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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:

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Group [? At Kota Bahru], Kelantan, circa 1914, 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/16
Scope and Contents 293 x 241 mm. Showing a mixed European and Malay group seated along the edge of a tennis court, presumably during a championship match since there are a number of cups in front of the Sultan. The photograph was taken at the same location as BAM 6/14, although at a different season. Figures identified in the group are: Gordon Lupton HAM (1885-1965); Malayan Civil Service 1908-1941; Magistrate, Kota Bahru [i.e. Baharu]1913-1917; Resident, Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan 1937- ; William...
Dates: 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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[Group at Kuala Lumpur, circa 1884], 1884

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 4/11
Scope and Contents 265 x 208 mm (mounted on card). A group portrait showing Europeans, Chinese, Malays and Indians arranged (probably) in front of the Residency, Kuala Lumpur. Figures identified in Swettenham's hand beneath the print are: YAP AH SHAK (d 1889); Chinese businessman and trader; arrived in Kuala Lumpur 1870; Capitan China 1885-1889; Magistrate and High Court Assessor under British Administration; Dr Augustine W. SINCLAIR; formerly Medical Officer in Upper Sarawak, Borneo and Kinta, Perak;...
Dates: 1884
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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Group at Mysore, 1906-01-29 - 1906-01-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/173
Scope and Contents

Indian women by a tree.

Dates: 1906-01-29 - 1906-01-30
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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Group at Newera Ellia [Newara Eliya] during Jymkana/72 Sir W. Gregory, Governor, 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/68
Scope and Contents

278 x 220 mm. Group portrait of Europeans at the 1872 Nuwara Eliya Gymkhana. Sir William Henry Gregory (1817-1892), Governor of Ceylon 1872-76, is seated on the ground in the centre of the group.

Dates: 1872
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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[Group at prayer], 1870 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/46
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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Group by village water supply, 1900 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022UUUU/22
Scope and Contents

155 x 110 mm.

Dates: 1900 - 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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[Group by wall], 1936 - 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/12/45
Scope and Contents

130 x 85 mm. Showing two men, two women and a dog sat on stone slabs before a stone wall. Exact location unidentified.

Dates: 1936 - 1938
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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Group ceremony in St George’s Cathedral, 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/31
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167 x 120 mm. glossy print. Taken during the enthronement of the Most Rev. A. Campbell MacInnes, first Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, 30 Aug. 1957.

Dates: 1957
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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[Group in front of aeroplane], 1870 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/91
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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[Group in Kedah, 1929-1930], 1929 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/74
Scope and Contents 300 x 233 mm. Showing a mixed European and Malay group posed in front of a small building, possibly a cricket pavilion. The photograph is uncaptioned apart from a few identifications on the reverse which indicate the location and date given above: Tuanku BADLISHAH, Sultan of Kedah; SYED MOHAMMED IDID, Chief Magistrate; Thomas Watts CLAYTON (1877-), British Adviser; (Sir) Theodore Samuel ADAMS (1855-1961); Malayan Civil Service 1908-1937; acting Adviser, Lands, Kedah 1929-1930; Tuanku...
Dates: 1929 - 1930
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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Group including King George and the Maharaja

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 21/5
Scope and Contents

280 x 205 mm.

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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Group, Madras, 1906-01-24 - 1906-01-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/132
Scope and Contents

Indians and English children.

Dates: 1906-01-24 - 1906-01-28
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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[Group of 38 Chinese people (mostly children)], May 8.93, 7am, bright, no stop, counted 4, 1993-05-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/40
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...
Dates: 1993-05-08
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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Group of Aboriginal women, 1920 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/53
Scope and Contents

85 x 55 mm. Original.

Dates: 1920 - 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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[Group of Aboriginal women, ? 1950s], 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/68
Scope and Contents

156 x 110 mm. Showing a group of aboriginal women with painted faces in a village on the edge of the jungle.

Dates: 1950 - 1959
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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Group of Abors taken by Mr Noel Williamson Political Officer at Sadiya in the Brahaputra, 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/109
Scope and Contents

110 x 80 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 1901
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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Group of Afredees from the Khyber Pass, 1860 - 1865

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022D/50
Scope and Contents

295 x 210 mm. Group portrait of four Afridi warriors with their flintlock muskets, known as jezails, posed on the mud ramparts of a fort. A heavily reworked rendering of this print, entitled 'Mountaineers in action', is reproduced as an engraving in Louis Rousselet, ‘India and its native princes’ (London 1867 edn.) p. 506. Shepherd no. 1387.

Dates: 1860 - 1865
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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Group of Battaks, Low Melgup, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/16
Scope and Contents

354 x 267 mm. Showing a group of Battak men, women and children posed in front of a house. Precise location of Low Melgup is unidentified.

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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Group of Bhooteas, Himalayan Mountains, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B/98
Scope and Contents

289 x 228 mm. Duplicate of Y3022I/70.

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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Group of Bisaya boys from Loongban, on Padas river near Beaufort, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4316
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Showing a row of boys photographed from one side, with palm trees and thatched houses in the background].

Dates: 1909
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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Group of Brahuis, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/3/31/8
Scope and Contents

160 x 115 mm.

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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[Group of British officers, including Douglas and Indian NCOs] , 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/100
Scope and Contents

280 x 205 mm.

Dates: 1909
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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[Group of British officials, Johore, circa 1910], 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/3
Scope and Contents

292 x 141 mm (mounted on card).

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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[Group of British officials, Johore, circa 1910], 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/2
Scope and Contents 290 x 241 mm (mounted on card). A group portrait of eight European officials, three of whom are identified: Douglas Graham CAMPBELL (1866-1918); Malayan Civil Service 1883-1918; General Adviser, Johore 1910-1918 (died in office); (Sir Michael Henry WHITLEY (1872-1955); Malayan Civil Service 1896-1929; Legal Adviser, Johore 1910-1916; Attorney General Straits Settlements, 1925-1929; James William SIMMONS (1877-); Malayan Civil Service 1900-1932; Commissioner of Customs, Johore 1910-; later...
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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Group of Burmese by a boat on the edge of a river, with a girder bridge in the background, 1880 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029F/6
Scope and Contents

150 x 112 mm.

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).