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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:

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Marble Cenotaph of the Maharaja, Ulwar, 1874 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/56
Scope and Contents

265 x 200 mm. No. 1848.

Dates: 1874 - 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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Marble Court above the tomb of Akhbar, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/701
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). The inscriptions are all quotations from the Koran and are said to be the finest existing examples of this kind of inscription carving. (Fisher).

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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Marble cupola, Prince Etmad Dowlah, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022D/26
Scope and Contents

287 x 241 mm. View from the corner of the roof of the tomb giving a close up view of the chamber on top of the mausoleum containing the tombs of I'timad-ud-daula and his wife. The bodies themselves are not in this highly decorated marble chamber, but rest in similar tombs in the main building itself. Bourne no. 1234.

Dates: 1860 - 1869
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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Marble font at Christ Church, Mandalay, presented by Queen Victoria to go in the church built by the Buddhist King Mindon Min, 1880 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029F/2
Scope and Contents

113 x 159 mm. The Church was consecrated by the Bishop of Calcutta in 1873. See W.C.B. Purser, ‘Christian Missions in Burma’ (1911), pp. 117-118 and facing p. 180; and J.E. Marks, ‘Forty Years in Burma’ (1917) pp. 169-170.

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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Marble Plinth and Pillars of Dewan Khas, Agra, 1874 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/24
Scope and Contents

130 x 200 mm. No. 3271.

Dates: 1874 - 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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Marble Rocks, 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/254
Scope and Contents

78 x 53 mm. A view of coastline.

Dates: 1937
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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Marble Rocks, Nerbudda, Jubbulpore, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B/142
Scope and Contents

289 x 231 mm. Unsigned but probably by Samuel Bourne.

Dates: 1860 - 1869
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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Marble Screen

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/167
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...
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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Marble screen framing the entrance to the Taj Mahal, 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/1/40
Scope and Contents

137 x 210 mm. (p. 313).

Dates: 1874
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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Marble screen in Diwan-i-Khas, 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/125
Scope and Contents From the Series: An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
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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Marble screen in the Palace within the Delhi fort, 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/1/33
Scope and Contents

160 x 208 mm. (p. 289).

Dates: 1874
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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Marble screen, Sheik Selim Chisit's tomb, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022D/28
Scope and Contents

297 x 241 mm. Close up of a section of marble screen on the exterior of Sheik Selim Chisti's mausoleum at Fatehpur Sikri. Bourne no. 1266.

Dates: 1860 - 1869
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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Marble swing stand at Deeg [i. e. Dig] Palaces, 1880 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022K/30
Scope and Contents

203 x 137 mm. View looking towards the centre of the main facade of the Gopal Bhawan. The marble arch, with hooks at the apex for attaching a swing, stands on top of a flat roofed arcade in the form of a small hypostyle. Numbered '1908'.

Dates: 1880 - 1885
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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Marble Throne, Diwan-i-Am, Fort Delhi, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/83
Scope and Contents

The caption printed on the reverse reads: 'Marble Throne and Bungallow [sic] in Diwan-i-Am, Fort Delhi, where sit the Mughal Emperors in open Court'.

Dates: 1920 - 1929
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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Marble Venus, Nicosia Museum, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1202
Scope and Contents

Half-plate.

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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Marble Venus, Nicosia Museum, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1203
Scope and Contents

Half-plate.

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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March 6th 1906, 1906-03-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/40
Scope and Contents

Tiger shoot.

Dates: 1906-03-06
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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March 7th 1906, 1906-03-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/39
Scope and Contents

Tiger shoots.

Dates: 1906-03-07
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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March 7th Gwalior, 1906-03-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/46
Scope and Contents

Tiger shoot.

Dates: 1906-03-07
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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[March 7th Gwalior], 1906-03-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/47
Scope and Contents

Prince in shooting party group.

Dates: 1906-03-07
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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March 1906, 1906-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/72
Scope and Contents

View of the Raipur shooting camp.

Dates: 1906-03
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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March past : Massed Pipers, 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 16/47
Scope and Contents

290 x 85 mm.

Dates: 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08
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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March past of Divisions in mass, 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 16/49
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains prints by J and H King of Simla bound in padded red leather album inscribed on the cover: 'Presented to Her Royal Highness: The Princess of Wales: Rawalpindi Manoeuvres and Review 5th-8th December 1905.' The prints, 290-300 x 195-230 mm unless otherwise stated, are mounted on cardboard pages with printed captions.

Dates: 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08
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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March past : Royal Horse Artillery, 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 16/45
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains prints by J and H King of Simla bound in padded red leather album inscribed on the cover: 'Presented to Her Royal Highness: The Princess of Wales: Rawalpindi Manoeuvres and Review 5th-8th December 1905.' The prints, 290-300 x 195-230 mm unless otherwise stated, are mounted on cardboard pages with printed captions.

Dates: 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08
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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March past : Seaforth Highlanders, 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 16/48
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains prints by J and H King of Simla bound in padded red leather album inscribed on the cover: 'Presented to Her Royal Highness: The Princess of Wales: Rawalpindi Manoeuvres and Review 5th-8th December 1905.' The prints, 290-300 x 195-230 mm unless otherwise stated, are mounted on cardboard pages with printed captions.

Dates: 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08
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).