Asia (continent)
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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Govt [i.e Government] House, Calcutta
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/297
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
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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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Grammatical notes of the Burman language, by Revd A. Judson, 1827 - 1838
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/32
Scope and Contents
17 sheet notebook.
Dates:
1827 - 1838
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Grammatophyllum specimen, 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/47
Scope and Contents
Detailed view of a flower head. Also known as 'sugar cane orchid.' When several feet tall, the plants resemble sugar cane.
Dates:
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).
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Grammatophyllum specimen, 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/48
Scope and Contents
Detailed view of a flower head. Also known as 'sugar cane orchid.' When several feet tall, the plants resemble sugar cane.
Dates:
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).
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Grand Arch near Kutab Minar (supposed to be the finest arch in the world), 1905-12-12 - 1905-12-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/118
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
Dates:
1905-12-12 - 1905-12-16
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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Grand Hotel, Calcutta, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/18
Scope and Contents
204x144mm. View from the Maidan looking towards the Grand Hotel, situated at 15-17 Chowringhee Road between Lindsay and Corporation Streets. A large four storey block, the hotel occupies the former site of a series of boarding houses run by a Mrs A. Monk and purchased from her by Mr. A. Stephen. These buildings apparently formed the nucleus of the Grand Hotel (Macmillan p.125, Massey p.98) although, according to Firminger pp.266, 268, Mrs. Monk was still running boarding houses at 14 and 15...
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).
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Grand Hotel, Yokohama [1890s], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/70
Scope and Contents
271 x 209 mm. View looking along the Bund at Yokohama, with the Grand Hotel at the right. The two storey brick building with wooden verandahs on both floors occupied the south eastern corner of the Yokohama waterfront.
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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Grand Poay [Han Pire] (Burmese Dance), 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/29
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255 x 199 mm. Showing a group of Burmese women dancers, with musicians at the right and spectators in the background. This photograph is reproduced in The Queen's Empire (1899) page 219 above the title 'A yein peve in Burma'. It is there stated that the photograph was taken in the course of a performance before Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, 'on the occasions of a visit paid by him to the Swah Dagan Pagoda during the course of his voyage round the world in company with his royal...
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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Grand Stand, Badulla Sports, 1883, 1883
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/95
Scope and Contents
227 x 175 mm. Showing a group of Europeans posed on the thatched grandstand at the Badulla sports. Two figures are identified by initials: Alexander himself, and J.G.M., probably J.G. Macfarlane, a planter on the Ormindale estate in the Maskeliya district.
Dates:
1883
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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Grasscutter, 1870 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/83
Scope and Contents
89 x 130 mm. Full length studio portrait of a Chinese man carrying bundles of grass on a pole.
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).
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Grave of the pet dog, 1908-02 - 1908-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/905
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Of the late Maharajah Ram Singh of Jaipur. In the Palace Garden. A tree Kachnar in blossom.
Dates:
1908-02 - 1908-03
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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Graves of Neil [sic], Lawrence, &c, Lucknow, 1864
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/43
Scope and Contents
297 x 238 mm. View showing a section of the north part of the Residency Cemetery. The grave of Brigadier General James George Smith Neill (1810-1857) and others is at the left. Sir Henry Lawrence (1806-1857) is buried to the right, behind the graves of Revd. Polehampton and his son, and Colour Sergeant Richard Springate. Other graves in the area can be identified from the plan in Edward Hilton, 'The tourists' guide to Lucknow' (5th edn., 1905).Bourne no. 1064.
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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Graving docks, 1946 - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 15/20
Scope and Contents
From the File:
An album of photographs, most measuring 205 x 55 mm, accompanied by a typed list, which has been reproduced.
Dates:
1946 - 1955
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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Gray’s hotel, Coonoor, 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/26
Scope and Contents
279 x 190 mm. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 200.
Dates:
1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Great Banyan Tree
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/253
Scope and Contents
Princess under the great banyan tree in the grounds of the Viceroy's country residence, Barrackpore
Conditions Governing Access:
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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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[Great Banyan Tree]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/254
Scope and Contents
Princess under the great banyan tree in the grounds of the Viceroys country residence, Barrackpore
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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Great Eastern Hotel, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/47
Scope and Contents
312x180mm. View of the hotel from the Waterloo Street end. The stone pediment and columns seen in Y3022AA/46 have not yet been added, however. Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman.
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).
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Great Eastern Hotel, as it is, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/46
Scope and Contents
190x121mm. View looking S. along Old Court House Street from the junction with British Indian Street, with the Great Eastern Hotel on the left. The major addition to the building is a stone pediment supported on four Tuscan columns in front of the main entrance, (Massey p.73).
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).
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Great Eastern Hotel, as it was, 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/44
Scope and Contents
147x97mm. View looking N. along Old Court House Street, with St Andrew's Church visible in the distance on the skyline, and the Great Eastern Hotel running along the right hand side of the road beyond the premises of Guthbertson and Harper. The frontage of the hotel occupies Old Court House Street between British Indian Street and Waterloo Street (seen here in the foreground). At the junction with these streets the building curves round, supported on Tuscan columns running through two...
Dates:
1880
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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Great Emambara & Mosque, Lucknow, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022U/24
Scope and Contents
295 x 212rnm. Duplicate of Y3022G 75. No. 1052.
Dates:
1860 - 1869
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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Great Imambara, Lucknow, 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/63
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...
Dates:
1920 - 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).
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Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Programme over the GIP Railways during Dec. 1905 and Feb. 1906, followed by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/1/29
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:
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).
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Great Indian Peninsula Railway time table special train, 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/3/25
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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Great Indian Peninsula Railway time table special train conveying Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/3/1
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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Great Mosque. Agra
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/181
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
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).