album given to the Bishop of Brisbane in March 1885. Showing views in and around Warwick. Captions are taken from a contemporary handwritten key pasted to the front free endpaper. An inscription in ornamental calligraphy on the front endpaper reads: 'Presented by the Parishioners of St. Marks, Warwick, Queensland, to the Right Reverend Mathew B Male D.D., Lord Bishop of Brisbane, on his retirement from the See, March 1885.' There are also two loose prints included with the...
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Watercolours and drawings of Edward Frome
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...
Dates:
1827 - 1975
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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Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085A
Scope and Contents
A commercial album containing ten mounted prints mainly 205 x 150 mm, with printed title page and captions. Published by Watson and Co., Queen Street, Brisbane. Photographed by John Watson.
Dates:
1873
Conditions Governing Access:
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Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery, second series
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085B
Scope and Contents
A commercial album containing ten mounted prints mainly 227 x 175 mm, with printed title page and captions. Published by Watson and Co., Queen Street, Brisbane. Photographed by John Watson.
Dates:
1873
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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Yass, New South Wales 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086W
Scope and Contents
Collection of professional photographs, each 90 x 70 mm, published for the Yass Newsagency by the Valentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney and Melbourne. Yass is 43 miles north of Canberra. Its population in 1947 was 3254.
Dates:
1949
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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'Yesterday, today, and Toodyay'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 384
Scope and Contents
This is a semi-autobiographical memoir recording how Helen Shaw’s parents travelled to Malaya in September 1940 during the Second World War, where her father, Dr William D. Ainslie, took up the post of Medical Officer of Health, Penang. Shaw was born in May 1941. She recounts how she and her mother Marcia Margaret Ainslie were evacuated from Penang to Singapore, and then Java, after Penang was bombed by the Japanese in December 1941; their travel from Java to Western Australia in January...
Dates:
2008 - 2009
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