Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:
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List of place names, from a journey made 23-27 Sept 1832 from Rangoon to Ava, 1832-09-23 - 1832-09-27
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/40
Scope and Contents
European paper notebook, 140 x 100 mm, 8 sheets, in Burmese and English.
Dates:
1832-09-23 - 1832-09-27
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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List of Rulers of Han-tha-wadi (Pegu), from B.E. 264-1181 (902-1819 A.D.), 1827 - 1838
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/16
Scope and Contents
2 sheets.
Dates:
1827 - 1838
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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List of the countries in Hindostan mentioned in the Burmese religious works; and Miscellaneous notes in English and Burmese on Buddhism, 1825 - 1841
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/8
Scope and Contents
There are two copies of the list, a draft and a finished copy. On the latter is written, 'Some Bengalee Bramins at Ava furnished me with these lists of the countries and cities mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures with corresponding names in Bengalee Sanscrit. H. Burney' (12 pages).
Dates:
1825 - 1841
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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List of the Port & Anchorage Duties Levied at Bangkok upon the Ship ‘Hunter’, Captain Johnson, 1826-05-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/7/1
Scope and Contents
5 pages.
Dates:
1826-05-01
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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List of the principal places in Siam, with an estimate of the population and an account of the chief productions of each, taken from statements in the Portuguese and Siamese languages, 1825 - 1841
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/3/14
Scope and Contents
22 pages.
Dates:
1825 - 1841
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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List of the principal productions and manufactures of the Kingdom of Siam, 1826
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/3/17
Scope and Contents
68 pages.
Dates:
1826
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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List of the towns and villages on either bank of the Erawadi [Irawaddy] river taken when Lieutenant Colonel Burney proceeded to the Capital of Ava in the years 1830 and 1833, 1833
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/9/5
Scope and Contents
European paper; 5 sheets.
Dates:
1833
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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Listening to the wireless, Poom village, Negri Sembilan, 1949, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/37
Scope and Contents
129 x 79 mm. Showing Malays resettled at Poom listening to a wireless in the temporary school buildings.
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).
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Lists of names and addresses of the members of the Adelaide and Perth Associations as at 1st January, 1945, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.
Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).
Dates:
1945
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
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Lists of prisoners of war and civilian internees, 1943 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/22/5
Scope and Contents
Lists compiled by the Malayan and Far Eastern Association of Australia, and the Malayan Research Bureau, Australia:
1. Lists 1-4, 27 May, 1943.
2. List 5, Jan. 1944 (3 copies).
3. List A, July 1944 (supplement to List 5).
4. List B, Apr. 1945 (second supplement to List 5).
Dates:
1943 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8236.
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Lisum women, Rejang District, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/86
Scope and Contents
103 x 148 mm. Full length portrait of two Lisum women.
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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Little Aden, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1109
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Seen from the Mayo.
Dates:
1908
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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Little Aden seen from the sea, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/1109
Scope and Contents
350 x 250 mm.
Dates:
1908
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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Little Willie, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/6
Scope and Contents
Portrait of a young Indian boy.
Dates:
1918
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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Littledale India Collection I, 1860 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G
Scope and Contents
An album containing albumen prints. The album was originally two separate volumes which were rebound into one in 1982. The prints show views of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India (Madras, Lucknow, Lahore, Naini Tal, Bombay) and Egypt.
Dates:
1860 - 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).
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Littledale India Collection II, 1860 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H
Scope and Contents
An album containing albumen prints, showing views of Bombay, Coonoor and Ootacamund [Udagamandalam].
Dates:
1860 - 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).
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Littledale India Collection III, 1860 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I
Scope and Contents
An album containing albumen prints, showing views of Naini Tal, Mussoorie, Murree, Srinagar, the Himalayas, Darjiling, Agra, Delhi and Gwalior.
Dates:
1860 - 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).
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Livistona jenkinsiana, Himalaya palm, 1890 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/158
Scope and Contents
100 x 142 mm.
Dates:
1890 - 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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Livistonas [Himalaya palms], Peradeniya Gardens, 1890 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/162
Scope and Contents
76 x 144 mm.
Dates:
1890 - 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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Lizard on tree, near Tompiu, N. Sembilan [i.e. Negeri Sembilan], 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/520
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Glass and film negatives. The label lists at least four other places, which are illegible. Numbers 521-524 and 526 have camera specifications written in pencil underneath the captions.
Dates:
1933
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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Loading dry fish , 1932 - 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/447
Scope and Contents
At Kijal on to steamer for Singapore.
Dates:
1932 - 1936
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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[Loading firewood], 1894 - 1897
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/46
Scope and Contents
153 x 114 mm. Showing a line of Burmese women with loads of fuel carried on their heads, standing on a gang plank waiting to board a steamer.
Dates:
1894 - 1897
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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Loading the Borneo, N.D.L., with timber at Sandakan, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4417
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Using hook and chain pulley]
Dates:
1909
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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[Loading up pack mules], 1895
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/189
Scope and Contents
100 x 74 mm. Showing a line of pack mules, with loads laid out on the ground, and European and Indian soldiers standing in the foreground.
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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[Local leader with attendants], 1870 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/76
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:
1870 - 1927
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).