Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
Item
The Cloisters, Bella Paise [i.e. Bellapais], 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1189
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).
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The Club, Foochow (A.S.H. on verandah)., 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/41
Scope and Contents
272 x 216 mm. General view of the club building at Foochow, a two storey house with wide verandahs. A.S.H. is one of the figures standing on the open first floor balcony over the main entrance.
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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The Club, Lipis, Pahang, 1904, 1904
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/27
Scope and Contents
General view of the club building, a single storey structure of wood and thatch raised above the ground on piles.
Dates:
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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The CMS Office, 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/30
Scope and Contents
154 x 110 mm. glossy print with 123 x 80 mm. copy and 64 x 40 mm. negative.
Dates:
1947
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 cobbler, of an ? Ipoh back lane, 1910 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/154
Scope and Contents
142 x 196 mm. Showing a cobbler at work in a back street, possibly in Ipoh, with a row of shoes laid out in the foreground.
Dates:
1910 - 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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The coffin of Mabon Princess, 1890 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/38
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:
1890 - 1927
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 coffin of Mabon Princess, 1885 - 1893
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/37
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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The colossal wooden Buddha on top of Mandalay Hill, 1907-12 - 1908-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/381
Scope and Contents
Half plate. Draw attention to the little pot of flowers placed as an offering on one of Buddhas toes.
Dates:
1907-12 - 1908-01
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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The columns of the dinka, Jompra, Ajmere, 1908-02 - 1908-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/923
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. There are 4 rows of columns standing free, a fifth row engaged to a back wall. The columns support a roof of varying shape, some parts being domed. (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 Commissioner of Wei-haiwei, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4088
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). And Headman of village wih his grandchildren.
Dates:
1908-11
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 Commissioners daughter, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4114
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. Pears and apple grown in Gov. House garden, Weihaiwei, one of the pears photographed weighs a pound. [Showing young girl dressed in black and wearing a boater with ribbon saying: King Alfred, round it, sitting on a cannon on the corner of the verandah with garden and hills in the background. The Commissioners was Sir James Stewart Lockhart (1858-1937].
Dates:
1908-11
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 Commissioners daughter, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4115
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. [Showing girl sitting in an ornately carved chinese armchair inside a house with a bonsai plant in a pot on the table beside her].
Dates:
1908-11
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 communication Earth Satellite Station on Sentosa has two antennae, one facing the Indian Ocean and the other the Pacific Ocean, 1982
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E CO/1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Singapore is a sophisticated communications centre with links to almost all parts of the world. It is a focal point for more than 150 major shipping lines, more than 33 international airlines, with direct telecommunications facilities to 105 countries. Its telephone density of 26 telephones per 100 population is the third highest in East Asia.
Dates:
1982
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 conflagration of Dalla on the Rangoon River, 1826, 2008
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/4/18
Scope and Contents
142 x 105 mm. colour reproduction of a print (with negative) showing the steam gunboat ‘Diana’ in the foreground.
Dates:
2008
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 Connaught Bund, 1905-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 13/18
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains photographs, 290 x 215 mm., mounted on card in a black leather-bound album with 'Views of Udaipur' and the Udaipur arms on the cover. The photographs have hand-written captions. Subjects comprise a portrait of the Maharana of Udaipur and architectural views in the state.
Dates:
1905-11
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 consecration service, 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/50
Scope and Contents
168 x 120 mm. glossy print. Taken during the consecration of Canon Najib Atolla Cubain, first Bishop of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, the first Arab bishop in the Anglican Communion, in St. George’s Cathedral, 6 Jan. 1958.
Dates:
1958
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 Consecration Service in Lahore Cathedral, 27 Jan. 1957, 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/3/3/2
Scope and Contents
155 x 107 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1957
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 Corporal and the Costermonger, Borneo Malays. Cakes of gutta jelutong on the Malay schooner Banjerwangi, Sarawak, 1904 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/52
Scope and Contents
Showing two Malays squatting among sacks of rubber on the deck of the schooner.
Dates:
1904 - 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).
File
The course of the seasons throughout the year at Bangkok, 1825 - 1841
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/3/16
Scope and Contents
2 pages.
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).
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The Court House, Bombay, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 12/47
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints, of various sizes, mounted in an album bound in red half-leather inscribed on the front cover 'Photographs: Royal Tour in India: Bombay and Indore. Raja Deen Dayal and Sons. State Photographers' and with the Prince of Wales Emblem above. All prints have typed captions.
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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The Court House (sent by Horne), 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/71
Scope and Contents
240 x 190 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).
File
'The court interpreter', 1963
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/29
Scope and Contents
An account of the important part played by interpreters in the administration of justice, illustrated by the example of three Chinese interpreters. The file includes a letter from Shelley to Hugh Bryson (2 copies, 6 sheets).
Dates:
1963
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 Cow Temple, Benares, 1902 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/37
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
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 Coy. 2nd Devon Regt. Under Capt. Davies and 2nd Lts. Homan and Logan who marched from Shwebo to Kawlin a distance of 98 miles in 5 days (Burma [i.e. Myanmar]), 1891
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029A/11
Scope and Contents
273 x 181 mm. Showing men of the Second Battalion, Devonshire Regiment on parade in an open, grassed area. The precise date of this march has not been ascertained, but was almost certainly connected with the assault on the Kyaing-Kwintaung Stockade during the Wuntho Sawbwa Campaign of 1891.
Dates:
1891
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
/
Burma Campaigns 1889-91
File
'The crafty crocodile', 1962
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/17
Scope and Contents
Notes on the danger crocodiles posed to humans and animals, and on hunting them. They were arranged by Clayton's daughter, Mrs Stuart McHugh.
Dates:
1962
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8227C.