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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3896 Collections and/or Records:
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Coast of Barbary, from embrasure of Europa Point Battery, 1866
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/4/79
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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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[Colonel Hebbert], 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/70
Scope and Contents
60 x 105 mm. Showing Hebbert stood in a garden.
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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Colonial Agricultural Developments Discussed at Conference of Overseas Officials in Britain., 1958-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/F/20
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155 x 208 mm. Here, during an interval at the conference, Mr. J.S. Zammit (left), Malta’s Controller of Agriculture Marketing, discusses tomato plant diseases with Mr. M.H. Dye, a post graduate student from New Zealand now on a course of studies at Wye College.
Dates:
1958-09
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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Colonial Office probationers: Cambridge 1954-54 & Trinidad 1954-55, 2003-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 317/3a
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of two sections: 'Illustrated memories' by J.M.A. Sly, with contributions from K.M. Harris and M.H.D.F. Fyfe, a collection of around 260 photographs taken by Sly and his colleagues relating to their years in Cambridge and Trinidad, including memories of events; and 'What happened to them all', a collection edited by A.J. Pritchard of what happened to the nearly 40 expatriates who attended the courses, with most of the contributions written by the persons concerned. There...
Dates:
2003-11
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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Colonial Office probationers: Cambridge 1954-54 & Trinidad 1954-55, 2003-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 317/3b
Scope and Contents
The contents of the disk are divided into two sections: 'Illustrated memories' by J.M.A. Sly, with contributions from K.M. Harris and M.H.D.F. Fyfe, a collection of around 260 photographs taken by Sly and his colleagues relating to their years in Cambridge and Trinidad, including memories of events; and 'What happened to them all', a collection edited by A.J. Pritchard of what happened to the nearly 40 expatriates who attended the courses, with most of the contributions written by the...
Dates:
2003-11
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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Columba Terrace, Oban, Scotland, 1874
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2/1
Scope and Contents
168 x 112 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).
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Combing : Cairo Mill, Oldham, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5327
Scope and Contents
Quarter-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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COMEX, 1963 - 1966
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/17/9
Scope and Contents
The Commonwealth Expedition (Comex) was conceived of as a means of encouraging young people in Britain and elsewhere in the Commonwealth to embrace its ideals through cultural exchange. Young people from Britain would travel to India, and in the words of its Action Committee, ‘build a bridge between London and Delhi over which the younger generation of the Commonwealth may safely pass for years to come.’ In 1965, the pioneering party travelled in specially adapted coaches from Dover,...
Dates:
1963 - 1966
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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[Coming onto parade], 1954-04-21
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/98
Scope and Contents
160 x 120 mm. There is a handwritten caption on the reverse of the print penned in ink by Arthur himself, which reads: 'Queen's Birthday. Coming onto Parade. The plank bridge in bottom left corner leads to the stables. Faith was trying to cross it hence the peculiar position of my left hand'. Exact location unknown.
Dates:
1954-04-21
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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Commander Macrorie and Mrs. Popham-Lobb. Bermuda, December 1908, 1908-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/54
Scope and Contents
86 x 138 mm. Showing Mrs Popham - Lobb seated on the deck of the HMS 'Cornwall', with Commander Macrorie beside her and two dogs. Commander Macrorie is only partially visible in the picture.
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).
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