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Asia (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:

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Connaught Arch outside the Lallgarh Palace, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/29
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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[(?) Connaught Road], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/177
Scope and Contents

A view looking along the street with building work in progress at the right and a placard announcing the site of the new Asiatic Petroleum Company's offices in the background.

Dates: 1909
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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[(?) Connaught Road], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/181
Scope and Contents

A view looking west along (?) Connaught Road with the British-American Tobacco Company's offices on the left and moored boats to the right.

Dates: 1909
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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Connaught Road, [1912-1915]

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/180
Scope and Contents A view looking east along Connaught Road with a statue of the Duke of Connaught in the foreground. The buildings have been identified as follows, from right to left: Hotel Mansions / Union Building [1905-1961]; St. George's Building (1st Generation) [1904-1966]; King's Building [1905-1958]; Queen's Building [1899-1961]; back left: Central Star Ferry Pier (2nd Location, Connaught Rd off Ice House St) [1912-1958]. The Central Star Ferry Pier was constructed between 1911-1912, hence the...
Dates: [1912-1915]
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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Conocephalus ?amoeuus, G. Angsi [i.e. Gunung Angsi], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/496
Scope and Contents

Showing the damage done to leaves by insects.

Dates: 1930
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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Consecration, Nanchung Yan, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 19/14
Scope and Contents From the File:

A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.

Dates: 1930 - 1939
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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Consecration of the Gak-Sai Church, 1900 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 32/44
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1900 - 1920
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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Consecration of the Rt. Rev. M.M. John: procession to Kottayam Cathedral, 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/41
Scope and Contents

151 x 109 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1958
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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Consecration of the Rt. Rev. T.S. Joseph as Assistant Bishop of Kerala, 1 July 1967: examination by the examining moderator, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/73
Scope and Contents

145 x 113 mm glossy print.

Dates: 1967
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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Consecration of the Rt. Rev. T.S. Joseph as Assistant Bishop of Kerala, 1 July 1967: laying on of hands with prayer, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/76
Scope and Contents

145 x 111 mm glossy print.

Dates: 1967
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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Consecration of the Rt. Rev. T.S. Joseph as Assistant Bishop of Kerala, 1 July 1967: presentation of the Bible, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/74
Scope and Contents

145 x 113 mm glossy print.

Dates: 1967
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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Consecration of the Rt. Rev. T.S. Joseph as Assistant Bishop of Kerala, 1 July 1967: presentation of the staff, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/75
Scope and Contents

144 x 117 mm glossy print.

Dates: 1967
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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Consecration of the Rt. Rev. T.S. Joseph as Assistant Bishop of Kerala, 1 July 1967: procession to the Cathedral, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/72
Scope and Contents

147 x 111 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1967
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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Constitution and rules, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.

Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).

Dates: 1943
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
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Construction of arched railway bridge across the Indus at Sukkur, named the Ayub Bridge in May 1962, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30222B/5
Scope and Contents

255 x 205 mm. World Bank.

Dates: 1960 - 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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Control, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/15/3
Scope and Contents

79 x 51 mm. The Control building at the England Australia Race, Allahabad.

Dates: 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).
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Controllers house, Bindjey [sic], Lankat, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/12
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358 x 268 mm. A view looking along the driveway towards the large thatched bungalow, with servants quarters behind. The Dutch Controller of the district (C.A. Kroesen in 1887) is presumably one of the two figures standing in front of the house. Binjai is situated 12 miles east of Medan.

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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Convalescent Depot, Kasauli, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022NN/21
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228 x 174 mm. View showing men at the depot on parade, with army buildings on the hillside behind. A pencilled note beneath the main caption dates the print ‘c. 1880’. The front row of officers on the parade ground are identified thus: Bruce, Garrett, Hill, Lushington, Carey, H.R.L. Hubert Richard Lovett, Ossulston, Brown, Leigh.

Dates: 1880
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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Convent of Mar-Saba, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214C/25
Scope and Contents

226 x 121 mm. A view looking over the convent rooftops towards the sheer cliffs in which the caves of ascetics can be seen.

Dates: 1860
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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Convent of Mar-Saba, near Jerusalem, 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214B/11
Scope and Contents 229 x 164 mm. A view looking over the convent rooftops towards the sheer cliffs in which the caves of ascetics can be seen. Frith comments: 'The magnificently wild and deep ravine forms a sternly appropriate clinging-place for this old ascetic pile. We don't pretend to have done anything like justice to the subject in our photograph. The view should be taken from the other side of the ravine, from which the whole of the building and the entire depth of the ravine could perhaps be...
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).
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Convent of the Nativity and village of Bethlehem 1857, 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011A/13
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316 x 249 mm. General view looking across terraced fields on the hillside towards the convent and village. 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).
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[Cooking by the river side, ? Kalewa], 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/80
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100 x 74 mm. A slightly blurred view showing a Burmese youth cooking on the river bank, with house boats moored beyond.

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).
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[Cooking in camp], 1894 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/75
Scope and Contents

128 x 82 mm (oval print). An under-exposed print showing an Indian cook bent over a cooking range beside a river, with a dog looking on.

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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Coolie [i.e. indentured labourer] winter dress, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/5
Scope and Contents

175 x 233 mm. Full length studio portrait of a labourer dressed in a coat made of grasses, and with false snow on his shoulders and on the ground.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Coolie raincoats [historic title], 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4502
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-02
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).