Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16196 Collections and/or Records:
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Chandra Bhanj Deo, Maharaja (1872-), 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O/181
Scope and Contents
121 x 173 mm. Maharaja of Mayurbhanj, succeeded 1882. Full length standing portrait.
Dates:
1911
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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Chandra Mahal, Old Palace, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/77
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints the majority of which are circa 290 x 215 mm., but 4-6, 9-18, 20-27, 51-55, 91-94, and 96-98 are approximately 140 x 100 mm. Nos. 4-27, 51 are scenes of the Royal Visit in November 1905, 19-26 being triumphal arches. The other subjects are the Maharajah and his family (1-3), Lallgarh Palace (28-50), Gujner (52-64), the Old Palace (65-82, 85), Bikaner City (83-84, 891-98 and Bikaner forces (89-90). There are printed captions: the collection is in a richly bound album...
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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Chandra Shamsher Jang, Maharaja Sir (1863-1929), 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O/6
Scope and Contents
121 x 173 mm. First Minister of Nepal 1901-29. Three quarter length standing portrait.
Dates:
1911
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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Chang Fang Village, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4073
Scope and Contents
View from bridge, Weihaiwei.
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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Chang Fang Village, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4074
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. View from bridge, Weihaiwei. [Houses hidden from view by trees].
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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Chang Fang Village, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4075
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. View from bridge, Weihaiwei. [Houses hidden from view by trees].
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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Changi Airport, situated on the eastern side of the island, covers a land area of 1663 hectares, 1982
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E CO/2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Singapore is a sophisticated communications centre with links to almost all parts of the world. It is a focal point for more than 150 major shipping lines, more than 33 international airlines, with direct telecommunications facilities to 105 countries. Its telephone density of 26 telephones per 100 population is the third highest in East Asia.
Dates:
1982
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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Changi chimes, printed and published at Changi by H. Miller and G. H. Wade, 1942-03-22 - 1942-11-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/29/3
Scope and Contents
Numbers 1-32; 34.
Dates:
1942-03-22 - 1942-11-08
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8237.
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Changi civilian internment camp: an impression of the male section of the camp in 1943, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/10
Scope and Contents
Two copies of a memoir outlining daily activities in the camp, which was given to Hugh Bryson by C. E. Collinge, the Men's Representative to the Japanese. Collinge himself received it from an internee, whose name he had forgotten (14 sheets).
Dates:
1962
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8234.
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Changi diary, 1945-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/3/11
Scope and Contents
An account of D.S. Ainger's experiences as a prisoner of war at Changi Camp between 15 Feb. 1942 and 15 Aug. 1945.
Dates:
1945-10
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8226C.
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Changi exile, 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/9
Scope and Contents
A copy of a reflection written by prisoner of war J. Coutts Milne on 15 Feb. 1945, the third anniversary of his internment in Changi. It is accompanied by a letter to Hugh Bryson (14 sheets).
Dates:
1961
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8234.
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Changi guardian, (successor to the Karikal chronicle), printed and published at civilian internment camp, Changi, by H. Miller and G. H. Wade, 1942-03-11 - 1943-10-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/29/2
Scope and Contents
Numbers 1-208, 210-262. Sheets are missing from Numbers 75 and 100. Number 209 was withheld by the camp authorities.
Dates:
1942-03-11 - 1943-10-12
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8237.
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Changi internment camp: nominal roll of internees, 31 May 1943, 1943-05-31 - 1945-05-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/22/2
Scope and Contents
The nominal roll documents each internee’s name, date entered camp, age, camp address, nationality and pre-war occupation. It is arranged in three parts: men, women and children. Evidence suggests that this was a working document, as it contains annotations in pencil and ink.
Sheets of press cuttings on the liberation of Singapore, originally stored with the nominal roll, have been moved to RCMS 103/12/22/6.
Dates:
1943-05-31 - 1945-05-31
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8236.
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Changi internment camp: nominal roll of internees, June, 1942, 1942-06 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/22/1
Scope and Contents
The nominal roll documents each internee’s name, date entered camp, age, camp address, nationality and pre-war occupation. It is arranged in three parts: men, women and children. Evidence suggests that this was a working document, as it contains annotations in pencil and ink.
Dates:
1942-06 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridg Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8236.
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Changi scene, 1942 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/37
Scope and Contents
A mounted sketch of a male work party.
Dates:
1942 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Changie bungalow, nr. Singapore. Designed and built by Maurice Alexander Cameron in 1887 to replace the old one burned, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/7
Scope and Contents
280 x 207 mm. (mounted on card). A view looking across a stretch of water towards the wooded shore, with the bungalow standing on a small headland. Maurice Alexander Cameron R.E. was Deputy Colonial Engineer and Surveyor General of the Straits Settlements from 1883-1892. Photograph probably by G.R. Lambert and Co.
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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‘Changkat Rembian (A Haunted Hill)’, 1961
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/3/3/3
Scope and Contents
Coe’s account of climbing a hill near Tapah which according to local legend was haunted (3 sheets).
Dates:
1961
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
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Changpoo [also known as Chang-pu] Church (Gregory's), Feb. 1.90, 4.45pm, dull and raining(?), F.32, 4 secs, 1890-02-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/10
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...
Dates:
1890-02-01
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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Changpoo [also known as Chang-pu] Dispensary (Howie's), Feb. 1.90, 4.45pm, dull rain(?), F.32, 4 secs, 1890-02-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/11
Scope and Contents
The Rev. Alex Gregory, a young minister, and Dr James M. Howie, trained at Edinburgh, came out to China in 1888 and began work at Chang-pu (Changpoo) early in 1889. Gregory opened a boys' school but was invalided in 1892; he continued his interest in the mission until his death in 1945. Howie was joined by his wife after two years; he died of tuberculosis, aged 43, in 1904, Edward Band, ‘Working his purpose out: the history of the English Presbyterian Mission, 1847-1947' (London, 1948),...
Dates:
1890-02-01
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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Channel Squadron Gate, Nicosia, 1878
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018A/12
Scope and Contents
184 x 117 mm. Autotype. A view showing the gate and city walls, with Cypriots posed in front of the archway for the photographer.
Dates:
1878
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
The volume is located at: RCS.Cob.18.121.
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Chaophraya Mahayotha to Burney, 1828-04-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/5/15
Scope and Contents
Kradat phlao, 372 x 738 mm.
Letter from the Mon commander of Siamese forces on the western border relating to a visit by several of his officers to British Burma in order to visit family and engage in trade.
Dates:
1828-04-07
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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Chaophraya Mahayotha to Burney, 1828-12-17
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/5/17
Scope and Contents
Kradat phlao, 356 x 642 mm.
Letter of thanks to Burney for helping some of his relatives to travel to Siam, and request for assistance for some now coming back to Burma.
Dates:
1828-12-17
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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Chaophraya Nakho̧n Si Thammarat to Burney, 1827-05-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/5/12
Scope and Contents
303 x 430 mm., European paper, written on one side in pencil.
This letter concerns the Malay states during late 1826 and early 1827, and relates to Burney's mission to Ligor in June 1827.
Dates:
1827-05-10
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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Chapel at Pi-ô, Feb. 4.91, 9.10am, bright, F.32, 5 secs, 1891-02-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/25
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...
Dates:
1891-02-04
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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Chappar Rift Bridge, Sind Pishin Railway, 1906
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/3/31/11
Scope and Contents
160 x 115 mm.
Dates:
1906
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).