Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16199 Collections and/or Records:
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Y303A/10 No.2 Tunnel, Kandy side, 1867
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A/10
Scope and Contents
170 x 100 mm. View looking along the line towards the entrance to No. 2 Tunnel (40 yards), with a locomotive and a freight wagon crowded with labourers in the foreground, ‘Messrs.Slinn's views of the Tunnels on this the lower section of the incline taken from above and below are very faithful and very effective. No. 1 showing the face of the scarped rock above and the handsome masonry lining of the entrance with the engine just curving in, forms a very pretty picture. No. 2 in its...
Dates:
1867
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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Yacht Club, Apollo Bunder and harbour, Bombay, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG/4
Scope and Contents
234 x 182 mm. View looking eastwards towards the Harbour, with the Yacht Club and the Apollo Bunder (see Y3022GG/5) in the foreground. A crowd is gathered at the landing stage on the Apollo Bunder and the quayside is draped with the flags of various nations; the occasion, however, has not been identified.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views in Bombay
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Yacht Club at Apollo Bunder, Bombay, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG/5
Scope and Contents
281 x 176 mm. View from the water’s edge looking towards the Yacht Club building with its polychrome observation tower. The buildings were designed by Mr Adams, the Government Architect, and opened in November 1881.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views in Bombay
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Yak Transport, Zoji La, 1941 - 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/13/59
Scope and Contents
135 x 80 mm. Showing a man driving three yaks through the snow.
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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Yang di-Pertuan Agong presenting new colours to the Royal Malaysian Navy, 1974
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031B/2
Scope and Contents
190 x 241 mm. Colour print. Showing Tuanku Abdul Halim in the uniform of the Fleet during the presentation of the colours.
Dates:
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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Yangste Poo Road, Shanghai, Waterworks in foreground, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/22
Scope and Contents
279 x 218 mm. View looking along the Yangste Poo Road towards the buildings of the Shanghai Waterworks Company. The main building in the foreground is a single storey structure with crenellations and squat towers at the corners, and a tall chimney at the far end. The reservoirs, not visible in this print, are at the farther side of this building.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
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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Yapahu, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/55
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. One of a pair of stone lions at the Matigawa, or Royal Palace ruins, Yapahu.
Dates:
1907
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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Yapahu Rock from end of Gansabanda Road, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/56
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Print spoiled. Painting only. Negative of this is useless, hence painting only available. (Fisher)
Dates:
1907
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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Yapahu Tank and Rock from the north, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/54
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The album now contains prints numbered in the range 1-167 (originally there were 147). Added numbers are: 60A, 60B, 90A and 99A; spoiled: 37-39, 56, 57, 61, 63, 80, 119, 123, 160, 165; not used 41, 44, 49, 52, 60, 75, 84, 95, 140, 141, 142, 151; missing: 43, 48, 99, 153. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 99A, 166-167 follow 69 and 136 follows 74. Subjects covered in this album are: Port Said;Cape Gardafui;Ceylon...
Dates:
1907
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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Yebisu Bashi Osaka, 1870 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/99
Scope and Contents
269 x 206 mm. View looking across a bridge over one of the canals of Osaka, with a commercial street on the farther side. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.
Dates:
1870 - 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).
Fonds
'Yesterday, today, and Toodyay'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 384
Scope and Contents
This is a semi-autobiographical memoir recording how Helen Shaw’s parents travelled to Malaya in September 1940 during the Second World War, where her father, Dr William D. Ainslie, took up the post of Medical Officer of Health, Penang. Shaw was born in May 1941. She recounts how she and her mother Marcia Margaret Ainslie were evacuated from Penang to Singapore, and then Java, after Penang was bombed by the Japanese in December 1941; their travel from Java to Western Australia in January...
Dates:
2008 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Yesterday, today, and Toodyay, 2008 - 2009
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 384/1
Scope and Contents
42 page memoir.
Dates:
2008 - 2009
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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Yokohama, 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/55
Scope and Contents
253 x 201 mm. General view, looking over the rooftops (probably from the Bluff) towards shipping at anchor in the harbour.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views of Japan
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Yokohama Bay from Bluff [1890s], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/64
Scope and Contents
269 x 210 mm. View looking over warehouses and other waterfront buildings towards the harbour.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
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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Yokwa rest house, S. Chin Hills, '95, 1895
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/70
Scope and Contents
152 x 112 mm. A view looking down on the rest house, a corrugated iron hut with thatched roof, with valleys and hills beyond. With porters and pack mules on the path in the foreground. The Chin village of Yokwa lies about 30 miles south-east of Haka, and was reached by the Kan-Haka mule track:'Yokwa is the chief village of the tribe and was once strongly fortified, but the stockades are now in ruins. Water is plentiful and there is good camping-ground just below the village on the...
Dates:
1895
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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Yomeimon (front), Iyeyasu [Nikko] [hand coloured], 1870 - 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/151
Scope and Contents
243 x 192 mm. View of the highly painted doorway and surround. 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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Yong Peng New Village: another view of mission building, 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/5/77
Scope and Contents
161 x 110 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1953
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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Yong Peng New Village: Clinic and Mission House, 1953, 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/5/76
Scope and Contents
110 x 112 mm. glossy print with copy and 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1953
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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York Road, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/116
Scope and Contents
74 x 67 mm. A uniformed man.
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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York Road: Christmas, 1946-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/118
Scope and Contents
128 x 75 mm. Frederick Tymms, 'Rossiter, Mrs. Jeffcock, Bill Dougall, Mille & Wattie' seated outside on chairs, with a servant standing behind them and a dog to their right.
Dates:
1946-12
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).
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York Street junction, Colombo, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/2
Scope and Contents
The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 13. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.
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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Yoshihama, road from Atami, 1870 - 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/178
Scope and Contents
241 x 191 mm. View looking along the Atami Road, with Sagami Bay at the left and the town of Yoshima on its shore in the background. 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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You cannot serve two masters, 2012
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 370/3
Scope and Contents
The memoir covers the period Dec. 1941 to Jan. 1942 (9 pages).
Dates:
2012
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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[Young Aboriginal man, ? 1950s], 1950 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/69
Scope and Contents
95 x 139 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of a smiling young man.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
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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Young Arab on the road to Zerka, 1957, 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/136
Scope and Contents
153 x 113 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.
Dates:
1957
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).