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Fonds
Photographs of Mubin Sheppard
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P
Scope and Contents
The majority of the photographs relate to the early stages of Sheppard’s career with the Malayan Civil Service. They illustrate his accommodation; varied range of work in Kuala Lumpur, Pahang, Perak and Terengganu; Malay and European colleagues; official events, military service, travel and recreation. A number of prints are uncaptioned and have been provided with tentative titles in square brackets and approximate dates. The images begin with Sheppard's arrival in Jan. 1928...
Dates:
1928 - 1960
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
File
Photographs of the Commonwealth Mural, 1983 - 1984
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilf/19-31
Scope and Contents
A set of 13 photographs illustrating a mural on the theme 'Commonwealth Activity under the Colombo Plan'. It was commissioned by the Duke of Devonshire, and designed and executed in 1929 by Beatrice (Lady) Murray. It was painted in the vestibule of the Craven Street entrance to the RCS Headquarters, extended down the staircase to the Commonwealth Hall, a venue which made photography difficult on account of awkward angles and lighting. These colour photographs were taken by D.H. Simpson in...
Dates:
1983 - 1984
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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 the Royal Commonwealth Society
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS
Scope and Contents
Collection of more than 2000 prints, transparencies, photocopies, and half-tone illustrations relating to the Royal Colonial Institute, Royal Empire Society, Royal Commonwealth Society and depicting individuals, buildings, and events. The number is inexact; some additional items have been inserted in the numerical sequences, a few single entries cover an album (e.g. VIII 1) or sheets of prints (e.g. V (e) 13-16) and new items are added from time to time. A guide to collections of...
Dates:
1882 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
Phyllis Court, 1919-07
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/8
Scope and Contents
90 x 63 mm. General view from the lawn of the Phyllis Court Club, Henley, where Bell stayed in July 1919.
Dates:
1919-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Plemont, July '21, 1921-07
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/61
Scope and Contents
50 x 70 mm. Showing a man stood in a cave.
Dates:
1921-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Plemont, July '21, 1921-07
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/67
Scope and Contents
65 x 45 mm. Showing the beach at Plemont.
Dates:
1921-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Plymouth dockyard, with the 'Victory' at anchor, 1870 - 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/75
Scope and Contents
275 x 202 mm. A view showing the 'Victory' at anchor. Although the photograph is captioned 'Plymouth' it is believed that this is, in fact, Portsmouth Harbour.
Dates:
1870 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Plymouth Harb[our], 1919
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/148
Scope and Contents
66 x 44 mm.
Dates:
1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Plymouth Hoe, 1919
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/153
Scope and Contents
67 x 45 mm. A view of a lighthouse, with buildings in the background.
Dates:
1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Plymouth Hoe, Aug '19, 1919-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/288
Scope and Contents
70 x 45 mm. A view of the lighthouse on Plymouth Hoe.
Dates:
1919-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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
Plymouth Local Committee Correspondence, 1930 - 1931
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/8/12/12
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
By the end of the nineteenth century, the society had established a large non-resident membership in the overseas empire and within the United Kingdom among those not living in the London area. At first a network of honorary corresponding secretaries was formed to manage the society's affairs outside London. In 1910 it authorised the establishment of local branches to increase membership and extend the scope of its activities. The first UK branch was formed in Bristol in 1913 and the first...
Dates:
1930 - 1931
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Plymouth Pier, Aug 1919, 1919-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/284
Scope and Contents
65 x 45 mm.
Dates:
1919-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Pope's villa, Twickenham, 1835
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/8/256
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
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:
1835
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Porthpean, 1936-07
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/14/57
Scope and Contents
62 x 82 mm. A woman reading a book.
Dates:
1936-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Porthpean, 1936
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/23
Scope and Contents
52 x 52 mm. The front of a house, with a woman in the foreground.
Dates:
1936
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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
Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1918 - 1933
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/9/15
Scope and Contents
Correspondence relating to a portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, donated to the society by Alderman Charles J. Ross in 1933. The portrait is listed at RCS/ORCS/1.09.
Dates:
1918 - 1933
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Portsmouth, 1906
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/202
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...
Dates:
1906
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Portsmouth, 1911-11-11
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/4
Scope and Contents
Arrival of the royal train from London, 11 November 1911.
Dates:
1911-11-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Portsmouth, 1911-11-11
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/5
Scope and Contents
Arrival of the royal train from London, 11 November 1911.
Dates:
1911-11-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Portsmouth, 1911-11-11
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/6
Scope and Contents
Arrival of the royal train from London, 11 November 1911.
Dates:
1911-11-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Portsmouth Dockyard from the sea, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5082
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Bellerophon to the left.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Portsmouth Dockyard : general view from Admiralty Superintendent's Office, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5038
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Royal Yacht 'Alexandra' to left of left hand shear in distance.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Portsmouth, The Hard
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/108
Scope and Contents
207 x 142 mm.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
[Postcard], 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/419
Scope and Contents
279 x 89 mm. A panoramic view of the Court of Honour from Congress Hall, Franco-British Exhibition, London.
Dates:
1908
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Series
Postcards of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1920 - 1929
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089EE/4
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).