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Asia (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16196 Collections and/or Records:

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Refreshments for all, 1910 - 1929

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

195 x 139 mm. Showing a Chinese woman and two Indian men eating at a street stall.

Dates: 1910 - 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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[Refuelling steamer], 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/168
Scope and Contents

101 x 73 mm. Showing Burmese labourers carrying wood from a large stockpile at a steamer refuelling point.

Dates: 1895
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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Refugee children at school run by PNCC (Arab Church), 1949, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/70
Scope and Contents

156 x 113 mm. glossy print, with 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 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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Refugee family outside tent, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/71
Scope and Contents

97 x 80 mm. glossy print, with 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 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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Refugee schoolboys queuing for milk, 1949, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/101
Scope and Contents

130 x 115 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 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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Refugees fleeing from Yokohama during 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/31
Scope and Contents

Colour slide.

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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Refugees from Parit floods on hillside, 1926, 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/18
Scope and Contents

195 x 59 mm. Showing a group of Chinese children standing on a hillside beside the Perak River.

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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Refugees on Bukit Kechil, 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/52
Scope and Contents

155 x 102 mm. Showing refugees camped on the river bank after the 1926 flooding. Exact location unidentified, but a note on the reverse (in a different hand to the original caption) states that it is probably at Bukit Besar.

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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Regalia bearers of the Sultan of Selangor [1950s], 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/95
Scope and Contents

103 x 114 mm. Full length portrait of the four regalia bearers who accompany the Sultan on ceremonial occasions.

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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Regatta at Besut, Trengganu, 1920 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/73
Scope and Contents

97 x 72 mm. A close-up view of a long racing manned by about 26 Malays with paddles. Kuala Besut is situated at the mouth of the Besut River, 50 miles north-west of Kuala Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu].

Dates: 1920 - 1939
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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Regatta at Besut, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1920 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/74
Scope and Contents

98 x 65 mm. A distant view of a number of racing canoes.

Dates: 1920 - 1939
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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Regatta at Besut, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1920 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/75
Scope and Contents

81 x 51 mm. A side on view of a single racing canoe.

Dates: 1920 - 1939
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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Regatta at Besut, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1920 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/76
Scope and Contents

96 x 71 mm. A head on view of a racing canoe coming towards the camera.

Dates: 1920 - 1939
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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Regatta at Besut, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1920 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/77
Scope and Contents

81 x 50 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 1939
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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Regatta at Besut, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1920 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/78
Scope and Contents

81 x 52 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 1939
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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Reggy, Toots, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/78
Scope and Contents

73 x 58 mm. Showing dogs posed on a table.

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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Rejak, a Malay, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/123
Scope and Contents

104 x 147 mm. Head and shoulders portrait.

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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Related documents, 2008 - 2009

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 384/2
Scope and Contents A small file of copies of original documents accompanies the memoir. These include a telegram, a letter and the text of a radio message sent from William Ainslie to his wife Margaret informing her of his internment, and a postcard from another internee mentioning Ainslie. There is also a passenger list for SS ‘Nellore’, documents relating to the reception of Malayan evacuees in Australia, and a newspaper obituary for Dr Peter Chopping, who served with the RAMC and was interned in Singapore...
Dates: 2008 - 2009
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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Relations de l'Ambassade de M. de Chaumont à la Cour du Roy de Siam, 1686, 1825 - 1841

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/3/22
Scope and Contents

Translation. 4 pages.

Dates: 1825 - 1841
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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Religion, 1982

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E R
Scope and Contents

Though Singapore is a secular state, freedom of worship is enshrined in the constitution. The main religions are Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. Places of worship for these religions are found throughout the island.

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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[Remains at Sigiriya], 1870 - 1871

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/23
Scope and Contents

286 x 221 mm. View looking up towards stone walls, probably fortifications on the lower slopes of Sigirya, with a vertical rock face rising at the right. 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).
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Remains of Bông Bridge, Natkyngon, '95, 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/68
Scope and Contents

156 x 111 mm. Showing a partially dismantled, or destroyed, wooden bridge over a river. Precise location unidentified.

Dates: 1895
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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Remains of Col. Turner's House, 2 Wood St., 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/57
Scope and Contents

253x179mm. Showing the ruins of Colonel Turner’s house after the cyclone of 4-5 October 1864. The whole wall of one side of the two storey building has been destroyed, leaving the interior exposed. For personal accounts of the storm, see Massey pp. 28-36 and Samuel R. Elson, ‘Personal memories and reminiscences of the Calcutta Cyclone of the 5th October 1864’ (‘Bengal Past and Present’, vol.II, no.1, January 1908, pp.120-125).

Dates: 1864
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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Remains of St James's Theatre, Circular Rd., 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/58
Scope and Contents

247x179mm. Showing the ruins of the theatre after the 1864 cyclone, (Massey p.32).

Dates: 1864
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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Remains of the Temple of Venus. Kouklia, Paphos. Cyprus, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS.Cob.P.18.155/17
Scope and Contents From the File:

An album containing postcard views of Cyprus. The postcards are by a variety of photographers and publishers.

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).