Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
File
Chapter 1, 1894-10-14 - 1896-12-22
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 356/1/1
Scope and Contents
20 sheets.
Dates:
1894-10-14 - 1896-12-22
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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Chapter 2, 1897-01-18 - 1897-10-05
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 356/1/2
Scope and Contents
15 sheets.
Dates:
1897-01-18 - 1897-10-05
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
Chapter 3, 1897-12-05 - 1900-06-26
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 356/1/3
Scope and Contents
27 sheets.
Dates:
1897-12-05 - 1900-06-26
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).
File
Chapter 4, 1900-07-13 - 1900-10-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 356/1/4
Scope and Contents
24 sheets.
Dates:
1900-07-13 - 1900-10-07
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).
File
Chapter 5, 1900-10-17 - 1901-02-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 356/1/5
Scope and Contents
11 sheets.
Dates:
1900-10-17 - 1901-02-12
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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Chapter 6, 1901-02-24 - 1902-01-26
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 356/1/6
Scope and Contents
27 sheets.
Dates:
1901-02-24 - 1902-01-26
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).
Item
Charged by a tiger in the Terai, 1876
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 1/8
Scope and Contents
From the File:
An album of prints from original drawings by William Simpson. Size of prints is 185 mm x 110 mm (mounted on card). There is a short introduction, a list of plates and descriptive notes on six of the subjects.
Dates:
1876
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).
Fonds
Charles Alexander Gordon, 'Our trip to Burmah [i.e. Myanmar], with notes on that country' (London, 1875)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029G
Scope and Contents
A printed volume (now disbound) containing woodburytypes mounted as illustrations, most measuring approximately 140 x 90 mm, with letterpress captions. The views are of architecture and people of different ethnic origins.Surgeon General Sir Charles Alexander Gordon (1820-1899) accompanied the Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army to Burma in December 1874 and the book records his observations of the country and its people.The prints included in the volume are not...
Dates:
1874 - 1875
Conditions Governing Access:
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
File
Charles Archibald Vlieland and the fall of Malaya, 1969
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/4/3
Scope and Contents
A collection of correspondence between Hugh Bryson and C. A. Vlieland discussing the reasons for the defeat in Malaya. The file includes a copy of Vlieland’s article ‘Singapore: the legend and the facts’, ‘Daily telegraph’, 10 Feb. 1967 and his comments on Noel Barber’s ‘Sinister twilight: the fall and rise again of Singapore’ (1968). The file contains a paper by Brigadier Ivan Simson discussing Vlieland’s views. It also preserves correspondence between Bryson, A. H. Dickinson and Charles...
Dates:
1969
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8329.
Item
Charles Edwin Spooner, 1904, 1904 - 1988
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031I/1
Scope and Contents
Three quarter length seated studio portrait, full face in civil service uniform and wearing the C.M.G. The portrait was taken to celebrate Spooner's investiture with this order.
Dates:
1904 - 1988
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).
Fonds
Charles Edwin Spooner collection, 1904-1907/09
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031I
Scope and Contents
A collection of modern copy prints made from copy negatives. The copy negatives were made from original prints in the possession of the granddaughter of C.E. Spooner, Mrs Diana Messenger. Charles Edwin Spooner was born in Wales and after education at Trinity College Dublin and engineering training, commenced his career with North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways. From 1876 to 1891, he worked in Ceylon for the Surveys Department. In 1891 he was appointed State Engineer for Selangor and...
Dates:
1904 - 1988-03
Conditions Governing Access:
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
Item
Charlie Flaxman, 1932 - 1933
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302M/109
Scope and Contents
55 x 78 mm.
Dates:
1932 - 1933
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).
Item
Chased by a wild elephant, 1876
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 1/3
Scope and Contents
From the File:
An album of prints from original drawings by William Simpson. Size of prints is 185 mm x 110 mm (mounted on card). There is a short introduction, a list of plates and descriptive notes on six of the subjects.
Dates:
1876
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).
Item
Chateau de David, Damascus Gate [Tower of David, Jerusalem, 1857], 1857
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011A/9
Scope and Contents
313 x 248 mm. View of the Damascus Gate and the Tower of David, Jerusalem. The print is signed: 'Robertson Beato and Co'.
Dates:
1857
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).
Item
Chateau Kapurthala Mussoorie, Sept 1899, 1899-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH/12
Scope and Contents
297 x 208 mm. Group portrait of European and Indian children standing on the steps of the Chateau Kapurthala, the European style palace of the Maharaja of Kapurthala at Mussoorie (see Y3022HH/24). A photograph presumably taken at some kind of children’s entertainment.
Dates:
1899-09
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).
Item
Chatter Manzil Palace, Lucknow, 1920 - 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/67
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).
Item
Chatty and lance corporal Turner, 1931 - 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302M/107
Scope and Contents
55 x 78 mm.
Dates:
1931 - 1934
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).
Item
Chatty raft, 1895
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/155
Scope and Contents
98 x 72 mm. Showing a chatty raft, a vessel constructed by earthenware pots (chattys) roped together, with a bamboo platform resting on top.
Dates:
1895
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).
Item
Chatty raft, 1895
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/156
Scope and Contents
98 x 72 mm. Showing a chatty raft, a vessel constructed by earthenware pots (chattys) roped together, with a bamboo platform resting on top.
Dates:
1895
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).
Item
Chaubattia, view of the snow from the Officers’ Mess, 1860 - 1869
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/12
Scope and Contents
281 x 225 mm.
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).
Item
Chaudragiri, a palace built entirely of stone without the addition of wood, 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022RR/3
Scope and Contents
150 x 111 mm. View showing the ruins of the palace. The caption continues 'in which the Rajah of Vijianagaram (the descendant of him who was defeated by the Mohammedans at Tellacotta [i.e. Talikota]) signed to the English the stretch of land on which Madras now stands'.
Dates:
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).
Item
Chaugwa, Upper Chindwin, 1894 - 1897
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/64
Scope and Contents
160 x 115 mm. View looking down on the landing place at Chaungwa, on the Chindwin River, south of Kalewa, with a paddle steamer and Burmese boats at their moorings. With temple pagodas on the hillside in the right background.
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).
Item
Chauk Bazaz Hatta, 1928
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022QQ/4
Scope and Contents
111 x 154 mm. Electric current structures and wires, obstructing the roadway, damaging the comfort and ruining the charm of the buildings behind. The report’s requirements included, ‘The careful re-arrangement of electric light standards and the removal of tangles and nests of wires from the streets. Underground cabling with inspection manholes is little, if any, more expensive than overhead wiring. Collapse of buildings in the city upon the wires has occasionally plunged large areas in...
Dates:
1928
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).
Item
Chaungwa [Upper Chindwin], 1894 - 1897
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/65
Scope and Contents
160 x 114 mm. View from the landing place at Chaungwa, with boats in the foreground and Burmese houses on the hillside beyond.
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).
Item
[Chausath Khambe, Nizam-ud-din, Delhi. Wrongly captioned] Tomb of Mirza Jahangir, saint in Khursoo, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/13
Scope and Contents
234x186mm. View of the Chausath Khambe or 64 Pillared Hall, family tomb of Mirza Aziz Kukaltash, son of Azam Khan (one of the most influential nobles at the court of Akbar) and foster brother of Akbar. The mausoleum is a marble building 69 foot square with 5 grained marble arches on each side, the pillars connected by lattice-work marble screens, the top section of the arches being open. There are four entrances to the hall, one in the centre of each facade. This terrace-roofed building is...
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).