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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4598 Collections and/or Records:

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[View of a ruin], 1951 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/83
Scope and Contents

A view of a ruin (possibly a British army fort), looking over the sea to another Island. Exact location unknown.

Dates: 1951 - 1953
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).
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View of Arran, 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2/7
Scope and Contents

167 x 115 mm.

Dates: 1874
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).
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View of Arran, 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2/8
Scope and Contents

167 x 115 mm.

Dates: 1874
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).
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[View of Coronation procession from Malaya House, 1953], 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/18
Scope and Contents

68 x 79 mm. View from Malaya House looking across Trafalgar Square and down Northhumberland Avenue, with part of the Coronation procession in the foreground.

Dates: 1953
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).
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[View of distant fleet], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5023
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [With tug in foreground].

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).
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View of Edinburgh, looking down upon Holyrood Palace, from the footpath to Arthur's Seat, 1859

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/7/225
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: 1859
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).
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View of Funchal from the boat. Taken just before leaving at 11 a.m., 1928-06-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/12
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Dates: 1928-06-05
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).
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View of Grand Harbour from Lower Baracca, 1909-10 - 1909-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 23/6099
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Showing the Santa Barbara bastion: Valetta, Malta.

Dates: 1909-10 - 1909-11
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).
 Fonds

View of Jamestown, Saint Helena, 1870s

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30482A
Scope and Contents

An albumen print, mounted on card, measuring 206 x 138 mm, captioned 'St Helena' on the mount. The view looks down from the steep hillside at the summit on which the barracks were built, and shows the buildings lining Main Street which leads into the Grand Parade. At the edge of the Parade is St James' Church, with the Castle on the further side. The Esplanade, with the Harbour beyond, is at the left of the print.

Dates: 1870 - 1879
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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View of Killani, Limassol District, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018G/6
Scope and Contents

152 x 107mm. Showing an informally posed group of islanders facing the camera with the village of Killani in the background.

Dates: 1900
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).
 Sub-Fonds

View of Metz, 1930 - 1989

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 59/11
Scope and Contents

An undated print of an engraving by Johan Peeters described in pencil as 'a 17th century picture of the country in which the American army are now operating'.

Dates: 1930 - 1989
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).
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[View of Monaco], 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/6
Scope and Contents

161 x 112 mm. View of the harbour and waterfront at Monaco. HHB was in Monte Carlo in April 1919.

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).
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View of Omodos, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018G/2
Scope and Contents

152 x 107mm. Showing crowds of islanders gathered round a pit in which a large dog stands. Macdonald's letter adds ‘The officer in a helmet in the centre is Inspector Spencer. The Omodos Monastery is the large building in the background. The dog in the foreground is the only mastiff here’. Inspector Cyril Spencer can be traced in the Cyprus Almanacs up until 1905 when members of the Police Force ceased to be individually listed.

Dates: 1900
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).
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View of Portsmouth Dockyard, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5035
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). To the left the Victoria and Albert: in the distance, the Alberta, Queen Victorias yacht which carried her body from Cowes, in front a torpedo gunboat. [Enterprises stern near 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).
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View of Reid's Hotel, Madeira, 1909, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/336
Scope and Contents

302 x 87 mm. A panoramic view showing Reid's Palace Hotel at the left of the print and small terraced fields growing various crops in the foreground. Photograph presumably by Christy.

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).
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View of Reids, Madeira's best hotel, taken across a valley, 1928-06-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Dates: 1928-06-05
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).
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View of Tangier, 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/5/111
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: 1866
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).
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View of the Cathedral within the castle of Rabato, Gozo, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6194
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [View across stone walls].

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).
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View of the cemetery showing the memorial seat with the lines from 'In Flanders Fields' inscribed on it, 1918 - 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062K/2
Scope and Contents

160 x 115 mm.

Dates: 1918 - 1980
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).
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View of the only remains of the Old Konak, Nicosia., 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018G/13
Scope and Contents

76 x 97m. Showing the entrance to the Konak, the old 16th-century palace in the north-western part of Nicosia. The rest of the building was destroyed during the British occupation and the building finally pulled down in 1904 to make way for a new palace, courthouse and government offices.

Dates: 1900
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).
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View of the Pike of Teneriffe, 1817 - 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 343/52
Scope and Contents

An undated print of an engraving by G. Child consisting of two figures, 'View of the Pike of Teneriffe' and 'View of the Pike over the west side of Gomera',' Pl. 147, No. 86, Vol. 2, p. 353'.

Dates: 1817 - 1866
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).
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View of the town and road of Fonchal, 1817 - 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 343/53
Scope and Contents

An undated print of an engraving by G. Child, 'Pl. 146, No. 85, Vol. 2, p. 352'.

Dates: 1817 - 1866
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).
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View of Uganda Exhibit. British Empire Exhibition, 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/1
Scope and Contents

The caption on the reverse reads: '1. A corner of the exhibit, showing ivory, pottery and basket work. The basket work is very fine, and the pottery is unique owing to its burnished appearance'.

Dates: 1924
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).
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[View of unnamed house], 1951 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/74
Scope and Contents

195 mm x 190 mm. The caption on the reverse reads: ' In spite of its date, the house manages to achieve dignity, proportion, and comeliness, aided by local architectural detail of chimneys, stepped roof, and welcoming arms steps.' There are two handwritten comments, in black ink, on the reverse: 'Sovay (?) No. 2' and 'No. 1 to overlap No. 2.' It is not known what this refers to, as there is no photograph numbered '2' in this collection.

Dates: 1951 - 1953
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).
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[View of unnamed house], 1951 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/75
Scope and Contents

A view of a building with a stepped, white-washed roof. There is a stamp on the reverse giving the photographers name and details.

Dates: 1951 - 1953
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).