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North and Central America (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:

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Missanabie, 1908-07 - 1908-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 9/2091
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Passengers descending from train on to track].

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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Mission Inn, Riverside, 10/9/18, 1918-09-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/162
Scope and Contents

70 x 50 mm. A very dark image of the Inn. Only the turrets on the roof are discernable as the rest is in shadow.

Dates: 1918-09-10
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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Mission Inn. Riverside. California, 1918-09-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/134
Scope and Contents

68 x 47 mm.

Dates: 1918-09-10
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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[Mission van], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/50
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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[Mission van], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/51
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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Mississippi River at Memphis, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/35
Scope and Contents

80 x 50 mm. Showing two women seated on the bank of Mississippi River.

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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[Model Village, Clare Hall, Antigua], 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/64
Scope and Contents 263 x 210 mm. Showing an area newly laid out with small wooden cottages. This is part of the scheme referred to by Bell in a letter; having made a start of clearing away a 'dirty little rookery, called Hyndman's village, which is quite close to Government House', Bell commenced: 'laying out a 'model village' at Clare Hall, about a mile away from the town, and am hoping to be able to induce a lot of people who are now living in the most awful conditions in the town slums to move up there...
Dates: 1914
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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[Model village, Clare Hall, Antigua], 1912 - 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/75
Scope and Contents

124 x 99 mm. A view of some cottages.

Dates: 1912 - 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).
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Modern Colonial Hospital, nearing completion in Trinidad, B.W.I. [British West Indies], 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/69
Scope and Contents 152 x 115 mm. The caption on the reverse reads: 'A new Colonial Hospital of 500 beds and estimated to cost approximately $6,300,000 will be opened in July, 1954, in Trinidad and Tobago in the British West Indies.The hospital is situated in the Southern portion of the Island, San Fernando, the second largest town of the Colony and contains the most modern equipment. Two of the wings of the new hospital with towers are shown from the entrance of the new...
Dates: 1954
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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Modern Commonwealth photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC
Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...
Dates: 1936 - 1980
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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Modern multi-storied buildings now adorn Kingston's waterfront in place of shrubbery and ramshackle warehouses. The temporary headquarters of the Seabed Authority is located in this area, 1959 - 1982

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

370 x 300 mm.

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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Mohawk Church, Brantford, Ontario, oldest in Canada, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062D/14
Scope and Contents

83 x 132mm. Showing the old wooden church (1785) in Brantford, a town named after the Mohawk Chief, Joseph Brant.

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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Mont-Gabriel, 1947-09

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

90 x 65 mm. Group, including Tymms, sat on deck chairs beside a ping-pong table.

Dates: 1947-09
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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Mont-Gabriel, 1947-09

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

85 x 65 mm. Group, including Tymms, sat on deck chairs beside a ping-pong table.

Dates: 1947-09
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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Mont-Gabriel, 1947-09

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

90 x 60 mm. Group, including Tymms, sat on deck chairs beside a ping-pong table.

Dates: 1947-09
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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Montcalm's house, Quebec, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/2891
Scope and Contents

Now a barbers.

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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Montcalm's house, Quebec, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/2892
Scope and Contents

Now a barbers.

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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Montebello, 1949-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/172
Scope and Contents

125 x 80 mm. Group sat by the river. Lady Tymms (Millie) is on the far left. People can be seen on the jetty on the river in the background.

Dates: 1949-06
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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Montego Bay, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/17
Scope and Contents

211 x 132 mm. A view looking down on the town and bay from the hills, with woodland in the foreground.

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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Montego Bay, circa 1959, the most popular tourist resort and second largest town in Jamaica. It is situated on the north-western coast of Jamaica, 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E/9
Scope and Contents

250 x 200 mm.

Dates: 1959
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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Montego Bay from hill, 1879 - 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073D/42
Scope and Contents

183 x 119 mm. A view from behind the town looking seawards.

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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Montego Bay, Interior of the Town, 1879 - 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073D/68
Scope and Contents

183 x 118 mm. A view looking over the houses and streets of Montego Bay with the parish church in the background at the left of the print and mountains in the distance.

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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Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307J/2
Scope and Contents

229 x 291 mm (overall), 101 x 139 mm (image). Halftone print. Studio name printed as part of image, print inscribed by hand in ink, au recto, below image. Photograph is taken from an elevated location and shows treetops and rooftops at the coast. Open water, a ship and land are visible in the background.

Dates: 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).
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Montego Bay, North Coast, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073D/53
Scope and Contents

238 x 178 mm. A view looking over the town, with the bay at the right of the photograph.

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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Montmorencie Falls, Quebec, 1871

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062B/9
Scope and Contents

228 x 127 mm. A view of the falls from below. The Montmorency Falls are the entry point of the Montmorency River into the St Lawrence, 7 miles north-east of Quebec. Photograph by Louis-Prudent Vallée. (Copy in Canadian National Archives dated April 22 1871.)

Dates: 1871
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).