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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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Street scene, Kota Bharu, Kelantan [1950s], 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/25
Scope and Contents

202 x 154 mm. View looking along a street lined with commercial premises.

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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Street scene, Kuala Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1927 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/35
Scope and Contents

74 x 79 mm. Showing a Malay woman walking along a street in Kuala Trengganu.

Dates: 1927 - 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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Street scene, Lahore, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/96
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...
Dates: 1920 - 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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[Street scene, Malaya, ? circa 1910], 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/77
Scope and Contents

92 x 66 mm. View from the street looking towards a Chinese eating house. Location unknown.

Dates: 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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[Street scene, Malaya, ? circa 1910], 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/82
Scope and Contents

92 x 66 mm. Showing Chinese traders at a street corner.

Dates: 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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Street scene [Singapore], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/27
Scope and Contents

273 x 213 mm. Showing Chinese and Malayan street hawkers gathered round a meat stall outside the tailoring establishment of Tong Cheong at the junction of Cross Street and South Bridge Road. Cross Street was also known as King Street by the Chinese and as Kampong Susu by the Malays.

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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[Street scene, ? Taiping, 1950s], 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/23
Scope and Contents

154 x 113 mm. View looking along a commercial street lined with Chinese shops, with an avenue of trees running along the centre of the road. Location unidentified, possibly Taiping.

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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Street scene, Udaipur, 1905-11-18 - 1905-11-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/185
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints, of an approximate size of 80 x 100 mm, mounted on card, six to a page, in a padded black leather album inscribed on the cover India 1905-06 from C.C. and 'Photographs taken by Sir Charles Cust Bt. 1905-06' is written on the fly leaf in Queen Marys hand. Sir Charles Cust took this collection of amateur photographs while accompanying the Royal Party. Most of the photographs have elegant hand-written captiions, but these are not always very explicit - some portraying...
Dates: 1905-11-18 - 1905-11-20
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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Street scene, Udaipur, 1905-11-18 - 1905-11-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/188
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints, of an approximate size of 80 x 100 mm, mounted on card, six to a page, in a padded black leather album inscribed on the cover India 1905-06 from C.C. and 'Photographs taken by Sir Charles Cust Bt. 1905-06' is written on the fly leaf in Queen Marys hand. Sir Charles Cust took this collection of amateur photographs while accompanying the Royal Party. Most of the photographs have elegant hand-written captiions, but these are not always very explicit - some portraying...
Dates: 1905-11-18 - 1905-11-20
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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Street scene with charcoal baskets in foreground, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/4/1
Scope and Contents

83 x 57 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative and 246 x 157 mm. enlargement.

Dates: 1966
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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[Street scene with donkey cart], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/124
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...
Dates: 1903
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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[Street scene/ornate buildings], 1936 - 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/12/59
Scope and Contents

80 x 135 mm.

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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Street side stroll in Benares [Varanasi], 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/4/11
Scope and Contents

83 x 57 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

Dates: 1966
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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[Street sweeper?], 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038E/31
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...
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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Street trishaw, 1960 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 23/146
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Collection of 150 film negatives with 14 prints. Numbers 1-51, all from Kashmir, have clear inscriptions. 52-86 were sent by David George Stevens, CMS Regional Secretary in Bombay, to Miss Pamela Meister, CMS Photo Librarian, during the early 1960s. Canon Stevens (1912-1976) was a CMS Missionary at Nashik and Aurangabad between 1938-1960 and CMS Representative for the Church of India, based at Bombay, 1960-1963. 83-86 are listed, the remainder have descriptive captions. 87-135 are covered by...
Dates: 1960 - 1962
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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Street view , 1930 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/477
Scope and Contents

The main street T. Malim. This was 5 ft. deep in water on the 14th June 1930.

Dates: 1930 - 1936
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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Street view, Bharatpur, 1880 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022K/1
Scope and Contents

241 x 160 mm. Views looking along a commercial street in Bharatpur, the roadway crowded with pedestrians, and with street traders seated on the ground with their wares. Goods for sale are also laid out on the tables beneath the shaded shop fronts which give out onto the street. Numbered '1892'.

Dates: 1880 - 1885
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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[Street view in Tanjore, with carved wooden car, 1860s], 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022U/30
Scope and Contents

321 x 188 mm. View looking along the street, with the carved stone representation of a wooden car in the right foreground and a goparam (entrance gateway) beyond. No. 2040.

Dates: 1860 - 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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Street view with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214C/19
Scope and Contents 226 x 157 mm. A view looking over dilapidated rooftops towards the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Frith comments: 'The ruined state of modern Jerusalem is strikingly brought before us in this view. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre has outside the aspect of a place long deserted ... The great square tower is seen to have partly fallen, the smaller, but loftier, towers to be decayed, and the chief dome to have l;ost half its outer covering ... The houses nearer us seem...
Dates: 1860
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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[Street water pump, Colombo], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/127
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...
Dates: 1903
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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Street with temple in Soerabaija, 1880 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30333A/8
Scope and Contents

277 x 186 mm. View looking along an unidentified street in Surabaya towards a temple at the further end.

Dates: 1880 - 1899
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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String of camels at Hardwar, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/752
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 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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[String of dead ducks], 1891 - 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/25
Scope and Contents

112 x 155 mm.

Dates: 1891 - 1892
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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[String of dead ducks], 1891 - 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/26
Scope and Contents

113 x 154 mm.

Dates: 1891 - 1892
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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[String of dead game birds], 1891 - 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/21
Scope and Contents

154 x 112 mm.

Dates: 1891 - 1892
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).