Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16212 Collections and/or Records:
Item
A palanquin or ‘palki’, 1873
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/1/7
Scope and Contents
134 x 100 mm. Laing describes this form of transport on p. 14. (p. 47).
Dates:
1873
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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A Palki - Calcutta, 1920 - 1929
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/8
Scope and Contents
Numbered '42' on the bottom left-hand corner.
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).
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A panoramic view of Colombo, embracing lake and harbour, 1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 2/58
Scope and Contents
Panorama extending over four joined pages.
Dates:
1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
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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A panoramic view of the civic centre of the city, 1960 - 1969
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311A/3
Scope and Contents
205 x 157 mm. General view (long exposure, taken at dusk) of the area in the vicinity of the Victoria Memorial Hall, seen here with the War memorial obelisk in the left foreground.
Dates:
1960 - 1969
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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A Parsee 'demoiselle', Bombay, 1873
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/1/6
Scope and Contents
160 x 190 mm. (p. 41).
Dates:
1873
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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A phongyee's funeral the place of cremation , 1890 - 1927
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/33
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates:
1890 - 1927
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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A picnic page, 1934
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/387
Scope and Contents
About to slide again. The larger leaves seen in our hands are for sitting on. We are standing in running foam.
Dates:
1934
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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A picnic page, 1934
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/388
Scope and Contents
L-R top: Sykes, Sheppard, Tait, Mr Grey, Bottom Mrs Sykes, Mrs Tait at Bankling's Slide.
Dates:
1934
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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A picnic page, 1934
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/389
Scope and Contents
The elephants arriving at the slide.
Dates:
1934
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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A picnic page, 1934
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/390
Scope and Contents
Starting off for Mengget Unchor. First elephant Sir J Scott (acting Governor) and Sultan of Perak. Second Elephant Lady Scott, A. Caldecott (CSG).
Dates:
1934
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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A picnic up-country in Borneo, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4391
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. [Showing group of 8 Europeans sitting on the ground with jungle behind. Women (4) in long white dresses and with hats with two men in white with topees and two more in dark clothes. 12 copies of the print were sent to Mrs Gueritz, Government House, Sandakan, North Borneo on 29.04.09, so maybe her picnic]
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
A pleasant walk near Srinuggur [Srinagar], 1864
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/11
Scope and Contents
300 x 243 mm. View looking along the back of one of the canals at Srinagar, with a boat on the water, two Indian figures posed in the middleground, and an avenue of poplars at the left. Bourne no. 826.
Dates:
1864
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
[A plumbago mine], 1886
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303F/1
Scope and Contents
132 x 182 mm.
Dates:
1886
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
A pottery shop in Nyaung U, 1903 - 1921
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029E/45
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
An album containing photographic prints and coloured reproductions. Prints 2-62 are coloured reproductions from Kelly, R. Talbot (1905) Burma painted and described, London : Adam and Charles Black. The remainder are original photographs by Thomas Harry Goldsworthy Stevens. The prints mainly measure approximately 100 x 75 mm, although some are larger. The album is interleaved with sheets on which are typed captions, up to print 261. Photographs beyond this point are uncaptioned. The...
Dates:
1903 - 1921
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
A principal street in Hong Kong, 1909
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/174
Scope and Contents
A copy of a half-tone photograph showing business premises in (?) Chater Road.
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
A private cart, Peking, 1890
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302E/11
Scope and Contents
Showing a European woman climbing into a small covered cart, with the driver standing beside the horse. The pencilled caption on the negative wrapper reads The lady-friend of Sir Robert Hart starting for a drive in Peking. Sir Robert Hart (1835-1911) was Inspector-General of Chinese Customs 1863-1908.
Dates:
1890
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
A productive coconut plantation, 1890 - 1910
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/160
Scope and Contents
147 x 102 mm.
Dates:
1890 - 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
A Punjabi dance, 1982
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E C/8
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Owing to its multi-racial nature, Singapore has a diverse culture influenced by its three major ethnic groups - the Chinese, Malays and Indians. Schoolchildren have a choice of learning music and dance as part of their extra-curricular activities.
Dates:
1982
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
A quadrangle in the Old Palace, 1905
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/70
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints the majority of which are circa 290 x 215 mm., but 4-6, 9-18, 20-27, 51-55, 91-94, and 96-98 are approximately 140 x 100 mm. Nos. 4-27, 51 are scenes of the Royal Visit in November 1905, 19-26 being triumphal arches. The other subjects are the Maharajah and his family (1-3), Lallgarh Palace (28-50), Gujner (52-64), the Old Palace (65-82, 85), Bikaner City (83-84, 891-98 and Bikaner forces (89-90). There are printed captions: the collection is in a richly bound album...
Dates:
1905
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
'A queer Christmas’, 1961
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/3/3/8
Scope and Contents
An account of how Coe’s anticipated Christmas celebrations in Tapah were disrupted by a case of assault between two Tamil labourers and a flood the following day.
Dates:
1961
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
Item
A quiet bit near Peermund, 1860 - 1869
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/51
Scope and Contents
307 x 185 mm. View of a stretch of river, possibly the Pyarka, in the Nilgiris. Photograph by Samuel Bourne no. 2028.
Dates:
1860 - 1869
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
A quiet 'bit' near the Willow Bund, 1868 - 1869
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022E/28
Scope and Contents
320 x 193 mm. View from the N shore of the lake looking towards the avenue lined with willow trees which divides the stretch of water into two. The nearer portion of the lake, immediately to the south of the town, was filled in between 1896 and 1899 to become the racecourse. Bourne no. 1980.
Dates:
1868 - 1869
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
A rafting party , 1932 - 1936
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/436
Scope and Contents
Above Tanjung Malim, L-R: Bagot, Mrs Bags, Browne, Hallen, Mark John Kennaway at the start.
Dates:
1932 - 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
A rafting picnic , 1930 - 1936
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/473
Scope and Contents
Above Tanjung Malim. L-R: Mrs Bagot, Sheppard, NJ, Halps the organiser just before the start upstream.
Dates:
1930 - 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
A rafting picnic , 1939 - 1947
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/482
Scope and Contents
Above Tanjung Malim. L-R: Mrs Sheppard, Bagot shooting a rapid.
Dates:
1939 - 1947
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).