Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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Tractor with grader Wyatt - Karachi 1936, 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/12/12
Scope and Contents
160 x 90 mm.
Dates:
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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Trade School, Kuala Lumpur, 1940 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/3
Scope and Contents
165 x 114 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'The engineering students are given as wide as possible range of instruction to train for various types of work they are likely to get in later life. These students are working in the school's forging section'. It continues, at length, giving a brief history of the Trade Schools in Malaya.
Dates:
1940 - 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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Trade School, Kuala Lumpur, 1940 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/4
Scope and Contents
115 x 138 mm. Showing three Chinese students at work at a bench. The lengthy caption on the reverse gives a brief history of the Trade Schools in Malaya.
Dates:
1940 - 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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Trading Conditions at Rangoon, 1827 - 1838
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/49
Scope and Contents
2 sheets.
Dates:
1827 - 1838
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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Traditional Malay house, 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/5/79
Scope and Contents
155 x 108 with two copies, one mounted on card, 152 x 82 mm. and 35 mm. negative. Location unidentified.
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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Traditional Menangkau [sic] - style house in Seremban, [Negri Sembilan] [i.e. Negeri Sembilan], 1920 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/82
Scope and Contents
83 x 61 mm. A view from a hillside looking down on a longhouse raised on stilts, with an atap roof curving up to pointed ends. A smaller second storey rests on top of the main structure. The Menangkabau States were the small territories between Malacca, Pahang, Johore and Selangor whose original inhabitants are supposed to have come from Menangkabau in Sumatra.
Dates:
1920 - 1939
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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Traditional men's dance by a group in national costume, 1957 - 1974
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018J/24
Scope and Contents
240 x 175 mm. Archbishop Makarios can be seen seated in the front row to the right of the dancers.
Dates:
1957 - 1974
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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Trahoni Station, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1160
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). A Greek refreshment man Constandis Kaemanus selling Turkish Delight (lakoumi) and Cyprus bread. Two Turkish women in yashmaks.
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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Trahoni Village, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1159
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). In the distance among the trees behind is Cythera, and the mountain is called Pentedactylon.
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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Train of the Nizams State Railway at Budnapur Station, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/981
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Where the Duke of Wellington was encamped.
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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[Train on bridge crossing river], 1885 - 1893
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/194
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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Train on Kepong Bank, Selangor [circa 1892], 1892
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 8/2
Scope and Contents
289 x 242 mm. A view from the side of the line looking towards a ballast train halted on an embankment running through dense forest. Kepong is situated six miles north-west of Kuala Lumpur.
Dates:
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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Tramway of ‘Billian’ or iron wood rails, Jambusan Valley antimony workings, Upper Sarawak, Borneo, 1868 - 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035B/7
Scope and Contents
249 x 188 mm. Showing two labourers posed beside a truck loaded with antimony ore collected from the surface of the workings. With a thatched shed containing winding gear in the right foreground. The railway trucks seen here are considerably larger than those seen in Y3035B/6.
Dates:
1868 - 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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Transcript of Le Fleming's Letters to Florence Le Fleming, 2009
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 371/2
Scope and Contents
This is a full transcript of the original letters made by Le Fleming’s son Stephen, retaining the original spelling and punctuation, with editorial commentary provided in italics or square brackets. The document is illustrated with reproductions of postcards, family photographs and some of Le Fleming’s art work. It also incorporates notes and extracts of letters from Rosalind Le Fleming to her mother, Beatrice Mary Lees, which have been reproduced in small print.Subjects include Le...
Dates:
2009
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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Transcript of letters from Le Fleming to Rosalind Le Fleming, 2009
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 371/3
Scope and Contents
Le Fleming often wrote to his wife Rosalind during periods of separation, and their son Stephen has edited and transcribed these letters, which have been illustrated with reproductions of sketches and photographs. The original letters remain with the family (134 pages).Subjects include Le Fleming’s travel for work and leisure; descriptions of his duties and colleagues at the FMSR; friends and social life; painting and design; the Malay and Chinese people; and Malaya’s landscape,...
Dates:
2009
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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Transhipment cargo, 1946 - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 15/10
Scope and Contents
From the File:
An album of photographs, most measuring 205 x 55 mm, accompanied by a typed list, which has been reproduced.
Dates:
1946 - 1955
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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Translation, 1825
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/7/3
Scope and Contents
Notes on the history of Siam from 1767 to 1825 and on the principal personages of the Kingdom, apparently translated from Siamese (not by Burney). 8 sheets.
Dates:
1825
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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Translation of a Letter from the Choh Phriya Phra Klang Senabody High Minister at the Court of Siam to the Honble Mr Bonham, Governor of Pulo Penang, 1842-01-19
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/7/9
Scope and Contents
Letter concerning the restoration of the Raja of Kedah sent to Burney for comments (3 sheets).
Dates:
1842-01-19
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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Translation of a letter from the King of Siam to the Portuguese Governor General of India, 1672, 1827
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/3/15
Scope and Contents
6 pages.
Dates:
1827
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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Translations of documents showing the relations of the Portuguese government with the Court of Siam, 1825 - 1841
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/3/19
Scope and Contents
1 Letter from King of Siam to Queen of Portugal, 28 Dec 1786. 4 pages.
2 Letter from Foreign Minister at Bangkok to the Minister of Macao, 4 Nov 1819. 6 pages.
3 Preliminaries of treaty proposed by the Viceroy of Goa in 1820. 28 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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[Transmitting station, Sabah], 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031A/16
Scope and Contents
Photograph by Sabah Information Service.
Dates:
1965
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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Transport, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/88
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:
1907
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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Transport of Townley’s Brigade, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/4
Scope and Contents
205 x 150 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).
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Transporting cattle by bamboo raft across a river, Central Borneo [Kalimantan Tengah ?], 1960 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302D/12
Scope and Contents
195 x 140 mm. Showing a cow boarding the small bamboo raft.
Dates:
1960 - 1969
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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Transporting chests to the railway station, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/22
Scope and Contents
279 x 211 mm. Showing a line of labourers leaving the factory, each carrying a chest of tea on his head.
Dates:
1880 - 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).