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North and Central America (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5473 Collections and/or Records:

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Seal hunt, 1902 - 1912

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061E/9
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album of photographs, with some loose insertions, including an annotated map of 'St. John's N.F, 1905', relating to Newfoundland 1902-1912. Most are 100 x 80 mm., but in many cases only part is visible owing to the size and shape of the frame through which they are seen.The collection was studied by Professor Maurice and Mrs Shirley Scarlett in 1985; their information is embodied in the captions to nos. 3, 5-17, 30-51, 53, 55-56, 67, 69, 71, 74-75, 80, 82, 86, 90, 92-93, 95-101,...
Dates: 1902 - 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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Seal hunt, 1902 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061E/11
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album of photographs, with some loose insertions, including an annotated map of 'St. John's N.F, 1905', relating to Newfoundland 1902-1912. Most are 100 x 80 mm., but in many cases only part is visible owing to the size and shape of the frame through which they are seen.The collection was studied by Professor Maurice and Mrs Shirley Scarlett in 1985; their information is embodied in the captions to nos. 3, 5-17, 30-51, 53, 55-56, 67, 69, 71, 74-75, 80, 82, 86, 90, 92-93, 95-101,...
Dates: 1902 - 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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Seal Rock, Pacific Ocean, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/61
Scope and Contents

241 x 186 mm. A view of seals basking on two rocks, possibly at Seal Rock, Oregon. Photograph by Taber, San Francisco.

Dates: 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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Sealers and ships at the ice, 1902 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061E/10
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album of photographs, with some loose insertions, including an annotated map of 'St. John's N.F, 1905', relating to Newfoundland 1902-1912. Most are 100 x 80 mm., but in many cases only part is visible owing to the size and shape of the frame through which they are seen.The collection was studied by Professor Maurice and Mrs Shirley Scarlett in 1985; their information is embodied in the captions to nos. 3, 5-17, 30-51, 53, 55-56, 67, 69, 71, 74-75, 80, 82, 86, 90, 92-93, 95-101,...
Dates: 1902 - 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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Searching the ruins, 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307E/15
Scope and Contents

204 x 152 mm. A view showing searchers among the shattered masonry and buildings of a street in St Pierre, with the hills behind the city rising in the background.

Dates: 1902
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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Second floor warehouse, 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2365
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 1908-09
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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Secretary of State for the Colonies after opening the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Conference, 1962-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/598
Scope and Contents

06 x 152 mm. Mr Reginald Maudling, Secretary of State for the Colonies, takes his seat at the Conference table in Marlborough House, London, after making the opening speech at the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Conference.

Dates: 1962-05
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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Secretary of State for the Colonies opening the Trinidad and Tobago Conference, 1962-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/595
Scope and Contents

143 x 203 mm. Mr Reginald Maudling, Secretary of State for the Colonies, is seen welcoming delegates to the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Conference which opened in Marlborough House, London. Premier and Minister for External Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Eric Williams, leads the Delegation from Trinidad and Tobago.

Dates: 1962-05
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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Section of the Red Lake Road, Northern Ontario , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/72
Scope and Contents

A view looking along the road with woodland on either side.

Dates: 1950 - 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).
 Fonds

Sedgwick Migration Photographs

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011LLL
Scope and Contents

A collection of 3 albums (now disbound) containing a small number of original photographs as well as letters, pamphlets, press cuttings and memoranda. The photographs are spread throughout volumes 1 and 2. Volume 3, 1913- (which was marked vol. IV inside) has no original photographs. Images reproduced in cuttings and articles are not listed.

Dates: 1910 - 1912
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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Seeding oats, grass seed, and bone meal, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3135
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Lower Canard, Annapolis Valley : the bone meal is a fertiliser. The farmer will get a crop of oats this fall and a crop of hay next summer.

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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Seeing a ship off, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073B/6
Scope and Contents

135 x 89 mm. A postcard (original photograph) taken from the deck of a ship and looking back towards the jetty where a waving crowd stands.

Dates: 1900 - 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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[Selecting maize seeds, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, March 1955], 1955-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/70
Scope and Contents

117 x 141 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'A post-graduate student from the Gold Coast and the acting Professor of Botany at the College, Mr. Jacob Wilson, select maize seed for trials on the experimental plot of the College farm. Mar:1955'. It continues, at length, to give an outline of the College and its history.

Dates: 1955-03
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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Self-government for British Honduras, 1963-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/88
Scope and Contents

155 x 202 mm. (2 copies) Mr Nigel Fisher, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies (centre), chats with Sir Peter Stallard (left), Governor of British Honduras and (right) Mr. G.C. Price, First Minister and Minister of Finance, British Honduras, after agreement had been reached on full internal self-government for British Honduras.

Dates: 1963-07
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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Self-government for British Honduras, 1963-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/89
Scope and Contents

154 x 203 mm. (2 copies) Watched by a television newsreel cameraman, Mr. G.C. Price, First Minister and Minister of Finance, British Honduras, signs the agreement which will give British Honduras full internal self-government. He is also watched by (left to right) Mr. W.H. Courtenay, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Adviser, and Mr. C.L. Rogers, Minister of Labour, British Honduras.

Dates: 1963-07
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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Self-government for British Honduras, 1963-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/90
Scope and Contents 143 x 203 mm. (2 copies) This picture was taken during the signing of the agreement which will give British Honduras full internal self-government. Left to right (round the table) are Mr. W.H. Courtenay, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Adviser to the British Honduras delegation; Mr. C.L. Rogers, Minister of Labour, British Honduras; Mr. G.C. Price, First Minister and Minister of Finance, British Honduras; Mrs. G.M. Lizarraga, Member of the Legislative Assembly, British Honduras...
Dates: 1963-07
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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Self-Government for British Honduras, 1963-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/94
Scope and Contents

151 x 202 mm. Mr Nigel Fisher, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies (left), shakes hands with Mr. G.C. Price, First Minister and Minister of Finance, British Honduras, after agreement had been reached in London on full internal self-government for British Honduras.

Dates: 1963-07
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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Self, Miss Berment and Miss Pratt, 4.7.18. Enfield Falls, 1918-07-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/101
Scope and Contents

50 x 70 mm. A view taken at an oblique angle of all three sat on separate rungs of a long steep wooden ladder.

Dates: 1918-07-04
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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Seminaire de Joliette, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2829
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Group of pupils]. The Fives Court.

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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Seminaire de Joliette, Quebec Province, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2830
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. Interior of the chapel.

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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[Sentinel Rock, 3270 feet], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/66
Scope and Contents

110 x 184 mm. A view looking along towards the summit of the Sentinel Rock, from a point above the valley floor.

Dates: 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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Set of camps [huts] being moved on railway trucks, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3083
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). Train passing over Lake View Trestle, Kings County. The shack is jacked up on to the level of the truck, and then pulled over a greased runner on to the truck : the cable being attached to the locomotive. [Cut timber also being hauled by same locomotive].

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).
 Series

Settlement to city, 1959 - 1982

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E/8-14
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs relating, as the title suggests, to the developments of settlements. The title was chosen by the National Library of Jamaica, and is one of those based on the headings used for the sections of the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition.

Dates: 1959 - 1982
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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Settler who had well of pure water, 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/60
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Canada. The series also contains a few slides of historical events.

Dates: 1910 - 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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[Settlers by their log cabins], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/58
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Canada. The series also contains a few slides of historical events.

Dates: 1910 - 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).