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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:

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An Indigenous house, 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302M/164
Scope and Contents

78 x 53 mm.

Dates: 1933
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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An inner Courtyard of the City Palace with richly decorated walls, including peacocks, enamelled and set with semi-precious stones, and tracery patterns, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022II/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of silver prints, originally in an album. No date or other details are known of the origin of the album. The photographs, of high quality, were taken by K.L. Syed, State Photographer, Palanpur, and show scenes in Udaipur, but there are no captions. Each print has a number preceded by 'V' on the back. Collections of photographs and published works have been used to caption these views of the complex of magnificent palaces and other buildings of and adjoining the Pichola lake,...
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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An interpreter's wife , 1870 - 1893

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/152
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 - 1893
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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An old official of the Burmese court: U Pi Se the town magistrate of Mandalay, 1885 - 1893

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/277
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: 1885 - 1893
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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‘An old time Malayan jury’, 1960 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/2/8
Scope and Contents

Clayton’s account of the last trial by jury held in the Federated Malay States. A man who had confessed himself guilty of murder was found to be innocent by a jury, whose members feared his ghost would haunt them if he were hanged (3 copies, 3 sheets).

Dates: 1960 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
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An Orang Bukit girl, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/45
Scope and Contents

104 x 148 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of a Klemantan woman of the Baram District. See also Y3035A/126.

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).
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An Orang Bukit woman, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/125
Scope and Contents

148 x 103 mm. Half-length profile portrait of the woman seen in Y3035A/45.

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).
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An Orang Bukit Woman, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035G/16
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Glass plate slides to illustrate a talk given by Cunynghame to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. A transcript of the lecture, comprising a title page and 58 pages of text, is stored at RCMS 63/22.

Dates: 1912
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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'An Unforgettable Hari Raja', 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/13
Scope and Contents

An account of personal misadventures coinciding with the Muslim festival in Ipoh during the 1930s (2 copies, 6 sheets).

Dates: 1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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An unwilling captive, 1905 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/58
Scope and Contents

A camel.

Dates: 1905 - 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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An unwilling elephant, 1906-01-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/141
Scope and Contents

[Karapur and elephant keddah]

Dates: 1906-01-31
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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Ananas plantation, Buona Vista Road, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 17/11
Scope and Contents

208 x 138 mm.

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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Ananda Pagoda, 1907-12 - 1908-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/415
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. The west side. [Showing intricated carving].

Dates: 1907-12 - 1908-01
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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Ananda Pagoda, Pagan, 1903 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029E/19
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album containing photographic prints and coloured reproductions. Prints 2-62 are coloured reproductions from Kelly, R. Talbot (1905) Burma painted and described, London : Adam and Charles Black. The remainder are original photographs by Thomas Harry Goldsworthy Stevens. The prints mainly measure approximately 100 x 75 mm, although some are larger. The album is interleaved with sheets on which are typed captions, up to print 261. Photographs beyond this point are uncaptioned. The...
Dates: 1903 - 1921
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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Ananda Pagoda, Pagan, Burma [i.e. Myanmar], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/127
Scope and Contents

Showing a print of a painting. The painting is signed 'F.M. Muriel'. The postcard is printed by Sir Joseph Causton and Sons Ltd. Annotated 'B3' in bottom right-hand corner.

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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Anantnag Hospital: arrival of two ‘wants’ boxes, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/1/2
Scope and Contents

158 x 115 mm. glossy print with 84 x 58 mm. negative.

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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Anantnag Hospital: at the Dispensary Counter, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/1/5
Scope and Contents

154 x 109 mm. matt print with 35 mm. negative.

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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Anantnag Hospital: Compounder Jana Begam with her husband and family, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/1/3
Scope and Contents

108 x 157 mm. glossy print with 57 x 83 mm. negative.

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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Anantnag Hospital: Dr. Noel Fletcher reassuring a Kashmiri mother, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/1/7
Scope and Contents

154 x 109 mm. matt print with 35 mm. negative.

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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Anantnag Hospital: In-Patient block in background, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/1/10
Scope and Contents

88 x 56 mm. negative.

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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Anantnag Hospital: interlude in the morning’s work, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/1/8
Scope and Contents

109 x 154 mm. matt print with 35 mm. negative.

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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Anantnag Hospital, Kashmir: Miss Marjory Eleanor Cruse at filing cabinet, 1950 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 23/46
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Collection of 150 film negatives with 14 prints. Numbers 1-51, all from Kashmir, have clear inscriptions. 52-86 were sent by David George Stevens, CMS Regional Secretary in Bombay, to Miss Pamela Meister, CMS Photo Librarian, during the early 1960s. Canon Stevens (1912-1976) was a CMS Missionary at Nashik and Aurangabad between 1938-1960 and CMS Representative for the Church of India, based at Bombay, 1960-1963. 83-86 are listed, the remainder have descriptive captions. 87-135 are covered by...
Dates: 1950 - 1972
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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Anantnag Hospital, Kashmir: Miss Marjory Eleanor Cruse checking in new equipment with compounder, 1950 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 23/49
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Collection of 150 film negatives with 14 prints. Numbers 1-51, all from Kashmir, have clear inscriptions. 52-86 were sent by David George Stevens, CMS Regional Secretary in Bombay, to Miss Pamela Meister, CMS Photo Librarian, during the early 1960s. Canon Stevens (1912-1976) was a CMS Missionary at Nashik and Aurangabad between 1938-1960 and CMS Representative for the Church of India, based at Bombay, 1960-1963. 83-86 are listed, the remainder have descriptive captions. 87-135 are covered by...
Dates: 1950 - 1972
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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Anantnag Hospital, Kashmir: Miss Marjory Eleanor Cruse checking money in the safe, 1950 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 23/45
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Collection of 150 film negatives with 14 prints. Numbers 1-51, all from Kashmir, have clear inscriptions. 52-86 were sent by David George Stevens, CMS Regional Secretary in Bombay, to Miss Pamela Meister, CMS Photo Librarian, during the early 1960s. Canon Stevens (1912-1976) was a CMS Missionary at Nashik and Aurangabad between 1938-1960 and CMS Representative for the Church of India, based at Bombay, 1960-1963. 83-86 are listed, the remainder have descriptive captions. 87-135 are covered by...
Dates: 1950 - 1972
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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Anantnag Hospital, Kashmir: Miss Marjory Eleanor Cruse counting the cash, 1950 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 23/44
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Collection of 150 film negatives with 14 prints. Numbers 1-51, all from Kashmir, have clear inscriptions. 52-86 were sent by David George Stevens, CMS Regional Secretary in Bombay, to Miss Pamela Meister, CMS Photo Librarian, during the early 1960s. Canon Stevens (1912-1976) was a CMS Missionary at Nashik and Aurangabad between 1938-1960 and CMS Representative for the Church of India, based at Bombay, 1960-1963. 83-86 are listed, the remainder have descriptive captions. 87-135 are covered by...
Dates: 1950 - 1972
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).