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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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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FIDS HQ staff, 1954-11 - 1957-01
Item
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).
Organization
File
Film 1, 31 Jan. 1947-17 Feb. 1947
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:
31 Jan. 1947-17 Feb. 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Copyright: British Film Institute. Permission has been obtained from the British Film Institute for the films to be made available for research and teaching within the University of Cambridge.
Please contact the RCS curator (rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk) for further details. 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.
Organization
Person
Item
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).
Item
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views of St Helena
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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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
Fisherman - Catalan Bay, 1885-12
Item
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).
Item
[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).
Item
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).
Organization
Item
Fitzroy, 1953-04-01 - 1957-01-22
Item
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).
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Five Arches, Tenby, 1950
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/296
Scope and Contents
51 x 47 mm. A street with arches at the end.
Dates:
1950
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
Five Orders of Periwigs, 1880 - 1902
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)3/70
Scope and Contents
From the File:
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).
Item
Flank of Windmill Hill Retrenchment and back of Rock from Armstrong's Battery, 1866
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/4/68
Scope and Contents
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).
Item
Floating docks, H.M. Dockyard, Bda (H.M.S. 'Dominion'), 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070B/9
Scope and Contents
245 x 194 mm. A close up of the floating docks on Ireland Island with HMS 'Dominion' secured inside.
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).
Item
Flock of young geese going to market, Darlington, September 1892, 1892-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/380
Scope and Contents
155 x 115 mm. A view showing a flock of geese being driven across the cobbled street into Darlington market. Photograph by Cuthbert Christy.
Dates:
1892-09
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).