Asia (continent)
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Subject Source: Local sources
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The Imperial Durbar Album of the Indian Princes, Chiefs and Zamindars
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O
Scope and Contents
A two-volume printed work containing biographies of 194 Indian and Burmese rulers with tipped-in portraits. Edition limited to 300 copies. Plates 1-31 are photogravure prints, the remainder are half-tone reproductions of varying quality: although not original photographic prints they have been included in the catalogue of the photograph collection as representing an important source for portrait of major and minor rulers, many probably not available elsewhere. Biographical notes have been...
Dates:
1911
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'The Malayan planter's bungalow'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 366
Scope and Contents
Peter and Waveney Jenkins worked and lived in Malaysia for over 40 years. Peter was employed in the construction industry before joining the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has written a history of the organisation. Waveney has worked with the Heritage of Malaysia Trust to preserve the country’s historic buildings, and with the Kandis Resource Centre to support traditional wood-carving on the country’s east coast. Their joint interest in Malayan history...
Dates:
1911 - 2007
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'The Vale of Kashmir seen under a cloud'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 80
Scope and Contents
A narrative by 'Colonel Jones' and 'Major Robinson' of their hunting expedition in Kashmir, 48 pages, followed by 'Six weeks in a French vicarage by Hubert Richard Lovett', 19 pages. There are ten photographs inserted in the first narrative of members of the party and of the places they visited, which included Srinagar.
Dates:
1875
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Three months in Thibet [Tibet]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 102
Scope and Contents
A diary of Lovett's time on leave in Tibet, 83 pages.
Dates:
1888
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Tiger Hunting [Singapore]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311D
Scope and Contents
270 x 205 mm. Showing a posed group of a European holding a rifle by a dead tiger, with malays standing around.In Falconer (1987), he writes of a copy of this photograph: 'This photograph must show one of the last tigers killed on the island and represents a reminder of the scourge which plagued Singapore for many years. In the earliest days of the settlement tigers, preferring the dense jungle, posed little threat to the inhabitants. The first recorded account of a tiger attack...
Dates:
1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Tom Salkield Delhi Album 1905-1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022YY
Scope and Contents
An album containing 139 prints, mostly captioned, and one separate group photograph. From internal evidence it was the property of Tom Salkield. The majority of the photographs relate to his family - his wife Mary and their children Nancy, Leonard, Robert and John (born circa 1910). There are however 25 photographs (115-139) relating to his professional work, and a group photograph (140) shows him as a Captain in the 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles. The photographs are, for the most part,...
Dates:
1905 - 1916
Conditions Governing Access:
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Travels in South Asia and Australia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3024A
Scope and Contents
The album contains a mixture of original photographs, hand-coloured postcards and clippings. Most have manuscript or printed captions. Subjects include travel, hunting, scenes of natural beauty, natural products, and notable places or buildings.
Dates:
1904
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Tymms collection on civil aviation
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20
Scope and Contents
Papers, photographs and cinefilms from Tymms' life and his work in civil aviation.
Dates:
1886 - 1988
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Udaipur
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022II
Scope and Contents
Collection of silver prints, originally in an album. No date or other details are known of the origin of the album. The photographs, of high quality, were taken by K.L. Syed, State Photographer, Palanpur, and show scenes in Udaipur, but there are no captions. Each print has a number preceded by 'V' on the back. Collections of photographs and published works have been used to caption these views of the complex of magnificent palaces and other buildings of and adjoining the Pichola lake,...
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Under many flags: my pilgrimage
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 15
Scope and Contents
An account of a journey undertook in 1953-1954 to Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Manila, North Borneo, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and the U.S.A. The volumes are undated, but the last entry in the epilogue is dated 1957.
Dates:
1957
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Upper Burmah [i.e. Myanmar] Expeditionary Force, 1886-87
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029B
Scope and Contents
A printed volume containing prints, 135 x 100 mm, mounted above descriptive text. The photographer and writer was Colonel Robert Blackall Graham. His introduction is dated 1 April 1887.In November 1885 a British Force occupied Mandalay and imprisoned King Thebaw. This was followed on 1 January 1886 by the annexation of Upper Burma, but guerilla activity continued for more that a further year and there were various subsequent expeditions.Despite the title of this volume,...
Dates:
1886 - 1887
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views at the Marble Rocks, Jubbulpoore [i.e. Jabalpur], 1860s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022CC
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints mounted on stout card with handwritten captions beneath. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1860 - 1869
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Views in Australia, Egypt, Aden, Asia and other places chiefly circa 1908-1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)
Scope and Contents
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:
1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in Bombay
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints by Raja Deen Dayal (plate 7), Bourne and Shepherd (plate 13) and others unknown. The prints, mainly measuring approximately 270 x 205 mm, show Bombay scenes. Some of the prints are captioned. Captions composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], 1890s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303G
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose albumen prints, the majority measuring approximately 260 x 205 mm, some captioned on the reverse. Titles composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. The collection shows scenes mainly in Colombo and Trincomalee. Photographs by A.W.A. Plâté and Co., William Louis Henry Skeen and Co., Aldolphus William Andree and the Colombo Apothecaries Company.A.W.A. Plâté and Co.Founded in 1890 by A.W.A. Plâté and his wife Clara in a studio in the...
Dates:
1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in India by Lala Deen Diyal
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J
Scope and Contents
An album containing albumen prints of various sizes with handwritten captions. The numbers at the end of individual photograph entries refer to numbers in the photographer's catalogues.
Dates:
1874 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in India, circa 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints measuring 69 x 95 mm, with handwritten captions. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The flyleaf is inscribed 'To Lieut. Colonel G.S. Walker, I.M.S. with compliments and thanks from the photographer. 1901.' George Lemon Walker (29.7.1849-31.5.1901) was born in Kingston, Ontario and served in the Madras Medical Service...
Dates:
1901
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in Ootacamund [i.e. Udagamandalam] and the Nilgiris
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022FF
Scope and Contents
A collection consisting of a panorama (5 joined prints) and loose prints, measuring approximately 280 x 210 mm. The prints are captioned (probably in Penn's hand) on the reverse. Prints 1 and 2 are also rubberstamped 'A.T.W. Penn, Reliance, Ootacamund'. This refers to the Reliance Auction and Commission Agency run by Penn in the early years of the twentieth century.
Dates:
1905
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in the Dutch East Indies (Java and Sumatra), 1880s-1890s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30333A
Scope and Contents
Prints of various sizes, by various unknown photographers, captioned on the reverse. The prints show views in Batavia (Jakarta), Surabaya, Semerang and Padang. The photographs appear to have come from various sources, prints 1-15 being captioned in one hand, prints 16-24 in another.
Dates:
1880 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views of Benares [i.e. Varanasi] from the riverside presented by the Maharaja of Benares
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022TT
Scope and Contents
A small album containing prints measuring approximately 95 x 70 mm. The album cover is stamped with the title in gold. Letterpress captions are pasted beneath the photographs. The prints show some of the ghats which line the Ganges riverfront as it flows through Benares.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views of Bharatpur and Deeg [i. e. Dig] 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022K
Scope and Contents
An album of photographs by Lala Deen Diyal containing albumen prints of various sizes, most measuring either approximately 205 x 145 mm or 250 x 195 mm, with captions beneath prints and signed on the last page 'Deen Diyal Indore 20th August 1885'. The majority of the prints are initialled DD and have an individual number which is also annotated below on the album page. It is assumed this is the photographers’ own reference.Bharatpur and Deeg (Dig).This album gives a detailed...
Dates:
1880 - 1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views of Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B
Scope and Contents
An album containing albumen prints by a number of photographers, including W.L.H. Skeen and Co., Joseph Lawton, and Colombo Apothecaries Company.
This is an important collection whose subjects include the Colombo-Kandy railway construction; archaeological views of Polonnaruwa and Anaradhapura; the tea industry; views of Colombo; and Perahera celebrations, Kandy. There are also 11 photographs of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Kandy in 1897.
Dates:
1860 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views of Hanoi and Haiphong [i.e. Hà Noi and Hai Phòng], 1890s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302C
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 165 x 120 mm. The prints are captioned in pencil on the reverse. The collection consists of two identical sets of six views (each set containing three views of Hanoi and three of Haiphong). The photographs from each location may be by different photographers.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views of Hong Kong, China and Japan
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose albumen prints. These topographical views cover Hong Kong, the Chinese Treaty ports (a good selection of material from Shanghai) and Japan. Many of the Japanese prints are hand-coloured. It appears in the Supplement to the Library Catalogue published in 1901.
Dates:
1880 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views of India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B
Scope and Contents
Collection of albumen prints by various photographers. The prints are of various sizes and show views of Europe, Malta in 1860 (numbers 12-26), Middle East and India. Numbers 93-145 relate to a visit to India in 1880, although the prints themselves are views taken in the 1860s mainly by Samuel Bourne. The majority of the prints have handwritten captions. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square...
Dates:
1860 - 1869
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library