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Asia (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16198 Collections and/or Records:

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[A.C. Wilson, St Leonards, Sri Lanka], 1908 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/458
Scope and Contents

A rather dark slide showing A.C. Wilson among a group of tea pickers.

Dates: 1908 - 1914
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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Acacia kraussiana, very hard wood, 1900 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/220
Scope and Contents

78 x 101 mm.

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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Accommodation sheds and tea making house, 1980 - 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/5/1
Scope and Contents

165 x 95 mm original watercolour by Sidney R. Fever reconstructing life on the early tea plantations, circa 1840. It depicts two sheds which housed the labour force, built of split bamboo uprights with a thatched roof, and a tea making house, with mud and ekra walls and thatched roof.

Dates: 1980 - 1986
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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Account of Buddhist cosmology, 1827 - 1838

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/23
Scope and Contents

Partially in verse (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).
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Account of Buddhist cosmology, 1827 - 1838

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/9/2
Scope and Contents

European paper, stitched, 210 x 340 mm. There are references to plate numbers, but no accompanying illustrations.

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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Account of the Commerce of the Kingdom of Siam, 1825

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/3/7
Scope and Contents

44 pages.

Dates: 1825
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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Account of the ten duties of kings, 1834

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/15
Scope and Contents

Large document with fragment of a seal at bottom written for Burney in B.E. 1196 (1834 A.D.). 1 sheet.

Dates: 1834
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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Account of the trade of Rangoon, 1825 - 1841

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/27
Scope and Contents

12 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).
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Accounts, Mergui and Tavoy, 1819-21, 1819 - 1821

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/4/24
Scope and Contents

20 pages.

Dates: 1819 - 1821
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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Aceldama [1857], 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011A/8
Scope and Contents

317 x 263 mm. View of the Aceldama, the area outside Jerusalem purchased with the blood money of Judas. The print is signed: 'Aceldama, Jerus, 1857, 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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Achabul [Achabal], 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/39
Scope and Contents

97 x 110 mm. View from a hillside looking down onto the river. Photograph by Bourne, no.624.

Dates: 1864
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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Achaman

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 26/1
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains prints 90 x 130 mm (unless otherwise stated), mounted in an album. The first eight show ritual positions and ceremonies, and descriptive letterpress is inserted opposite each. QM 26/9-QM 26/14 show scenes by the Ganges.

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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Achelia Templon

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018E/20
Scope and Contents

152 x 211 mm. A view showing intricately carved stone decorations.

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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Acrobats, 1862

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/90
Scope and Contents

183 x 232 mm. View in a courtyard showing a man balanced with the small of his back resting on a tall pole while his companion beneath beats a drum. No. 1115 in the Bourne & Shepherd catalogue.

Dates: 1862
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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Across the Peninsula a new Highway to Prosperity [1970s], 1970 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/29
Scope and Contents

199 x 106 mm. Photographic copy of a map showing the route of the proposed East-West Highway Penang to Kota Bharu.

Dates: 1970 - 1979
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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Acting , 1929-06-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/61
Scope and Contents

Betty Thomson and Sheppard.

Dates: 1929-06-01
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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Activity with the boat people of Aberdeen, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038E/15
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...
Dates: 1949
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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Adam’s Peak, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/68
Scope and Contents From the File: An album containing 106 collodio-chloride prints, a few outside the dates printed on the cover. Most are professional work of high quality. Not all relate to India. There is one photograph of Cambridge in 1902 (24); ten taken in Ireland during 1902-03, presumably during Douglas's leave, including sporting scenes and a wedding; six photographs of Sri Lanka (65-70); four of Hong Kong (71-74) and four of Paris (75-78) dated 1907.A number of items have been inserted, including amateur...
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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Adam's Peak from Maskellya, Ceylon [i.e. Adams Peak from Maskeliya, Sri Lanka], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/408
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).
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Adams Peak from Ratnapura, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/134
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. (Figures in view).

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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Adams Peak from Ratnapura, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/135
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate

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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Adams Peak from Ratnapura, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/136
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate.

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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[Adan port], 1946 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/5/8
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Aerial view.

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).
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Adan Tank No. 12, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1015
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [No print]. Missing.

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).
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Address from 109 Rangoon merchants to Colonel Burney, on the occasion of his going to Calcutta, together with his reply, 1837-01-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/1/18
Scope and Contents

2 sheets.

Dates: 1837-01-10
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).