Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Depot picnic, Darjeeling, 1876, 1876
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/71
Scope and Contents
283 x 216 mm. Group portrait of the picnic participants, with a small military band standing in the background. No identifications are given, although J.G. Lindsay can be seen seated at the right hand end of the front row. The figures are grouped in front of some sort of female effigy. Another, similar figure, stands at the far end of the fields near some unidentified ruins. Presumably these are props in some kind of game.
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).
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Depot Wharf March 1885, 1885-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303C/11
Scope and Contents
258 x 207 mm. View from near the root of the breakwater looking towards the warehouses, coaling sheds, etc at the base. The ‘Titan’ crane can also be seen at the base.
Dates:
1885-03
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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Deputy Governor of the Province of Chumpho̧n to the Governor of Tavoy, 1827-12-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/5/13
Scope and Contents
Kradat phlao, 387 x 360 mm.
Reply to an overture by Burney seeking to encourage trade between the two provinces. The Deputy Governor appears reluctant to make a decision in the absence of his superior.
Dates:
1827-12-04
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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Desasumay Ghat, 1908-01 - 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/577
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. One of the specially sacred ghats.
Dates:
1908-01 - 1908-02
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).
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Description of Burmese ruby mine areas, 1827 - 1838
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/9/17
Scope and Contents
3 pages.
Dates:
1827 - 1838
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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Description of pictures of Boodh [Buddha], showing life of Gotama [Gautama], 1825 - 1841
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/9
Scope and Contents
34 pages.
Dates:
1825 - 1841
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Description of Siam and of our trade in that country, 1825 - 1841
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/3/25
Scope and Contents
Translation of the section on Siam in vol. 3 of 'Oud en Nieuw Ost-Indien' (1724-26) by François Valentijn. 114 pages.
Dates:
1825 - 1841
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
Descriptive album of the country and people of Sarawak
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A
Scope and Contents
An album containing platinum prints, most measuring approximately 145 x 105 mm, with letterpress captions pasted beneath the prints. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The album is stamped 'Sarawak' on the front cover but contains no further publication details: the title here given is taken from Appendix II of Hose (1927).The...
Dates:
1884-03 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Deserted shrine at Amarapoora , 1885 - 1893
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/205
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).
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Deserted shrine at Amarapoora , 1885 - 1893
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/206
Scope and Contents
Duplicate of Y3029M/205.
Dates:
1885 - 1893
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Destruction of the Chinese Fort at the Sham Fight, 1905-12
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 17/57
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints, 290 x 235 mm (mounted on card) with printed captions are in a black leather bound album with 'Royal Visit to Gwalior, December 1905' on the cover; the Prince of Wales Feathers, the Arms of Gwalior and the Maharaja's signature 'M. Scindia Gwalior 1905' in metal are attached to the front cover.
Dates:
1905-12
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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Detail of marble music [Agra?], 1902 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/211
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
Dates:
1902 - 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).
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Detail of Marble screens, 1902 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/222
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
Dates:
1902 - 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).
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Detailed synopsis of arrangements on shore on the occasion of the arrival of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/2/27
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of programmes, invitations, menus, photographs and other material issued in connection with the Royal Visit to India during 1905-1906.
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).
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Details of Mohafiz Khan's Mosque, Ahmedabad, 1874 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/73
Scope and Contents
135 x 205 mm. No. 1175.
Dates:
1874 - 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).
File
Details of trading in Moulmein and with Siam for years 1790-92 A.D., 1827 - 1838
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/43
Scope and Contents
3 large sheets of paper with tables. See also RCMS 65/9/16.
Dates:
1827 - 1838
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
Details of two traders in Moulmein in B.E. 1154 (1792 A.D.), 1827 - 1838
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/44
Scope and Contents
1 sheet.
Dates:
1827 - 1838
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
Detention and frustration of organised fifth column in Malaya 1941-42, 1942 - 1970
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/2
Scope and Contents
This is a large file of material provided by A.H. Dickinson, Inspector General of Police, Straits Settlements and Chief Security Officer, Malaya; R.B. Corridon, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Security Service; F.A.S. Caldwell, Police Intelligence Branch; C.W. Dawson, Secretary for Defence; Guy Madoc, Federated Malay States Police Intelligence; Forbes Wallace, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Federated Malay States; T.P.M. Lewis, Education Department, Federated Malay States; J.N....
Dates:
1942 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this item must be viewed on Master Microfilm Reel 8239.
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Devil bird, 1870 - 1879
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/40
Scope and Contents
96 x 138 mm. Showing a devil bird, a type of owl.
Dates:
1870 - 1879
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
Devil dance, Burmah [sic. for Sri Lanka], 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/30
Scope and Contents
274 x 216 mm. Showing a group of dancers and spectators, the two central figures wearing large carved wooden masks in the form of grotesque faces and flanked by musicians, some with violins others with the characteristic long drums. The photograph is clearly from Ceylon rather than Burma. Photographer unknown, probably Skeen 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).
Item
Devil Dancers, 1875
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/74
Scope and Contents
57 x 95 mm. Full length portrait of two devil dancers posed beneath a tree.
Dates:
1875
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
Dewasung’s family, 1900 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 34/19
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with limited, largely undated captions.
Dates:
1900 - 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
Dhala, 1965 - 1966
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3021B/12
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
An album containing scenes in the Federation, probably by official photographers. Most of the prints measure 210 mm x 160 mm, though a few are slightly smaller, and all are excellent photographs.Between 1959 and 1965 sixteen states and the British Colony of Aden joined to form the Federation of South Arabia. In 1965 Sir Ralph Hone and Sir Gawain Bell were appointed to make recommendations for a constitution for the Federation. They reported early in 1966, but the constitution...
Dates:
1965 - 1966
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
[Dhows] Aden [i.e. Adan], 1946 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/5/6
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'At the waterside below the barren sun scorched rocks of Aden lie the dhow building and repair yards. This picture, taken in the month of December, shows dhows being got ready for their annual trip to East Africa in January.'
Dates:
1946 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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[Dhows] Aden [i.e. Adan], 1946 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/5/7
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Two magnificent ocean-going dhows being got ready for their annual visit to East Africa.'
Dates:
1946 - 1950
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).