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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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Young Melastroma in the deserted rice fields near Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/428
Scope and Contents

The caption continues 'bushes of limau in the background.'

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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Young Orang Outang at Jimpangah, near Beaufort, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4362
Scope and Contents

[Sequence showing small Orang Outang being held by European woman in long white dress by banisters while European man, in white suite with topee offers his hand for play, probably A.C. Pearson, the Resident of Kudat].

Dates: 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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Young Orang Outang at Jimpangah, near Beaufort, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4363
Scope and Contents

[Sequence showing small Orang Outang being held by European woman in long white dress by banisters while European man, in white suite with topee offers his hand for play, probably A.C. Pearson, the Resident of Kudat].

Dates: 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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Young Orang Outang at Jimpangah, near Beaufort, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4364
Scope and Contents

[Sequence showing small Orang Outang being held by European woman in long white dress by banisters while European man, in white suite with topee offers his hand for play, probably A.C. Pearson, the Resident of Kudat].

Dates: 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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Young Orang Outang at Jimpangah, near Beaufort, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4365
Scope and Contents

[Sequence showing small Orang Outang being held by European woman in long white dress by banisters while European man, in white suite with topee offers his hand for play, probably A.C. Pearson, the Resident of Kudat].

Dates: 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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Young orang-utang, 2 yrs old, Buitenzorg [probably now known as Bogor], 1926-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011H/5
Scope and Contents

60 x 105 mm. Showing a young orang-utang clinging to the post of a verandah. Bell saw the animal at the home of the Director of the Garden of Economic Planning on January 18 1926.

Dates: 1926-01
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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[Young Warrior], 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/41
Scope and Contents

203 x 264 mm. Full length studio portrait of a warrior with his weapon; a long curved blade attached to a length of bamboo.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Youth and old age, 1878

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018A/10
Scope and Contents 85 x 115 mm. Woodburytype. A view showing a young Cypriot girl seated beside an aged relative in the open air: 'Although it has been stated on high authority that in Cyprus aged parents are often treated harshly by their children, yet, in travelling through the island, one happily meets with examples of the tenderest filial affection ... There are daughters in Cyprus, unblessed by parental endowments, who spend their days in sedentary toil in order to make life pleasant for their aged...
Dates: 1878
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: The volume is located at: RCS.Cob.18.121.
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YWAN KRI: MAN: HMU: MAT KUI PEI: THANN HMA CA, (Yun-gyi Min-hmu-mat-ko), Letter from King of Burma to Government of Yun-gyi (Cochin China) summarising relations between the two states, 1827 - 1838

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/47
Scope and Contents

1 sheet. See also RCMS 65/3/3 Relating to Siam.

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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Zain Khanji, Malek Shri (c 1884-), 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O/80
Scope and Contents

125 x 175 mm. Talukdar of Dasada (Bombay); succeeded 1891. Head and shoulders portrait.

Dates: 1911
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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Zam-Zammah. Lahore, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/121
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...
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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Zam Zammah, Lahore, 1908-02 - 1908-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/843
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). The Kim gun - gamin astride.

Dates: 1908-02 - 1908-03
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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Zara - Audhali State, 1965 - 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3021B/17
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album containing scenes in the Federation, probably by official photographers. Most of the prints measure 210 mm x 160 mm, though a few are slightly smaller, and all are excellent photographs.Between 1959 and 1965 sixteen states and the British Colony of Aden joined to form the Federation of South Arabia. In 1965 Sir Ralph Hone and Sir Gawain Bell were appointed to make recommendations for a constitution for the Federation. They reported early in 1966, but the constitution...
Dates: 1965 - 1966
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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Zebabde [Zababdeh], near Samaria, 1956, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/99
Scope and Contents

111 x 112 mm. glossy print, with copy and 56 mm. negative. View of the congregation with Canon (later Bishop) Najib Cubain.

Dates: 1956
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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Zenana palace in Bharatpur Fort, 1880 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022K/11
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273 x 201 mm. View looking across open ground towards the zenana (ladies) palace, a building comprising various suites of apartments of heterogeneous appearance and little architectural merit. Numbered '1891'.

Dates: 1880 - 1885
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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Zerka [Az-Zarqā'] Refugee Housing Scheme, Dec. 1952, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/115
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143 x 95 mm. glossy print. Showing Miss Coate and Mr. Victor Hananiah inspecting bricks for House No. 4; House No. 3 in the background.

Dates: 1952
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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Zerka [Az-Zarqā'] Refugee Housing Scheme: house under construction, 1953, 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/116
Scope and Contents

77 x 54 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1953
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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Zerka [Az-Zarqā'] Refugee Housing Scheme: mud and straw bricks drying in the sun, 1953, 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/114
Scope and Contents

143 x 95 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1953
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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Zerka [Az-Zarqā'] Refugee Industries: Abu Ali, the farmer’s assistant with turkeys, 1953 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/122
Scope and Contents

82 x 54 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1953 - 1957
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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Zerka [Az-Zarqā'] Refugee Industries: Abu Elias, supervisor and engineer, 1953 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/127
Scope and Contents

114 x 133 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1953 - 1957
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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Zerka [Az-Zarqā'] Refugee Industries: Abu Mahmoud, blind Arab caneworker, 1953 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/121
Scope and Contents

95 x 63 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1953 - 1957
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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Zerka [Az-Zarqā'] Refugee Industries: new buildings under construction, 1953 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/128
Scope and Contents

154 x 114 mm. glossy print, with 203 x 153 mm. enlargement and 35 mm. negative.

Dates: 1953 - 1957
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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Zerka [Az-Zarqā'] Refugee Industries Pottery: making S-bends in sanitary pipes, 1953 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/124
Scope and Contents

155 x 113 mm. glossy print, with 35 mm. negative.

Dates: 1953 - 1957
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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Zerka [Az-Zarqā'] Refugee Industries shop, 1953 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/123
Scope and Contents

155 x 108 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1953 - 1957
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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Zerka [Az-Zarqā'] Refugee Industries: shop selling pottery, basketware and embroidery, opened in 1950, 1953 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/117
Scope and Contents

80 x 56 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1953 - 1957
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).