Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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Ferrying kit across the Nampang [i.e. Nam Pang], Southern Shan States, Burmah [i.e. Myanmar], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029D/15
Scope and Contents
146 x 102 mm. Showing two long dugouts strapped together to form a raft, and weighed down with passengers and their belongings about to cross the river. The Nampang is an affluent of the Salween River.
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).
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Ferryshaw Siding, Mandalay, 1907-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/335
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 168-346 (originally there were 165). Added numbers are: 200A, 263A, 270A-D, 280A, 296A, 335A-B; spoiled: 234; not used: 170, 172, 173, 175, 199, 203, 204, 216, 226, 228, 240-242, 253, 255, 257, 258, 262, 300, 314, 325, 326, 334; missing: 333. Numbers 270A-D and 280A are by Hutchins. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 280A follows 337. Subjects covered in this album...
Dates:
1907-12
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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Ferryshaw Siding, Mandalay, 1907-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/336
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. On leaving the train to cross to the other side of the river on way from Mandalay to Katha. [View looking along riverbank towards group of white buildings].
Dates:
1907-12
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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Fetehpur-Sikri [i.e. Fatehpur Sikri] : Buland Gate, 130 feet and ruins
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 24/65
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Album containing prints, of a total size of 300 x 185 mm. (actual print surface 260 x 165 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.
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).
Sub-sub-class
Fictus Stolonifera, Sepilok, Sandakan, 1960-08
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1611-1612
Scope and Contents
Showing two men among tall trees.
Dates:
1960-08
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).
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Fictus Stolonifera, Sepilok, Sandakan, 1960-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1613
Scope and Contents
Showing two men among tall trees.
Dates:
1960-08
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).
Sub-sub-class
Fictus Stolonifera, Sepilok, Sandakan, 1960-08
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1614-1615
Scope and Contents
Showing two men among tall trees.
Dates:
1960-08
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).
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Fictus Stolonifera, Sepilok, Sandakan, 1960-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1616
Scope and Contents
Showing the base of a tall tree, its air roots visible.
Dates:
1960-08
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).
Sub-sub-class
Ficus ?andospermifolia, ?Temomfok, 1960-08
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1447-1448
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Film negatives and matching prints of flora, with one street scene. The images were originally kept in three small packets by Kwong Tai Photo Service, Sandakan, and the prints are captioned on the reverse.
Dates:
1960-08
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).
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Ficus beccarii and Latifolia, Ranau, 1960-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1623
Scope and Contents
Showing a man looking at a small tree or large shrub growing amongst tall trees.
Dates:
1960-08
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).
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Ficus bengaliensis (banyan tree), 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/76
Scope and Contents
278 x 210 mm. General view of a banyan tree showing the aerial root system, probably photographed in the Peradeniya Botanic Gardens.
Dates:
1880 - 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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Ficus elastica, 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/59
Scope and Contents
The caption printed on the reverse reads: 'The oldest rubber tree in Ceylon at Peradeniya gardens'.
Dates:
1924
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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Ficus indica, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/77
Scope and Contents
278 x 209 mm. Close up view of the base of the trunk of Ficus indica.
Dates:
1880 - 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).
Sub-sub-class
Ficus kerkhovenii, Ranau, 1960-08
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1621-1622
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Photographs and (some) matching negatives of mostly trees and flora. The prints with captions on the reverse have listed.
Dates:
1960-08
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).
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Ficus pellucido-punctata, Ranau, 1960-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1478-1479
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Film negatives and matching prints of flora, with one street scene. The images were originally kept in three small packets by Kwong Tai Photo Service, Sandakan, and the prints are captioned on the reverse.
Dates:
1960-08
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).
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Field Bakery Townley’s Brigade – outturn 2000 loaves daily, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/3
Scope and Contents
205 x 150 mm.
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).
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Field of Citronella Grass, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/97
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. At top of picture is a little terraced paddy field. (Fisher).
Dates:
1907
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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Field of coffee interplanted with cinchona, foreground, showing Tamils shaving the bark of cinchona trees, 1880 - 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/4/13
Scope and Contents
270 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1880 - 1885
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
Fig tree on lake, 1908-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4176
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. With Birdsnest Fern, Botanical Gardens : Singapore.
Dates:
1908-12
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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Fighting animals, Jaipur, 1905-11-21 - 1905-11-23
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/61
Scope and Contents
Reed (1906, p. 98) says "This is not a pastime over which it is possible to be enthusiastic".
Dates:
1905-11-21 - 1905-11-23
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
Fighting ram, Jaipur, 1905-11-21 - 1905-11-23
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/65
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints, of an approximate size of 80 x 100 mm, mounted on card, six to a page, in a padded black leather album inscribed on the cover India 1905-06 from C.C. and 'Photographs taken by Sir Charles Cust Bt. 1905-06' is written on the fly leaf in Queen Marys hand. Sir Charles Cust took this collection of amateur photographs while accompanying the Royal Party. Most of the photographs have elegant hand-written captiions, but these are not always very explicit - some portraying...
Dates:
1905-11-21 - 1905-11-23
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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[Figure of Buddha and other images, ?Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon], 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/35
Scope and Contents
210 x 275 mm. Showing a marble statue of the Buddha surrounded by various devotional artefacts. Photographer unknown, probably Watts and Skeen or J Jackson.
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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Figure of Guneshji, Khajraha, 1874 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/35
Scope and Contents
135 x 200 mm. No. 1463.
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).
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Figures of Gaudama, Shway Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon , 1870 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/132
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:
1870 - 1927
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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Filling up : reclaiming land at Kowloon, 1909-01 - 1909-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4523
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. [No print]. Missing.
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).