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Asia (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:

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Bridge over Jhelum ay Kohala, 1879 - 1880

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022NN/15
Scope and Contents

200 x 140 mm. View looking towards the suspension bridge over the Jhelum at Kohala, N.N.E. of Murree.

Dates: 1879 - 1880
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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Bridge over the Indus at Sukkur, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/3/31/1
Scope and Contents

160 x 115 mm.

Dates: 1906
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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Bridge over the Keem Nullah, G.I.P.R., 1868, 1868

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/58
Scope and Contents

244 x 173 mm. View looking towards the single span railway bridge during construction with Indian labourers and Europeans posed in various parts of the picture.

Dates: 1868
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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[Bridge to factory, Osborne Estate], 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/90
Scope and Contents

234 x 284 mm. View looking down onto the river from the hillside, with the foot bridge seen in Y303B/89 in the foreground.

Dates: 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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Bridle path by Perak River, 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/8
Scope and Contents

99 x 49 mm. As captioned with a Malay house in the foreground.

Dates: 1926
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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Bridle path by Perak River, 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/9
Scope and Contents

55 x 62 mm. As captioned, with four Malays standing on the path in the foreground.

Dates: 1926
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

Brief account of Rulers of Pegu, 1830 - 1838

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/12
Scope and Contents

A list of kings from B.E. 514-1108 (1154-1746 A.D.) with pencil notes in English on back (1 sheet).

Dates: 1830 - 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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Brief history of Tavoy and Tenasserim, 1826

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/34
Scope and Contents

European paper, 250 x 380 mm, 4 sheets, 34 lines to a folio. Provides details of appointments of officials down to British acquisition of Tavoy in 1824 A.D. Copied from the chronicles in B.E. 1187 and finished in B.E. 1187 (1826 A.D.).

Dates: 1826
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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'Brief notes upon Communism in Malaya', 1958

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/33/19
Scope and Contents

An account of Churchill's experience of Communism in Malaya from 1926 to the post-1945 Emergency (3 copies, 17 sheets).

Dates: 1958
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8227C.
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Brij Narayan, Raja 1911, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O/169
Scope and Contents

123 x 171 mm. Raja of Padrauna 1900-. Full length seated 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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Brijindar Singh, Raja Sir (1895-1918), 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O/144
Scope and Contents

121 x 174 mm. Raja of Faridkot (Punjab); succeeded 1906. Full length seated 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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Bristol Buildings, Colombo, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/4
Scope and Contents

The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 29. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.

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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[Bristol Hotel, Chowringhee Road], 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/11
Scope and Contents

282x207mm. View from the street of the Bristol Hotel, a two storey terrace roofed building with commercial premises occupying most of the ground floor. Situated at No. 1 Chowringhee Road at the junction with Esplanade Row East, the Bristol had previously operated under the names of the Palace Hotel and the Hotel D’Europe, (Massey p.102).

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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British Advisers Residence, Alor Star, Kedah, April 1926, 1926-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/31
Scope and Contents

98 x 72 mm. A view from the front lawn showing the substantial verandahed façade of the two storey building.

Dates: 1926-04
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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British Advisers Residence, Alor Star, Kedah, April 1926, 1926-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/32
Scope and Contents

98 x 72 mm.

Dates: 1926-04
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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British Advisers Residence, Alor Star, Kedah, April 1926, 1926-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/33
Scope and Contents

97 x 71 mm. Similar to preceding two prints but showing more of the house.

Dates: 1926-04
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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British and Arab clergy entering the cathedral through the cloisters, 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/36
Scope and Contents

138 x 99 mm. glossy print. Taken during the enthronement of the Most Rev. A. Campbell MacInnes, first Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, 30 Aug. 1957.

Dates: 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).
 Sub-Fonds

British Borneo, 1897

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 63/18
Scope and Contents

Gallery-proofs of a paper read to the Royal Colonial Institute, 14 December 1897.

Dates: 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).
 Fonds

British civilians interned by the Japanese in World War Two

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 393
Scope and Contents

Prepared by the Association of British Civilian Internees Far East Region. The volume is a full size replica of the original which was dedicated and placed in the Church of St Michael's Cornhill on 24 May 2009.

Dates: 2009
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Sub-Series

British Empire Exhibition, 1924. Malaya Pavilion, 1924

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Malaya/1-9
Scope and Contents

Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Malaya - 'Published for the Malayan Governments and produced in Singapore by Houghton Butcher (Eastern) Ltd., 'Camera House' Robinson Road, Singapore'. They were produced for the Malay Pavilion of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.

Dates: 1924
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).
 Fonds

British family, Perak, Xmas 1922

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031L
Scope and Contents

100 x 130 mm. Mounted photograph showing man, woman and small girl on garden seat. The child's ayah stands behind. Inscribed Xmas 1922. Photographers name on mount, J. Uchida, Taiping, Perak. Inscription on folder 'To Mossy with fondest love and best wishes for Xmas and the New Year. [Illegible] age 14 months.'

Dates: 1922
Conditions Governing Access: 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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British fleet at Wei-hai-wei [i.e. Weihai], 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/226
Scope and Contents

A view looking across towards Weihai Harbour (from Liu-Kung-Tao?) where the battleships of the British China Squadron are at anchor. In the foreground are cultivated fields and small houses. Weihai, ceded to the British in 1898 'for so long a period as Port Arthur remains in the occupation of Russia', was the northern naval base of the British China Squadron, and in fact remained in British hands until 1930.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
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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British Fleet in Weihaiwei Harbour, 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4134
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing farm land and town in the foreground looking across harbour to distant hills with the British Fleet on the water].

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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British Indian passport, Calcutta, 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 22/38/1
Scope and Contents

Issued to the Revd T.H. Cashmore, Mrs Cashmore and their five children on behalf of the Viceroy.

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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British Military Administration, Kedah, Official Gazette Extraordinary, 1945-09-20 - 1945-10-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/2/15/1
Scope and Contents

Vol. 1, nos. 1-10

Dates: 1945-09-20 - 1945-10-10
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8226C.