Asia (continent)
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Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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Sitting room, Lallgarh Palace, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/46
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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Situpati, Raja, 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O/137
Scope and Contents
118 x 176 mm. Raja of Ramnad (Madras); succeeded 1873; ruled 1888-. Three quarter length standing 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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Six part panorama of Bombay Part 1 15041, 1850 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/8
Scope and Contents
246 x 198 mm. View looking north over the rooftops of Bombay from the tower of St Thomas’ Cathedral. In the centre of the print, running north, is Bazar Gate Street, with the NE corner of the Maidan visible at the top left of the photograph. This print forms the central portion of a six part panorama of the city from the cathedral extending 180°. Y3022A/12, 13, 8, 10, 11, 9 provide a continuous view from west to east.
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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Six part panorama of Bombay Part 2 15042, 1850 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/9
Scope and Contents
250 x 200 mm. View looking ESE from the Cathedral tower, with the Green in the foreground and shipping at anchor in the harbour beyond.
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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Six part panorama of Bombay Part 3 15043, 1850 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/10
Scope and Contents
251 x 199 mm. View looking NE from the Cathedral tower over the rooftops and towards the harbour. Cross Island is visible in the distance. The section of harbour seen here was largely reclaimed for docks in the following years.
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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Six part panorama of Bombay Part 4 15044, 1850 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/11
Scope and Contents
251 x 200 mm. View looking east from the Cathedral tower, over the Green and towards the Town Hall and Harbour. The Town Hall is in the centre of the print and facing the Cathedral across the Green. Designed by Colonel Thomas Cowper of the Bombay Engineers and financed partly by subscription and partly by government funding it was built between 1820 and 1833. Behind the Town Hall parts of Bombay Castle are to be seen while to the left is the Mint, designed by Major John Hawkins of the Bombay...
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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Six part panorama of Bombay Part 5 15045, 1850 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/12
Scope and Contents
251 x 200 mm. View looking west from the Cathedral tower, over the rooftops and towards Black Bay. Church Lane runs across the picture in the foreground with the junction with Church Gate Street at the right. In the centre middle distance is Outer Church Gate Street with the Esplanade beyond. Photograph reproduced in Edwardes, vol 2, p1 173 and there dated 1864.
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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Six part panorama of Bombay Part 6 15046, 1864
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/13
Scope and Contents
251 x 200 mm. View looking NW from the Cathedral tower. Church Gate Street runs into the print at the bottom left hand corner and forms a junction with Cowasjee Place Street. Looking over the roof tops the open space of the Maidan can be seen, a triangular area bounded by Esplanade, Waudby and Esplanade Cross Roads. At the furthest corner of the Maidan, the Money Institution can be identified, at this period unsurrounded by other buildings (compare with Y3022GG/9).Beyond the Maidan are the...
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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Sixth form class at the Bishop Gobat School in Jerusalem, 1906 - 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 33/52
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
Dates:
1906 - 1938
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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Sixth Station, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Israel/15
Scope and Contents
Title is in English, French, Italian and German. Numbered '37' on the reverse.
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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Sixth Station, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Israel/14
Scope and Contents
Title is in English, French, Italian and German. Numbered '37' on the reverse.
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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Skating rink, interior and exterior, Mussoorie, 1890 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH/23
Scope and Contents
Postcard view by T.A. Rust.
Dates:
1890 - 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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Skeleton tour of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/1/17
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of programmes, invitations, menus, photographs and other material issued in connection with the Royal Visit to India during 1905-1906.
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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Sketch map of the Siamese States between Bankok [sic] and Queda, 1825
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/4/16
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Archives created by the British soldier and diplomat Henry Burney relating to his service in Burma [Myanmar] and Siam [Thailand]. The cataloguing of the collection has occurred in several stages. In 1921, the RCI Librarian Evans Lewin listed the main English language material in four series, assigning each a letter, A to D. In 1958, Dr D.K. Wyatt examined the Siamese material, including some as yet uncatalogued European material. He listed it in three sections, with the letters E, F, and...
Dates:
1825
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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Sketch maps, route maps, and miscellaneous notes, 1825 - 1841
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/31
Scope and Contents
5 sheets.
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).
File
Sketch of routes between Martaban, Tavoy and Bangkok by Capt. H. Burney, Envoy to the Court of Siam, 1827
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/9/9/1
Scope and Contents
Ink and colour, 410 x 330 mm. With note: 'This sketch is taken from several sketches & descriptions furnished by native Christian Burmese & Siamese travellers.' Place names are entered in both Thai and Burmese forms. There are also notes concerning Lieutenant Shortland's journey in 1827 from Martaban to Three Pagodas.
Dates:
1827
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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Sketch of routes between Martaban, Tavoy and Bangkok by Capt. H. Burney, Envoy to the Court of Siam, 1827
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/9/9/2
Scope and Contents
Ink and colour, 410 x 330 mm. A neater but identical copy of RCMS 65/9/9/1.
Dates:
1827
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).
Fonds
Sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 96
Scope and Contents
'A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom', the last independent state in Sri Lanka, which had its capital at Kandy, c. 1835, 186 pages; a memorandum on the law of inheritance, 30 pages; rules for administering justice, 25 pages; Sir John Doyley's notes on the Kandyan law of inheritance, 8 pages; Singhalese law of inheritance, etc., 47 pages; and notes on the law of marriage, etc., 30 pages.
Dates:
1835
Conditions Governing Access:
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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Sketches from ‘The Illustrated London News’, 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/5/8
Scope and Contents
240 x 320 mm. A series of six drawing illustrating an English mercantile agent’s visit to China to taste, price and buy teas for the British market.
Dates:
1888
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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Sketches from ‘The Illustrated London News’, 1874-08-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/5/11
Scope and Contents
255 x 375 mm. A series of eight drawings portraying the sowing of tea seeds, the cultivation of the plant, and the picking, sifting, separating, rubbing and cooling of the leaves after steaming in Japan.
Dates:
1874-08-01
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).
Fonds
Sketches in India : taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency, London : Lovell Reeve, 1862
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022F
Scope and Contents
The book consists of a frontispiece and 100 prints, each measuring 74 x 72mm. The images, which are pasted in opposite text by C.R. Weld, appear to be halves of stereo pairs. The pages are not consecutively numbered and the volume is divided into five sections: scenery and antiquities at Golconda (1-12); miscellaneous tombs and temples (13-19); views at Hyderabad and Secunderabad (20-34); sketches illustrating English life in India (35-47); sketches of people and portraits of noblemen...
Dates:
1862
Conditions Governing Access:
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
Sub-Fonds
Sketches of buildings in Lahore, 1919 - 1928
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 63/5
Scope and Contents
Six pen and pencil sketches presumably by Colonel Cooper, all but two of which are undated. There are two accompanying letters, 9 and 10 July 1968, regarding the transfer of the collection to the R.C.S.
Dates:
1919 - 1928
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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Asia miscellanea
Sub-Fonds
Sketches of the University of Hong Kong, 1951 - 1964
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 63/24
Scope and Contents
Fourteen undated sketches depicting views of the University of Hong Kong, many of which have since disappeared under high-rise developments. Twelve of the sketches are incorporated into Christmas cards from F.S. and D.M. Drake. The sketches are presumably from Drake's time as Professor of Chinese. There is an accompanying letter from Bernard Drake to T.A. Barringer, R.C.S. Librarian, 7 December 1996.
Dates:
1951 - 1964
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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Asia miscellanea
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Skinner's Church; Delhi, 1860 - 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022VVVV/5
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of photographs, each 250 x 190 mm, probably dating from the late 19th century. The prints are captioned in pencil on the back and the titles transcribed in the catalogue.
Dates:
1860 - 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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Skinners horse, 1905 - 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/32
Scope and Contents
Major H.L. Roberts, Hon. A.D.C. [Location unknown].
Dates:
1905 - 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).