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Asia (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16198 Collections and/or Records:

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A Palki - Calcutta, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/8
Scope and Contents

Numbered '42' on the bottom left-hand corner.

Dates: 1920 - 1929
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A panoramic view of Colombo, embracing lake and harbour, 1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 2/58
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Panorama extending over four joined pages.

Dates: 1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
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A panoramic view of the civic centre of the city, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311A/3
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205 x 157 mm. General view (long exposure, taken at dusk) of the area in the vicinity of the Victoria Memorial Hall, seen here with the War memorial obelisk in the left foreground.

Dates: 1960 - 1969
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A Parsee 'demoiselle', Bombay, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/1/6
Scope and Contents

160 x 190 mm. (p. 41).

Dates: 1873
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A picnic page, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/387
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A picnic page, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/388
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A picnic page, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/389
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A picnic page, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/390
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A picnic up-country in Borneo, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4391
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Showing group of 8 Europeans sitting on the ground with jungle behind. Women (4) in long white dresses and with hats with two men in white with topees and two more in dark clothes. 12 copies of the print were sent to Mrs Gueritz, Government House, Sandakan, North Borneo on 29.04.09, so maybe her picnic]

Dates: 1909
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A pleasant walk near Srinuggur [Srinagar], 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/11
Scope and Contents

300 x 243 mm. View looking along the back of one of the canals at Srinagar, with a boat on the water, two Indian figures posed in the middleground, and an avenue of poplars at the left. Bourne no. 826.

Dates: 1864
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[A plumbago mine], 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303F/1
Scope and Contents

132 x 182 mm.

Dates: 1886
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A pottery shop in Nyaung U, 1903 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029E/45
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A principal street in Hong Kong, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/174
Scope and Contents

A copy of a half-tone photograph showing business premises in (?) Chater Road.

Dates: 1909
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A private cart, Peking, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302E/11
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A Punjabi dance, 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E C/8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Owing to its multi-racial nature, Singapore has a diverse culture influenced by its three major ethnic groups - the Chinese, Malays and Indians. Schoolchildren have a choice of learning music and dance as part of their extra-curricular activities.

Dates: 1982
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A quadrangle in the Old Palace, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/70
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
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'A queer Christmas’, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/3/3/8
Scope and Contents

An account of how Coe’s anticipated Christmas celebrations in Tapah were disrupted by a case of assault between two Tamil labourers and a flood the following day.

Dates: 1961
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
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A quiet bit near Peermund, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/51
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307 x 185 mm. View of a stretch of river, possibly the Pyarka, in the Nilgiris. Photograph by Samuel Bourne no. 2028.

Dates: 1860 - 1869
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A quiet 'bit' near the Willow Bund, 1868 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022E/28
Scope and Contents

320 x 193 mm. View from the N shore of the lake looking towards the avenue lined with willow trees which divides the stretch of water into two. The nearer portion of the lake, immediately to the south of the town, was filled in between 1896 and 1899 to become the racecourse. Bourne no. 1980.

Dates: 1868 - 1869
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A rafting party , 1932 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/436
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A rafting picnic , 1930 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/473
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A rafting picnic , 1939 - 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/482
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A rapid on the Paran River, Rejang District, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/60
Scope and Contents

103 x 146 mm. View looking upriver along the rapids, with jungle on either bank.

Dates: 1900