Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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The great Temple inside the Elephanta Caves, Bombay, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 12/55
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 Great Temple, Orcha, 1874 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/40
Scope and Contents
265 x 200 mm. No. 1397.
Dates:
1874 - 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 Great Wall of China, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302E/8
Scope and Contents
General view looking along the wall as it undulates over hilly country.
Dates:
1890
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 group at the Residency, 1906-01-24 - 1906-01-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 8/143
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:
1906-01-24 - 1906-01-28
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 Guardian of Hilarion, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1178
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. (On the way up).
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 Gwalior Cadet Corps, 1905-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 17/17
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints, 290 x 235 mm (mounted on card) with printed captions are in a black leather bound album with 'Royal Visit to Gwalior, December 1905' on the cover; the Prince of Wales Feathers, the Arms of Gwalior and the Maharaja's signature 'M. Scindia Gwalior 1905' in metal are attached to the front cover.
Dates:
1905-12
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 Gwalior Horse Artillery Marching past, 1905-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 17/35
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints, 290 x 235 mm (mounted on card) with printed captions are in a black leather bound album with 'Royal Visit to Gwalior, December 1905' on the cover; the Prince of Wales Feathers, the Arms of Gwalior and the Maharaja's signature 'M. Scindia Gwalior 1905' in metal are attached to the front cover.
Dates:
1905-12
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 Gwalior Monument or 'Pepper Box', 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/45
Scope and Contents
237x268mm. View of the Gwalior Monument which stands beside the River Hooghly on Strand Road west of Fort William. The memorial was erected by the Earl of Ellenborough (Governor-General 1842-44) in 1847 in memory of those who died during the Gwalior Campaign of 1843. The structure, which was designed by Colonel Goodwyn of the Bengal Engineers, is built in Saracenic style of brick faced with Jeypore marble and is surmounted by a metal cupola supported on columns cast from captured enemy guns....
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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The gymkhana stand, Curzon Gardens, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/88
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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The Happy Valley, Buddhist carved statues, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B/114
Scope and Contents
297 x 213 mm. Duplicate of Y3022D/41.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views of India
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The Happy Valley, Gwalior, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022D/41
Scope and Contents
297 x 242 mm. Showing the massive stone figures carved from the rock face of the Urwahi Ravine of the W side of Gwalior ridge. These rock sculptures were made in the 15th century, mutilated on the orders of the Emperor Babar some sixty years later and subsequently repaired with coloured stucco by the Jains. Bourne no. 1328A.
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 Happy Valley [Gwalior], 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/85
Scope and Contents
285 x 230 mm. Photography by Bourne, 1327.
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 Happy Valley [Gwalior], Buddhist figures cut in the rock, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/86
Scope and Contents
290 x 233 mm. The figures seen in close up in Y3022D/41 can be seen on the left.
Photograph by Bourne, no. 1217.
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 Happy Valley, Mussorie [1890s], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH/1
Scope and Contents
272 x 216 mm. View looking down onto the race course at Mussoorie, a hill station in the foothills of the Himalayas nine miles north of Dehra. The Happy Valley is situated to the north-west of the town proper; this view looks north-west along the valley from above the road leading back into the town, with the Charleville Hotel on the hillside to the right. Photograph by S.H.
Dates:
1890 - 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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The Harbour, Hong King, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/4
Scope and Contents
269 x 205 mm. View from above the Botanical Gardens looking northwards across the Harbour, with Causeway Bay in the right background. In the left middleground can be seen Government House and below it to the right, the tower of St John’s Cathedral.
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 Harbour. [View from above, with Cavenagh Bridge to the left], 1920 - 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/1
Scope and Contents
300 x 100 mm. panoramic view of Singapore in the 1920s by F. Hill-Cottingham
Dates:
1920 - 1925
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 Hastings Memorial, Peshawar, 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/812
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate.
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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The haunt of the Sambur [the Indian elk], 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/50
Scope and Contents
313 x 187 mm. View of typical scenery in the Nilgiri Hills. Photograph by Samuel Bourne no. 2025.
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 Haunted House, corner of Chowringhee and Sudder St, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/22
Scope and Contents
189x196mm. View from the Chowringhee Road showing a somewhat dilapidated three storey town house, built in severely box-like form apart from a projecting entrance, and characteristic of many of the town residences of Calcutta in the early 19th century. The supporting pillars in this case are of the Tuscan order. Massey gives no details of the supposed hauntings, merely stating (p.102) that it was believed to be so and that later the house was avoided and fell into a condition of some...
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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The Head House in a Land Dyak village, Upper Sadong River, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/99
Scope and Contents
148 x 104 mm. General view of the house, a square tapering construction raised on stilts.
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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The Head Shikari, Benares, 1906-02-19 - 1906-02-22
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/55
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:
1906-02-19 - 1906-02-22
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 heart of the city showing the old sprawling houses and the towering skyscrapers, 1982
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E I/7
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Singapore, including its 50-odd offshore islands and islets has a land area of 617.8km. Its population of 2.4 million comprises 77 per cent Chinese, 15 per cent Malays, 6 per cent Indians, and 2 per cent of persons of other ethnic groups.
The pace of development has been rapid, especially in the last decade, and the people live in well-designed modern homes with ample educational, recreational and social amenities.
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 herd retiring before the Koomkies
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 29/16
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A bound volume with padded covers containing photogravure reproductions of photographs by Barton Son and Company. There is a printed introduction (pages 2-10) describing the kheddah operations by M. Mutannah, Conservator of Forests, Mysore. Unless otherwise stated, the reproductions are 285 x 245 mm.; these appear on right-hand pages, one to a page
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 High Court, 1907-12 - 1908-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/494
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. [Close up view].
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 High Court, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/12
Scope and Contents
289x209mm. View from Esplanade Row looking westwards towards the S. facade of the High Court. Designed by Walter Grenville in imitation of the Cloth Hall at Ypres and completed in 1872, the S. facade has a colonnade of pointed arches running along the lower storey, with the capitals of the columns sculpted in Caen stone. A massive 180 foot tower rises from the centre of the facade above the principal entrance. In the left foreground in front of the building stands Sir Edgar Boehm's statue of...
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).