Australia
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
File
Album of photographs taken on the British Association for the Advancement of Science trip to Australia, 1914, 1914
File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/2/2
Scope and Contents
Front cover marked 'Photographs taken by members of the British Association, Prof. Seward, Dr Lauder'. Photographs include: T.S.S. Euripides in dock; multiple photographs of members of the trip on deck; Cape Town; Soerabaya, Java; Chinese temple, Penang; the Three Sisters and Blue Mountains (Australia) and the Ainsworth Royal Hotel, Mirrool; group photograph of British Association delegates (including Prof. and Mrs [Marion] Seward) on deck on the Euripides; large group of ostriches...
Dates:
1914
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Open to researchers. The majority of the collection is available in digital form only. Publication requests to be approved by the family.
Found in:
Downing College
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Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates
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Papers of Sir Albert Charles Seward, Master of Downing College (1915-1936)
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Family papers and photographs of Albert Charles Seward and Marion Seward and their children (mainly copies)
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Family photographs (mainly copies)
Item
Colour Diary of watercolours from voyage to the British Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Australia, 1914-07 - 1914-11
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/3/1
Scope and Contents
Marion was a talented artist and accompanied her husband to the Australian conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1914, painting a 'Colour Diary' of 160 watercolours recording their destinations on the four month voyage (during which time the First World War broke out). Includes photographic portrait of Marion, 1923, and watercolours of the following (various views of each and others included, plus several sunsets and sea views): Plymouth; Tenerife; Cape...
Dates:
1914-07 - 1914-11
Conditions Governing Access:
Open to researchers. Permission from the family needed for publication requests.
Found in:
Downing College
/
Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates
/
Papers of Sir Albert Charles Seward, Master of Downing College (1915-1936)
/
Family papers and photographs of Albert Charles Seward and Marion Seward and their children (mainly copies)
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Papers of Marion Seward
File
Papers on Universal Time, 1884 - 1898
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/146
Scope and Contents
Canadian and North American Papers relating to Universal Time:Printed notice from the Royal Society of Canada drawing attention to matters of time determination and nomenclature, 1890.Letter from Wilhelm Prealt of Hamburg, in German, 1890.Letter from Sandford Fleming, Ottawa, enclosing a Bill to be laid before the United States Senate regarding the reckoning of time in the United States, 1891.Letter from [J.P. Sohiham] of Vienna sending a copy of a booklet by...
Dates:
1884 - 1898
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).