Asia (continent)
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Victoria Bridge across Perak River, circa 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/21
Scope and Contents
285 x 210 mm (mounted on card). A view showing the Victoria Bridge, an iron girder construction mounted on stone piles, on the Ipoh-Taiping line and Enggor. The Perak River at this point is over 1000 feet wide and subject to severe flooding; original designs had allowed for a rail level 34 feet above the normal water line, but this was later changed to 40, a valuable decision in the light of the 1926 floods which brought the water level up to the bottom booms of the bridge. Preliminary...
Dates:
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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Victoria Bridge, Colombo, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/6
Scope and Contents
The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 69. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Dock, 1946 - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 15/24
Scope and Contents
From the File:
An album of photographs, most measuring 205 x 55 mm, accompanied by a typed list, which has been reproduced.
Dates:
1946 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Dock, Bombay, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG/2
Scope and Contents
239 x 186 mm. View from a wharf looking across the Victoria Dock, with the cargo vessel ‘Inchlonga’ moored in the right foreground. The Victoria Dock, built between 1885 and 1888, is situated to the north of the Fort area and directly south of Prince’s Dock.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Views in Bombay
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[Victoria from the harbour] Hong Kong [late 1890s], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/2
Scope and Contents
275 x 190 mm. View from the harbour looking towards the waterfront buildings of Victoria, with the Peak in the background. The building second from the left is the Hong Kong Hotel (its three top stories added at some time in the 1890s). To the right, on the other side of Peddar Street are the former premises of Jardine, Matheson & Co. (demolished in 1907). The next building but one houses the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Co., with the offices of Lane, Crawford & Co. next to it....
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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Victoria Gardens Bombay, 1900 - 1904
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/147
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Miscellaneous monochrome postcards of India. The majority of the photographers and publishers are unknown.
Dates:
1900 - 1904
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, c. 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30383A/7
Scope and Contents
1348 x 230 mm. A panoramic view of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, with large fuel storage tanks in the foreground (bottom-left), and looking out across the water towards Victoria Peak and the Kowloon Peninsula. The panorama was probably published by the Inter National Photo Co., Hong Kong, as it is very similar in style and photographic process to Y30383A/6. It is therefore thought to date from c. 1925 (source: Klaus Liphard, contributor to Gwulo: Old Hong Kong). The photographer has not been...
Dates:
c. 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria, Hong Kong, from the Peak, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038E/1
Scope and Contents
Kowloon top left across the harbour, and in far distance.
Dates:
1949
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Hotel, 1909-01 - 1909-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4493
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). English Hotel on the British Concession, Shameen, Canton. This looks on to the creek close to the English Bridge. [Showing person with dogs walking past the hotel with potted plants in front].
Dates:
1909-01 - 1909-02
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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Victoria Memorial. Calcutta, 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/4
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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Victoria Memorial, Calcutta. Statute of Queen Victoria by Frampton, 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/7
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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Victoria Memorial Hall, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 17/4
Scope and Contents
207 x 136 mm. Showing front façade of the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore, from Empress Place.
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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[Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore], 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/122
Scope and Contents
90 x 151 mm. A view looking through an archway towards the tower of the Victoria Memorial Hall, completed in 1905.
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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Victoria Park, Colombo, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/7
Scope and Contents
The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 63. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.
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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[Victoria Pier] Penang, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/10
Scope and Contents
265 x 213 mm. A view looking south-west along the water front towards the Victoria Pier, with lighters moored in the foreground and steamers at anchor in the roads beyond. A corner of the Government Offices (Downing Street end) can be seen at the right of the print. The Victoria Pier was constructed 1885-1888.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Recreation Club, Hong Kong, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4454
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). [Overlooking sea with launch Pearl at bottom of harbour steps, with steamer in the distant haze].
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Regia in Chinese gentlemans garden, Singapore, 1908-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4213
Scope and Contents
[Showing pond with large water lily leaves and a man standing on the far side of the pond].
Dates:
1908-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Regia in Chinese gentlemans garden, Singapore, 1908-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4214
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. [Showing pond with large water lily leaves].
Dates:
1908-12
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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'Victoria Regia' - the Governor's Garden, Buitenzorg, 1870 - 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/43
Scope and Contents
246 x 197 mm. View across the lake in the Government Botanical Gardens at Buitenzorg towards the Governor General's Palace, a long low building with an extended hexastyle portico projecting out towards the lake. The building is topped by a small dome and is here seen from the rear. In the lake are the pads of the lily Victoria Regia.
Dates:
1870 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Station, Bombay, 1898 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AAA/14
Scope and Contents
275 x 205 mm.
Dates:
1898 - 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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Victoria, the Harbour and the Kowloon Peninsula from Victoria Peak (Hong Kong), c. 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30383A/6
Scope and Contents
1353 x 227 mm. A panoramic view taken from Victoria Peak looking down on the city of Victoria and across the Harbour to the Kowloon Peninsula. Printed ‘No. 4’ and ‘Inter National Panorama Photo Co., Hong Kong’ (in bottom right-hand corner of panorama). The photographer has not been identified. The Kowloon Canton Railway Terminus and Clock Tower, completed in 1916, can just be seen on the Kowloon Peninsula. The Peninsula Hotel, which opened in 1928, does not appear in the photograph. On the...
Dates:
c. 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Theatre and Memorial Hall, Singapore [circa 1967], 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/155
Scope and Contents
89 x 142 mm. General view of main façade.
Dates:
1967
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Theatre and Memorial Hall, Singapore [circa 1967], 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/156
Scope and Contents
89 x 142 mm.
Dates:
1967
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Waterfront, Hong Kong, 1926 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30383A/5
Scope and Contents
716 x 194 mm. A panoramic view of the Victoria water-front showing very grand, stone ornamental quay-side buildings. The tallest building displays the sign ‘Asia Life’ and to its left the building flying a flag displays the date 1897 in stone. Two buildings to the right of the Asia Life building are the Hong Kong Club, and next to that, in Statue Square, is the Cenotaph erected in 1923 and a statue of Queen Victoria. To the right of Statue Square, and set back from the waterfront, is the...
Dates:
1926 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Victoria Zenana Hospital. May laying stone
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/389
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:
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