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Asia (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16199 Collections and/or Records:

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Window Screen in Ruby Bastion, Ahmedabad, 1874 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/71
Scope and Contents

265 x 200 mm. No. 1166.

Dates: 1874 - 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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[Wine bottles], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/7
Scope and Contents

284 x 126 mm. A view showing rows of narrow bottles and vases, some with painted decorations.

Dates: 1881
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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Wine festival, 1957 - 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018J/22
Scope and Contents

'An annual event taking place in Limassol, where wine flows freely'. A daytime view of a giant figure flourishing grapes and a bottle, with 'Drink wine for an easy life' in English on the base of the stand.

Dates: 1957 - 1974
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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Wine festival, 1957 - 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018J/23
Scope and Contents

'An annual event taking place in Limassol, where wine flows freely'. A nighttime view of a giant figure flourishing grapes and a bottle, with 'Drink wine for an easy life' in Greek on the base of the stand.

Dates: 1957 - 1974
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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Wine palm. Caryota urens, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/40
Scope and Contents

215 x 272 mm. Showing a wine palm growing beside an ornamental lake in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The idea of a Botanic Gardens had been formulated as early as 1822 and land was set aside on the slopes of Fort Canning for the purpose. The present gardens were established in 1859 when the government gave a grant of 50 acres of land to the Singapore Agri-Horticultural Society for the purpose. These were opened to the public in 1874.

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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Wingfield Park, Lucknow, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/73
Scope and Contents

296 x 183 mm. View looking across the ornamental gardens. Photograph by Samuel Bourne, no. 1155.

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).
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Wisteria at Kameido, Tokio [hand coloured], 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/140
Scope and Contents

264 x 203 mm. View looking along an ornamental pool or canal towards a wooden bow shaped bridge, with wisteria hanging in clumps from overhead trellises in the foreground. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 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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With the M.S.V.R. in the Sinapore Mutiny, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/11/5
Scope and Contents

This is a detailed account of Shelley's experience in quelling the mutiny, originally written in 1927. It is accompanied by a letter from Shelley to Hugh Bryson (12 sheets).

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this item must be viewed on microfilm reel 8234.
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Withering house with leaf laid out, 1880 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/11
Scope and Contents

278 x 210 mm. Showing leaf laid out on the withering ‘tats’ (shelves formed from hessian spread over a wooden framework). The purpose of the withering process is to allow a certain amount of moisture to escape from the leaf and to become sufficiently flaccid and pliable for rolling.

Dates: 1880 - 1920
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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Within the British Yamen inside the City of Canton (in part of the Tartar General's enclosure), 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/4494
Scope and Contents

350 x 250 mm.

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-02
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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Within the British Yamen inside the old city of Canton, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4495
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Formerly a part of the Tartar General's Palace Grounds. [Part of a formal garden with steps leading up to wooded area].

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-02
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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Within the Diwan-i-Am, Agra fort, 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/213
Scope and Contents From the Series: An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
Dates: 1902 - 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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Within the fort [Agra], 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/215
Scope and Contents From the Series: An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
Dates: 1902 - 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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Within the fort, looking towards the Moti Masjid (Pearl mosque), 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/214
Scope and Contents From the Series: An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
Dates: 1902 - 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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Within the gates of the temple: the god Siva, Brahmins, &c., 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022U/48
Scope and Contents

275 x 218 mm. Showing Brahmins and a fakir posed beside two carved images, one of the god Siva (in jewelled armour and carrying a bow and arrow) and one of a peacock. Photograph by W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
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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Within the Yamen inside the old city of Canton, formerly a part of the Tartar General's Palace Grounds, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4494
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). Right-hand corner blank. [A view of the garden with carved stone lion].

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-02
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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Withstanding the winds of atheism, 1992

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 370/5
Scope and Contents

5 pages.

Dates: 1992
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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[Woman amongst flowers], 1941 - 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/13/18
Scope and Contents

105 x 75 mm. Showing a woman crouched amongst a bed of flowers in a park.

Dates: 1941 - 1944
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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[Woman and child at Shali], 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/54
Scope and Contents

54 x 79 mm.

Dates: 1931
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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[Woman at Mergui], 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/252
Scope and Contents

147 x 207 mm.

Dates: 1937
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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[Woman at Shali], 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/51
Scope and Contents

80 x 56 mm. The blurred image of a woman, with hills in the background.

Dates: 1931
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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[Woman by the river], 1941 - 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/13/35
Scope and Contents

135 x 85 mm.

Dates: 1941 - 1944
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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[Woman in Simla Hills], 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/78
Scope and Contents

51 x 76 mm.

Dates: 1932
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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[Woman in street], 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/39
Scope and Contents

52 x 78 mm.

Dates: 1932
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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Woman machining Selangor pewterware [1960s], 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/85
Scope and Contents

205 x 158 mm. As captioned.

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).