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Landscape photography

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Leonard Palmer: photographs of Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052X
Scope and Contents An album of photographs taken by Leonard Shaftesbury Palmer, most dated May-July 1912 but collectively covering 1909-13, documenting settler life in Rhodesia, including historical sites (Rhodes' grave, World's View, Matopos; Shangani Memorial, Matopos), scenes in Bulawayo, Marendellas [Marondera], Shangani River, Victoria Falls and the Zambezi River, the Great Zimbabwe complex, some photographs of the northern Transvaal [areas now in Gauteng or Limpopo Provinces] including Pietersburg...
Dates: bulk, 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).
 Fonds

Photographs of Burma [Myanmar]

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029M
Scope and Contents This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1852 - 1906
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).
 File

Slides of trips to France and Lake Orta, 1961 - 1963

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/6/10
Scope and Contents

Includes mainly landscape views of [presumably family holidays to] France, 1961 (Vezere, Dordogne, Lot, Tarn) and Lake Orta, Italy, 1963.

Dates: 1961 - 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some sensitive/confidential papers and uncatalogued items remain closed.