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Found in 2970 Collections and/or Records:

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The Island from the sea - looking in from west, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30482B/1
Scope and Contents

205 x 144 mm. View looking along the rocky coastline of Saint Helena.

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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The Islands from Gibb's Hill, 1951 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/64
Scope and Contents

The reverse of the print is stamped with the photographers details: 'Photo - Frederick L. Hamilton, 315 8th Avenue, Pelham 65, New York.' and has been given the negative number 'A-5'.

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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The Jews' Market, 1909-10 - 1909-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 23/6036
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Close up view of chair and glass lampshade stalls].

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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The Jews' Market : Commercial Square, Gib., 1909-10 - 1909-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 23/6034
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. This was formerly the site of 'Grand Parade.' [Showing market in front of houses with hills in the background].

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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The Jews' Market: Commercial Square, Gibraltar, 1909-10 - 1909-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 23/6035
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Closer view than 6034].

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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The John Biscoe 'iced-up' in Admiralty Bay amid the Antarctic ice-packs, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/559
Scope and Contents From the Series: A series of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey photographs. This set of prints relates to the rescue of the party of scientists of the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey who were trapped at their base at Hope Bay after the station was gutted by fire in November 1948. Each has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Britain's Antarctic Outposts.(See Feature Set Intro. No.240).The story of John Biscoe's voyage to the Antarctic and of the eleven British scientists...
Dates: 1948
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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The Joske family: Father Fox, Alice Brewster, Adolf B. Brewster, Ogilvie, Ratu Veli, 2006

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I/38
Scope and Contents

Ratu Veli, Roko Tui of the Province of Macuata visited England to mark the jubilee of British rule in Fiji and to represent it at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley.

Dates: 2006
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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The Jubilee Tower, Margate, 1863 - 1896

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/114
Scope and Contents

204 x 154 mm.

Dates: 1863 - 1896
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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The Kestrel : Torpedo Destroyer in no 7 dock, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5079
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format).

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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The King and Queen disembarking at Portsmouth, 1912-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/518
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains photographs ranging in size from 85 x 70 mm to 290 x 235 mm bound in a black leather album with 'Indian Tour 1911-1912' on the front cover. This records the visit to India for the Delhi Durbar of December 1911. Taken by various photographers, it appears to have been the personal record of the King or Queen, and covers the outward voyage from Portsmouth via Port Said, Suez, and Aden to Bombay, a detailed record of the Durbar and other events in Delhi, shooting in Nepal, the...
Dates: 1912-02
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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The Kings House in the Close, Salisbury, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5108
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [With roses on beds in the lawn in front behind wrought-iron fence].

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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The Kitchen: general view, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ile/105
Scope and Contents

208 x 160 mm. (2 copies).

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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The Kitchen: general view, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ile/105a
Scope and Contents

75 x 60 mm. (2 copies). Advert for Bentham & Sons in 'United Empire', XXVII (1936), xxiv.

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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The Kitchen: set of 6 general views, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ile/106-111
Scope and Contents

244 x 192 mm.

Dates: 1956
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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The Kt. Rev. Robert W. Stopford, former Principal of Achimota, with Archbishop Fisher after being consecrated Bishop of Fulham, outside St Paul's Cathedral. 115 x 90 mm., 1955-06-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of loose prints with duplicates measuring, unless stated, approximately 210 x 160 mm. The collection contains a variety of photographs, some of them taken by the Information Services of the Gold Coast/Ghana, while others are amateur photographs. Nos 1-5, showing Fraser in the Principal's house are clearly pre-1935, when he left Achimota. The majority date from Mr Winlaw's Headship and include a number of views of buildings put up in that period, particularly the Assembly Hall...
Dates: 1955-06-11
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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The launch party beside the bows of the Kedah, July 16, 1927, 1927-07-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/3
Scope and Contents

202 x 139 mm. Showing officials and guests beneath the bows of the Kedah just prior to the launch. The ship was launched by Sir George and Lady Evelyn Maxwell (at left of the group); beside them stand Oliver and Violet Catherine Marks. Other figures have not been individually identified.

Dates: 1927-07-16
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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The Lawn, 1908 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/51
Scope and Contents

90 x 113 mm. Showing part of the Admirality House Lawns with a group of naval cadets in the background.

Dates: 1908 - 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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The Leicester Hospital : Warwick, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 22/5370
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Side view of half- timber house with cobbled and brick path in front behind wrought-iron railings with sloping road on the left leading to archway below and ? church tower in the 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).
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The Lewis Merthyr Colliers, Rhondda Valley (Trehafod), 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5137
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [View of collieries with railway lines in the centre and houses on far side of valley].

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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The Lewis Merthyr Colliers, Rhondda Valley (Trehafod), 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5138
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [View of collieries with railway lines in the centre and houses on far side of valley].

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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The Library, 1880 - 1995

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/V
Scope and Contents

a. General views
b. Events
c. The flood 1980
d. Contents
e. Commonwealth in Focus Exhibition 1982
f. Librarians
g. Celebration of the Library 1993
h. Transfer of the Library to Cambridge






Dates: 1880 - 1995
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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The Library, Abbotsford, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5236
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Part of library with people walking about].

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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The Library begins to take shape: Progress Photograph, December 15th, 1935, 1980 - 1989

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilc/16
Scope and Contents

115 x 90 mm. Similar view to RCS/II/c/15, but with outer wall and windows in position. ‘United Empire’, XXVII, 1936, 47.

Dates: 1980 - 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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[The Library, Northumberland Ave], 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/llh/28
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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[The Library, Northumberland Ave], 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/llh/29
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).