Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Fortune teller, 1910 - 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/152
Scope and Contents
196 x 142 mm. Showing a Chinese fortune teller (? or calligrapher) squatting behind a mat laid out with various texts written in Chinese script.
Dates:
1910 - 1929
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
'Forty eight long hours', 1962
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/4/1
Scope and Contents
The description of violent clashes in a mining camp at Bukit Besi between Malayan Chinese labourers and northern Chinese labours recruited by the Japanese controllers of the mine. The confrontation was provoked by a gambling debt (4 pages).
Dates:
1962
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC47.
File
Foundation Day and The installation of His Excellency The Right Honourable Malcolm MacDonald as Chancellor of the University of Malaya, 8th October 1949, 1949
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 401/2
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).
Item
Foundation remains of St. Timothy’s Church, Tokyo, after 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/41
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.
Dates:
1923
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
'Foundation stones in Manoharpur'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 73
Scope and Contents
A memoir by Gerald Dickson based on his diaries, 270 pages, with an index at the back, 4 pages.
Dates:
1971
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
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Foundations of new hospital, Salt, 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 19/20
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.
Dates:
1937
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
Fountain, Eeing-daw-ya Pagoda Mandalay, 1870 - 1927
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/63
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).
Item
Fountain in the Esplanade Road, Bombay, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/963
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate.
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
Four Chinese women with babies on their laps, 1900 - 1920
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 32/21
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).
Sub-sub-class
Four documents, containing titles of kings and lists of the Buddhas, 1827 - 1838
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/48
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Burmese titles have been given both in transliteration (Duroiselle's system) and in transcription (Okell's system), and also in English translation.
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).
Item
Four Europeans and two dogs outside the factory of a tea and rubber estate in the southern province, 1898 - 1905
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/4/12
Scope and Contents
285 x 235 mm.
Dates:
1898 - 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).
Fonds
Four photographs of India, circa 1912
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022RR
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 150 x 115 mm, with pencilled captions on the reverse. The views show architectural remains in Bihar and Orissa. Photographs by Miss Mary F.A. Tench.
Dates:
1912
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
[Four warriors], 1870 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/10
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 - 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
Four year old rubber interplanted with tea, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/4/6
Scope and Contents
285 x 235 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).
Item
Four year old rubber interplanted with tea, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/4/7
Scope and Contents
285 x 235 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).
Item
Four year old rubber interplanted with tea, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/4/8
Scope and Contents
285 x 235 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).
File
'Four years in Australia', 1960 - 1969
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/3/13
Scope and Contents
A narrative of Mrs Holttum's experience as an evacuee in Australia between 1941 and 1945, where she sought refuge with her two children during the Second World War (36 sheets).
Dates:
1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8226C.
Item
Fourth tiger, 1906
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/3/17
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).
Item
F.P. Raynham. Dum Dum, 1931 - 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/14
Scope and Contents
54 x 78 mm. A man and a woman with two dogs.
Dates:
1931 - 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).
Item
[Frame of dhow], 1933 - 1947
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/48
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm.
Dates:
1933 - 1947
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
Francis Childers, 1886
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/20
Scope and Contents
Letters of condolence to H.C.E. Childers and Mrs. (Katherine) Childers on the death of Francis in India in 1886: from Sir M.E. Grant Duff, Mrs. Gladstone, Leontius Verempman [?], Lord Kenmare, Edward M. Young, F.E. Culling Carr (enclosing newspaper cutting), Godfrey Clerk, Herbert Somers Cocks (enclosing copy of letter from his sister in India), St. John F. Michell, M. Neuland [?]; copy to Childers to the Queen acknowledging her letter.
Dates:
1886
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
/
Childers papers
Series
Fraser's Hill, 1930 - 1937-07
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/669-722
Scope and Contents
Glass negatives of Fraser's Hill in Pahang. Corner visited there on holiday with his sister in July 1937. However, these photographs date back to an earlier visit in 1930.
Dates:
1930 - 1937-07
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
Fraser's Hill , 1928 - 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/43
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The majority of the photographs relate to the early stages of Sheppard’s career with the Malayan Civil Service. They illustrate his accommodation; varied range of work in Kuala Lumpur, Pahang, Perak and Terengganu; Malay and European colleagues; official events, military service, travel and recreation. A number of prints are uncaptioned and have been provided with tentative titles in square brackets and approximate dates. The images begin with Sheppard's arrival in Jan. 1928...
Dates:
1928 - 1929
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
Frasers Hill [Pahang], 1920 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/80
Scope and Contents
101 x 61 mm. A view looking across a well-tended lawn towards a bungalow on Frasers Hill.
Dates:
1920 - 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
Frasers Hill, Pahang, 1920 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/109
Scope and Contents
126 x 109 mm. Showing one of the bungalows on Frasers Hill, with jungle in the background.
Dates:
1920 - 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).