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Asia (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16212 Collections and/or Records:

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A rapid on the Paran River, Rejang District, 1900

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/60
Scope and Contents

103 x 146 mm. View looking upriver along the rapids, with jungle on either bank.

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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A Rapid on the Raran River, Rejang District, 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035G/18
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Glass plate slides to illustrate a talk given by Cunynghame to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. A transcript of the lecture, comprising a title page and 58 pages of text, is stored at RCMS 63/22.

Dates: 1912
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 rapid on the Tutan River, and a boat in difficulties, 1900

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/90
Scope and Contents

147 x 102 mm. View looking up-river towards the rapids, with men attempting to haul a boat over the rocks.

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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A residence near the Botanical Gardens, Singapore, 1908-12 - 1908

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4161
Scope and Contents

[View from lawns with steps up to the house up grassed slope].

Dates: 1908-12 - 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).
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A rice mill, 1907-12 - 1908-01

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/445
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. In the Pozoondoung Creek. [Native boat, dredger and steamer on river].

Dates: 1907-12 - 1908-01
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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A riverside camp, 1904 - 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/62
Scope and Contents

Showing food being prepared on the bank of a river.

Dates: 1904 - 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).
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A road in Quetta, 1908-02 - 1908-03

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/882
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). (Called High School Road) Sandeman High School further up.

Dates: 1908-02 - 1908-03
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 road in Simla with a sample of the recognised form of conveyance (rickshaw), 1899 - 1901

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/5
Scope and Contents

210 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 1901
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 road near Kuala Lumpur, Gombak, Selangor, 1904 - 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/128
Scope and Contents

View looking along the palm-lined road.

Dates: 1904 - 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).
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A road near K[uala] Lumpur, Selangor, 1904 - 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/75
Scope and Contents

Showing thatched huts among palms at the side of a road near Kuala Lumpur.

Dates: 1904 - 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).
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A roadside Malay shop near Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, 1904 - 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/127
Scope and Contents

Showing a Malay group posed in front of a small thatched hut at the roadside.

Dates: 1904 - 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).
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A rock-cut tomb. Famagosta [i.e. Famagusta], 1878

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018B/24
Scope and Contents

175 x 106 mm. Woodburytype. A view showing the interior of a tomb looking towards the entrance, with a Cypriot seated in the foreground: 'The sepulchre here shown is now half-filled up with rubbish, and the entrance to it is through a porch supported by two pillars cut out of solid rock. The interior is nearly square, and in the sides and back wall are recesses designed for the stowage of bodies; while above these again are sundry small shallow niches' (Thomson 1879, vol.2, p.50).

Dates: 1878
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: The volume is located at: RCS.Cob.18.122.
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A rubber factory, 1924

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/60
Scope and Contents

The caption printed on the reverse reads: 'A rubber factory, showing the process of making crepe rubber'.

Dates: 1924
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 rubber factory, 1924

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/61
Scope and Contents

The caption printed on the reverse reads: 'A rubber factory, showing the process of making crepe rubber'.

Dates: 1924
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 sample of the 33 miles of road from Baramula to Srinagar, the City of the Sun & capital of Kashmir, 1899 - 1901

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/37
Scope and Contents

78 x 108 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 1901
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 scene in the Mfumte village of Kwaja, 1940-02-13

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/307
Scope and Contents

62 x 40 mm.

Dates: 1940-02-13
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 school band performing during the annual School Band Competition, 1982

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E C/9
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).
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A Sea Dayak Head Feast, 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035G/12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Glass plate slides to illustrate a talk given by Cunynghame to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. A transcript of the lecture, comprising a title page and 58 pages of text, is stored at RCMS 63/22.

Dates: 1912
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 Sea Dyak, 1900

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/79
Scope and Contents

103 x 145 mm. Full length portrait of a Sea Dyak warrior carrying the preserved head of an enemy in either hand.

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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A Sea Dyak Chief, 1900

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/70
Scope and Contents

104 x 148 mm. Half-length profile portrait of an aged Sea Dyak wearing a woven jacket and turban-like head dress.

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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A Sea Dyak head feast, 1900

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/128
Scope and Contents

148 x 104 mm. Showing a group of women dancing with human heads held in their hands.

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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A Sea Dyak woman, 1900

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/116
Scope and Contents

103 x 146 mm. Full length face portrait of a Sea Dyak woman dressed in a skirt and jacket ornamented with shells.

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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A seaside bungalow amid palm trees, 1920 - 1925

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/37
Scope and Contents

150 x 105 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 1925
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 seaside bungalow amid palm trees, 1920 - 1925

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/38
Scope and Contents

150 x 105 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 1925
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 Sekapan grave, 1900

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/114
Scope and Contents

104 x 145 mm. Showing the tomb in a jungle clearing. The construction is in the form of a miniature house raised on piles above the ground and built from ornately carved and painted wood.

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).