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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:

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Worship at a Buddhist Temple, 1960 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 23/141
Scope and Contents

Print and negative.

Dates: 1960 - 1962
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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Worshippers at Pagan, Burma [i.e. Myanmar], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/128
Scope and Contents

Showing a print of a painting. The painting is signed 'F.M. Muriel'. The postcard is printed by Sir Joseph Causton and Sons Ltd. Annotated 'B6' in bottom right-hand corner.

Dates: 1920 - 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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Worshipping the Ganges, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/766
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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Rakhykash. All Rakhykash photos taken in fading light, but I do hope something has shown of them - one of the very holy among the many holy places of India. (Fisher).

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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Worshipping the Ganges, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/767
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Rakhykash. All Rakhykash photos taken in fading light, but I do hope something has shown of them - one of the very holy among the many holy places of India. (Fisher).

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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[Wreck of the 'Tammu'], 1894 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/47
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160 x 111 mm. Showing the broken and half-submerged wreck of the sternwheeler 'Tammu'. This boat is not listed in Chubb, H.J. and C.L.D. Duckworth (1973), Irrawaddy Flotilla Company Limited, 1865-1950, Maritime monographs and reports no.7, London : [National Maritime Museum]. The vessel was therefore probably operated by the Burmese Government.

Dates: 1894 - 1897
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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[Wreck of the 'Tammu'], 1894 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/49
Scope and Contents

153 x 107 mm. Close up view of the wrecked sternwheeler 'Tammu'.

Dates: 1894 - 1897
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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Wreck SS 'Band' on Reef, 'Cape Rivers', N.W. Celebes, June 26 1910, 1910-06-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/324
Scope and Contents

View showing the wrecked ship.

Dates: 1910-06-26
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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Wreck SS 'Band' on Reef, 'Cape Rivers', N.W. Celebes, June 26 1910, 1910-06-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/325
Scope and Contents

View showing the wrecked ship.

Dates: 1910-06-26
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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Wreck SS 'Band' on Reef, 'Cape Rivers', N.W. Celebes, June 26 1910, 1910-06-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/326
Scope and Contents

View showing the wrecked ship.

Dates: 1910-06-26
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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Wreckage in Gifu river valley after 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/38
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

Dates: 1923
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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Wreckage of fishing village near Tokyo after 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/42
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

Dates: 1923
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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Wreckage of Tokyo railway station and other buildings caused by 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/32
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

Dates: 1923
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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Wreckage of Tokyo railway station and other buildings caused by 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/33
Scope and Contents

Colour.

Dates: 1923
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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[Wrecked sternwheeler], 1894 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/50
Scope and Contents

160 x 114 mm. Showing the broken, half-submerged wreck of an unidentified sternwheeler.

Dates: 1894 - 1897
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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[Wrecked sternwheeler], 1894 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/51
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148 x 109 mm. Showing the wreck of a sternwheeler.

Dates: 1894 - 1897
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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Wrestlers, 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/144
Scope and Contents

241 x 187 mm. Showing two sumo wrestlers in the ring, with spectators on all sides. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 1912
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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Writers' Buildings and Holwell Monument, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/34
Scope and Contents 205x135mm. View looking E. along the N. side of Dalhousie Square, with the Holwell Monument in the foreground at the junction with Clive Street, and the Writers' Buildings (by this time the Bengal Secretariat) stretching along the whole of the N side of the square. The monument, erected by a survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, John Zephaniah Holwell, over the mass grave of those who died, was in the form of an obelisk mounted on an octagonal pedestal on which the names of those who died...
Dates: 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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Writers' Buildings, looking W, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/35
Scope and Contents 290x233mm. View from the E. end of the N. side of Dalhousie Square looking along the length of the S. facade of the Bengal Secretariat. Originally constructed in 1780 to accommodate junior East India Company servants on their arrival in India, the building was probably designed by Thomas Lyon and presented a long, plain stuccoed facade to Tank Square. In later years the apartments were used by private individuals and commercials firms, and in 1878-82 the buildings were entirely reconstructed...
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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Wuhu, China, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/31
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266 x 206 mm. View looking across the River Yangtze towards the waterfront houses of Wuhu, situated 60 miles south-west of Nanjing and opened to foreign trade in 1877.

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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X-ray conference, Christian Medical College Hospital, 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/1/114
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79 x 80 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 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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Xth Royal Hussars, 1905-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/10
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
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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Xth Royal Hussars. Bombay, 1905-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/9
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
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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XX Deccam Horse

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/403
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March past by various regiments.

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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Y303A/10 No.2 Tunnel, Kandy side, 1867

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A/10
Scope and Contents 170 x 100 mm. View looking along the line towards the entrance to No. 2 Tunnel (40 yards), with a locomotive and a freight wagon crowded with labourers in the foreground, ‘Messrs.Slinn's views of the Tunnels on this the lower section of the incline taken from above and below are very faithful and very effective. No. 1 showing the face of the scarped rock above and the handsome masonry lining of the entrance with the engine just curving in, forms a very pretty picture. No. 2 in its...
Dates: 1867
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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Yacht Club, Apollo Bunder and harbour, Bombay, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG/4
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234 x 182 mm. View looking eastwards towards the Harbour, with the Yacht Club and the Apollo Bunder (see Y3022GG/5) in the foreground. A crowd is gathered at the landing stage on the Apollo Bunder and the quayside is draped with the flags of various nations; the occasion, however, has not been identified.

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).