North and Central America (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Making hats, Antigua, 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/28
Scope and Contents
155 x 115 mm. Showing a group of Antiguan women weaving straw hats.
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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Making tortillas in an Indian village, 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3078A/5
Scope and Contents
161 x 119 mm. A view inside an Indian hut showing cooking implements and a small fire. With an Indian woman posing for the camera.
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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Malahat Drive, Vancouver Island, 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/107
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A limp-bound book, number 36 of a numbered edition of 100, containing photogravure plates and coloured illustrations by various artists. Each page is preceded by a sheet containing the title and description; in most cases only the title is given in the typescript catalogue. Unless otherwise stated, the illustrations are full-page sepia photogravure, approximately 225 x 175 mm; the half-page coloured illustrations are c.125 x 85 mm.The title page reads 'His Royal Highness the Prince...
Dates:
1919
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
Malcolm MacDonald photograph collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM
Scope and Contents
The photographs fall into four groups:1. Those received with the papers temporarily received by the historian of the Royal Commonwealth Society prior to their transfer to the University of Durham, where Malcolm MacDonald was Chancellor 1971-1981. These photographs comprise the bulk of MM 1-13, 24, and 27-30.2. A small number of photographs which had been included in the papers and listed with them. It was agreed by the Trustees of the papers that these should form part of...
Dates:
1930 - 1981
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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Maligne Lake, Jasper National Park, Alberta , 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/175
Scope and Contents
A view looking across the lake towards distant mountains.
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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[Man and woman], 1949-02-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/255
Scope and Contents
50 x 110 mm. Both are dressed formally as if for a dinner party and are holding glasses of wine. This may be the occasion of Commodore Grassi's farewell party.
Dates:
1949-02-10
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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[Man chopping wood outside a cabin], 1910 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/59
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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[Man on horse], 1910 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/63
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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[Man with baseball bat], 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/14/98
Scope and Contents
84 x 64 mm. A man, possibly Johnny Verhagen, swinging a bat, watched by a woman. The photograph is undated, but was found in a wallet from Montreal dated 15 October 1952.
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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Man with seal skin, 1902 - 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061E/8
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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Mandeville, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/18
Scope and Contents
208 x 132 mm. A view showing an open grassy square in Mandeville with a crowd of Jamaicans in the background (event unidentified).
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
Manitoba, 1962 - 1969
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/8/2/26
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These files include annual reports, accompanied in some cases by explanatory letters, reports of annual general meetings, statements of accounts and other papers.
Dates:
1962 - 1969
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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Manitoba welcomes visitors , 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/115
Scope and Contents
Showing the 'Welcome to Manitoba' sign 68 miles outside Winnipeg.
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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[Maniton, Near Colorado Springs], 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/95
Scope and Contents
251 x 150 mm. A view from a hillside above the town, looking down on Maniton Springs, a small settlement five miles west of Colorado Springs. The town lies in a hollow at the foot of Pike’s Peak, and in the background can be seen the southern end of the Rocky Mountain Range. Photograph probably by W.H. Jackson.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New Zealand and America
File
Manuscripts relating to America in the British Museum, 1895, 1895
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/12/20
Scope and Contents
Extracts from 'The Nation', Vol. 61: Nos. 1574, 1581, 1582.
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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Manuscripts relating to Barbados preserved at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/5/8
Scope and Contents
Copies of material in MSS Clarendon 81-85.
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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Manwayne Post Office Lloydminster District, 1910 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/24
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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Many of Jamaica's main roadways are inadequate for the volume of vehicular traffic which they must handle. As a result of this the Government has had to undertake an extensive road improvement programme, 1959 - 1982
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E/2
Scope and Contents
250 x 200 mm. Jamaica Information Service photograph.
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).
Fonds
Map and account of the Mackenzie River
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 253
Scope and Contents
Map (394 x 420 mm) and brief description (7 pages) of the river’s geography, Indigenous Peoples, exploration and significance.
Dates:
1821-02-25 - 1821-02-26
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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[Map of Africa, Rhodes' bookplates and various books on South Africa], 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305T/8
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A set of photographs (glossy prints, 190 x 245 mm) of the Howell Wright Collection of Rhodesiana and South Africana as exhibited at the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library prior to its presentation to the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University. The collection features pictures, maps, documents, etc., relating to Cecil Rhodes, Paul Kruger, Dr L.S. Jameson, Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, Barney Barnato, the Americans F.R. Burnham and J.H. Hammond, and others. The photographs show the display...
Dates:
1939
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
Map of Sebastian Cabot, 1544, 1913
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 31/4/1
Scope and Contents
This is slide number four in Lecture 1.
Dates:
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).
File
Map of the island of Barbados divided into its parishes by H. Moll, 1736
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/12/2
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:
1736
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
Maple Leaves: Canadian History and Quebec Scenery (Third Series)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062L
Scope and Contents
This, the third in a seven-volume series, has material in two main categories; historical essays, chiefly on the campaign of 1759, and thirty-five short accounts of 'Our Country Seats', in the vicinity of Quebec. It was the first Canadian book illustrated by the insertion of actual photographs, and, according to Greenhill (1965) p.64, 'Copies of this book differ very considerably both in the number of photographs included and in the actual pictures used'. The photographer was Livernois;...
Dates:
1865
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
Item
Maple sugaring, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2834
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Joliette seen in the distance: cans fixed at base of the trees.
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).
Item
Maple sugaring, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/2838
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. In the woods near Joliette : close of winter.
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).