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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:

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Haiphong [i.e. Hai Phòng], Song lon [?] Koi [i.e. Song-Koi River], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302C/4
Scope and Contents

168 x 120 mm. General view looking along the river, with small craft on the banks on either side.

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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Haiphong [i.e. Hai Phòng], Song lon [?] Koi [i.e. Song-Koi River], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302C/4A
Scope and Contents

168 x 120 mm. General view looking along the river, with small craft on the banks on either side.

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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Haiphong [i.e. Hai Phòng], Ville et Quai Chinois, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302C/6
Scope and Contents

169 x 120 mm. View looking along the Song Koi River, with quays in the foreground and the buildings of the town lining the left bank of the river beyond.

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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Haiphong [i.e. Hai Phòng], Ville et Quai Chinois, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302C/6A
Scope and Contents

169 x 120 mm. View looking along the Song Koi River, with quays in the foreground and the buildings of the town lining the left bank of the river beyond.

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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Haka Fort, 1889 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029A/18
Scope and Contents

149 x 101 mm. View from the hillside above looking down on the military compound and barracks. Haka was the seat of the chiefs of Chin peoples and consisted of two villages, Kolun and Kotar. Situated in the Southern Chin Hills midway between Minkin and Yokwa, Haka was occupied during the Chin-Luchai Campaign on February 14, 1850, and became the headquarters for operations in the southern part of the Chin country.

Dates: 1889 - 1891
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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[Haka Fort], 1889 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029A/19
Scope and Contents

144 x 103 mm. View looking down on the fort at a slightly later date (than the preceding print) with more buildings erected, and a more substantial earthworks surrounding the compound.

Dates: 1889 - 1891
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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Hakim Nadir, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/815A
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Native doctor sitting at his shop and feeling the pulse of a patient in the street of the Hakim, Peshawar.

Dates: 1908-02
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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Hakka women (Chinese gardeners) selling fruit and vegetables to people on the train at Papar, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4305
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

Dates: 1909-01
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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Hakodate [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/75
Scope and Contents

270 x 206 mm. View looking over the rooftops of Hakodate 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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Hakone, 1870 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/172
Scope and Contents

240 x 193 mm. View of a street of small thatched houses in Hakone, 9 miles WSW of Odawara. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Hakone Lake, 1870 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/174
Scope and Contents

269 x 189 mm. View looking towards the lake, with a torii, the freestanding entrance arch to a Buddhist shrine, in the foreground.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Haldibari Station, N.B.S.R., 1885-07-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/15
Scope and Contents

254 x 163 mm. View looking along the line at Haldibari, showing where the track has subsided as a result of earthquake damage. See Y3022S/22.

Dates: 1885-07-14
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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Haldibiri N.B.S. after earthquake, 1885-07-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/22
Scope and Contents 283 x 227 mm. View looking along the platform at Haldibari, 42 miles W of the town of Cooch Behar, and showing subsidence and cracking. The date has not been ascertained, but it is most probable that this damage resulted from the earthquake of 14 July 1885 which had its epicentre a little to the NW of Dacca and sent shock waves as far north as Darjeeling. For an account of the intensity and damage, see C.S. Middlemiss, ‘Report on the Bengal Earthquake of July 14th 1885’ ('Records of the...
Dates: 1885-07-14
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).
 Sub-sub-class

Halebid, 1879 - 1888

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)2/28-29
Scope and Contents From the File:

Captions for the lantern slides are those written on the slides themselves.

Dates: 1879 - 1888
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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Hall - Lallgarh Palace, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/37
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints the majority of which are circa 290 x 215 mm., but 4-6, 9-18, 20-27, 51-55, 91-94, and 96-98 are approximately 140 x 100 mm. Nos. 4-27, 51 are scenes of the Royal Visit in November 1905, 19-26 being triumphal arches. The other subjects are the Maharajah and his family (1-3), Lallgarh Palace (28-50), Gujner (52-64), the Old Palace (65-82, 85), Bikaner City (83-84, 891-98 and Bikaner forces (89-90). There are printed captions: the collection is in a richly bound album...
Dates: 1905
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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Hall of private audience Delhi, 1905-12-12 - 1905-12-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/112
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
Dates: 1905-12-12 - 1905-12-16
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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Hallway of Davies’s quarters at Colvin Taluqdars School, Lucknow, 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Q/1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

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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Hammering stone for enlargement of church and school room with school tent in background, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/72
Scope and Contents

155 x 207 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1949
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).
 Sub-sub-class

Hampi, 1879 - 1888

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)2/32-33
Scope and Contents From the File:

Captions for the lantern slides are those written on the slides themselves.

Dates: 1879 - 1888
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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Hand sifting a sample of tea, 1880 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/17
Scope and Contents

278 x 211 mm. Showing male workers sieving tea on benches.

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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Handa River, Maibashi, 1870 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/166
Scope and Contents

268 x 207 mm. View looking across a bridge of boats stretching across the river.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Handbook for visitors to Delhi, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/31
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Material collected during the Royal couple's two visits to India in 1905-1906 and 1911-1912 with a few items from other periods. There are printed books, many of them presentation copies, relating to India; programmes, orders of ceremonial and other items from the visits, many specially bound; and albums of photographs and other material presented to King George and Queen Mary or compiled by them as souvenirs of their visits. The material is in English with the exception of one item in...
Dates: 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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Handbook of Meywar: guide to its principal objects of interest, 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/73
Scope and Contents

The front of the volume contains a water colour of Jagmandir Palace, Udaipur, and the signature of H.M. Queen Mary. An addenda prepared by the author, dated Nov. 1902, has been appended at the end.

Dates: 1902
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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Hangchow city, showing city section of Hangchow hospital, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 19/15
Scope and Contents From the File:

A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.

Dates: 1930 - 1939
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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Hankow, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/33
Scope and Contents

268 x 210 mm. View looking along the Bund at Hankow, with the Yangtze on the right and European commercial premises lining the street on the left. Situated some 420 miles west of Shanghai, Hankow was one of the first inland cities in China to be opened to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tientsin in 1858.

Dates: 1880 - 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).