Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Alice in Wonderland, 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/59
Scope and Contents
184 x 125 mm. A cutting containing a photograph of the cast of 'Alice in Wonderland' at the Black Heart Ball in Simla. There is a description below, including the names of those featured in the photograph.
Dates:
1940
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
Alistair W. Hay Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 369
Scope and Contents
The collection includes copies of letters written by Hay to family and friends. Three describe his work with the Protectorate, colleagues, travel and leisure and are dated 1923, Canton; 1929, Taiping; and 1933, Kuala Lumpur (17 sheets). A second series of letters dating from 1940-42 narrates Hay’s wartime experience (57 sheets). The collection includes a copy of a photograph showing a memorial plaque honouring Hay and other members of the Chinese Protectorate who lost their lives...
Dates:
2007
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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All in, releasing the trapdoor
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 29/11
Scope and Contents
290 x 90 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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All Malayan Camp for PLs and 2nds Tanjong Bruas, Malacca [i.e. Melaka] May 1933, 1933-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031F/4
Scope and Contents
290 x 230 mm. 'Standard carried by a Jap, 2 supporters Chinese' [historic caption]. This was Mrs. Cavendish's farewell to Malayan Guiding.
Dates:
1933-05
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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All Saints’ Church, Srinagar, Apr. 1969, 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/77
Scope and Contents
106 x 82 mm glossy print.
Dates:
1969
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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All smiles by Sisters-in-Law, 1960 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/74
Scope and Contents
151 x 113 mm. Showing three Malays and a Chinese woman posing for the photographer in the street, probably in Kuala Lumpur.
Dates:
1960 - 1969
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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All Souls Memorial Church, Cawnpore, 1908-01 - 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/644
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). The low evergreen hedge marks the line of Gen. Wheelers entrenchments: to the left the hedge is V shaped, marking the redan, a check against the cavalry attack. (Fisher).
Dates:
1908-01 - 1908-02
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).
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All students are taught to be effectively bilingual in English and their mother tongue - be it Tamil, Malay or Chinese, 1982
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E E/1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Education in Singapore is tailored to meet the needs of the people as well as the economy. It caters for the inclinations, aptitudes and interests of pupils by streaming them into academic studies, vocational training or apprenticeship schemes.The school curriculum stresses bilingualism (English plus mother tongue is compulsory), science, mathematics, moral and social values and extra-curricular activities.There are 297 primary schools, 116 secondary schools, 22 full schools...
Dates:
1982
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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All taken at Kutab Minar Delhi, 1905-12-12 - 1905-12-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/126
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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All taken at Kutab Minar Delhi, 1905-12-12 - 1905-12-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/127
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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[Allagalla Mountain], 1867
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A/19
Scope and Contents
204 x 165 mm. (two prints joined) General view of Allagalla Mountain, with the line of the railway visible on the lower slopes: ‘Messrs. Slinn's view of Allagalla is faithful as a representation of the mass, but as a picture we feel that it somewhat wants a relieving foreground. It is all mountain except a tree in the near foreground, the effect of which is beautiful; branches and leaves - the very stamens of the flowers apparently coming out in exquisite relief against the mountain side and...
Dates:
1867
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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Allagalla Mountain, 1867
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A/20
Scope and Contents
173 x 104 mm. Similar view to Y303A/19 but with the foreground tree in the centre of the photograph.
Dates:
1867
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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Allagalla Mountain, 1867
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A/21
Scope and Contents
170 x 99 mm. General view of the mountain, from a similar view to Y303A/19-20, but without the tree in the foreground and showing more clearly the line of the railway round the mountain.
Dates:
1867
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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Allagalla Viaduct, 1867
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A/18
Scope and Contents
204 x 146 mm. Side view of the Allagalla Viaduct: ‘at 59.5 miles and about 1120 feet above sea-level - the Viaduct almost the only work of the kind on the line, being about 300 feet long, and consisting of 5 arches each 40 feet span by 45 in height. It is a well-finished picturesque piece of work, with its Incline and 20 chain curve, but the poor fellow, a Scotchman, who superintended the masons, died before its completion, from disease caught on the spot; of this well-executed viaduct of...
Dates:
1867
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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Allahabad Cathedral, 1966
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/4/30
Scope and Contents
83 x 57 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.
Dates:
1966
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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[Alliance Bank of Simla, Fancy Lane, Council House Street], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/22
Scope and Contents
170x247mm. View of the four storey brick building of the Alliance Bank of Simla, situated in Fancy Lane at the N. end of Council House Street. Date of construction unknown, (Massey p.89). Photographer unknown, probably Johnston &Hoffmann.
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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[Allied Forces], 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/15/194
Scope and Contents
107 x 74 mm. Members of the forces being served food, presumably at their canteen in New Delhi, photographed between 1941 and 1947.
Dates:
1944
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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Allied Forces' canteen, 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/15/195
Scope and Contents
145 x 107 mm. Four seated officers reading, with a woman in the background, presumably taken in Delhi.
Dates:
1944
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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Allied Forces' canteen. New Delhi, 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/15/189
Scope and Contents
110 x 89 mm. Members of the forces seated at table, photographed between 1941 and 1947.
Dates:
1944
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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Alma Tapioca estate from the Managers house, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/62
Scope and Contents
240 x 180 mm. A view across a garden, over a river and towards land planted out with tapioca.
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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Almorah [Almora], 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/10
Scope and Contents
203 x 238 mm. View looking along the ridge at Almora, with bungalows dotting the hillside and a fort in the distance. It was famed as a resort for those suffering from lung afflictions and later a station for the Gurkhas. Photograph by Sashe, no. 484.
Dates:
1870 - 1879
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
Alompra's route up the Erawadi, 1827 - 1838
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/9/12
Scope and Contents
Lists days' marches and halts (2 pages).
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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Alor Star , 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/420
Scope and Contents
Kedah.
Dates:
1932
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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Alor Star, Kedah [circa 1910], 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/27
Scope and Contents
136 x 85 mm. A postcard view (original print) showing a group of Malays standing beside a dead crocodile.
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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Alstonia scholaris, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/425
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Photographs of trees, most are of Terengganu, some of Kelantan. The photographs are in good condition and measure approximately 65 x 65 mm.
Dates:
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).