North and Central America (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5473 Collections and/or Records:
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Uncaptioned view, 1896 - 1897
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307H/62
Scope and Contents
101x76mm. View looking along a small stream running through dense woodland, with a figure posed in the background.
Dates:
1896 - 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
Under many flags: my pilgrimage
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 15
Scope and Contents
An account of a journey undertook in 1953-1954 to Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Manila, North Borneo, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and the U.S.A. The volumes are undated, but the last entry in the epilogue is dated 1957.
Dates:
1957
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Under the Horseshoe Fall, 1908-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2402
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. [Figure in waterproof cape].
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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Under the Horseshoe Fall, 1908-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2403
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. [Figure in waterproof cape].
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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[Unidentified ceremony], 1914 - 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/70
Scope and Contents
135 x 90 mm. Possibly a military memorial.
Dates:
1914 - 1936
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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Unidentified church interior, 1902 - 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061E/102
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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[Unidentified group], 1918 - 1936
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/144
Scope and Contents
145 x 95 mm.
Dates:
1918 - 1936
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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(Unidentified group], Barbe Rousse, 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/38
Scope and Contents
140 x 90 mm. Group of six people stood in the snow.
Dates:
1948
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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[Unidentified Jamaican town], 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073B/26
Scope and Contents
228 x 177 mm. A view looking across fields towards a small town (possibly Mandeville: compare the Court House seen at the left of this picture with plate 12) with mountains in the distance.
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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[Unidentified official visit], 1920 - 1936
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/86
Scope and Contents
92 x 86 mm.
Dates:
1920 - 1936
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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Unidentified scene, 1827 - 1832
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/3/7
Scope and Contents
340 x 185 mm rough pencil drawing from Frome's Canada sketchbook of a building set in a rural landscape. Part of its illegible caption appears to read 'Michi.'
Dates:
1827 - 1832
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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[Unidentified school], 1996
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/193
Scope and Contents
150 x 182 mm. Copy of a photograph of a school, with pupils standing in front, mistakenly identified as Belleville High School in the Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire. The misidentification forms the subject of an accompanying article from the newspaper 'The Intelligencer', 10 Nov. 1996.
Dates:
1996
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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Union Point, 6/10/18, 1918-10-06
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/221
Scope and Contents
110 x 70 mm. Showing Tymms and three women on horseback.
Dates:
1918-10-06
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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Union Point, 6/10/18, 1918-10-06
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/232
Scope and Contents
110 x 70 mm. Showing three men and a woman mounted on horses, with a spare horse between them.
Dates:
1918-10-06
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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United Fruit Coy's Banana Plantation, Stann Creek, 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3078B/20
Scope and Contents
127 x 101 mm. A view looking across a large field under cultivation with huts dotted here and there and mountains in the distance. Banana production in Belize was a fast expanding export crop with a large market in the United States. After the development of Stann Creek as a banana centre there was an equally fast decline as disease and poor cultivation methods took their toll. By 1906 many of the larger producers had withdrawn from the market, but from the evidence of this picture the...
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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United Fruit Coy's plantation, Stann Creek, 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3078B/33
Scope and Contents
136 x 87 mm. A postcard (original photograph) looking along a railway track with plantation workers' huts on either side and the manager's residence on a hill in the background. With mountains in the distance.
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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United Fruit Coy's Plantation, Stann Creek. Manager's House, 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3078B/34
Scope and Contents
137 x 88 mm. A close-up view of the house on the hill seen in the preceding plate, a raised two storey wooden building with verandahs on all sides.
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).
File
United States, Europe and Africa, 1918 - 1924
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3
Scope and Contents
Photographs taken in the United States (1918), S.W. England (1919), Europe (1920), Egypt and Sudan (1920), England and Wales (1920-1), Jersey (1921), Germany (1923), Saundersfoot (1923) and Spitsbergen (1924). Fifteen loose photographs from the album are in plastic sleeves.
Dates:
1918 - 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).
File
University College of the West Indies, Installation of H.R.H. Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, as Chancellor (Colonial Cinemagazine 29), 1950-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/3/1
Scope and Contents
A 16mm, black-and-white cinefilm, with sound, showing newsreel footage of the various ceremonies laid on for the installation of the new Chancellor as detailed below (times are approximate). Princess Alice was officially installed as Chancellor on 16 February 1950 after accepting the office on 10 December 1948.0 - 13sec. [Leader].13 - 24sec. Caption reading ‘Colonial Film Unit’.24 - 31sec. Caption reading ‘Colonial Cinemagazine 29’.31 - 37sec. Caption reading...
Dates:
1950-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
These films have been digitised. Please contact the RCS curator (rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk) for details.
For copyright reasons, researchers wishing to view RCMS 20/3/1, (Colonial Cinemagazine 29, Colonial Film Unit, 1950) should make an appointment with the RCS Curator to view the film in Cambridge University Library.
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University of New Brunswick Art Building , 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/29
Scope and Contents
Showing one of the oldest university building in use in Canada.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Canada
Sub-sub-class
University of the West Indies: Barbados, 1963 - 1986
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 WI/3
Scope and Contents
A series of photographs of the University of the West Indies at Barbados. The Barbados campus at Cave Hill was established in 1963.
Dates:
1963 - 1986
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-sub-class
University of the West Indies: Jamaica, 1948 - 1986
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 WI/1
Scope and Contents
A series of photographs and a memorandum all related to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. The University College of the West Indies was founded at Mona, Jamaica, in 1948 and became a University in 1962. Some photographs in this collection link up with others from the same source and this is indicated in the catalogue by references to the IUC set.
Dates:
1948 - 1986
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-sub-class
University of the West Indies, Jamaica, 1948 - 1991
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/322-371
Scope and Contents
A series of photographs of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. The University College of the West Indies was founded at Mona, Jamaica, in 1948 and became a University in 1962.
Dates:
1948 - 1991
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-sub-class
University of the West Indies: Trinidad, 1960 - 1986
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 WI/2
Scope and Contents
A series of photographs of the University of the West Indies at Trinidad. The Trinidad campus at St Augustine was begun in 1960 with the taking over of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture.
Dates:
1960 - 1986
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-sub-class
University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 1960 - 1981
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/372-375
Scope and Contents
A series of photographs of the University of the West Indies at Trinidad. The Trinidad campus at St Augustine was begun in 1960 with the taking over of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture.
Dates:
1960 - 1981
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).