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Asia (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:

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At the Tamu on the Inanam River, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4387
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [A crowd of traders].

Dates: 1909
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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At the top of the Ghat, Oudaipur, 1908-02 - 1908-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/914
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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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Atago Yama Tokio, 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/134
Scope and Contents

269 x 209 mm. View from a terrace looking out across Tokyo. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Atap palms, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/43
Scope and Contents

224 x 214 mm. Showing atap palms growing beside a river or pool with a European bungalow (largely obscured by vegetation) 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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Atrai Bridge, N.B.S.R., 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/20
Scope and Contents

209 x 142 mm. View looking along the Atrai River towards the girder bridge, seen here under construction, with scaffolding supports still in place between the masonry piers. See also Y3022S/35, 47, 48.

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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Atrai Bridge, N.B.S.R., 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/47
Scope and Contents

207 x 145 mm. View looking along the Atrai Bridge during construction with the girder spans in place, but the track as yet unconnected. See also Y3022S/20, 35, 48.

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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Atrai Bridge, N.B.S.R., 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/48
Scope and Contents

209 x 138 mm. Side view of the bridge, with scaffolding supporting the girder spans.

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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Attempting to re-capture a truculent cow which has escaped from the inner stockade. (The cow can be seen in the middle of the picture

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 29/28
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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[? Attorney Generals Department, Straits Settlements, 1925-1929], 1925 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/6
Scope and Contents

279 x 229 mm (mounted on card). Uncaptioned and without identification. A group portrait. The central figure is Sir Michael Henry WHITLEY (1872-1959), Attorney General of the Straits Settlements from 1925-1929 and the group, which only includes one other European, probably shows members of his staff.

Dates: 1925 - 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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Atunda-Olu School for the Handicapped: two boys on climbing frame, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/138
Scope and Contents

80 x 120 mm. glossy print, with two 94 x 154 mm. copies.

Dates: 1967
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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Auckland from the wharf, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/2
Scope and Contents

146 x 199 mm. A view looking past the prow of a sailing ship towards the shores of Auckland Harbour. Details on the shoreline are considerably faded, but the church on the skyline is probably St Paul’s.

Dates: 1880
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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Audience Hall, Pollannaruwa, 8th century seat of Government, 1870 - 1871

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/8
Scope and Contents

287 x 225 mm. Showing a clearing in the overgrown ruins of Polonnaruwa, with the square columns of the Audience Hall standing at the top of a small knoll.

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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Auranzeb's Road, New Delhi. 'Pinney' & Madge Pinhorn, 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/129
Scope and Contents

79 x 54 mm. Two men and two women.

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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A.U.T.C., Dornakal: Mrs. Hanson taking a wives’ sewing class, 1952, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/19
Scope and Contents

158 x 113 mm. matt print with 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1952
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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A.U.T.C., Dornakal: the chapel, 1952, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/18
Scope and Contents

158 x 133 mm. matt print with 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1952
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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Auto mail service, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 17/81
Scope and Contents

80 x 156 mm. Showing two mail lorries halted on a jungle road (probably the Kuala Kubu road).

Dates: 1909
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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Autobiographical note, 1903 - 1961-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/3/4
Scope and Contents

Memoir by A.R. Chancellor of his service with the colonial police in Barbados and the Straights Settlements (7 sheets), with correspondence relating to its acquisition. There is a second brief note entitled 'My two adventures with crocodiles', probably also written by Chancellor.

The file contains two photographs, the first of Chancellor as C.P.O. Malacca [Melaka], taken in 1905, and the second of a Melakan police constable in 1903.

Dates: 1903 - 1961-07
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8226C.
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Autograph letters, 1890 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/11
Scope and Contents

A collection of autograph letters with a list compiled by Bell. Those of particular interest include eight letters from Neville Chamberlain, whom Bell met in the Bahamas in 1895, and nine letters from Robert Dolbey, the army medical officer and Professor of Surgery at the University of Cairo, whom Bell appointed as his literary executor (circa 150 sheets).

Dates: 1890 - 1937
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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Avenue leading to H.E. The C. in C's camp, 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 16/6
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains prints by J and H King of Simla bound in padded red leather album inscribed on the cover: 'Presented to Her Royal Highness: The Princess of Wales: Rawalpindi Manoeuvres and Review 5th-8th December 1905.' The prints, 290-300 x 195-230 mm unless otherwise stated, are mounted on cardboard pages with printed captions.

Dates: 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08
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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Avenue leading to Royal residence, Gujner, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/61
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints the majority of which are circa 290 x 215 mm., but 4-6, 9-18, 20-27, 51-55, 91-94, and 96-98 are approximately 140 x 100 mm. Nos. 4-27, 51 are scenes of the Royal Visit in November 1905, 19-26 being triumphal arches. The other subjects are the Maharajah and his family (1-3), Lallgarh Palace (28-50), Gujner (52-64), the Old Palace (65-82, 85), Bikaner City (83-84, 891-98 and Bikaner forces (89-90). There are printed captions: the collection is in a richly bound album...
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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Avenue leading to Shalimar [Srinagar], 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/30
Scope and Contents

97 x 108 mm. View looking along the chenar-lined road leading from Srinagar to the Shalimar gardens on the northeast corner of the Dal Lake. Photograph by Bourne, no. 671.

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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Avenue of cabbage palms (Oreodoxaoleracea), Peradeniya Gardens, 1880 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/73
Scope and Contents

211 x 278 mm. View looking along a sweeping avenue of cabbage palms in the Royal Botanical Gardens 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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Avenue of Palmyrah palms, Borassus filabelliformis [Peradeniya Gardens], 1890 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/166
Scope and Contents

130 x 91 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 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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Avenue of royal palms, Oreodoxa regia [Peradeniya Gardens], 1890 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/165
Scope and Contents

145 x 107 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 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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Avenue of talipot palms, Corypha umbraculifera [Peradeniya Gardens], 1890 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/164
Scope and Contents

105 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 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).