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Asia (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:

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Turcs [i.e. Turks] smoking their Argile, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS.Cob.P.18.155/41
Scope and Contents From the File:

An album containing postcard views of Cyprus. The postcards are by a variety of photographers and publishers.

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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Turtle, Kuala Trengganu [i.e Terengganu] [? 1950s], 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/61
Scope and Contents

128 x 79 mm. Showing a turtle on the beach near Kuala Trengganu, on its way back to the sea after egg-laying.

Dates: 1950 - 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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Tusker elephants piling teak, 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/306
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). And female elephants ounging.

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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Tuticorin, 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/191
Scope and Contents

Landing on the jetty from the launch.

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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Tuticorin Cotton Mills (Harvey Company), 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/190
Scope and Contents

Approaching India from Ceylon the first things one sees are the chimneys of Cotton Mills. (Fisher). [View from the Harbour].

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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Tuticorin Cotton Mills (Harvey Company), 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/192
Scope and Contents

[Closer view of mill than in 190].

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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Tuticorin - ducks for Ceylon, 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/193
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 168-346 (originally there were 165). Added numbers are: 200A, 263A, 270A-D, 280A, 296A, 335A-B; spoiled: 234; not used: 170, 172, 173, 175, 199, 203, 204, 216, 226, 228, 240-242, 253, 255, 257, 258, 262, 300, 314, 325, 326, 334; missing: 333. Numbers 270A-D and 280A are by Hutchins. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 280A follows 337. Subjects covered in this album...
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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Tuticorin Railway Station, 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/195
Scope and Contents

The caption continues, 'A Mohammedan [i.e. Muslim] family getting out of their bullock cart'.

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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Tuticorin Railway Station, 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/196
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 168-346 (originally there were 165). Added numbers are: 200A, 263A, 270A-D, 280A, 296A, 335A-B; spoiled: 234; not used: 170, 172, 173, 175, 199, 203, 204, 216, 226, 228, 240-242, 253, 255, 257, 258, 262, 300, 314, 325, 326, 334; missing: 333. Numbers 270A-D and 280A are by Hutchins. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 280A follows 337. Subjects covered in this album...
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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T.V. assembly plant, Singapore [circa 1967], 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/157
Scope and Contents

90 x 139 mm. View looking along a row of female assemblers in a television.

Dates: 1967
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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'Twenty-five years in the Malayan Civil Service', 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/30
Scope and Contents

Report in 'The Singapore Free Press', 7 May 1936, of a talk given to the Singapore Rotary Club by Small reflecting upon his career.

Dates: 1936
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8227C.
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'Twenty nine and a half years in the Malayan Civil Service', 1963-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/3/8
Scope and Contents

This is a personal record of Hugh Bryson's career in the Malayan Civil Service including observations upon the social life and customs of Malaya's European, Malay and Chinese populations, politics and government, legal affairs, and the Malayan Emergency. It is accompanied by an index.

Dates: 1963-04
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reels MC47 or 8226C.
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Twig Jhula bridge on the Chenab, near Kishtowar, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/4
Scope and Contents 301 x 244 mm. View looking down onto a curve in the river, with the stream bridged in the foreground by a frail construction of woven twigs. Beside it can be seen the start of a more substantial wooden bridge. Bourne was photographing in the Chenab Valley in June 1864: 'But I pushed on next morning, after waiting for sunrise to take a view of Kishtawar, and one of the plain across which I had to go. I soon found myself again at the Chenab, but this time only to cross it by a rather nervous...
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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Twig Jhula on the Chenab, Kishtwar, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/67
Scope and Contents

98 x 108 mm. A similar view to its large format counterpart at Y3022C/4. Photograph by Bourne, no. 611.

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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Twisted trees, views from south G. Angsi [i.e. Gunung Angsi], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/481
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Glass and film negatives. The label lists at least four other places, which are illegible. Numbers 521-524 and 526 have camera specifications written in pencil underneath the captions.

Dates: 1930
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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Twisted trees, views from south G. Angsi [i.e. Gunung Angsi], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/482
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Glass and film negatives. The label lists at least four other places, which are illegible. Numbers 521-524 and 526 have camera specifications written in pencil underneath the captions.

Dates: 1930
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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Two Aboriginal women, 1920 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/58
Scope and Contents

85 x 55 mm. Original.

Dates: 1920 - 1949
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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[Two ambulances presented by N.D.A. Silva Wijaysinghe]

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

198 x 140 mm (with acknowledgement of his gift for this and the relief of Belgian children).

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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[Two bearded and turbaned men] 15153, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/120
Scope and Contents

200 x 250 mm.

Dates: 1850 - 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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[Two bridges], 1941 - 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/13/21
Scope and Contents

135 x 85 mm. Showing two bridges spanning tributaries of the same river, and snow-capped mountains in the distance. A woman is sat in the middle, painting.

Dates: 1941 - 1944
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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Two Chin girls, 1889 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029A/5
Scope and Contents 192 x 257 mm. Showing two girls standing with arms around each other. In a reproduction of this photograph (Scott 1900), the girls are identified as 'Chinboks', who lived in the hills from the Maw River down to the Saw chaung (watercourse) in the southern Chin Hills. The costume worn by these girls is well-described: 'The dress of the women is a sort of tabard, or sleeveless jersey with a V-shaped throat. Below this is a small loincloth, which shows about six inches below the jacket. ...
Dates: 1889 - 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).
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[Two dead bears], 1891 - 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/14
Scope and Contents

152 x 104 mm.

Dates: 1891 - 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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Two documents, 1830

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/51
Scope and Contents

1 Copies of inscriptions at Tagaung with interpretation

2 Copies of two Christian tombstones at Ava

Dates: 1830
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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[Two dogs], 1936 - 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/12/102
Scope and Contents

75 x 50 mm. Showing two terriers.

Dates: 1936 - 1938
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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[Two dogs at The Priory], 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/158
Scope and Contents

54 x 52 mm.

Dates: 1937
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).