Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Cyprus Old-time Men's Outfit, 1965
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018H/27
Scope and Contents
228 x 174 mm. Showing a group of young men performing a dance before seated spectators. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Young Cypriots performing a local dance during a local festival. In the background (third from right, sitting) is Archbishop Makarios President of the Republic'.
Dates:
1965
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
Cyprus Postcards, 1900
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS.Cob.P.18.155
Scope and Contents
An album containing postcard views of Cyprus. The postcards are by a variety of photographers and publishers.
Dates:
1900
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Cobham Collection
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Cyprus Vineyards, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1219
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Near Lania, Limassol district.
Dates:
1908
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
Cyprus women spinning, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS.Cob.P.18.155/42
Scope and Contents
From the File:
An album containing postcard views of Cyprus. The postcards are by a variety of photographers and publishers.
Dates:
1900
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
D. D. C. L. Office, 8th Decr., [i.e. December], 13 [1913], 1913-12-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 13/3
Scope and Contents
140 x 81 mm. A view from the flooded roadway showing Europeans, Malays and Chinese standing on the verandah of the D. D. C. L. (? Deputy District Commissioner of Lands) Office. The plaque on the corner of the building reads Union Insurance Society of Canton.
Dates:
1913-12-08
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
Dabbi Bazar, 1928
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022QQ/22
Scope and Contents
109 x 151 mm. Showing electric wiring and encroachment on public way.
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).
Fonds
Dacca [i.e. Dhaka] University Football Club, winners of the 'Ronaldshay Shield', Dacca [i.e. Dhaka] Sports Association, 1924
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022XX
Scope and Contents
Print, measuring 285 x 234 mm, mounted on card. The photograph is a group portrait of the football team, with inset head and shoulders portraits of two unidentified players. Mr (later Sir) Philip Joseph Hartog (1864-1947), first Vice-Chancellor of Dacca University 1920-25, is seated in the centre of the group. The only other identified figures are P. Mitra, Captain of the Football Team and Manmatha Roy, Hon. Secretary. Photograph by the Coronation Studio, Dacca.
Dates:
1924
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
[Dacoits and police guard], 1885 - 1893
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/260
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates:
1885 - 1893
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
Dacoits captured in the Yellow Jungle , 1885 - 1893
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/266
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates:
1885 - 1893
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
Dacoits crucified by the villagers at Myingyan , 1885 - 1897
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/255
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates:
1885 - 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
Dacoits of the worst character, 1885 - 1893
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/258
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates:
1885 - 1893
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).
Series
Dacrydium, 1960
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1566-1583
Scope and Contents
Film negatives depicting detailed images of picked flora from evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs. There are plaques beside each specimen: 1566-1574: Malay Peninsula, State of Pahang; 1575-1577: Flora of Mount Kinabalu; 1578-1580: Malay Peninsula, State of Trengganu.
Dates:
1960
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
Dagaba (or receptacles for relics) at Buddh Gaya, Behar [i.e. Bodh Gaya, Bihar]: the place where Siddartha Gaudama became the Buddha or the 'Enlightened One', 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022RR/2
Scope and Contents
154 x 116 mm.
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
Dai-Butsu - Great Buddha, Nara, 1870 - 1920
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/104
Scope and Contents
208 x 224 mm. Front view of the eighth-century 53 feet high image of Buddha in the Temple of Todai-Ji at Nara, 18 miles east of Osaka.
Dates:
1870 - 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).
Item
Daidutsu [sic for Daibutsu] Bronze Image, Kamakura, 1870 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/54
Scope and Contents
265 x 206 mm. View of the 42 ft high bronze statue of the Buddha cast in 1252 AD. The holy town of Kamakura is situated on the north east shore of Sagami Bay.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Views of Japan
Item
Dal Lake, 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/44
Scope and Contents
54 x 79 mm. A boy punting on the lake, near Srinagar, Kashmir.
Dates:
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).
Item
Dal Lake, Srinagar, 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/32
Scope and Contents
53 x 85 mm. Two Indian men standing on the edge of the lake.
Dates:
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).
Item
Dal Lake, Srinagar, 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/48
Scope and Contents
78 x 52 mm. Two Indian men on a boat on the lake, with mountains in the background.
Dates:
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).
Item
Dalada Maligawa at Polonnaruwa 700AD, 1870 - 1871
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/15
Scope and Contents
282 x 214 mm. Close up view of the intricate stonework of the wall of the Dalada Maligawa, the shrine of the sacred tooth.
Dates:
1870 - 1871
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
Dalada Maligawa, Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], 1890 - 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/412
Scope and Contents
Approximately 200 x 140 mm. Photogravure. Probably photographed by F. Skeen.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
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
Dalhousie Square, Calcutta, 1918
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/25
Scope and Contents
206x149mm. A view from the S. side of Dalhousie Square looking across the Tank towards the Post Office and Writers Buildings. The Post Office, with its reinforced concrete dome of over 220 feet and colonnaded facade in the composite order, was designed by Waiter B. Granville, Architect to the Government of India. The foundation was laid in 1864 and the building opened to the public (although not entirely completed) in 1868. It stands on part of the site of Old Fort William. See also...
Dates:
1918
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
Dalhousie Square E., looking S, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/39
Scope and Contents
286x227mm. View looking S. along Dalhousie Square (probably from the steeple of St Andrew's Church) and along Old Court House Street. The premises of Smith, Stanistreet & Co. can be seen in the left foreground. In the right background is the tower of the Telegraph Office, (Massey p.56).
Dates:
1910
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
Dalhousie Square Tank, 1918
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/36
Scope and Contents
287x194mm. View from the W. side of Dalhousie Square looking N.E. across the tank. At the extreme left the E. end of the Bengal Secretariat can be seen, and next to it St Andrew's Church ('The Scotch Kirk'), modelled on St Martin in the Fields in London and built 1815-18. Along the E. side of the square can be seen the premises of J.B. Norton & Sons (plumbers and contractors), the West End Watch Company, Smith Stanistreet and Company, and Dwarkin's Musical Depot, founded by Dwarkanath...
Dates:
1918
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
Dalip Singh, Rana (-1911), 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O/141
Scope and Contents
119 x 169 mm. Rana of Baghat (Simla Hill State) 1862-1911. Full length seated 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).
Item
?Dalmey gate entrance, 1931
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/22
Scope and Contents
View of trees and foliage at the entrance to the Botanic Gardens.
Dates:
1931
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).