Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:
File
'An account of the war in Southern Afghanistan', 1878
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/23/13
Scope and Contents
Printed book
Dates:
1878
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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An aged Cypriote, 1878
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018A/19
Scope and Contents
84 x 114 mm. Woodburytype. A view showing an aged woman with her arm round a young girl. Thomson's comments give an instructive insight into the difficulties of photography with bulky equipment and long exposures: 'Any attempts to photograph the fleeting expression of sentiment in the human face is almost certain to fail; nevertheless, a chance shot with the camera secured for us the accompanying pleasing picture - one which conveys something of the feelings that crossed the mind of the...
Dates:
1878
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
The volume is located at: RCS.Cob.18.121.
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An Akali, 1908-02 - 1908-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/872
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. (Fanatical fighting Sikhs - in old time commanded by Gardner).
Dates:
1908-02 - 1908-03
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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An anxious moment. Koomkies about to enter the inner stockade
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 29/20
Scope and Contents
290 x 90 mm.
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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An Arab dhow leaving the Island of Pemba, 1933 - 1947
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/50A
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1933 - 1947
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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An ayah (nurse), 1873
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/1/8
Scope and Contents
102 x 136 mm. (p. 51).
Dates:
1873
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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An elephant kraal, Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/414
Scope and Contents
Approximately 200 x 140 mm. Photogravure. Probably photographed by F. Skeen.
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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An elephant lent to me while in Lahore, by Colonel Picot, in Command of Transport Dept, 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/58
Scope and Contents
78 x 108 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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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An estate bungalow, 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/27
Scope and Contents
279 x 210 mm. View looking across the garden to a typical estate bungalow set among thick jungle. The single storey building has a hipped roof with a covering of flat tiles and a verandah enclosed behind wooden trellis work. Photograph by Scowen & Co.
Dates:
1870 - 1879
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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An evening scene at Thayet Myo, 1903 - 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029E/17
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
An album containing photographic prints and coloured reproductions. Prints 2-62 are coloured reproductions from Kelly, R. Talbot (1905) Burma painted and described, London : Adam and Charles Black. The remainder are original photographs by Thomas Harry Goldsworthy Stevens. The prints mainly measure approximately 100 x 75 mm, although some are larger. The album is interleaved with sheets on which are typed captions, up to print 261. Photographs beyond this point are uncaptioned. The...
Dates:
1903 - 1921
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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An express steamer passing Sagaing near Mandalay, 1903 - 1921
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029E/10
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
An album containing photographic prints and coloured reproductions. Prints 2-62 are coloured reproductions from Kelly, R. Talbot (1905) Burma painted and described, London : Adam and Charles Black. The remainder are original photographs by Thomas Harry Goldsworthy Stevens. The prints mainly measure approximately 100 x 75 mm, although some are larger. The album is interleaved with sheets on which are typed captions, up to print 261. Photographs beyond this point are uncaptioned. The...
Dates:
1903 - 1921
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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An Indian carriage and pair, 1862
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B/99
Scope and Contents
238 x 185 mm.
Dates:
1862
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views of India
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An Indian farm, Calcutta, 1920 - 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...
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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An indigenous house, 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302M/87
Scope and Contents
80 x 55 mm.
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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An Indigenous house, 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302M/164
Scope and Contents
78 x 53 mm.
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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An inner Courtyard of the City Palace with richly decorated walls, including peacocks, enamelled and set with semi-precious stones, and tracery patterns, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022II/3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of silver prints, originally in an album. No date or other details are known of the origin of the album. The photographs, of high quality, were taken by K.L. Syed, State Photographer, Palanpur, and show scenes in Udaipur, but there are no captions. Each print has a number preceded by 'V' on the back. Collections of photographs and published works have been used to caption these views of the complex of magnificent palaces and other buildings of and adjoining the Pichola lake,...
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Udaipur
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An interpreter's wife , 1870 - 1893
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/152
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 - 1893
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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An old official of the Burmese court: U Pi Se the town magistrate of Mandalay, 1885 - 1893
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/277
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:
1885 - 1893
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).
File
‘An old time Malayan jury’, 1960 - 1962
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/2/8
Scope and Contents
Clayton’s account of the last trial by jury held in the Federated Malay States. A man who had confessed himself guilty of murder was found to be innocent by a jury, whose members feared his ghost would haunt them if he were hanged (3 copies, 3 sheets).
Dates:
1960 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
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An Orang Bukit girl, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/45
Scope and Contents
104 x 148 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of a Klemantan woman of the Baram District. See also Y3035A/126.
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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An Orang Bukit woman, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/125
Scope and Contents
148 x 103 mm. Half-length profile portrait of the woman seen in Y3035A/45.
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).
Item
An Orang Bukit Woman, 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035G/16
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
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:
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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'An Unforgettable Hari Raja', 1960 - 1969
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/13
Scope and Contents
An account of personal misadventures coinciding with the Muslim festival in Ipoh during the 1930s (2 copies, 6 sheets).
Dates:
1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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An unwilling captive, 1905 - 1906
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/58
Scope and Contents
A camel.
Dates:
1905 - 1906
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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An unwilling elephant, 1906-01-31
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/141
Scope and Contents
[Karapur and elephant keddah]
Dates:
1906-01-31
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).