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Fonds
Fisher photograph collection
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher
Scope and Contents
Collection of 29 albums consisting of approximately 3864 photographs taken or collected by A.H. Fisher for the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee 1907-1910. The numbering of the collection is problematic and details are provided for each separate album.Photographers: Some of the names which appear are:Hutchins: donor of some photographs of India, but not otherwise identifiedFirebrace: donor of some photographs of India, but not otherwise identifiedRighi: ...
Dates:
1900 - 1910
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).
File
Volume XVI : Nova Scotia, Canadian winter, and Great Britain 1909, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16
Scope and Contents
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 3189-3224 (originally there were 150). Added numbers are: 5185-5350; spoiled: 5291-5298; not used: 3210-3220, 5192, 5202-5209, 5211, 5231-5233, 5248, 5280-5286, 5320-5322, 5324-5326, 5328-5330, 5332, 5335 and 5348; missing: 3203 and 3204. Subjects covered in the album are: Canada: Cobalt; Montreal and Toronto: winter sports; icebergs off Newfoundland. Great Britain: shipbuilding on the Clyde: Glasgow: iron foundry;...
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).
File
Volume XXI : Great Britain, 1909, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21
Scope and Contents
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 5002-5184 (originally there were 174). Added number is: 5157A; not used: 5039, 5059, 5076, 5077, 5080, 5092, 5112, 5140, 5146, 5176, 5179; missing: 5088. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 5079 follows 5091. Subjects covered in the album are: England: London; Portsmouth: naval scenes, ship building, dockyard, H.M.S. Victory, Dickens' birthplace; Isle of Wight; Salisbury....
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).
File
Volume XXII : Great Britain, 1909, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 22
Scope and Contents
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 5351-5487. Numbers not used are: 5367, 5386, 5394, 5410-5443, 5445, 5456-5460 and 5476.
Subjects covered in the album are:
England: Manchester: docks landing Canadian cattle, grain elevators; Warwick; Kenilworth Castle; Tring: farming scenes; Aldershot: barrack buildings, soldiers drilling; Farnborough: balloon shed. Scotland: Edinburgh.
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).
