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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:

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Perim, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1113
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Distant view from sea].

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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Perim [i.e. Barim], 1908 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/122
Scope and Contents

A distant view of the island of Barim situated 100 miles west of `Adan in the centre of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb.

Dates: 1908 - 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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Peristerona Church of St. Barnabas and St. Hilarion, 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018H/8
Scope and Contents

226 x 172 mm. A view looking across a stream towards the Church of St. Barnabas and St. Hilarion. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Peristerona Church of St. Barnabas and St. Hilarion, one of the most picturesque Byzantine (AD 956) buildings in Cyprus. The minaret next to it reveals the peaceful co-existence of the Greeks and Turks in Cyprus.'

Dates: 1965
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-Series

Perlis, 1929-11

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/461-466
Scope and Contents

Showing views of trees, houses built on both banks of a river, and a rice field.

Dates: 1929-11
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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Perlis 1929 [illegible word] Malacca [i.e. Melaka] [illegible word], 1929 - 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/438-538
Scope and Contents

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: 1929 - 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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Perlis, general views of mountain, 1929

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/438-444
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: 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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Perlis, general views of rice-fields, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/445-455
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: 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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Perlis, Kampong

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/467-477
Scope and Contents

Showing views of buildings, trees and a river.

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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Permit to carry and use arms and license to possess arms issued to J.W. Pim, 1949 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/21/7
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This section includes archives received at a later date from Hugh Bryson and some items acquired directly by the Royal Commonwealth Society.

Dates: 1949 - 1950
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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Persia, 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 316/2/1
Scope and Contents

A wide range of photographs relating to Persia, originally in an envelope labelled 'photos of the Mission to(?) Shah'. Some of the photographs have captions on the reverse. Two of the images are dated 1903, but the rest are undated.

Dates: 1903
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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Persia [Iran], Palestine and Egypt, 1906 - 1938

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

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1906 - 1938
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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Personal account of Sir John Bagnall of his escape from Singapore, 2007

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 367/2
Scope and Contents

This is a condensed version of the narrative held at 367/1, which has been edited by Jean Benitz (6 sheets).

Dates: 2007
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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Personal papers of Henry Burney, largely commissions, 1808 - 1837

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Archives created by the British soldier and diplomat Henry Burney relating to his service in Burma [Myanmar] and Siam [Thailand]. The cataloguing of the collection has occurred in several stages. In 1921, the RCI Librarian Evans Lewin listed the main English language material in four series, assigning each a letter, A to D. In 1958, Dr D.K. Wyatt examined the Siamese material, including some as yet uncatalogued European material. He listed it in three sections, with the letters E, F, and...
Dates: 1808 - 1837
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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Personal recollections, 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/7/20
Scope and Contents

Extracted from the ‘Changi Guardian’, no. 67, 27 May 1942 (2 pages).

Dates: 1942
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8234.
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[Perspective drawing of the proposed Stadium Negasa, Kuala Lumpur 1960], 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/5
Scope and Contents 233 x 91 mm. Photographic copy of an architect's drawing of the proposed stadium. A note on the reverse reads:'A perspective drawing of the proposed Stadium Negara, national indoor stadium in Kuala Lumpur. The Stadium Negara, which will be complementary to the Merdeka Stadium, is designed to cater for indoor games and indoor functions of national importance. It will be sited on the present playing field in Tunku Abdul Rahman Park between the Victoria Institution and Davidson...
Dates: 1960
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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Peshawar, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/89/67/6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Proof and typescript copies of selected articles.

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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Peshawar

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/77
Scope and Contents

Garden party in grounds of Government House.

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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Peshawar

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/78
Scope and Contents

Garden party in grounds of Government House.

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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Peshawar

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/79
Scope and Contents

Garden party in grounds of Government House.

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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Peshawar “B” Coy Honour & Glory Shield , 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/18
Scope and Contents

290 x 210 mm.

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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Peshawar Hospital, 1963, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/3/1/31
Scope and Contents

Set of 35 120 x 80 mm. glossy prints, most with 242 x 194 mm. enlargements, showing various aspects of hospital work.

Dates: 1963
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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Peshawar Hospital: Afridi tribesman with multiple gunshot wounds sustained in blood feud, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/3/1/26
Scope and Contents

112 x 160 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1961
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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Peshawar Hospital: barber attending man with fractured thigh bone, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/3/1/21
Scope and Contents

157 x 114 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1961
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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Peshawar Hospital: Brother Joseph Johnson giving the daily Gospel message to male patients and relatives, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/3/1/20
Scope and Contents

112 x 158 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1961
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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Peshawar Hospital: Dr. A.P. Barclay with a patient from Afghanistan, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/3/1/14
Scope and Contents

108 x 156 mm. glossy print with 40 x 51 mm. negative.

Dates: 1961
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).