Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16199 Collections and/or Records:
Item
'55? East Coast Ferry, 1955
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/18
Scope and Contents
154 x 115 mm. Showing a pontoon ferry towed by a motor launch at the bank of a river on the east coast, with a bulldozer waiting on the ramp to embark.
Dates:
1955
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
55. Kykkou Monastry, Cyprus, 1926
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Cyprus/123
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Monochrome gravure postcards of Cyprus, published by Raphael Tuck and Sons. The postcards were originally stored in an accompanying envelope.
Dates:
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
61 miles from Domel. Changing tonga ponies, 1899 - 1901
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/15
Scope and Contents
210 x 150 mm. Dhak Bungalow on the left. Mountains covered with magnificent cedar trees.
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).
Item
123. Bunch of African Oil Palm Fruit, F.M.S. [Federated Malay States ?], 1924
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Malaya/1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Malaya - 'Published for the Malayan Governments and produced in Singapore by Houghton Butcher (Eastern) Ltd., 'Camera House' Robinson Road, Singapore'. They were produced for the Malay Pavilion of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
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).
Item
130th Baluchis Regiment
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/113
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,...
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
450 pagodas and Incomparable from Central Pagoda, 1890
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/48
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
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
[450 pagodas and Incomparable from Central Pagoda], 1890
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/49
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
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
1922, 1922
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/94
Scope and Contents
Two couples dressed in tennis costume standing in a garden.
Dates:
1922
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
1922, 1922
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/95
Scope and Contents
View of the two couples featured in Y302L/94 playing tennis.
Dates:
1922
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
1923 earthquake and typhoon: barrack dwellings after earthquake, 1923
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/29
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.
Dates:
1923
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
3115. Hydraulic Monitor, 1924
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Malaya/2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Malaya - 'Published for the Malayan Governments and produced in Singapore by Houghton Butcher (Eastern) Ltd., 'Camera House' Robinson Road, Singapore'. They were produced for the Malay Pavilion of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
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).
Item
3138. Chinese Tin Mine on Pehang Trunk Road, 1924
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Malaya/3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Malaya - 'Published for the Malayan Governments and produced in Singapore by Houghton Butcher (Eastern) Ltd., 'Camera House' Robinson Road, Singapore'. They were produced for the Malay Pavilion of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
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).
Item
3139. Lode Workings, 1924
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Malaya/4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Malaya - 'Published for the Malayan Governments and produced in Singapore by Houghton Butcher (Eastern) Ltd., 'Camera House' Robinson Road, Singapore'. They were produced for the Malay Pavilion of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
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).
Item
4120. Sakai, showing blow-pipe and carrying basket, 1924
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Malaya/5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Malaya - 'Published for the Malayan Governments and produced in Singapore by Houghton Butcher (Eastern) Ltd., 'Camera House' Robinson Road, Singapore'. They were produced for the Malay Pavilion of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
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).
Item
4,500 ft [i.e. feet] high at Runnymede Station, 1907-12
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/261
Scope and Contents
A train full of children coming away for Xmas [i.e. Christmas] from the Lawrence Asylum Schools, Ootacamund.
Dates:
1907-12
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
7140. Native water wheel with bamboo cups, raising water from river to rice fields, 1924
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Malaya/6
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Malaya - 'Published for the Malayan Governments and produced in Singapore by Houghton Butcher (Eastern) Ltd., 'Camera House' Robinson Road, Singapore'. They were produced for the Malay Pavilion of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
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).
Item
9139. Ayer Hangat Hot Springs, Rambutan, 1924
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Malaya/7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Malaya - 'Published for the Malayan Governments and produced in Singapore by Houghton Butcher (Eastern) Ltd., 'Camera House' Robinson Road, Singapore'. They were produced for the Malay Pavilion of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
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).
Item
9347. Waterfall, Chenderiang, Perak, 1924
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Malaya/8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Malaya - 'Published for the Malayan Governments and produced in Singapore by Houghton Butcher (Eastern) Ltd., 'Camera House' Robinson Road, Singapore'. They were produced for the Malay Pavilion of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
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).
Item
9349. Batu Caves, Selangor, 1924
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Malaya/9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Malaya - 'Published for the Malayan Governments and produced in Singapore by Houghton Butcher (Eastern) Ltd., 'Camera House' Robinson Road, Singapore'. They were produced for the Malay Pavilion of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
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).
Item
15.4.91 Frederic Thesigner Williams, 1891-04-15
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/1
Scope and Contents
155 x 112 mm. Showing Williams and two unidentified Europeans posed with porters and bearers around two dead tigers.
Dates:
1891-04-15
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).
Item
A Badaga village [Nilgiri Hills], 1875 - 1880
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/48
Scope and Contents
285 x 191 mm. View looking across rolling hills with Badaga houses in the foreground. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 62.
Dates:
1875 - 1880
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 Bakatan, 1900
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/57
Scope and Contents
104 x 147 mm. Three-quarter length portrait of an aged Bakatan man wearing a loin cloth and skull cap. According to Hose’s classification the Bakatan are a sub-group of the central group of the Klemantan group.
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).
Item
A Bakatan girl, 1900
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/43
Scope and Contents
103 x 147 mm. Half-length portrait of a Bakatan girl, a tribe classified according to Hose’s groupings as a sub-group of the central group of the Klemantan types.
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).
Item
A Baluchi chief, 1905-11-28 - 1905-12-01
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 8/48
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints. This appears to have been an official record of the Royal Tour. Each page has a heading for the place and date and most photographs are captioned, probably by a professional calligrapher. The Prince of Wales Feathers are on the cover and 'The Royal Tour of India 1905-1906' on the spine. Locations and periods covered are: Bombay, 9 November- 14 November, 1905; Udaipur, 18 November - 29 November, 1905; Jaipur, 21 November-23 November, 1905; Lahore, 28 November-1...
Dates:
1905-11-28 - 1905-12-01
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).
Item
A banyan tree, 1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 2/38
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of platinum prints, 280 x 225 mm, mounted in a volume bound in red leather with 'The Royal Visit to Ceylon April, 1901' and the Royal Arms on the front cover. They are by various photographers and record the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later H.M. King George V and H.M. Queen Mary) 12-15 April, 1901. The prints are mounted on cardboard pages and have printed captions, which have been recorded as found. They may include language which is...
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).