Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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The mouth of the river Abai, 1909-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4285
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. Looking towards the sea. North of Usukan Bay in the West Coast Residence. Immediately in the foreground is a characteristic piece of swamp : alluvial deposit brought down by the river, covered with tropical jungle, and often stretching for miles on each side. Quite typical Borneo scene.
Dates:
1909-01
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).
File
The Muar Question, 1878-05-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/2/1
Scope and Contents
Incomplete memorandum from the Sultan of Johor, Sir Abu Bakar, to the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson, outlining his claim to Muar (44 sheets).
Dates:
1878-05-07
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8226C.
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The mules drinking, 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302M/47
Scope and Contents
78 x 53 mm. Two soldiers standing with two mules at a trough.
Dates:
1933
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 Municipal Address, 1905-12-12 - 1905-12-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 8/98
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:
1905-12-12 - 1905-12-16
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 Municipal Address, 1905-12-12 - 1905-12-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 8/99
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:
1905-12-12 - 1905-12-16
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 Museum, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/23
Scope and Contents
203x163mm. View from Chowringhee Road showing the W. frontage of the Museum and the northern facade running along Sudder Street. The Indian Museum, designed by the Government Architect Walter B. Granville and opened to the public in 1875, stands at the corner of these two streets on the other of Sudder Street to the 'Haunted House'. The building is of two storeys plus an attic storey with pavilions with Corinthian columns on the upper floor projecting out into Chowinghee Road. Banded...
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 museum building in the Fort
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 22/20
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains 32 prints approximately 300 x 235 mm (mounted on card) with captions and bound in a blue leather album. 'MRI Ajmer, Rajputana 1911' is on the front cover; it was presumably a presentation volume.
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 Museum, Kuching, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/8
Scope and Contents
146 x 103 mm. Head on view of the main façade of the Sarawak Museum, an ashlar faced two storey (plus attic) building with a verandah running along the first floor between the pavilions at each end. The Museum is entered through an arch running beneath a central flight of steps which mounts to the first floor. The Museum was founded in 1878. [Shelford plate XXIII].
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 Mutiny Memorial, 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/742
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. The Ridge, Delhi.
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 Mutiny Monument, Delhi, 1902 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/189
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 Nahakki Pass, 1908 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/93
Scope and Contents
From the File:
An album containing 106 collodio-chloride prints, a few outside the dates printed on the cover. Most are professional work of high quality. Not all relate to India. There is one photograph of Cambridge in 1902 (24); ten taken in Ireland during 1902-03, presumably during Douglas's leave, including sporting scenes and a wedding; six photographs of Sri Lanka (65-70); four of Hong Kong (71-74) and four of Paris (75-78) dated 1907.A number of items have been inserted, including amateur...
Dates:
1908 - 1909
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 native band, 1905-12-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 8/92
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:
1905-12-11
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 native entertainment, 1905-12-29 - 1906-01-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 8/123
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:
1905-12-29 - 1906-01-06
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 native town from Malabar Hill [Bombay], 1870
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/2
Scope and Contents
291 x 227 mm. View from Malabar Hill looking east over Back Bay towards the city. Photograph by Bourne & Shepherd no. 2510.
Dates:
1870
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 Naval Canteen at Linkungtau Island, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4102
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). An old Chinese house.
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 Naval Canteen at Linkungtau Island, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4103
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. An old Chinese house. [Showing detail of steps up to the entrance with painted panels of Chinese design on either side of arch. Tiled roof with carved animals along corner ridge. Small group of Chinese in left hand corner].
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 Naza Dam, 1984
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3021C/4
Scope and Contents
105 x 65 mm. Showing workers constructing a barrier.
Dates:
1984
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
/
Goepel Collection
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The Neilgherries - Basket makers, Kullar, 1870
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/12
Scope and Contents
279 x 214 mm. Village scene with thatched huts and basket weavers posed in a clearing.
Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 241.
Dates:
1870
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 Nerbudda above Marble Rocks, Jubbulpore, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B/143
Scope and Contents
298 x 234 mm. Duplicate of Y3022I/77.
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
/
Views of India
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The New Church and Lake, 1868 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022E/27
Scope and Contents
321 x 195 mm. A view from near The Cedars, a house on the hill overlooking the SW portion of the lake, looking eastwards towards St Thomas' Church, with the Willow Bund and town beyond, and Dodabet in the distance. A petition for a new church to ease the overcrowding in St Stephen's had been made by the citizens of Ootacamund as early as 1853, but it was not until 1867 that sufficient finances had been raised and the foundation stone was laid. The church was completed in October 1870 and...
Dates:
1868 - 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 New Durbar Hall, Old Palace, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/82
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 New English Church etc. from the Tower of Hippicus, Jerusalem, 1857
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A/6
Scope and Contents
235 x 158 mm. A view of the houses in the town and hills in the distance behind the church. The commentary reads: 'The annexed view exhibits one of the most interesting modern structures which claim the attention of the English visitor in Jerusalem: it is the Protestant Episcopal Church, with the British Consul's residence on the left and that of the mission on the right ... The interior, as well as the exterior of the church, is in the simplest and plainest style of Gothic architecture,...
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 new laboratory, Ahlayyah Girls’ School, 1949 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/62
Scope and Contents
106 x 106 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1949 - 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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The New Market, Calcutta, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/21
Scope and Contents
205x147mm. View of the Lindsay Street frontage of the New Market, opened in 1874, showing the polychrome brick facade of the main (south) entrance with its pinnacles and turrets. Although generally known as the New Market, its more formal title was the Sir Stuart Hogg Market, named after the Chairman of the Calcutta Municipality, (Massey p.96).
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 new Palace, Bhopal, 1874 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/87
Scope and Contents
265 x 200 mm. No. 3037.
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).