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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:

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The Central Railway Station, Madras, 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/245
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. From below the Central Station Bridge. [The Central Railway Station was commissioned in 1866 and was completed two years later].

Dates: 1907-12
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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The Ceylon Government Lascoreen Guard-of-Honour arriving at Richmond Castle ; to the services of this Guard, only the Highest Sinhalese Chiefs are entitled

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 28/5
Scope and Contents

360 x 260 mm (hand-coloured).

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

The Ceylon War Council, 1942

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303J
Scope and Contents 216 x 144 mm. The photograph is a group portrait of the members of the Ceylon War Council. The only figures identified are the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Andrew Caldecott (fourth from the left in the front row) and Brigadier Sir Patrick Alexander Bruce McKerron of the Malayan Civil Service. McKerron was seconded as Political Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon during the Second World War. The National Archives in Colombo, Sir Lanka, holds another copy of this image. The...
Dates: 1942
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).
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The chamberlain, 1905 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/138
Scope and Contents

[Exact location untraced].

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).
 File

'The changing matralineal society in Negri Sembilan', 1949 - 1966-06-18

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/7/6
Scope and Contents

This paper was written as part of a course on Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics during 1948-49. The file also includes correspondence between Gullick and Hugh Bryson (250 sheets).

Dates: 1949 - 1966-06-18
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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The chapel of Alwaye Union Christian College, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/16
Scope and Contents

114 x 158 mm. matt print with 46 x 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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The Chappa Rift, 1908-02 - 1908-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/889
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). And Duchess of Connaught Bridge. The correct name of the bridge is her two christian names. (Fisher).

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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The Chappa Rift, 1908-02 - 1908-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/890
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. And Duchess of Connaught Bridge.

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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The Char Minar Hyderabad, 1900 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022UUUU/13
Scope and Contents

220 x 290 mm.

Dates: 1900 - 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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The Chatter Minzil (“Umbrella Palace”) on the Gomti River, Lucknow, 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Q/21
Scope and Contents

240 x 150 mm. In Davies’s day this was the United Services Club; it later housed the Central Drugs Research Institute.

Dates: 1902 - 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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The Chenar Bagh a Garden of flame trees at Srinagar the Capital of Cashmere, 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/18
Scope and Contents

210 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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The Chief Court, Lahore, 1908-02 - 1908-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/858
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). In the Mall. Built by Rai Bahadur Gunga Ram, R.E. (pale red brick) (Fisher).

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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The Children's Friend [temple of the 500 gods, Canton], 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/92
Scope and Contents

233 x 241 mm. View of one of the images in the temple, a bronze figure of a jovial man with children on his lap and shoulders.

Dates: 1870 - 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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'The Chinese Protectorate', 1960 - 1969

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/9/2
Scope and Contents

An account of the work of the protectorate and one of its officers W.G. Stirling (13 sheets).

Dates: 1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
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The Chinese quarter of Bhamo , 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/107
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: 1870 - 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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The church from Gray’s Hotel [Coonoor], 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/28
Scope and Contents

270 x 228 mm. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn.

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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The Church [Skinner's Church], 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022D/7
Scope and Contents 296 x 233 mm. General view, looking across an open space, of Skinner's Church, dedicated to St James. The church is situated just inside the Kashmir Gate and was erected in 1836 at the expense of James Skinner (1778-1841) of Skinner's Horse. It is built in the form of a Greek cross, with three of the arms terminating in hexastyle Tuscan porticos, the fourth forming the choir. Around the circular central mass pilasters alternate with windows and blind sections, the whole surmounted by a dome...
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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The Chutter Munzil, Lucknow, 1908-01 - 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/600
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). (Now United Service Club) - buff yellow wash picked out with white.

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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The Chutter Munzil, Lucknow, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/72
Scope and Contents

320 x 187 mm. Duplicate at Y3022C/45. Photograph by Samuel Bourne, no. 1151.

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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The Chutter Munzil, Lucknow, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/45
Scope and Contents

322 x 187 mm. View looking SW across the Gumti River towards the north facade of the Chutter Munzil Palace. This three storey palace was begun by Ghaz-ud-din Haidar (Nawab of Oudh 1814-27) and completed by his son Nasir-ud-din Haidar (reigned 1827-37). It later became the premises of the United Services Club. Beyond it is the smaller Farhat Bakksh Palace, originally the residence of General Claud Martin and later the U.S.C. Library. Bourne no. 1151.

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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The Circular Temple, Baalbec [Ba`labakk], 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214B/8
Scope and Contents 222 x 154 mm. A view looking towards the small circular temple. Frith comments in his description: 'The little gem known as the 'Circular Temple' stands at the distance of about a quarter of a mile from the great structure. My view will show that it was most elaborately ornamented and finished. There are around it externally eight Corinthian columns, with a roof or entablature, beautifully sculptured, and projecting in an elegant curve towards each pillar, giving it rather the appearance...
Dates: 1857
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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The circular temple, Baalbec [Ba`labakk], 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214C/36
Scope and Contents

225 x 155 mm. A view looking towards the small circular temple at Ba'labakk.

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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The City from the Jumma-Musjid [Delhi], 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/95
Scope and Contents

279 x 229 mm. Photograph by Bourne, no. 1345.

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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The City Gate, 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/55
Scope and Contents

78 x 108 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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The Cloisters, Bella Paise [i.e. Bellapais], 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1188
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate.

Dates: 1908
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).