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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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Opening the road to New castle through the St. Andrew's and Port Royal Mountains from Kingston, 1889 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073A/6
Scope and Contents

244 x 196 mm. A view showing the Governor of Jamaica, Sir Henry Arthur Blake (1840-1918) standing beside a small ornamental wheelbarrow and holding a spade, about to perform the opening ceremony. At the right of the picture stand European officials and spectators, while at the left stands a group of labourers. The exact date of the ceremony has not bee ascertained. Sir Henry Blake was Governor of Jamaica between 1889 and 1897.

Dates: 1889 - 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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Opposition leader welcomed to Constitutional Conference, 1966-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/17
Scope and Contents

153 x 203 mm. Mr Robert Hall (left), Leader of the Opposition, is met by Mr Nicholas Ridley, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, before the opening session of the Antigua Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House in London.

Dates: 1966-02
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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Orange hibiscus, Government House, 1971-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham FF/8
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Dates: 1971-02
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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Orchard of Ben Davis apples, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2600
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. On the Coldstream Estate.

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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Orchard of Ben Davis apples, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2601
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. On the Coldstream Estate.

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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Orchard of Ben Davis’s apples on the Coldstream Estate, Okanagan Valley, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/2600
Scope and Contents

350 x 250 mm.

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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Orchard of Kings near Wolfville, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3131
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 3012-3188 (originally there were 159). Added numbers are: 3164A, 3165A; spoiled: 3143-3149; not used: 3022, 3024, 3046-3048, 3094, 3097, 3129, 3133, 3139, 3140, 3153 and 3182; missing: 3172. Subjects covered in this album are:Canada: Royal Canadian Regiment Halifax; Halifax; Lunenberg; Bridgewater; Springfield; Muscauna Lake; Frog Lake; Shellcamp: lumbering; copy of photographs of natural gas explosion, Sarnie, 1902;...
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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Orchard of Kings near Wolfville, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3132
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

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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Orchard Tunnel, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069A/17
Scope and Contents

245 x 192 mm. A view looking along the line towards a tunnel blasted through a rock outcrop that projects into the river or lake at the left of the print. Exact location unidentified, possibly on Kamloops Lake.

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).
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Orchid, C [Ciceron], 1972-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham CC/40
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides taken chiefly in Ciceron and its grounds. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Dates: 1972-09
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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Order in Council respecting persons transported to Barbados for complicity in Monmouth’s Rebellion, with list, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/1/40
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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Order respecting the Plantation in Barbados held jointly by Capt. Gerrard Hawtaine and Sir. A.A. Cooper, Bt. 1652., 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/8/9
Scope and Contents

(Shaftesbury Papers, Section 10, No. 1).

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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Original draft report on locations and grants in British Honduras, drawn up about the year 1847, 1847

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 269/9
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Extracts from the archives, news cuttings and various original documents. They appear to have been compiled by Frederick Hardyman Parker, probably as research for a projected history of British Honduras. Some were likely collected by his father, William Alexander Parker, Chief Justice of British Honduras.

Dates: 1847
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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Orland-Campbell's picnic, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/205
Scope and Contents

125 x 80 mm. Three women sat on rocks. To the left is Lady Tymms (Millie), to the right, Madame Verhagen.

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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Oshawa, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/143
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).
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Other countries, 1900 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 75/6/5
Scope and Contents

Two photographs taken in Malta, one of which is dated 1907; a photograph taken in Gibraltar, c. 1900-1910; and a postcard from Grand Cayman, 1953.

Dates: 1900 - 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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Ottawa, 1954 - 1989

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/8/2/35
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: 1954 - 1989
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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Ottawa, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/18
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).
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Ottawa : Alma Street, 1908-07 - 1908-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 9/2022
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Et L'Eglise Notre Dame on the Hull Side. A typical street of wooden houses on Sunday afternoon - showing class of house for work people and poorer class generally.

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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Ottawa : Alma Street, 1908-07 - 1908-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 9/2020
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). And L'Eglise Notre Dame on the Hull side.

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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Ottawa : Alma Street, 1908-07 - 1908-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 9/2021
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Et L'Eglise Notre Dame on the Hull Side. A typical street of wooden houses on Sunday afternoon - showing class of house for work people and poorer class generally.

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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Ottawa Branch, 1975 - 1987

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/8/12/11
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to Student Commonwealth Conferences of 1975, 1980, and 1984-87. The file also includes news letters for 1974-87.

Dates: 1975 - 1987
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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Ottawa River : Kettle Island, 1908-07 - 1908-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 9/2031
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). A favourite camping ground near Ottawa : said to be entirely under water in winter.

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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Ottawa River : Montebello, 1908-07 - 1908-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 9/2040
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). The Chateau Papineau where resided the Hon. Louis Joseph Papineau, leader of the rebellion of 1837.

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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Ottawa River : Montebello, 1908-07 - 1908-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 9/2041
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). The Chateau Papineau where resided the Hon. Louis Joseph Papineau, leader of the rebellion of 1837.

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).