Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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Skinner's Road, Colombo, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022U/42
Scope and Contents
275 x 215 mm. View looking along Skinner's Road, an unsurfaced tree lined thoroughfare at the E side of the central portion of Colombo and running N to S in an arc from the harbour to the lake.
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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Skulls in a Kayan house, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/153
Scope and Contents
103 x 115 mm. Showing a row of skulls hanging from the rafters of a Kayan house, with men and children seated on the floor below.
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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'Slasher and Crasher’, Darjeeling, 1872, 1872
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/49
Scope and Contents
265 x 209 mm. Group portrait of figures dressed for a theatrical performance. Photograph taken in the same room, and probably on the same occasion as Y3022S/17. Figures identified are: Capt Lemessurier; Capt Henderson; Major Lance; Miss Vice [Vyse]; Major Woodward; Miss E. Judge.
Dates:
1872
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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Sleeping tents, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/133
Scope and Contents
202x137mm. Showing two small thatched houses set in cleared forest, probably at the same location as the elephant kraal.
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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Slip near Viaduct 1875, Colombo-Kandy Line, 1875
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/55
Scope and Contents
278 x 216 mm. View looking along the line towards where a group of labourers and Europeans are gathered round a breach in the line, probably caused by heavy rainfall. The viaduct referred to is the Allagalla Viaduct, 59.5 miles out from Colombo at a height of 1,120 feet above sea level (see Y303A/18). Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.
Dates:
1875
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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Slip on Sensation Corner in 1869, 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/54
Scope and Contents
218 x 277 mm. View looking along the line at Sensation Rock, where a major landslide has deposited large sections of the cliff above onto the track. This landslide took place on 14th July 1869 and interrupted services for 19 days. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.
Dates:
1869
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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Slopes of Chiltun, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/2
Scope and Contents
185 x 145 mm.
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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Sloths, 1950 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/17
Scope and Contents
129 x 79 mm. Showing a pair of Malayan sloths in the undergrowth.
Dates:
1950 - 1969
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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Small Burmese princess, 1885 - 1893
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/273
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates:
1885 - 1893
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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Small Cause Court, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/19
Scope and Contents
285x220mm. View from the junction of Hare Street and Bankshall Street looking towards the main entrance of the Small Cause Court, a terrace-roofed three storey building, with a rusticated ground storey above which columns of an indeterminate order flank the doors near the camera. Date of construction unknown, probably c.1910, (Massey p.69). Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman.
Dates:
1918
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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[Small holdings], 1941 - 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/13/44
Scope and Contents
90 x 130 mm. Showing closely grouped buildings, situated at the foot of the mountains, each with a small area of land fenced off with stone walls or wooden fences.
Dates:
1941 - 1944
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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Small Moulali Trimulgherry, 1900 - 1904
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/162
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Miscellaneous monochrome postcards of India. The majority of the photographers and publishers are unknown.
Dates:
1900 - 1904
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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Small shoot, Khair Island, near Hurdwar, Jan 1st 1900, 1900-01-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH/16
Scope and Contents
Group portrait of two European couples standing with the pile of birds they have shot; with an elephant and mahout in the background. The figures are identified as: Capt. & Mrs Pratt (I.M.S.), Mr & Mrs W-S, the photograph taken by Mr Hall. James John Pratt (b 1860) served in the Indian Medical Service 1883-1912. ‘W-S’ is possibly William Ward-Smith, Indian Public Works Department from 1872: in 1900 he was attached to the Irrigation Department.
Dates:
1900-01-01
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).
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Small temples at the Pagoda, 1906-01-13 - 1906-01-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 8/129
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints. This appears to have been an official record of the Royal Tour. Each page has a heading for the place and date and most photographs are captioned, probably by a professional calligrapher. The Prince of Wales Feathers are on the cover and 'The Royal Tour of India 1905-1906' on the spine. Locations and periods covered are: Bombay, 9 November- 14 November, 1905; Udaipur, 18 November - 29 November, 1905; Jaipur, 21 November-23 November, 1905; Lahore, 28 November-1...
Dates:
1906-01-13 - 1906-01-15
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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Small waterfall above Prini, 1866
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/21
Scope and Contents
296 x 243 mm. View of a waterfall cascading over a massive rock, with an Indian figure seated in the foreground. Bourne and Playfair remained at Prini for three days but, the weather being unfavourable, no photographs were taken. This picture is presumably of 'the pretty waterfall close by' which they came across while preparing to ascend the Humta Pass, (B.J.P., 24 December 1869, p. 613). Bourne no. 1440.
Dates:
1866
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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Smiler, 1875
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/79
Scope and Contents
119 x 95 mm. Showing a woman seated on a horse. The rider has been scratched out of the print.
Dates:
1875
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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Smoking out bears, Raipur, 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 19/95
Scope and Contents
137 x 93 mm.
Dates:
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).
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[Snake charmer], 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/11
Scope and Contents
76 x 56 mm.
Dates:
1931
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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[Snake charmer] - Delhi, Sunday morning, 1936 - 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/12/40
Scope and Contents
85 x 105 mm. A snake charmer playing a bamboo flute. There is a cobra on a blanket before him.
Dates:
1936 - 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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Snake charmers, 1908-01 - 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/585
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. On the Desasumay Ghat at Benares - a cobra, python, and other snakes.
Dates:
1908-01 - 1908-02
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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Snake charmers, 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/45
Scope and Contents
234 x 217 mm. Studio portrait of two Indian snake charmers playing to their snakes.
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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Snake charmers, 1870 - 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/19
Scope and Contents
140 x 94 mm. Showing three snake charmers seated on the ground practising their craft. Photographer
unknown, probably Scowen & Co.
Dates:
1870 - 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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Snake charmers
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/247
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
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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Snake charmers
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/248
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
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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Snake charmers
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/249
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
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).