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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:

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Wreck SS 'Band' on Reef, 'Cape Rivers', N.W. Celebes, June 26 1910, 1910-06-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/325
Scope and Contents

View showing the wrecked ship.

Dates: 1910-06-26
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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Wreck SS 'Band' on Reef, 'Cape Rivers', N.W. Celebes, June 26 1910, 1910-06-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/326
Scope and Contents

View showing the wrecked ship.

Dates: 1910-06-26
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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Wreckage in Gifu river valley after 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/38
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1923
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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Wreckage of fishing village near Tokyo after 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/42
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1923
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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Wreckage of Tokyo railway station and other buildings caused by 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/32
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1923
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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Wreckage of Tokyo railway station and other buildings caused by 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/33
Scope and Contents

Colour.

Dates: 1923
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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[Wrecked sternwheeler], 1894 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/50
Scope and Contents

160 x 114 mm. Showing the broken, half-submerged wreck of an unidentified sternwheeler.

Dates: 1894 - 1897
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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[Wrecked sternwheeler], 1894 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/51
Scope and Contents

148 x 109 mm. Showing the wreck of a sternwheeler.

Dates: 1894 - 1897
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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Wrestlers, 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/144
Scope and Contents

241 x 187 mm. Showing two sumo wrestlers in the ring, with spectators on all sides. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Writers' Buildings and Holwell Monument, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/34
Scope and Contents 205x135mm. View looking E. along the N. side of Dalhousie Square, with the Holwell Monument in the foreground at the junction with Clive Street, and the Writers' Buildings (by this time the Bengal Secretariat) stretching along the whole of the N side of the square. The monument, erected by a survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, John Zephaniah Holwell, over the mass grave of those who died, was in the form of an obelisk mounted on an octagonal pedestal on which the names of those who died...
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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Writers' Buildings, looking W, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/35
Scope and Contents 290x233mm. View from the E. end of the N. side of Dalhousie Square looking along the length of the S. facade of the Bengal Secretariat. Originally constructed in 1780 to accommodate junior East India Company servants on their arrival in India, the building was probably designed by Thomas Lyon and presented a long, plain stuccoed facade to Tank Square. In later years the apartments were used by private individuals and commercials firms, and in 1878-82 the buildings were entirely reconstructed...
Dates: 1918
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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Wuhu, China, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/31
Scope and Contents

266 x 206 mm. View looking across the River Yangtze towards the waterfront houses of Wuhu, situated 60 miles south-west of Nanjing and opened to foreign trade in 1877.

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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X-ray conference, Christian Medical College Hospital, 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/1/114
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 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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Xth Royal Hussars, 1905-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/10
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...
Dates: 1905-11
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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Xth Royal Hussars. Bombay, 1905-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/9
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...
Dates: 1905-11
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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XX Deccam Horse

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/403
Scope and Contents

March past by various regiments.

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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Y303A/10 No.2 Tunnel, Kandy side, 1867

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A/10
Scope and Contents 170 x 100 mm. View looking along the line towards the entrance to No. 2 Tunnel (40 yards), with a locomotive and a freight wagon crowded with labourers in the foreground, ‘Messrs.Slinn's views of the Tunnels on this the lower section of the incline taken from above and below are very faithful and very effective. No. 1 showing the face of the scarped rock above and the handsome masonry lining of the entrance with the engine just curving in, forms a very pretty picture. No. 2 in its...
Dates: 1867
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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Yacht Club, Apollo Bunder and harbour, Bombay, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG/4
Scope and Contents

234 x 182 mm. View looking eastwards towards the Harbour, with the Yacht Club and the Apollo Bunder (see Y3022GG/5) in the foreground. A crowd is gathered at the landing stage on the Apollo Bunder and the quayside is draped with the flags of various nations; the occasion, however, has not been identified.

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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Yacht Club at Apollo Bunder, Bombay, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG/5
Scope and Contents

281 x 176 mm. View from the water’s edge looking towards the Yacht Club building with its polychrome observation tower. The buildings were designed by Mr Adams, the Government Architect, and opened in November 1881.

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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Yak Transport, Zoji La, 1941 - 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/13/59
Scope and Contents

135 x 80 mm. Showing a man driving three yaks through the snow.

Dates: 1941 - 1944
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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Yang di-Pertuan Agong presenting new colours to the Royal Malaysian Navy, 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031B/2
Scope and Contents

190 x 241 mm. Colour print. Showing Tuanku Abdul Halim in the uniform of the Fleet during the presentation of the colours.

Dates: 1974
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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Yangste Poo Road, Shanghai, Waterworks in foreground, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/22
Scope and Contents

279 x 218 mm. View looking along the Yangste Poo Road towards the buildings of the Shanghai Waterworks Company. The main building in the foreground is a single storey structure with crenellations and squat towers at the corners, and a tall chimney at the far end. The reservoirs, not visible in this print, are at the farther side of this building.

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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Yapahu, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/55
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. One of a pair of stone lions at the Matigawa, or Royal Palace ruins, Yapahu.

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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Yapahu Rock from end of Gansabanda Road, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/56
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Print spoiled. Painting only. Negative of this is useless, hence painting only available. (Fisher)

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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Yapahu Tank and Rock from the north, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/54
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains prints numbered in the range 1-167 (originally there were 147). Added numbers are: 60A, 60B, 90A and 99A; spoiled: 37-39, 56, 57, 61, 63, 80, 119, 123, 160, 165; not used 41, 44, 49, 52, 60, 75, 84, 95, 140, 141, 142, 151; missing: 43, 48, 99, 153. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 99A, 166-167 follow 69 and 136 follows 74. Subjects covered in this album are: Port Said;Cape Gardafui;Ceylon...
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).