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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:

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Malabar, a Tieru girl, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/84
Scope and Contents

Half length portrait of the girl seen in Y3022P/34.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, a Tieru girl ‘just awake’, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/34
Scope and Contents

A posed portrait study of a half-naked girl stretching. A note by Miss Hartley states: ‘Tieru? Possibly a garbled version of ‘Thiyya’. (Known as Eylabas [?] in southern Kerala). A toddy tapping caste, the highest of the once untouchable castes. They bear a strong resemblance in facial type, customs and character to the Nayars.’ See also Y3022P/58, Y3022P/75, Y3022P/80 and Y3022P/84.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, a Tieru girl (servant), 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/58
Scope and Contents

Three quarter length portrait of a Tieru girl with a parasol. See Y3022P/34.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, a Tieru lady, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/137
Scope and Contents

Half length portrait of a woman with a parasol: see Y3022P/34.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, a Tieru woman, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/157
Scope and Contents

Half length portrait.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, an oil mill, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/174
Scope and Contents

Showing a bullock driven oil mill in a Malabar village.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, Cocoanut palms, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/142
Scope and Contents

Showing a group of palms with a thatched house in the background.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, Cocoanut Road, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/160
Scope and Contents

View looking along the street, with palms growing on either side of the road.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, coffee garblers, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/113
Scope and Contents

Group portrait of female coffee garblers (sifters or sorters) posed in front of a factory wall.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, girls garbling coffee, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/148
Scope and Contents

Full length portrait of three girls with their sorting trays.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, group of Cherumas, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/90
Scope and Contents

Group of Cheruma men, women and children posed in a clearing.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, on a backwater, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/98
Scope and Contents

View looking along a palm-fringed waterfront with beached fishing boats, and thatched houses in the distance.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, shore of an island, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/12
Scope and Contents

View looking along the palm-fringed waterfront of an island on the Malabar coast, with moored fishing boats and thatched houses.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar street, Kandy, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/26
Scope and Contents

279x214mm.

Dates: 1886
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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Malabar, Tieru girl, ‘at the well’, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/169
Scope and Contents

Half length portrait of a girl posed beside a well. See Y3022P/34.

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, Tieru girls, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/124
Scope and Contents

Full length portrait of five girls

Dates: 1901
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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Malabar, Tierus, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/75
Scope and Contents

Portrait of a seabed man with a woman standing behind him. See Y3022P/34.

Dates: 1901
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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Malacca Club, about 1924, 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/78
Scope and Contents 90 x 140 mm. A group portrait of Europeans in tennis clothes seated on the steps of the Malacca Club. 15 of the 22 figures are identified on an accompanying sheet: M.W. CAMPBELL (Administrator, Agricultural Medical Board, Malacca); H.D.L. FISHER (Assistant, Rim Rubber Estate, Malacca); H.S. HEWETT (Divisional Manager, Devon Estates Ltd., Malacca); (? O.H.) BARBER (? Manager, Sungei Chinoh Rubber Co., Perak); D.J. MURPHY; Mrs H.D.L. FISHER; A.E. MULLALY (Manager, Devon Estates Ltd.,...
Dates: 1924
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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Malacca [i.e. Melaka] 1933, 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031F/5
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Group of European Guiders (some identified, including Mrs Cavendish), probably at the All Malayan Camp for PLs and 2nds.

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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'Malacca [Melaka] memories', 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/3/5
Scope and Contents

Personal memoir of Hillier's time in Malacca [Melaka] from 1888 to the First World War, describing the social life and customs of its European, Malay and Chinese inhabitants, education, religion, health, law and order, shipping and economic conditions.

Dates: 1961
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8226C.
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Malacca River, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/61
Scope and Contents

212 x 156 mm (mounted on card). A view taken from near the mouth of the Malacca River, looking out towards the sea. With riverside houses, and boats moored in the foreground.

Dates: 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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Malacca River, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/62
Scope and Contents

138 x 175 mm. A view looking along the river, showing waterside houses and sampans, with part of the bridge seen in the following print visible in the foreground.

Dates: 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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Malacca River, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/63
Scope and Contents

200 x 147 mm. A view looking along the stretch of the Malacca River seen in the preceding print towards the twin towers of the French Mission)

Dates: 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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Malacca Rotary Club , 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/167
Scope and Contents

Group of members; Sheppard President.

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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Malacca to Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan ? [or] Pasis Panjang Road, 1922 - 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/74
Scope and Contents

137 x 80 mm. A view looking along a road, with coconut palms on either side and thatched houses in the foreground. The two contradictory captions are written in different hands. Pasis Panjang village is situated on the south-west coast of Singapore Island.

Dates: 1922 - 1925
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).