Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:
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Surnai, Hurdwar, on the Ganges [1890s], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH/5
Scope and Contents
98 x 66 mm. River scene, with a European woman seated on ‘mussocks’ (inflated bullock hides) in the foreground.
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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Suryanjali
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 26/4
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints 90 x 130 mm (unless otherwise stated), mounted in an album. The first eight show ritual positions and ceremonies, and descriptive letterpress is inserted opposite each. QM 26/9-QM 26/14 show scenes by the Ganges.
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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Susannah (the artist) , 1870 - 1893
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/159
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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Suspension staging for central span finished, 1889-02-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30244A/56
Scope and Contents
295 x 235 mm.
Dates:
1889-02-03
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Sukkur Bridge
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Suspension staging for erection of horizontal tie 200' above water, 1888-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30244A/35
Scope and Contents
195 x 240 mm.
Dates:
1888-03
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Sukkur Bridge
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Susum? (illegible word), 1932 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/415
Scope and Contents
Showing tall foliage (Corner's own question mark),Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu]
Dates:
1932 - 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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Susum, road to Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/421
Scope and Contents
Showing a man amongst tall foliage.
Dates:
1930
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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Suttee Chowra Ghat, Cawnpore, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022U/39
Scope and Contents
319 x 187 mm. View looking along the riverbank towards the Sati Chaura Ghat, the landing place on the Ganges north of Wheeler's Entrenchment at Cawnpore where on 27 June 1857 the British garrison were ambushed and massacred after having been promised safe passage out of the town. Behind the landing place itself is a hexagonal temple dedicated to Shiva. See also Y3022L/31. No. 1208.
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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Swamp forest, Messing to Mawai road, Johore [i.e. Johor], 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/637
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Glass and film negatives
Dates:
1932
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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Swatow [1890s], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/33
Scope and Contents
220 x 175 mm. View from the River Han looking towards the houses of Swatow on the bank. The town was opened to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tientsin in 1869, at the end of the Second China War.
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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Swatow [1890s], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/34
Scope and Contents
269 x 204 mm. View from a rocky hillside looking down onto a small bay on the bank of the River Han. A three storey verandahed house with terraced roof and a small formal garden fronts onto the water.
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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Swatow [1890s], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/35
Scope and Contents
226 x 181 mm. View looking along Swatow Bay with a small beach with jetty in the foreground, overlooked by a house.
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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Sweeper and syce, 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022ZZZZ/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
An accordion fold album containing 12 albumen prints showing domestic scenes, 143 x 100 mm in size, with pencil captions beneath each image (written over fainter pencil captions). The photographer is unknown, but a similarly titled album of the same size has been credited to the French photographer Jean Baptiste Oscar Mallitte (1829-1905).
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Souvenir of India
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Swinging Gate, Rewah, 1874 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/29
Scope and Contents
265 x 200 mm. No. 1518.
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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Swiss Rifling [sic for Rifle] Club, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 17/17
Scope and Contents
196 x 92 mm. View looking along the path towards the club buildings.
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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Sylk’s Hotel, Ootacamund [Udagamandalam], 1875 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/52
Scope and Contents
284 x 190 mm. View of the driveway showing the main façade of the building, which was originally a school for European boys before becoming a hotel about 1840. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 397.
Dates:
1875 - 1880
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
Synopsis of diaries, 1925-01-01 - 1931-12-31
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/2/4
Scope and Contents
These notes chronicle Bell’s retirement in Cannes, his interests, social life and personal affairs, and his frequent travels, including an extensive tour of the Far East during 1925-26 to examine French and Dutch methods of colonial government (circa 80 sheets).
Dates:
1925-01-01 - 1931-12-31
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).
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T S A Adams MCS, 1933 - 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/421
Scope and Contents
At the lake club.
Dates:
1933 - 1936
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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Tabakang, Ulu Sadong, Sarawak, 1904 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/57
Scope and Contents
River view with canoes in the foreground and a thatched house on the further bank.
Dates:
1904 - 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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Taban tree being tapped for gutta percha, 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 15/14
Scope and Contents
93 x 144 mm. Showing a Malayan worker making incisions halfway up a tree.
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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Tabebuia rosea, beautiful flowering tree, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/139
Scope and Contents
92 x 128 mm.
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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Tables of correspondence between Christian & Burmese Eras [for years 1538-1838], 1825 - 1841
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/16
Scope and Contents
4 pages.
Dates:
1825 - 1841
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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Tablet on site of the Magazine, Delhi, 1902 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/116
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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Tadpatri, carvings in Siva Temple, 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/185
Scope and Contents
Showing the intricate carving on the gopuram of one of the temples at Tadpatri, built around the time of the founding of the town by the Vijayanagar Kings in the 1480s.
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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Tai or native rest-house in the forest at dawn, 1903 - 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029E/33
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).