Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Kashmir diaries of Alan Gardner-Waterman
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 79
Scope and Contents
Diaries recording Alan Gardner-Waterman's hunting trips in Kashmir with Mrs Gardner-Waterman. Most of the entries are brief. They are supported by detailed maps and many photographs.
Dates:
1921-03-20 - 1923-07-15
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Lady Swettenham collection (Malaya and Jamaica)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031C
Scope and Contents
Photographs by various photographers and three other items. They relate to the career of James Alexander Swettenham, who, after serving in Ceylon and Cyprus, became Colonial Secretary in Singapore in 1895. He was Governor of British Guyana 1901-1904 and of Jamaica 1904-1907. His period in Singapore coincided with the service in Malaya of his more famous brother, Sir Frank Swettenham. Their father was James Oldham Swettenham, Solicitor of Belper.
Dates:
1880 - 1953
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Lahore town planning photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022QQ
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints mounted on art paper with letterpress captions and measuring approximately 150 x 110 mm. The report to which these are connected (Sullivan 1928) highlights the expansion of the city and its future potential, emphasizing the need for coordinated planning policy to preserve its original character and concluding that 'walking about the city day after day it becomes evident that its outstanding qualities are virility, wealth and growth ... As provision has already been...
Dates:
1928
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Le Fevre Malayan Collection 1907-1918
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031G
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs.
Dates:
1907 - 1918
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Lecture slides on Sarawak
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035G
Scope and Contents
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:
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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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Letter books of Robert Cust
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 70
Scope and Contents
Letters from Robert Cust, chiefly in India, to correspondents in England. Most of the letters cover many pages.
Dates:
1828 - 1866
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Letters from India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 72
Scope and Contents
A transcript of letters from Copeland to his mother, 6 June 1917 - 22 April 1918, 236 pages, describing his service in Agra and Chakrata, U.P; Maymo, Burma; and Poona. The volume is marked 'Volume 5', but nothing is known of the earlier and later volumes, or of the fate of the writer. The transcript was presumably made by Copeland's mother, although the date it was written is not known. The volume includes 101 photographs and 12 postcards of India and Burma, including architectural...
Dates:
1917 - 1918
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Letters of Hugh Drummond Pearson
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 356
Scope and Contents
Following Hugh Pearson’s death, the principal recipients of his letters, his mother Mrs Jean Pearson and his youngest sister Ursula Pearson, prepared them for publication along with extracts from his diaries. Copies were sent to London literary agents in 1928 and again in 1930, but plans to publish the memoirs as a book with the title ‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ were never realised. It appears that this manuscript is a copy of the projected book, which was to be divided into three...
Dates:
1894 - 1922
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
Fonds
Life in Singapore 1982
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E
Scope and Contents
A collection of 35mm transparencies. Used in the Commonwealth in Focus exhibition, a continuous slide show was prepared to portray contemporary aspects of the countries of the Commonwealth. Eight of these slides were copied for use in the show.
Dates:
1982
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Lillian Newton photograph collection on Singapore
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B
Scope and Contents
The photographs, by various photographers, cover a number of subjects. 1-58 are Singapore scenes, including some photographs of family and friends, and have been catalogued to item level; 59-113 relate chiefly to Lillian Newton's career as dancer and teacher; 85-104, mounted on cards presumably for display, show costumes and scenes from her dancing school. 114-117 are miscellaneous portraits, and 118-129 are photographs mounted on sheets of paper (illustrations cut from papers, etc. have...
Dates:
1894 - 1925
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
Fonds
Littledale India Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G-I
Scope and Contents
4 albums containing albumen prints. Y3022G-I were compiled by Harold Littledale and include photographs by Scowen and Co., A.T.W. Penn, Samuel Bourne and his successors, and others. Y3022I/A contains reproductions of the works of the Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma and was given to Littledale by the photographer V.G. Chiplonkar.
Dates:
1860 - 1899
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Log of the 'Houghton'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 4
Scope and Contents
'The log book of Capt. John Edwards, R.N. Given to Robert Stafford Edwards by his Aunt Miss Jane Edwards 1880. Solihull. Warwickshire.'
Dates:
1786 - 1788
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
Fonds
Lord and Lady Mountbatten in India
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022JJ
Scope and Contents
Modern copies of photographs relating to Robin Wade Design Associates' work in India when Lord Mountbatten was Viceroy (March-August 1947) and Governor-General (August 1947-June 1948).
Dates:
1947-03 - 1948-06
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
Fonds
'Lord Ellenborough's ideas on Indian policy': MA thesis
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 74
Scope and Contents
A copy of a 1936 M.A. thesis for the University of London, 330 pages.
Dates:
1949
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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Malayan Aviation photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031D
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs by various photographers.
Dates:
1925-07-09 - 1938
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
Fonds
Malayan official programmes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 109
Scope and Contents
Programmes, dinner invitations, table plans and souvenir brochures collected by Bernard Drake, relating to state functions and receptions for distinguished visitors in Malaya.
Dates:
1959 - 1961
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Malayan town planning papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 104
Scope and Contents
Memoranda concerning Concannon's work, mainly in typescript. Most of the material was written by Concannon, although there are a few items by other people. Some papers relate to the meeting of the Colonial Housing and Town Planning Advisory Panel in London in 1953.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
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
Fonds
Malcolm MacDonald photograph collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM
Scope and Contents
The photographs fall into four groups:1. Those received with the papers temporarily received by the historian of the Royal Commonwealth Society prior to their transfer to the University of Durham, where Malcolm MacDonald was Chancellor 1971-1981. These photographs comprise the bulk of MM 1-13, 24, and 27-30.2. A small number of photographs which had been included in the papers and listed with them. It was agreed by the Trustees of the papers that these should form part of...
Dates:
1930 - 1981
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
Fonds
Map of Perak: part of northern districts, scale two miles to an inch
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 379
Scope and Contents
This is a map of the rubber estates in the Krian district measuring 900 x 620 mm. The area shaded in blue pencil traces the Bukit Merah dam, which provided water for all the rice fields in Krian and the estates in the Parit Buntar/Bagan Serai region. The map is undated, but Laurence Connolly, who donated it, and was posted to the Gula Estate in 1949, states that it predates the Second World War. The Bukit Merah dam was constructed in 1906.
Dates:
1906 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
This is stored in the RCS plan chest.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Margaret Best Indian Album 1919-1920
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Z
Scope and Contents
Album containing photographs and other material. During November 1919 - March 1920 Margaret Best visited India where a brother, the Hon. James William Best (1882-1960) was a forestry officer. She travelled on the Peninsular and Oriental ship 'Kaisar-i-Hind' which sailed from London for Bombay on 10 October 1919, probably joining it at Marseilles. It is likely that her travelling companion was Miss Barbara Villiers, daughter of Ernest Villiers, M.P. and Elaine (née Guest) sister of Lady...
Dates:
1919 - 1920
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
Fonds
Margaret Fraser's India letters: a young wife and mother corresponds with her family in Scotland, 1820-1826
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 386
Scope and Contents
Margaret Mackenzie was born in Knockbain, Easter Ross, Scotland, in 1789, the fourth child and second daughter of the clergyman Roderick Mackenzie. Her mother Margaret (May) was the sister of the director of the East India Company, Charles Grant. In 1820, she married the Revd William Fraser, and the couple travelled to India, where he was a chaplain with the East India Company. Margaret’s correspondence with her family documents her experience of early nineteenth-century India and also...
Dates:
2015
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
Fonds
Miscellaneous photographs of Asia
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302J
Dates:
1932 - 1937
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
Fonds
Miscellaneous views of Hong Kong, 1900s-1920s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038A
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints of various sizes and by, presumably, various photographers although their identities are unknown. Some are captioned on the reverse. The collection appears to have been assembled from several sources, and includes the following material:1-14 Aftermath of the typhoon of 190615-21 Views in the New Territories22-25 ?Views in the New Territories26-28 Hong Kong waterfront29-31 Fanling32-40 Miscellaneous views41-43 Visit of the...
Dates:
1900 - 1929
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
Fonds
Modern Commonwealth photograph collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC
Scope and Contents
This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...
Dates:
1936 - 1980
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
Fonds
Musee Louis Finot, Hanoi [i.e. Hà Nội]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302H
Scope and Contents
An album of statues and busts of Deities, Buddha’s and the Divine. Subjects are: Divinité féminine (1-2, 12), Harihara (3-4), Visnu (5, 8-9), Tête de Buddha (6-7), Princess divinisée identifiée à la Prajnaparamita 10-11). All measure approximately 120 x 175 mm.
Pasted into the first page of the album is a list of the photographs (in French), giving further details, including dates, of the statues.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
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