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Waitomo Caves, New Zealand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089V
Scope and Contents
A collection of views measuring approximately 60 x 80 mm, captioned in the negative. The prints are a commercial souvenir set contained in a printed envelope. Photographs by the New Zealand Government Tourist and Health Resorts Department.
Dates:
1950
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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Fonds
Warwick
Fonds
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:
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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Watercolours and drawings of Edward Frome
Fonds
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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Fonds
Watercolours of New Zealand
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 340
Scope and Contents
Prints of four watercolours of New Zealand scenes.
Dates:
1952 - 1963
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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Fonds
Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery
Fonds
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:
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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Watson's Queensland album of photographic scenery, second series
Fonds
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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Fonds
Yass, New South Wales 1949
Fonds
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'Yesterday, today, and Toodyay'
Fonds
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library