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Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3777 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Pope's villa, Twickenham, 1835
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/8/256
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:
1835
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
Port Howard, 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham B/69
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
Port side : upper deck, 'King Edward VII', 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5008
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. [Showing sailors and band lined up on deck].
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).
Item
Porthpean, 1936
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/23
Scope and Contents
52 x 52 mm. The front of a house, with a woman in the foreground.
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).
Item
Porthpean, 1936-07
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/14/57
Scope and Contents
62 x 82 mm. A woman reading a book.
Dates:
1936-07
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).
File
Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1918 - 1933
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/9/15
Scope and Contents
Correspondence relating to a portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, donated to the society by Alderman Charles J. Ross in 1933. The portrait is listed at RCS/ORCS/1.09.
Dates:
1918 - 1933
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
Portree, Isle of Skye, 1874
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2/20
Scope and Contents
165 x 106 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
Portsmouth, 1906
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/202
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...
Dates:
1906
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
Portsmouth, 1911-11-11
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/4
Scope and Contents
Arrival of the royal train from London, 11 November 1911.
Dates:
1911-11-11
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).
Item
Portsmouth, 1911-11-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/5
Scope and Contents
Arrival of the royal train from London, 11 November 1911.
Dates:
1911-11-11
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).
Item
Portsmouth, 1911-11-11
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/6
Scope and Contents
Arrival of the royal train from London, 11 November 1911.
Dates:
1911-11-11
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).
Item
Portsmouth Dockyard from the sea, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5082
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Bellerophon to the left.
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).
Item
Portsmouth Dockyard : general view from Admiralty Superintendent's Office, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5038
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Royal Yacht 'Alexandra' to left of left hand shear in 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).
Item
Portsmouth, The Hard
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/108
Scope and Contents
207 x 142 mm.
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
[Postcard], 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/419
Scope and Contents
279 x 89 mm. A panoramic view of the Court of Honour from Congress Hall, Franco-British Exhibition, London.
Dates:
1908
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
[Postcards of Gibraltar], 1910
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gibraltar/1-6
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose tinted postcards showing views in Gibraltar. The postcards are produced by Beanland, Malin and Co, with the exception of no. 4 which is captioned 'A. Beanland, Gibraltar. Printed in Germany'.
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).
Sub-Series
[Postcards of Gibraltar], 1910
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gibraltar/7-12
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose tinted postcards showing various views in Gibraltar.
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).
Sub-Series
[Postcards of Gibraltar], 1910
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gibraltar/13-15
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose tinted postcards showing views in Gibraltar.
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).
Sub-Series
[Postcards of Gibraltar], 1900 - 1910
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gibraltar/16-22
Scope and Contents
Loose monochrome postcards showing views in Gibraltar. Published by A. Beanland (16), Benzaquen and Co (17-19) and V.B. Cumbo (20-22).
Dates:
1900 - 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).
Sub-Series
[Postcards of Gibraltar], 1950
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gibraltar/23-52
Scope and Contents
Loose miscellaneous monochrome postcards (original photographs). Published by Beanland, Malin and Co. (23-28, 36-52), Real Photo Production (29-30), unknown (31) and L. Sacarello (32-35).
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).
Sub-Series
[Postcards of India], 1920 - 1929
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/1-144
Scope and Contents
Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...
Dates:
1920 - 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).
Series
Postcards of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1920 - 1929
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089EE/4
Dates:
1920 - 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).
Person
Potter, Dennis Christopher George, 1935-1994 (Journalist and Screenwriter)
Person
Dates:
Existence: 1935 - 1994