North and Central America (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5473 Collections and/or Records:
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Jamaica Santa Cruz, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/12
Scope and Contents
215 x 133 mm. A view in the town of Santa Cruz showing a wooden house in the foreground with Jamaicans sitting on the verandah and smaller thatched houses in the background, one of these being the premises of ‘P.S. Robertson, Dispensary and trade Depot’. Santa Cruz is situated in the South West of Jamaica in St Elizabeth’s Parish.
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).
File
Jamaica Telephone Company, 1943
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 33/5/4/3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding the Company's proposed purchase of Jamaica's telephone system.
Dates:
1943
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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Jamaica Victoria Market, Kingston, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/10
Scope and Contents
213 x 131 mm. A view looking over a busy market place. There are no fixed stalls, instead people are either trading from the back of horse-drawn carts or from woven baskets on the ground. A number of horses and donkeys are tied up around the edge of the marketplace. The majority of people appear to be trading fruit and vegetables including bananas.
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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Jamaican and British soldiers co-operate to assist victims of flooding in Newmarket, St. Elizabeth, in June 1979, 1979-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E/24
Scope and Contents
250 x 200 mm. Jamaica Information Service photograph by Ted Cunningham.
Dates:
1979-06
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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Jamaican and British soldiers co-operate to assist victims of flooding in Newmarket, St. Elizabeth, in June 1979, 1979-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E/25
Scope and Contents
250 x 200 mm. Jamaica Information Service photograph by Ted Cunningham.
Dates:
1979-06
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).
Fonds
'Jamaican ants'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 354
Scope and Contents
A book recording facts and observations about Jamaican ant species. It also includes two imaginative stories, perhaps intended for children, to explain their behaviour. It is illustrated by pen and ink sketches and water colours (50 pages).
Dates:
1890 - 1944
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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Jamaican cane mill, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073B/3
Scope and Contents
92 x 114 mm. Showing grinding machinery and a bullock with piles of sugarcane in the foreground. Photograph by S.C. Scott.
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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Jamaican coconuts, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/26
Scope and Contents
218 x 134 mm. A view showing Jamaican plantation workers tending young coconut trees in a field.
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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Jamaican Ferns, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/23
Scope and Contents
216 x 134 mm. A view showing various types of ferns and trees in Fern Walk, near Newcastle. See Y3073D/14 for another print of the same photograph.
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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Jamaica's Blue Mountain coffee is renowned for its delicious flavour. Here, coffee berries are being sprayed against the coffee berry borer disease to ensure that the high quality is maintained, 1959 - 1982
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E/19
Scope and Contents
250 x 200 mm. Jamaica Information Service photograph by Ted Cunningham.
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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Jamaica’s Independence Signed in London, 1962-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/256
Scope and Contents
152 x 206 mm. Mr. Reginald Maudling, the Colonial Secretary, and Mr. Norman Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica, sign the agreement at Lancaster House, London, giving Jamaica independence on August 6 this year. The agreement was also signed by Sir Alexander Bustamante, Leader of the Opposition. The signing brought to an end the Jamaican constitutional conference.
Dates:
1962-02
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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Jamaica’s Independence Signed in London, 1962-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/257
Scope and Contents
152 x 206 mm. Watched by Jamaican Prime Minister Mr. Norman Manley, Sir Alexander Bustamante, Leader of the Jamaican Opposition, signs the agreement at Lancaster House, London, giving Jamaica independence on August 6 this year.
Dates:
1962-02
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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Jamaica's multi-racial society is mirrored on the faces of these students, giving credence to the Nation's motto, 'Out of many, one people'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E/1
Scope and Contents
370 x 300 mm. This photograph appears under the heading 'The people of the Commonwealth, past and present'. The heading 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. Jamaica Information Service photograph taken by Errol Harvey.
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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Jamaica 1959-1982
Fonds
James Bell Newfoundland Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061E
Scope and Contents
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:
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
File
James Rymer, 'Description of the island of Nevis with an account of its principal diseases', (London, 1775), 1775
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/1/43
Scope and Contents
Incomplete.
Dates:
1775
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
Japan and miscellaneous, 1900 - 1950
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35
Scope and Contents
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.
Dates:
1900 - 1950
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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Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper National Park, Alberta , 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/176
Scope and Contents
Showing the exterior of the park lodge with mountains in the distance.
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
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Jersey cattle on Vernon Ranch, 1908-09 - 1908-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2592
Scope and Contents
[Ranch] of Price Ellison Esq. M.P. (B.C.).
Dates:
1908-09 - 1908-10
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
Jews in the West Indies, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/4/6
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Davis had a life-long interest in the history of the West Indies and more specifically of Barbados, and this collection comprises a vast body of material gathered by him from archives in Britain, the Caribbean and Europe. He contributed many historical articles to newspapers and periodicals in British Guiana [Guyana], Barbados and the United States. His intention to compose a comprehensive history of the West Indies was frustrated by ill health. Titles and captions, including the names of...
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).
Item
Joan and Hazel Parry, 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/243
Scope and Contents
130 x 80 mm. Showing the two women on skis.
Dates:
1951
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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Joe's River, Barbados, 1879 - 1913
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307G/14
Scope and Contents
241 x 173 mm. A view looking from a hillside towards a sugar plantation, with cultivated fields in the foreground and factory premises beyond.
Dates:
1879 - 1913
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
John Seymour Benson Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364
Scope and Contents
Letters, diaries and photographs.
Dates:
1928 - 1973
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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[?] Johush Town, St Lucia, 1879 - 1913
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307G/21
Scope and Contents
212 x 137 mm. A coastal view, with a spit of land with cocoanut (coconut) palms in the foreground and a town partially visible beyond. The title is taken from the pencilled caption on the back of the print.
Dates:
1879 - 1913
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).
Item
Joliette : A convent school out for a walk, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2821
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. City Hall behind.
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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Joliette : Academie St Viateur, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2818
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 2661-2834 (originally there were 165). Added numbers are: 2785A and 2807A; not used: 2680, 2681, 2699, 2701, 2702 and 2782; missing 2714, 2785A and 2812. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 2785A follows after 2785. Subjects covered in this album are: Canada: Victoria: typical houses, harbour scenes; Esquimalt Dockyard; cattle near Edmonton; train journey: Revelstoke,...
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).