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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3777 Collections and/or Records:

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Federation of Malaya Police Contingent for the Coronation, London, 1953, 1953

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/17
Scope and Contents

210 x 157 mm. Group photograph of the police officers. Identified on the reverse of the print are: Inspector Tun HAMZAH; Chief Inspector Arjan SINGH; Assistant Superintendent Lim Swee TENG; Deputy Superintendent Wan ABDULRAHMAN; Senior Assistant Commissioner Thomas Quartus GAFFIKIN 91907-), officer commanding contingent; Assistant Superintendent HILLIER; Lieutenant CHARLTON; Special Constabulary Inspector Abdul WAHAB; Sergeant Mohamed ZAIN.

Dates: 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).
 Sub-Series

Festival 1957, 1957-05

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/IIIb
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection illustrates the experience of the RCS during the Second World War. It also documents the festival held to mark the completion of the post-war restoration of the headquarters in 1957 and the celebrations organised for the society's centenary in 1968.

Dates: 1957-05
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

F.G. Banks photographs

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011ZZ
Scope and Contents

The photographs are housed at RCMS 167. Captions are from information supplied by H.B. Thomas and C.R.S. Pitman.

Dates: 1880 - 1952
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).
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FIDS HQ staff, 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/150
Scope and Contents 110 x 80 mm. A group photograph of FIDS staff. FIDS is an acronym of the 'Falkland Islands Dependency Survey', which was the name of the British Antarctic Survey in its earlier days. The caption on the reverse, written in blue ink, continues: 'L to R, Rosemary Graves (ex Guard), Frank Elliott, Margaret Northwood, Colleen Rowlands'. Frank Elliott, after working in Graham land for the Survey, was SECFIDS (the Survey Secretary) in Stanley from 1953 to 1959. 'A tough, stocky and forthright...
Dates: 1954-11 - 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).
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Field of young lavender [England], 1900 - 1907

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/231
Scope and Contents

78 x 55 mm.

Dates: 1900 - 1907
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

Film 1, 1947-01-31 - 1947-02-17

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 358/1
Scope and Contents

This film (part one of a two-part film) records the Royal party leaving Buckingham Palace on January 31st 1947 to cheering crowds and boarding a train at Waterloo Station for Portsmouth. It records the Royal party boarding HMS Vanguard, entertainment on deck during the voyage, and their arrival at Cape Town on February 17th 1947.

Dates: 1947-01-31 - 1947-02-17
Conditions Governing Access: Copyright: British Film Institute. Permission has been obtained from the British Film Institute for the films to be streamed via the University of Cambridge's Streaming Media Service, to make them available for research and teaching within the University of Cambridge. They may not be downloaded. Online access is limited to holders of Raven passwords (University of Cambridge). All other researchers: please contact rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk to make an appointment. For copyright reasons, the films can be viewed upon request only and in person at Cambridge University Library. All other requests to use any part of the films must be addressed to the British Film Institute.
 Person

Findlater, Richard, 1921–1985 (Author and Journalist)

 Person
Dates: Existence: 1921 - 1985
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Fingal's Cave, Staffa, 1874

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2/10
Scope and Contents

160 x 110 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).
 Item

Fiquet, July '21, 1921-07

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/76
Scope and Contents

45 x 65mm. 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).
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Fire engines outside the building about to leave after the false alarm, 1988-05

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ild/37
Scope and Contents

149 x 101 mm colour print.

Dates: 1988-05
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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First loads of fibre leaving Govt. [i.e. Government] Flax Mill at Longwood, St Helena, 1900

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30482B/14
Scope and Contents

200 x 148 mm. Showing workers and managers posed outside the mill with two cart-loads of processed flax fibre.

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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First sight, 1962

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham B/50
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).
 File

Fisher collection : views in England circa 1910, 1910

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011V
Scope and Contents

Contains prints of various sizes by various photographers, including Taunt's, R.F. Taylor of Cardiff, Whitworth and Co. Categories are: numbers 1-5: the work of the Post Office; 6-12: typical English scenes; 13-15 railway locomotives; 16-25: shipbuilding and naval.

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

Fisher photograph collection

 Fonds
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).
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Fisherman - Catalan Bay, 1885-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/24
Scope and Contents

52 x 76 mm. A sketch of a fisherman dressed in blue and holding a rope.

Dates: 1885-12
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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[Fishing], 1921 - 1926

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/167
Scope and Contents

70 x 40 mm. Showing two figures fishing in a lake. Location unidentified but presumably Pembrokeshire.

Dates: 1921 - 1926
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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Fitting basin, and 150 ton crane, 1909

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5188
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). Beardmores shipyards near Glasgow.

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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Fitzroy, 1953-04-01 - 1957-01-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/122
Scope and Contents

115 x 80mm. A group standing in moorland ( Fitzroy is about 20 miles from Stanley). The handwritten caption on the reverse of the print continues by identifying the group: 'Jim Clement, Margaret [Clement], Carol [Clement], Pete [Clement], Stephen Beresford (HMS Bisbury Bay)'.

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).