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North and Central America (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:

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Looking ENE from bank between staff houses and pump-house, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3071E/1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Photographs contained in a report on a visit to the Colonial Development Corporation Tomato Project, Andros Is. Bahamas May 1952 by F. Hardy and R.E.D. Baker. Thirty copies of the 17 page typescript report were produced.1-6 Photographs taken Tuesday 13th May, 1952 between 9 and 10am after a night of heavy rain (2½ inches in about 8 hours). Each measuring 55 x 55 mm.7-12 Photographs of Andros Tomato Farm taken by Carl F. Warner (Acting Manager of the farm). Each measuring 100...
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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Looking ENE from bank of main N-S drain; Field 18. Drowned tomato plants. Leaf samples collected later, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3071E/5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Photographs contained in a report on a visit to the Colonial Development Corporation Tomato Project, Andros Is. Bahamas May 1952 by F. Hardy and R.E.D. Baker. Thirty copies of the 17 page typescript report were produced.1-6 Photographs taken Tuesday 13th May, 1952 between 9 and 10am after a night of heavy rain (2½ inches in about 8 hours). Each measuring 55 x 55 mm.7-12 Photographs of Andros Tomato Farm taken by Carl F. Warner (Acting Manager of the farm). Each measuring 100...
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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Looking ESE from bank of main N-S drain. Pump-house in distance, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3071E/4
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Photographs contained in a report on a visit to the Colonial Development Corporation Tomato Project, Andros Is. Bahamas May 1952 by F. Hardy and R.E.D. Baker. Thirty copies of the 17 page typescript report were produced.1-6 Photographs taken Tuesday 13th May, 1952 between 9 and 10am after a night of heavy rain (2½ inches in about 8 hours). Each measuring 55 x 55 mm.7-12 Photographs of Andros Tomato Farm taken by Carl F. Warner (Acting Manager of the farm). Each measuring 100...
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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Looking from slope of Beehive Mountain, 1908-07 - 1908-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 9/2169
Scope and Contents

Back to Mount Stephen.

Dates: 1908-07 - 1908-08
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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Looking N along main drain inlet near pump-house, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3071E/2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Photographs contained in a report on a visit to the Colonial Development Corporation Tomato Project, Andros Is. Bahamas May 1952 by F. Hardy and R.E.D. Baker. Thirty copies of the 17 page typescript report were produced.1-6 Photographs taken Tuesday 13th May, 1952 between 9 and 10am after a night of heavy rain (2½ inches in about 8 hours). Each measuring 55 x 55 mm.7-12 Photographs of Andros Tomato Farm taken by Carl F. Warner (Acting Manager of the farm). Each measuring 100...
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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Looking north across Osyoos Flat, B.C., 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2571
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. From the U.S. (Washington) side of the border.

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).
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Looking towards the Narrows, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2633
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. From Brockton Point, Stanley Park

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).
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Looking up the Okanagan Valley, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2575
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. From a little above Fairview.

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).
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Looking WSW from bank of main N-S drain. Virgin land outside embankment, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3071E/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Photographs contained in a report on a visit to the Colonial Development Corporation Tomato Project, Andros Is. Bahamas May 1952 by F. Hardy and R.E.D. Baker. Thirty copies of the 17 page typescript report were produced.1-6 Photographs taken Tuesday 13th May, 1952 between 9 and 10am after a night of heavy rain (2½ inches in about 8 hours). Each measuring 55 x 55 mm.7-12 Photographs of Andros Tomato Farm taken by Carl F. Warner (Acting Manager of the farm). Each measuring 100...
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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Lord Home’s trip to Eastern Canada, 1956, 1956-05-10 - 1956-06-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/2/3
Scope and Contents

Detailed diary written whilst Smedley visited parts of eastern Canada and Washington, DC, with Lord Home, Commonwealth Secretary, 1955-57 (circa 200 sheets).

Itineraries, dinner plans, tourist brochures, and prospectuses from the ‘British Newfoundland Corporation Limited, Montreal, May 1956’ and the ‘Quebec Labrador Iron Ore Company of Canada’ are also included.

Dates: 1956-05-10 - 1956-06-04
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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Lord Willoughby’s interest in Barbados and the Leeward Islands, extracts from Eg. MSS 2395, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/2/2
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).
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Louise Lake, 1870 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/185
Scope and Contents

239 x 184 mm. General view looking across Lake Louise.

Dates: 1870 - 1891
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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Lower Fort Garry , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/123
Scope and Contents

Showing part of the only original fur trading post left intact in Canada. Fort Garry was built in 1831.

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).
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Lower Kicking Horse Canon, near Golden, 1870 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/184
Scope and Contents

190 x 238 mm. View looking along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway as it follows the course of the Columbia River through Kicking Horse Pass, British Columbia.

Dates: 1870 - 1891
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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Lower Yosemite Valley. Mercel River, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/59
Scope and Contents

48 x 69 mm.

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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[Lt-Gen. Sir Alexander Hood, Governor of Bermuda], 1951 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/2
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The Governor of Bermuda signing a document, with O. R. Arthur standing by him. Hood (1888-1980) was a doctor who ended a military career as Director of Army Medical Services, 1941-48. He was Governor of Bermuda from 1949 until his retirement in 1955. Sir Winston Churchill commented 'I like Hood' and Lord Moran wrote of him: 'Hood is a full-blooded red-faced Scot with no neck to speak of, as if he had stepped down from a Raeburn portrait for our correction'.

Dates: 1951 - 1953
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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Lucea, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/27
Scope and Contents

216 x 133 mm. A view looking down on the town and bay of Lucea which lies 25 miles west of Montego Bay. Photograph taken c. 1882 (see Y3073/D39).

Dates: 1882
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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Lucea Harbour, 1879 - 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073D/75
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188 x 120 mm. A distant view of Lucea and its large harbour.

Dates: 1879 - 1886
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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Lucerne-in-Maine: Beach Club, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/200
Scope and Contents

125 x 80 mm. A view of a lake.

Dates: 1949
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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Lumber at Bisco (On C.P.R. train Toronto-Winnipeg), 1908-07 - 1908-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 9/2079
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [No print]. Missing.

Dates: 1908-07 - 1908-08
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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Lumber cutting, Vancouver Island, British Columbia , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/208
Scope and Contents

Showing two lumberjacks felling a tree with a chainsaw. Photograph by Canadian Pacific Railways.

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).
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Lumber Mill, Vancouver, British Columbia , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/215
Scope and Contents

Showing a Vancouver Lumber Mill with sawn timber in the foreground and mountain ranges in the distance. Photograph by Canadian Pacific Railways.

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).
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Lumber mills and docks, Vancouver Island, B.C. Canada, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30695A/9
Scope and Contents

245 x 193 mm. Showing a lumber yard stacked with piles of sawn timber, with the mill in the background and a sailing ship moored in the harbour beyond.

Dates: 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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Lumbering operation, Vancouver Island, 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/207
Scope and Contents

Showing a lumberjack attaching a rope harness. Photograph by Canadian Pacific Railways.

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).
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Lumbering operation, Vancouver Island, British Columbia , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/209
Scope and Contents

Showing timber being transported by a locomotive of the Lake Logging Co. Photograph by Canadian Pacific Railways.

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).