Europe (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4596 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Napoleon's Tomb, St Helena, 1884-01-16 - 1884-01-22
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/54
Scope and Contents
139 x 211 mm. Showing the tombstone, surrounded by metal railings, in Sane Valley (also known as Geranium Valley) where there was a spring from which Napoleon ordered his drinking water to be collected. Hiscorpse was placed in four coffins, one of tin, one of mahogany, one of lead and another of mahogany with the result that when the body was removed for reburial in France in 1840 it was in almost perfect condition.
Dates:
1884-01-16 - 1884-01-22
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Sydney Tyers album
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Napoli Panorama dal Vomero, 1888 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/136
Scope and Contents
256 x 198 mm. A view looking down on the town and seafront from the west, with Mount Vesuvius in the distance. Photograph by ‘Sommer [G] Napoli'.
Dates:
1888 - 1889
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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Naval cadets in Malta, 12th March 1908, 1908-03-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/1
Scope and Contents
138 x 83 mm. A view showing naval cadets in uniform standing in a group in the Maltese countryside. This photograph was taken by Commander Green during a picnic he gave to celebrate his birthday.
Dates:
1908-03-12
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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Naval Gunmounting Dept, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5160
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Showing a row of 4.2 in guns.
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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Naval gunners, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011V/19
Scope and Contents
351 x 264 mm. Showing two sailors posed with a naval gun mounted on a railway trolley. Photograph stamped 'Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co, Ltd.'
Dates:
1910
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
Naval photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011YYY
Scope and Contents
Small album measuring 160 x 135 mm containing photographs 90 x 90 mm loosely inserted into photograph slots, one to a page. There is a handwritten caption (and date) under each photograph, although the information is not always easily discernable. Written on the inside cover in perhaps a different hand is 'Interesting naval photographs.' The album shows views of ships, their crew and harbours. Identified ships are: S.S. Oroya; H.M.S. Penguin; H.M.S. Ringarooma; SS Moravian; ‘SS...
Dates:
1902 - 1903
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
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Naxxar Technical School, 1958 - 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3017E/11
Scope and Contents
207 x 155 mm. An exterior view of the newly completed school buildings at Naxxar.
Dates:
1958 - 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).
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Near Bray, June '21, 1921-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/43
Scope and Contents
70 x 50 mm. Looking towards a house situated above a bridge over a river.
Dates:
1921-06
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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Near Fiquet Bay, July '21, 1921-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/65
Scope and Contents
110 x 160 mm. Showing rocks on the coastline.
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
Nearer view, 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham B/51
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...
Dates:
1962
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
Nearer view, 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham B/52
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...
Dates:
1962
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
Nearer view, 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham B/53
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...
Dates:
1962
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
Necker Steiner, 1858
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/7/222
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:
1858
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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Netley Abbey, South Transept, 1868 - 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/87
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A group of stereoscopic halves each measuring approximately 72 x 72 mm, showing general views of the architecture in the British Isles, Belgium and Paris.
Dates:
1868 - 1890
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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Netley Abbey. The cloisters, 1871, 1871
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/86
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A group of stereoscopic halves each measuring approximately 72 x 72 mm, showing general views of the architecture in the British Isles, Belgium and Paris.
Dates:
1871
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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Neutral ground and Mediterranean from Farington's Battery, showing embrasures of St. George's Hall and North Union Galleries, 1866
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/5/123
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).
File
New Caledonia : Noumea and Isle of Pines, chiefly from the air, 1963
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham L
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Slides taken during a visit which included New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga, the Gilbert Islands and New Caledonia.
Dates:
1963
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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New Casino. Knocke-Sur-Mer, 1930
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/155
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...
Dates:
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).
File
New High Commissioner, 1976
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/2
Scope and Contents
This file includes correspondence regarding Smedley’s appointment, including one section ‘Briefing for High Commissioner’s Arrival’ relating to agriculture, with map attached; list of Smedley’s appointments, 15-23 Jan. 1976; programmes of visits to Brussels, 30 Jan. to 1 Feb. 1976; India, 2-3 Feb. 1976; Hong Kong, 4-5 Feb. 1976; Australia, 6-8 Feb. 1976; material relating to New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon’s visit to the UK (accompanied by Smedley), 11-15 Apr. 1976; list of guests...
Dates:
1976
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
New Mole, Gibraltar, 1866
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/4/85
Scope and Contents
Pen and ink sketch.
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).
Item
New Mole, Gibraltar, from First Rosin Battery, 1866
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/4/86
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).
Item
New road to Les Avants, 1870 - 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 273/28
Scope and Contents
150 x 100 mm.
Dates:
1870 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Falkland Islands album
Item
New University buildings, Edinburgh, 1890 - 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/369
Scope and Contents
204 x 133 mm. A view showing the new University buildings. Photograph by James Valentine 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).
Item
New Year's Eve, 1953-12 - 1957-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/121
Scope and Contents
160 x 105 mm. Shows a group photograph of about fifty people. The caption on the reverse written in red ink continues: 'The N (aval) O (fficer) and M. Palette are both women. 1st prizes (by popular election) were Annie Get Your Gun (Mrs Barton) and Clown (Bob Moss). On the reverse of the print, written in pencil, is the reference '6A4'.
Dates:
1953-12 - 1957-01
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
New Zealand 1929, 1929
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF/4-5
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of photographs, by various photographers, relating to School Empire Tours, probably compiled by Miss Margaret Best. All the prints are captioned and some also have dates and places written on the back in Miss Best's hand.It should be noted that most of the images show groups of the participants, either before setting out or in the country concerned, but there is very little to show their activities - the 1932 tour to Canada is the best in this respect. It is clear from...
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).