Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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Archaic Cypriot [sculptures], 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018F/1
Scope and Contents
211 x 158 mm. A studio photograph of statues of four males, carved in the archaic Cypriot style.
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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Archbishop Kyprianos. Hanged at Nicosia June 1821., 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018I/5
Scope and Contents
163 x 218 mm. Captioned by Cobham. Photographic copy of a head and shoulder portrait of Kyprianos, Archbishop (1810-21) and historian of Cyprus. Born around 1756, Kyprianos was killed during the 1821 massacre at Nicosia.
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).
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Archbishop Makarios as a novice, 1957 - 1974
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018J/3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of loose prints. All are 250 x 200 mm unless otherwise stated. There are brief typed captions on the backs of the prints, some of which have been elaborated or amended for this catalogue. Some of the prints are organised by subject: 12 - 19 concern the Turkish invasion and its aftermath; 20-26 are images of people and places; 27-28 concern antiquities.
Dates:
1957 - 1974
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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Archbishop Makarios unveiling a bust of Mahatma Gandhi, 1957 - 1974
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018J/8
Scope and Contents
In Nicosia in the presence of India's President Giri.
Dates:
1957 - 1974
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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Arches with statues of elephants by the waterside, Jagmandir Palace, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022II/14
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Udaipur
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Architectural photographs of India 1905, 1905
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 4
Scope and Contents
Contains prints measuring approximately 210 x 160 mm mounted in an album bound in padded red leather and inscribed on the front cover VM [Victoria Mary] surmounted by a coronet. The end papers have a label 'Bourne and Shepherd : Artists, Photographers and Publishers. Calcutta, Simla and Bombay'. This album deals with architectural views (with many close-up details) of buildings in Udaipur, Jaipur, Ajmir, Chitor, Mt Abu, Lahore, Amritsar, Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri.
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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Architectural photographs of India 1905, 1905
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 5
Scope and Contents
Contains prints measuring approximately 210 x 160 mm mounted in an album bound in padded red leather and inscribed on the front cover VM [Victoria Mary] surmounted by a coronet. The end papers have a label 'Bourne and Shepherd : Artists, Photographers and Publishers. Calcutta, Simla and Bombay.' This album deals with architectural views in Gwalior, Orchha, Lucknow, Mandalay, Rangoon, Trichinopoly [i.e. Tiruchchirappalli], Tanjore, Madura, Ellora, Ajanta, Benares, Nepal, Palitana,...
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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[Architectural remains, Sigiriya], 1870 - 1871
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/22
Scope and Contents
283 x 214 mm. Showing the entrance to what appears to be a rock temple, with cliffs rising above. Location unidentified, but possibly at Sigiriya, the 5th century rock fortress in the central province. Photograph probably by Joseph Lawton.
Dates:
1870 - 1871
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).
Sub-Series
Archives of Malayan Associations, 1942 - 1946
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30
Scope and Contents
These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.
Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).
Dates:
1942 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
Fonds
Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103
Scope and Contents
From 1952 to 1967 the Secretary of the Association was Hugh Bryson. He organised the accumulation of two important collections of historical material through the BAM. In 1960, in cooperation with the Royal Commonwealth Society, Bryson initiated the gathering of original documents - memoranda, diaries, correspondence - and the writing of special reminiscences by those with first hand experience of the geographic area covered by the Association. Subjects of particular significance include...
Dates:
1801 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Archway, dagaba and lat at Buddh Gaya, Behar [i.e. Bodh Gaya, Bihar], India, 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022RR/1
Scope and Contents
151 x 115 mm.
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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[Archway in Karachi], 1905-03-17 - 1906-03-19
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 11/15
Scope and Contents
340 x 290 mm.
Dates:
1905-03-17 - 1906-03-19
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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Archway, Kutab, 1905-12-12 - 1905-12-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/81
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints, of an approximate size of 80 x 100 mm, mounted on card, six to a page, in a padded black leather album inscribed on the cover India 1905-06 from C.C. and 'Photographs taken by Sir Charles Cust Bt. 1905-06' is written on the fly leaf in Queen Marys hand. Sir Charles Cust took this collection of amateur photographs while accompanying the Royal Party. Most of the photographs have elegant hand-written captiions, but these are not always very explicit - some portraying...
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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Areas of Tokyo devastated by 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/40
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.
Dates:
1923
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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[Areca Catechu (betel nut)], 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/62
Scope and Contents
167 x 211 mm. Showing a cluster of tall, slender betel nut palms growing on the banks of a river (possibly the Mahalia Ganga at Peradeniya Botanical Gardens).
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).
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[Areca catechu (Betel nut palm)], 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/67
Scope and Contents
210 x 278 mm. Showing betel nut palms growing among thick woodland vegetation on the bank of a river.
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).
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Areca catechu [betel nut palm], 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/81
Scope and Contents
112 x 211 mm. Showing a betel nut palm growing on the bank of a river, probably the Mahaweli Ganga at Peradeniya.
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).
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Arena for wrestling matches at Nabha, 1908-02 - 1908-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/865
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Seat for H.H. the Chief at the back of view.
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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Arjun Singh Bahadur, Raja Sir (1887-1924), 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O/57
Scope and Contents
124 x 173 mm. Raja of Narsingarh; succeeded 1896; ruled 1909-24. Full length seated portrait.
Dates:
1911
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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Armenian Street, Singapore, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/47
Scope and Contents
198 x 130 mm. A view looking south along Armenian Street from the junction with Stamford Road. In the left foreground are the premises of Wilson and Co. photographers. Possibly taken by Wilson and Co.
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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Armistice Day at Kuala Kubu [i.e. Kuala Kubu Baharu], Selangor, 11 November 1918, 1918-11-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031G/3
Scope and Contents
220 x 175 mm. Group of fourteen men, mostly in uniform, outside the Kuala Kubu Club after a parade to celebrate the end of the war. It is accompanied by a manuscript account of the episode by Mrs Le Fevre (whose husband is in the group) and letters from A.R. Mynott and H.T. Stiven (also present) completing the identifications of the group, which appears in a typed list on the back of the photograph.
Dates:
1918-11-11
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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Armistice Day K.L., 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/408
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The majority of the photographs relate to the early stages of Sheppard’s career with the Malayan Civil Service. They illustrate his accommodation; varied range of work in Kuala Lumpur, Pahang, Perak and Terengganu; Malay and European colleagues; official events, military service, travel and recreation. A number of prints are uncaptioned and have been provided with tentative titles in square brackets and approximate dates. The images begin with Sheppard's arrival in Jan. 1928...
Dates:
1945
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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Armistice Day parade at the Ipoh Club, 1921, 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/49
Scope and Contents
400 x 149 mm. A panoramic view showing the Malay Volunteer Infantry, the Malay States volunteer Rifles and the Police on parade at Ipoh Armistice Day 1921. At the head of the parade stands Lieutenant Colonel G.M.P. HORNIDGE M.C., whilst on the steps to the left are: Cecil William Chase PARR (1871-1943); British Resident, Perak 1921-1926; Raja Alang Iskander Shah (circa 1881-1938); Sultan of Perak 1918-1938; Raja Yusuf Bandahara; nephew of Sultan Iskandar; A.D.C. to the Sultan; Raja Chulan;...
Dates:
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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[? Armistice Day Parade] Singapore, The Padang, 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/100
Scope and Contents
145 x 100 mm. Showing troops on parade on the ground in front of the Europe Hotel, which has the word PEACE emblazoned on its frontage.
Dates:
1919
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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Armistice Day, Singapore, 1946, 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/102
Scope and Contents
147 x 122 mm. Showing officers and civilians on parade in front of the Singapore War Memorial. The Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson (1890-1975) stands at the head of the group.
Dates:
1946
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).