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Asia (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16196 Collections and/or Records:

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Old villager casting her vote, 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/5/35
Scope and Contents

152 x 112 with 207 x 149 mm. enlargement. Location unidentified.

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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Old wall within the grounds of the British Yamen, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4499
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. [Showing rough ground with a tall tree beside the old wall with carving at the top].

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-02
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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Old Walls, Canton, 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/86
Scope and Contents

283 x 226 mill. View looking along the city walls towards the Five Storied Pagoda. Photographer unknown, possibly Dutton & Michaels.

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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Olive tree, Mr C.D. Cobham's garden, Larnaca [i.e. Lárnax]

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018E/1
Scope and Contents

156 x 211 mm. A view showing the gnarled olive tree in the garden of the 18th century consulate of the English Levant Company in Old Larnaca where Cobham lived for much of his time in Cyprus.

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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[Omar Ali Saifuddin, Sultan of Brunei, circa 1950], 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 7/54
Scope and Contents

160 x 215 mm. Head and shoulders portrait in European clothes of Omar Ali Saifuddin, Sultan of Brunei from 1950 until his abdication in favour of his son in 1967.

Dates: 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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On a coffee estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/67
Scope and Contents

290 x 175 mm. Platinum print. A view looking along a row of coffee bushes, with female pickers on ladders, and European overseers in the background.

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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On a double canoe on the Kela Gange river, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/150
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Starting from Ratnapura. [One European and other Cinghalese passengers]

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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On a tobacco estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/68
Scope and Contents

290 x 173 mm. Platinum print. A view looking across undulating land planted out with nearly ripe tobacco; with a European foreman dressed in white in the foreground.

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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On a tobacco estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/69
Scope and Contents

290 x 174 mm. Platinum print. Showing Chinese labourers planting out seedlings in the nursery beds.

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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On a tobacco estate in Sumatra [circa 1900], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/70
Scope and Contents

175 x 290 mm. Platinum print. Showing a labourer on a ladder removing the seed pods from a ripe tobacco plant.

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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On arrival, Calcutta, 1980 - 1986

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/5/18
Scope and Contents

229 x 178 mm. pen and ink sketch showing the arrival of a young man from Britain recruited to work on the Assam tea plantations during the late 1840s.

Dates: 1980 - 1986
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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On Bali Island, 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/76
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...
Dates: 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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On Bukit Kutu, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 11/18
Scope and Contents

Showing a forest path on Bukit Kutu.

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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On Bukit Putus, the pass between Seremban and Kuala Pilah, September 29, 1950, 1950-09-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/75
Scope and Contents

Showing A. V. Harvey and A. T. Lennox-Boyd with soldiers on Bukit Putus. They appear to be trying on military equipment.

Dates: 1950-09-29
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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On Coonoor Railway, 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/260
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 168-346 (originally there were 165). Added numbers are: 200A, 263A, 270A-D, 280A, 296A, 335A-B; spoiled: 234; not used: 170, 172, 173, 175, 199, 203, 204, 216, 226, 228, 240-242, 253, 255, 257, 258, 262, 300, 314, 325, 326, 334; missing: 333. Numbers 270A-D and 280A are by Hutchins. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 280A follows 337. Subjects covered in this album...
Dates: 1907-12
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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On horizontal tie, Bukkur, 200' above water, 1888-04-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30244A/37
Scope and Contents

295 x 240 mm.

Dates: 1888-04-24
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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On Kemaman River, Trengganu, 1927, 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/61
Scope and Contents

104 x 61 mm. A view from the Kemaman River in north-east Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu] looking toward a kampong on the bank. With a small sailing steamer in the foreground.

Dates: 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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On no 3 strut, Rori, 186' above the water, 1888-05-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30244A/38
Scope and Contents

245 x 290 mm.

Dates: 1888-05-24
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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On no 3 strut, Rori, above the water, 1888-04-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30244A/36
Scope and Contents

305 x 245 mm.

Dates: 1888-04-24
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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On river Chukai, Trengganu, 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/1
Scope and Contents

215 x 128 mm. Showing a quiet stretch of the river, with palms and other vegetation overhanging the edge of the water. The town of Chukai, the second largest in the state, is situated at the mouth of the Kemaman River, 75 miles south-south-east of Kuala Trengganu,[i.e. Terengganu] close to the Pahang border.

Dates: 1926
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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On road to Chaudanwara, 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Q/94
Scope and Contents From the Series:

An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

Dates: 1902 - 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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On the Bhore [Bhor] Ghat 15095, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/62
Scope and Contents

250 x 200 mm.

Dates: 1850 - 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).
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On the Brunei River, 1908-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4231
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

Dates: 1908-12
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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On the Dal Canal. Picking freshwater mussels, 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/49
Scope and Contents

78 x 108 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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On the Darjeeling Railway, Chinbatti Loop, 1907-12 - 1908-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/483
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Copy. [Photograph by Firebrace].

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).