Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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Selangor, 1880 - 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 4
Scope and Contents
Contains loose photographs by various photographers including G.R. Lambert and Co. depicting topographical views, particularly of Kuala Lumpur, historical events, and social life.
Dates:
1880 - 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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Selangor Club vs. S.C.C. Trophy Match, December 1940, 1940-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 4/40
Scope and Contents
191 x 144 mm. Showing the two rugby teams posed on the steps of the Selangor Club.
Dates:
1940-12
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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Selangor group 1907/09, 1907 - 1988
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031I/3
Scope and Contents
Group portrait taken on a formal occasion and showing the following figures standing (left to right) in a driveway in front of an unidentified building (not visible):Douglas Graham Campbell (1866-1918) began his career as a surveyor in the Selangor Public Works Department in 1883, later serving in the Land Office and as District Officer. In 1904 he was appointed British Resident, Negri Sembilan.Mrs. Mary Campbell. Wife of Douglas Campbell and daughter of Charles Spooner.Charles...
Dates:
1907 - 1988
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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Selangor succession, 1935-04 - 1937-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/2/13
Scope and Contents
This file contains material relating to the controversy over the succession of the state of Selangor. In response to direction from the British Government, the Sultan of Selangor, Alauddin Sulaiman Shah, passed over his eldest son and heir, Tengku Musa Eddin, in favour of his third son, Hisamuddin Alam Shah, who succeeded him in 1938. The file includes:1. ‘The charge against the Raja Muda’, which explains why the British Government considered him to be an unsuitable successor (4...
Dates:
1935-04 - 1937-03
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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Self-Government Agreed For Singapore, 1957-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/534
Scope and Contents
154 x 193 mm. Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, signs the report of the Singapore Conference at its final session in Lancaster House, London. On the right is Mr Lim Yew Hock, the Chief Minister of Singapore.
Dates:
1957-04
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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Self [unidentified] and Collins on yaks, 1900 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 34/21
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with limited, largely undated captions.
Dates:
1900 - 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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Selim Chisti's tomb, Futtehpoor Sikri, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/26
Scope and Contents
296x227mm. View looking north-east across the courtyard of the mosque at Fatehpur Sikri towards the marble tomb of Sheikh Selim Chisti and on the right, that of his grandson Sheikh Islam Khan.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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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Sellers of grain, 1908-02 - 1908-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/895
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. In front of the Custome House, Bikanir. Moth, Guaar, Moong, Bajara.
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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Selling bread, 1878
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018A/8
Scope and Contents
85 x 107 mm. Woodburytype. A portrait of an old woman seated on a chair, with a basket on her lap: 'In the features of this old dame, who earns her living by selling bread in Larnaca, there still linger traces of youthful comeliness. Her thin locks are silvered with age, and the years, as they dragged heavily along, have furrowed her brow. Yet her eye is clear and bright and wears a look of calm contentment ... She might, indeed, pass for an old Scotch crone ...' (Thomson 1879, vol.1,...
Dates:
1878
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
The volume is located at: RCS.Cob.18.121.
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Selling paper money in Mienchie [?] market, 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 19/8
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.
Dates:
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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Semangko Pass to the Gap, 1890 - 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 4/53
Scope and Contents
78 x 104 mm. Showing the road leading through the pass. Photograph by William Langham-Carter.
Dates:
1890 - 1925
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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Sensation Rock and Corner, Colombo-Kandy Line, 1867
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/53
Scope and Contents
211 x 265 mm. View looking along the line at Sensation Rock, with a locomotive just rounding the bend. At the left is a sheer drop, at the right a vertical cliff face. Beyond the Deckande Bank the line curves up and round the ‘Conical Hill’ on the Kadugannawa Incline near the top of which, at a height of 1300 feet, is Sensation Rock, so named from the sensation it induces that the train is about to plunge over the edge.
Dates:
1867
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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[Sensation Rock, Colombo-Kandy Railway], 1860 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022U/37
Scope and Contents
216 x 275 mm. Duplicate of Y303E/90. This print shows more of the surrounding rockface.
Dates:
1860 - 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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Sensation rock, Colombo line, 1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/32
Scope and Contents
252x210mm.
Dates:
1886
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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Sensation Rock on the Kadugannawa Incline, Kandy Railway, 1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 2/37
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of platinum prints, 280 x 225 mm, mounted in a volume bound in red leather with 'The Royal Visit to Ceylon April, 1901' and the Royal Arms on the front cover. They are by various photographers and record the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later H.M. King George V and H.M. Queen Mary) 12-15 April, 1901. The prints are mounted on cardboard pages and have printed captions, which have been recorded as found. They may include language which is...
Dates:
1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
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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Sensation Rock on the Kandy-Colombo Line, 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/21
Scope and Contents
212 x 276 mm. View looking along the line at the Kadugannawa Incline at Sensation Rock, with a locomotive rounding the bend in the track. Photograph by Scowen & Co.
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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Sepoy lines, Penang, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/53
Scope and Contents
275 x 208 mm. A view looking across an open stretch of grassland towards the Sepoy accommodation. Exact location unidentified, but probably at the western edge of George Town at the base of Penang Hill.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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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[Sequence of photographs of the Unveiling], 1905-03-17 - 1906-03-19
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 11/9
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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[Sequence of photographs of the Unveiling], 1905-03-17 - 1906-03-19
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 11/10
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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[Sequence of photographs of the Unveiling], 1905-03-17 - 1906-03-19
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 11/11
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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[Sequence of photographs of the Unveiling], 1905-03-17 - 1906-03-19
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 11/12
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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[Sequence of photographs of the Unveiling], 1905-03-17 - 1906-03-19
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 11/13
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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Serangoon Garden Estate: another view of St. Peter’s Church, 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/6/42
Scope and Contents
35 mm. negative.
Dates:
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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Serangoon Garden Estate, Chartwell Drive, 1950 - 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/6/40
Scope and Contents
158 x 105 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.
Dates:
1950 - 1960
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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Serangoon Garden Estate: St Peter’s Church, 1959, 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/6/41
Scope and Contents
156 x 109 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative
Dates:
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).