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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:

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Port Dickson [? 1920s], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/6
Scope and Contents

107 x 72 mm. A slightly blurred snapshot showing an unidentified woman on a beach at Port Dickson.

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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Port Dickson [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/1
Scope and Contents

395 x 283 mm. A view from the sea looking towards the Port Dickson waterfront, with warehouses and commercial premises lining the seafront. Situated 17 miles south-west of Seremban and the principal sea resort of Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan, the town was originally known as Arang-Arang but was renamed Port Dickson in 1889 after Sir John Frederick Dickson (1835-1891) (Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements 1885-1891).

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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[Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan, c.1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/76
Scope and Contents

270 x 194 mm. A view from a hillside looking down on to the railway station at Port Dickson with the sea beyond.

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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[Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan, c.1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/77
Scope and Contents

270 x 194 mm. Duplicate.

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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Port Dikson [i.e Dickson], 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 17/51
Scope and Contents

206 x 102 mm. View along the railway line at Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan.

Dates: 1907
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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Port Edward, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4033
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Wei hai wei. Repairing a junk: and some of the market day mules and donkeys.

Dates: 1908-11
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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Port of Sandakan, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4408
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). From verandah of the Residents House: note the English Church.

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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Port Said, Suez, and Aden [i.e. Adan] 1909, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/88-133
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection was originally housed in seven boxes, four of which were specially made with individual slots for slides. These were numbered 3, 6, 10 and 11 and the remaining boxes were unnumbered. Presumably these formed part of a larger collection, but nothing is known of the original owner or the fate of any other boxes. For conservation reasons, the collection has since been re-boxed. The captions given are normally those which appear on the slides themselves. They have been used as...
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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Port Swettenham, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 17/74
Scope and Contents

208 x 126 mm. Showing shipping moored beside a railway wharf at Port Swettenham, Selangor.

Dates: 1907
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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Porte-cochere at the Secretariats

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 27/6
Scope and Contents

350 x 275 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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Portion of the ghaut road between Ootacamund and Coonoor, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022FF/3
Scope and Contents

212 x 275 mm. View looking down onto the road which curves round a sheer cliff face at the left, with three bullock carts in the foreground. Coonoor is situated eight miles SE of Ootacamund.

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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Portion of the Great Temple (the Government corn stores), 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A/31
Scope and Contents

235 x 165 mm. A view showing some of the standing pillars of the Great Temple with a large pile of corn in the background and various winnowing boxes scattered around.

Dates: 1857
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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Portion of the Great Wall of China, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/19
Scope and Contents

257 x 210 mm. View looking along a section of the wall with a watchtower in the distance.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
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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[Portrait group], 1871 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/19
Scope and Contents

210 x 145 mm. Group portrait of engineers of the North Bengal State Railway, location unknown, probably Darjeeling. The figures are identified as follows: Mr Montague C.E.; Mr Vigors C.E.; Dr Dease; Mr Byrne; Mr English C.E.; Col Staunton; Col Lindsay; Dr Gilligan. Col Moberly R.E. can also be identified from comparing with Y3022S/28, taken on the same occasion. Photograph signed on negative ‘S.R.’

Dates: 1871 - 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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[Portrait group], 1871 - 1894

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/28
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207 x 126 mm. Portrait group similar to Y3022S/19. Identified figures are: Col Staunton R.E.; Col Moberly R.E.; Col Lindsay R.E.; Mr Vigors; Dr Gilligan. It is also possible, by comparison, to identify Mr Montague and Mr English. Photograph signed on negative ‘S.R.’

Dates: 1871 - 1894
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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Portrait group, Darjeeling 1872, 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/18
Scope and Contents

270 x 209 mm. Portrait group of 13 figures, taken in the same room and almost certainly during the same round of theatrical performances as seen in Y3022S/17 and 49. Figures identified as follows: Major Lance; Miss Vyse; Captn Le Messurier; Captn Gwyn; Major Lindsay, R.E.; Capt Henderson; Mrs Judge; Miss E. Judge; Mr Anderson; Miss Judge; Mr Goldsbury; Major Woodward.

Dates: 1872
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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Portrait of His Highness the Sawbwa of Hsipaw, 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/324
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. [Sawbwa seated on verandah of house].

Dates: 1907-12
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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[Portrait of John Abercromby Alexander, 1910], 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/115
Scope and Contents

106 x 151 mm. Half length studio portrait of Alexander. Gravure print, mounted.

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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Portrait of (?) Lord Minto, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/91
Scope and Contents

103 x 170 mm. Photographic copy of a full length portrait, possibly of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto (1751-1814), Governor General of India 1806-1813. Artist unidentified.

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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[Portrait of Prince of Wales]

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/80
Scope and Contents

Full length close up of Prince of Wales standing by a tree with a cigarette in his hand.

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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Portrait of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles by G.F. Joseph, 1817, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/88
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146 x 186 mm. A photographic copy of George Francis Josephs (1764-1846) seated, three quarter length portrait of Raffles in the National Portrait Gallery. Photograph by National Portrait Gallery.

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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Portrait of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles by James Lonsdale, 1818, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/90
Scope and Contents

91 x 115 mm. Photographic copy of a half length profile portrait of Raffles by James Lonsdale (1777-1839), exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1818. This photograph appears to have been printed in reverse.

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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Portraits, 1900 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 7
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Contains prints by various photographers, including some professional, mounted portraits. Some are autographed. The subjects include Malay rulers, Malayan Civil Service Officers, post-independence officials and ministers, and others connected with Malaysia and Singapore. A few are unidentified.

Dates: 1900 - 1969
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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Possibly in Province Wellesley, about 1909, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/48
Scope and Contents

102 x 73 mm. A view looking along an unidentified waterfront, with Malay houses on stilts in the background.

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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Possibly near Changi, Singapore, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/52
Scope and Contents

101 x 152 mm. A view looking along a road with a Malay man and several children watching the photographer, and with houses and coconut palms in the background.

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).