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Fonds
Watercolours and drawings of Edward Frome
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40
Scope and Contents
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:
1827 - 1975
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
Item
[Waterfall and wooden footbridge], 1880 - 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/136
Scope and Contents
150 x 110 mm. Showing a 'waterfall' water feature behind railings, with a small wooden bridge at the top. A woman and a young boy are just about visible on the bridge, possibly posing for the photograph. Exact location unidentified.
Dates:
1880 - 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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Waterfall in Dunrobin Glen, 1874
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2/24
Scope and Contents
167 x 108 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).
Person
Item
Weekend visit to the Goslings, Bermuda, December 1908., 1908-12
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/59
Scope and Contents
106 x 74 mm. Showing Lieutenant E. W. Roberts and the three figures seen in Y3070A/58; a photograph taken a few moments later.
Dates:
1908-12
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).
Item
Weekend visit to the Goslings, Bermuda, December 1908, 1908-12
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/60
Scope and Contents
107 x 76 mm. Showing the Gosling daughter (presumably), sitting in a pony trap.
Dates:
1908-12
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).
Item
West coast from 'Philomel', 1953-04-01 - 1957-01-22
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/120
Scope and Contents
110 x 85 mm. A view of the west coast of the Falkland Islands taken from the 'Philomel', a motor fishing vessel which was brought out in 1947 to link up town and scattered farms. On the reverse of the print, written in pencil, is the reference '8A'.
Dates:
1953-04-01 - 1957-01-22
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).
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West front, Croyland Abbey [i.e. Crowland Abbey], 1930 - 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/293
Scope and Contents
90 x 140 mm. Postcard.
Dates:
1930 - 1937
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
West Indies 1958, 1956 - 1958
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham A
Scope and Contents
Slides numbered from 1-65 by John Ewart Marnham (numbers 14, 42 and 43 are missing). There are also 5 slides of Tobago and one of Jamaica not numbered by him, but clearly identifiable by the processing number and probably omitted on account of inferior quality or repetitive subject. They are inserted at appropriate points. Eleven slides (numbers 23-28), 29-31, 33-35) are in Kodak Readymount frames without processing numbers and since several show John Ewart Marnham and Susan Marnham it is...
Dates:
1956 - 1958
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
/
Marnham collection
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West of Ventnor, I.o.W. [Isle of Wight], 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5068
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing white cliffs].
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).
Unknown
"Westward, look, the land is bright", 27 Apr 1941
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/150B/124-142
Scope and Contents
Speaking notes for WSC's broadcast (27 April, BBC) on the war situation including: public morale; his tours of bomb-damaged cities; General Sir Archibald Wavell's [Commander in Chief Middle East] successes in Libya; German successes in the Balkans and British support for Greece; admiration in the United States for Great Britain; praise for troops from Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC); condemnation of [Benito] Mussolini "This whipped jackal"; the Battle of the Atlantic and praise...
Dates:
27 Apr 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Fonds
Whaling in Falkland Islands Dependencies
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795C
Scope and Contents
Three postcards and two prints, probably collected as part of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee material (see introduction to Fisher Collection). The photographs are captioned on the backs.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
When fresh water supplies run short, fresh water ice has to be collected, 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/556
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse continues 'On this ice floe in Admiralty Bay 'Chippy' McLeod and Third Officer Brooke are collecting fresh water ice'.
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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Where the old home stood; demolition progress to the middle of February, 1935, 1980 - 1989
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilc/4
Scope and Contents
118 x 90 mm. 'United Empire', XXVI, 1935, 138.
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).
Person
Organization
Whitbread PLC (Hotel and Restaurant Company) (1742-Present) (United Kingdom)
Organization
Dates:
Existence: 1742 - 2024
Item
White Sand Bay. Lands End, 1920
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/223
Scope and Contents
58 x 85 mm.
Dates:
1920
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
Wick and Sally Clement when she rode to fetch me from penguins to catch plane, 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham B/74
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
Wickam Clement, Fox Bay, 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham B/73
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
'Wide a Wake Fair', Ascension, 1884-01-27 - 1884-01-31
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/51
Scope and Contents
200 x 146 mm. Showing huge numbers of nesting wideawakes (sooty terns) on Wideawake Plain, with a figure standing among them in the background. The breeding ground of these terns formed a valuable source of food for the naval garrison in the nineteenth century, who took thousands of eggs each year during ythe breeding season; these depredations do not appear to have posed any problems to the bird's survival however, and they were a considerable danger as they nested in their thousands...
Dates:
1884-01-27 - 1884-01-31
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
Item
Wide awake Fair, Ascension, 1870 - 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/8
Scope and Contents
197 x 149 mm. With terns.
Dates:
1870 - 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).
Item
Wide awake Fair, Ascension
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/10
Scope and Contents
100 x 150 mm. With terns.
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
William Hogarth Prints, 1880 - 1902
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)3
Scope and Contents
Reproductions of prints by the English artist. The slide containing Plate 3 of The Harlot's Progress is missing. The collection also includes an engraving of Henry Fuseli's painting Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1
Dates:
1880 - 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).