Asia (continent)
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A brief historical memoir of Delhi and guide to points of interest together with the official programme in detail of the Imperial Coronation Durbar of 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022JJJJ
Scope and Contents
Leather-bound booklet, measuring 6¾ x 8 inches, of 153 pages, illustrated by photographs stuck in. The majority of the photographs are by Johnston and Hoffman.
Dates:
1911
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A journey to Asia and Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011MMM-XXX
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...
Dates:
1935-09 - 1936-03
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'A short history of Paterson, Simons & Company'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 368
Scope and Contents
This is a manuscript history of the Singapore company, which was established on 1 May 1859, and during the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, acted as agents for the Johor government, and insurance, shipping, planting and rubber companies. The history describes the company’s founders, who had been active as shippers and merchants under other names in Singapore before 1828, and traces its operations up to 1974. It is accompanied by notes, correspondence and other research...
Dates:
1879 - 1976
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A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 95
Scope and Contents
A work on the constitution of the Kandyan Kingdom, the last independent state in Sri Lanka, which had its capital at Kandy, 414 pages. The manuscript is endorsed at the end 'Copied by J.H. Direckize Translator of the Ratnapura Kachcheri (?) 28th Octr. 1892'.
Dates:
1892
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Address presented to Miss G. Croft, M.B.E., Principal of Vincent Girls' High School, Batticaloa (1922- 1948) by the public of Batticaloa, Ceylon on the eve of her departure to England
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 402
Scope and Contents
Typescript on oblong palm leaves, 55 x 255 mm in size, attached to the covers by a silver chain running through a single hole in each leaf. The covers are decorated in silver with inner linings of dark blue velvet. The upper cover is engraved, 'To Miss Gladys Croft M.B.E. in affectionate remembrance from the residents of Batticaloa Ceylon'. The volume is housed in a dark blue, clasped velvet box, lined with grey silk, produced by ‘Hemachandra Bros jewellers Kollupitiya.’The address...
Dates:
1948
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Adventures of a rubber-neck
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 84
Scope and Contents
An undated description of Miss Granville-Smith's time in India and Kashmir, 178 pages, beginning with her departure from England on 25 August 1945, and covering a period of 22 months, ending with her return on 7 July 1947. The memoir was originally written in the form of round robin letters to her family, often as a diary covering several weeks of news. These letters were circulated to friends and relations, and for this reason they mention mutual friends and organisations. There are...
Dates:
1947 - 1990
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Album of coastal profiles
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 6
Scope and Contents
Fifty-eighty pages of sepia drawings (12" x 6"), with captions and dates. The drawings give latitude and longitude, and appear to be competent renderings of coast profiles. The places featured include the Cape Verde Islands, Trinidad, Table Bay (including plan), Ceylon, Malaya and the East Indies, Macao, Sunda Straits, St Helena, Ascension and Britain. Some of the profiles, including those for Cape Town, Macao and Jamestown, St Helena, give details of buildings. None are signed, but...
Dates:
1783-12-30 - 1785-06-06
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Albumen prints of China
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302F
Scope and Contents
Framed albumen prints, measuring approximately 280 x 210 mm (500 x 400 including card frames).
Y302F/1-4: Chinese interiors.
Y302F/5-6: Canton flower boat and interior view.
Y302F/7: Western suburbs looking North (Canton) by Afong Lai, 1874 (after the devastating typhoon of 1874).
Y302F/8: Chinese grave on White Cloud Mountain, c. 1870s.
Dates:
1850 - 1879
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Cambridge University Library
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Albums by Francis Frith
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A-C
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of printed published volumes illustrated with albumen prints tipped on to the leaves with detailed text accompanying each photograph.The landscape and monumental remains of Egypt and the Middle East had exercised a profound fascination upon the European imagination for centuries, but it was only in the 19th century - and particularly after the impetus of Napolean's Egyptian campaign of 1798 - that visitors arrived in any great numbers. Scholars, adventurers...
Dates:
1857 - 1860
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Cambridge University Library
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Alexander Chancellor photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031J
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Alexander Richard Chancellor, C.B.E. (1869-1959). He served in the Highland Light Infantry 1893-1895, joined the Colonial Police and was posted to Barbados. In 1902 he accepted an offer to transfer to the Straits Settlements Police, being Chief Police Officer of Malacca from 1903-1905. He became Chief Police Officer of Singapore in 1907, Inspector-General in 1914 and retired in 1922.
Dates:
1903 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Alistair W. Hay Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 369
Scope and Contents
The collection includes copies of letters written by Hay to family and friends. Three describe his work with the Protectorate, colleagues, travel and leisure and are dated 1923, Canton; 1929, Taiping; and 1933, Kuala Lumpur (17 sheets). A second series of letters dating from 1940-42 narrates Hay’s wartime experience (57 sheets). The collection includes a copy of a photograph showing a memorial plaque honouring Hay and other members of the Chinese Protectorate who lost their lives...
Dates:
2007
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Cambridge University Library
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Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103
Scope and Contents
From 1952 to 1967 the Secretary of the Association was Hugh Bryson. He organised the accumulation of two important collections of historical material through the BAM. In 1960, in cooperation with the Royal Commonwealth Society, Bryson initiated the gathering of original documents - memoranda, diaries, correspondence - and the writing of special reminiscences by those with first hand experience of the geographic area covered by the Association. Subjects of particular significance include...
Dates:
1801 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Cambridge University Library
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Arrival of Sir Edward Stubbs in Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], December 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303H
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints, of various sizes, with brief captions on the reverse. Photographer unknown.Prints 1-6 document the arrival of Sir Edward Stubbs to take up his appointment as Governor of Ceylon in 1933. The remainder, which show scenes during a trooping of the colour by the Ceylon Light Infantry, appear to date from the following year, since in print 7 several of the spectators wear arm-bands in mourning for King Albert I of the Belgians who died in 1934. Reginald Edward...
Dates:
1933-12
Conditions Governing Access:
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Articles from 'The Field'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 322
Scope and Contents
Ten volumes of cuttings from 'The field', including a few articles from other publications, and loose cuttings concerning the Malay Peninsula. The volumes concern countries throughout the world, but in particular Australia, British East Africa (Kenya), Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Uganda, United States and the West Indies. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, including administration, agriculture, the British Empire, climate, colonisation,...
Dates:
1888 - 1921
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Cambridge University Library
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Ascension, West Africa, New Zealand, etc
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III
Scope and Contents
A collection including scenes from Ascension, Canary Islands, Madeira, Egypt, Brazil, New Zealand, Japan, Senegambia, Sierra Leone, the U.K., Gibraltar and Norway. The arrangement is a random one, but is seems likely that the left-hand photographs, one of Norway, the remainder definitely or probably New Zealand, were inserted later than those on the right. 108-113 are loose prints. The following is a list of the locations:New Zealand: 1, 12, 14, 16, 18Possibly New Zealand: 3, 7,...
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Asia miscellanea
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 63
Scope and Contents
A wide range of papers and artwork concerning different parts of Asia. Much of the material relates to India.
Dates:
1790 - 1977
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Asia photograph collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302G
Scope and Contents
An untitled album of photographs measuring generally between 65 x 110 mm and 210 x 165 mm, uncaptioned and undated, save one which is a postcard of a man and a woman, on the reverse is written: ‘Sunday, 24th July 38. The album contains a number of blank pages. Subjects include life on a ship (including images of the crew in fancy dress), buildings, groups of people, a ship-wreck, a boat ran aground, harbour scenes, two obituaries (C. Williams. A.B. H.M.S. Kent, killed at Hong Kong Dockyard...
Dates:
1910 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Astronomical calculations in Asia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 69
Scope and Contents
Calculations made during Clementi's journey through India, Tibet and China, 1907-1908.
Dates:
1907 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Bangladesh photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30223A
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs probably by official photographers. 1-3 measure 185 x 150 mm and 4-5 measure 150 x 25 mm.
Dates:
1977
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Bombay photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022CCCC
Scope and Contents
Sepia prints on mounts. Their appearance suggests that cardboard frames, originally stuck down surrounding the photograph, have been crudely removed. The prints are interesting reflections of British social life and were the property of the grandfather of Mrs. M. Heuston (no further identification or information given).
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Borneo in the sixties: letters from Sarawak
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 337
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Elizabeth O'Kelly in Borneo and photographs from her time on the island. The document is a photocopy of the original 1965 typescript. There are 27 letters, written from Kuching and Tarat, dating from 29 March 1962 to 16 February 1965. They are concerned principally with the background to the establishment of the Sarawak Federation of Women's Institutes, but also cover people and places of Borneo, the advent of Independence, the situation in Indonesia, the rebellion in...
Dates:
2004
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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British civilians interned by the Japanese in World War Two
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 393
Scope and Contents
Prepared by the Association of British Civilian Internees Far East Region. The volume is a full size replica of the original which was dedicated and placed in the Church of St Michael's Cornhill on 24 May 2009.
Dates:
2009
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British family, Perak, Xmas 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031L
Scope and Contents
100 x 130 mm. Mounted photograph showing man, woman and small girl on garden seat. The child's ayah stands behind. Inscribed Xmas 1922. Photographers name on mount, J. Uchida, Taiping, Perak. Inscription on folder 'To Mossy with fondest love and best wishes for Xmas and the New Year. [Illegible] age 14 months.'
Dates:
1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Buchanan-Smith North Borneo [i.e. Sabah] photographs 1903-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3034A
Scope and Contents
Album of prints, measuring 95 x 70 mm, presumably taken by Walter Buchanan-Smith during his service as a cadet under the British North Borneo Company. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation.
Dates:
1903 - 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'Buddha's prediction': bound collection of material relating to Sri Lanka
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 98
Scope and Contents
A collection of pieces by different authors relating to Sri Lanka, c. 350 pages. Nos 1-7 are written in the same copyist's hand; the last two items are each in a different handwriting.1. 'Buddha's prediction concerning Ceylon as it appears in a work reputed to be a Bana Book', 7 pages, signed W. de S. Wickramesekere, Kapulradde School, 1 April 1853.2. 'Conference between His Excellency and Chiefs and Priests, Kandy, 3 April 1853', 21 pages.3. Chapter 20 of 'Travels'...
Dates:
1846 - 1855
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library