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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4597 Collections and/or Records:

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British Soldiers at football on the Alameda Parade Ground: Gibraltar, 1909-10 - 1909-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 23/6017
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing horse and carriage in the foreground and football in the distance in front of building].

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).
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British Soldiers at football on the Alameda Parade Ground: Gibraltar, 1909-10 - 1909-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 23/6018
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Clearer view of previous picture, without horse and cart].

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).
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British students give immigrant children after-school lessons, Leeds, 1965, 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011Y/11
Scope and Contents

203 x 158 mm. Showing two students from Leeds University, John Urquhart and Hugh Aldous, giving English tuition to two Asian children.

Dates: 1965
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-Series

British Universities, 1946 - 1986

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/1 Brit Uni
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of various universities in the United Kingdom. Photographer unknown.

Dates: 1946 - 1986
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

Bronze Dagger, -2500 - -1500

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.1.07
Scope and Contents

Bronze dagger, approximately 12 cm in length. Its original tag from the Cyprus Museum reads 'Middle Bronze Age 2100-1600 B.C.' It may have been acquired by Claude Delaval Cobham (1842-1915), Commissioner of Larnaca, Cyprus 1879-1907, who presented his collection of books and photographs relating to Cyprus to the Royal Colonial Institute in 1913.

Dates: -2500 - -1500
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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Broughly Castle, 1861

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/8/297
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: 1861
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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Broughton Castle, near Banbury, Oxon, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/377
Scope and Contents

193 x 119 mm. A view looking across the lawns and a moat towards the 14th century fortified manor house. Photograph by Taunt's and Co.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
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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Buckland (Surrey), 1922, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/89
Scope and Contents

65 x 45 mm.

Dates: 1922
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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Buena Vista Rocks and Europa Pass Gate from the South, 1866

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/5/131
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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Buffet Hall, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/llh/4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-class:

Views of the society's Northumberland Ave. headquarters and of some of the branch buildings.

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).
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[Building at Madeira], 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/1
Scope and Contents

78 x 51 mm.

Dates: 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).
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[Building at Milan], 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/101
Scope and Contents

76 x 51 mm.

Dates: 1932
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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Building H.M.S. Vanguard, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5178
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Looking down from top of 150 ton crane.

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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Bullock car, Madeira 1902, 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/291
Scope and Contents

235 x 175 mm.

Dates: 1902
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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Bullock cart in Madeira, 1928-06-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/10
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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Bullslaughter Bay, 1923, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/178
Scope and Contents

65 x 40 mm.

Dates: 1923
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

Bundle marked 'Tours' containing letters from Childers to his first wife Emily, 1864 - 1904

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/7/2-8
Scope and Contents ‘Mediterranean and Spain, 1864’: 10 letters, 4-27 Oct. 1864; ‘Holland, April 1866’: 5 letters, 24-29 March 1866; ‘Auvergne, Easter 1868’: 9 letters, 6-15 Apr. 1868; ‘First Lord: Cruise with the Channel Fleet, 1869’: 12 letters, 31 Aug.- 5 Oct. 1869, with three letters from Charles Childers to his mother, 30 Aug. 1869 and n.d.; ‘Rome, 1870’: 6 letters, n.d. and 13 -21 Apr. 1870 with one from Charles Childers to his mother, Easter Sunday. Label endorsed [by Spencer Childers] ‘Oecumenical...
Dates: 1864 - 1904
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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Burford Bridge, Aug 1922, 1922-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/94
Scope and Contents

65 x 70 mm.

Dates: 1922-08
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).
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Burns' Cottage : Alloway, Ayrshire, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5218
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Birthplace of Robert Burns. [Showing three girls on the right with cottage far 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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Burns Memorial, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/121
Scope and Contents

45 x 65 mm. A view of the memorial of Robert Burns, Scotland’s National bard.

Dates: 1922
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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Buroo and Thocku, Ouëa Island natives, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309D/2
Scope and Contents

119 x 174 mm. An elaborate studio portrait of two natives standing among a simulated outdoor setting of rocks, palm fronds and other vegetation. Ouëa is presumably Ouvea, one of the Loyalty Islands, north-east of New Caledonia.

Dates: 1875
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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[Bursting shell], 1915 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/9
Scope and Contents

190 x 145 mm.

Dates: 1915 - 1918
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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'C. Co' Billet - Ypres, May 1920, 1920-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/10
Scope and Contents

70 x 50 mm. A view of a partially destroyed building.

Dates: 1920-05
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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Cabot before Henry VII 1491, 1900 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII/21
Scope and Contents From the File:

Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

Dates: 1900 - 1930
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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Cadet, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/3
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. Canham on Madeira.

Dates: 1938
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).