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Asia (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:

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Canal scene, Bangkok, Siam, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/56
Scope and Contents

147 x 105 mm. View looking along a canal lined with houses on piles, presumably in Bangkok.

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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Canal, Yokohama, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/46
Scope and Contents

265 x 206 mm. View looking along the canal towards the town in the distance, with a small settlement of houses in the foreground.

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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Canarese [Kannada] Brahmins 15174, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/141
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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Candle Rock, Haruna, near Ikao [Ikaho], 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/170
Scope and Contents

194 x 242 mm. View of the conical Candle Rock, with a small open sided pavilion in the foreground. 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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Cane Bridge in the Himalayas, 1907-12 - 1908-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/482
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Copy. [Photograph by Firebrace].

Dates: 1907-12 - 1908-01
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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Cane bridge over Rungeet, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/33
Scope and Contents

236 x 180 mm. View showing the cane bridge over the Ranjit River below Darjeeling. The same bridge can also be seen in Y3022I/74. Photographer unknown, possibly R. Phillips.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Cane bridge over the Runjeet River below Darjeeling [Darjiling], 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/74
Scope and Contents

387 x 236 mm. Photograph by Bourne, no. 1879.

Dates: 1860 - 1869
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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[Canoe in river], 1885 - 1893

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/233
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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Canoe of Mooruts on the river at Kampong Binai near Tenam, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4307
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Canoe with six paddling and one man standing looking towards the land].

Dates: 1909-01
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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Canon B.B. Srisunder talking to Major Sam Pyper at Badnapur, 1952, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/21
Scope and Contents

157 x 133 mm. matt print with 56 mm. negative.

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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Canopy of forest, Bukit Senaling, Negeri Sembilan, 1930-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/499
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: 1930-06
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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Canopy of forest, Bukit Senaling, Negeri Sembilan, 1930-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/498
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: 1930-06
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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Canopy of the forest, Pine Tree Hill, Fraser's Hill, 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/686
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Glass negatives of Fraser's Hill in Pahang. Corner visited there on holiday with his sister in July 1937. However, these photographs date back to an earlier visit in 1930.

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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Canton [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/28
Scope and Contents

276 x 182 mm. View on the river at Canton, with floating houses in the foreground. Photographer unknown.

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).
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Canton Christian College, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/220
Scope and Contents

A view looking over the well-tended lawn and garden towards the College buildings.

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).
 Fonds

Canton Disturbances, December 1927

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377D
Scope and Contents An album containing mounted prints, measuring approximately 125 x 80 mm and captioned in ink beneath the prints. The album shows scenes of executions and destruction after the disturbances of December 1927. The compiler of the album is unidentified, but was presumably a member of the British merchant community in the city. Plates 1-3 are commercially produced work, the remainder amateur.Background to the 1927 disturbances.The abdication of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912 and the...
Dates: 1927-12
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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[(?) Canton [i.e. Chu] River], 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/206
Scope and Contents

A view showing a crowded settlement of sampans, probably on the Chu River, with a bridge and a small island in the background.

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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[Canton [i.e. Chu] River], 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/211
Scope and Contents

A well composed photograph showing a junk in the wide Chu River estuary.

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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Cantonment gardens and Shwe Dagon Pagoda, 1885 - 1893

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/276
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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Cantonment, Kalewa, '95, 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/33
Scope and Contents

133 x 75 mm (oval print). A view looking across the river towards the military headquarters on the further shore, with a sternwheeler moored at the landing stage.

Dates: 1895
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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Capital of marble pillar recently excavated Sarnath, 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/16
Scope and Contents From the Series: An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
Dates: 1902 - 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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[Capsized submarine, Hong Kong], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/166
Scope and Contents

A view showing a listing and partially submerged submarine lashed to two barges. Another submarine can be partially seen at the right of the slide. The exact nature of the incident is unknown.

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).
 File

Captain H. Burney's Report after his second visit to Kedah, 1825-04-02

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/4/5
Scope and Contents

34 pages.

Dates: 1825-04-02
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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Captain H. Burney's Report on his Mission to Pungah and Salang, 1825-04-02

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/4/6
Scope and Contents

38 pages.

Dates: 1825-04-02
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).
 Sub-Series

Captain Maurice A. Cameron papers, 1886 - 1891

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/9
Scope and Contents

A diary and two official reports.

Dates: 1886 - 1891
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8223C.