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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:

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Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/2995
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). No. 2 Company. R. A. Park, Halifax. Exercises and drill with 4.7 guns. Instructor explaining the breach mechanism.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Fisher photograph collection / Volume XIV : Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, 1909
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Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/2996
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). No. 2 Company. R. A. Park, Halifax. Exercises and drill with 4.7 guns. Limbering up after action. (snow falling).

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Fisher photograph collection / Volume XIV : Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, 1909
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police Band, Ottawa , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/79
Scope and Contents

Showing an R.C.M.P. band passing in front of the Peace Tower.

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 / Photographs of Canada
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police Patrol Boat , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/74
Scope and Contents

Showing a patrol boat on the St. Lawrence River at Thousand Island, Gananoque, Ontario.

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 / Photographs of Canada
 Fonds

Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniforms, 1977

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240/36
Scope and Contents

Three prints of pictures depicting the different dress of the R.C.M.P.

Dates: 1977
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 / Americas miscellanea
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Royal Canadian Regiment, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/3008
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Machine Gun Detachment. Moving to drill : in background part of the Regiment is seen forming upon parade.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Fisher photograph collection / Volume XIV : Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, 1909
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Royal Canadian Regiment, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/3009
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Officers Quarters : Wellinton Barracks, Halifax. Colonels charges being excercised.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Fisher photograph collection / Volume XIV : Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, 1909
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Royal Canadian Regiment, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/3010
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Signalling Squad at practice: behind drums passing: for colour, note that some of the signal flags are blue and some white.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Fisher photograph collection / Volume XIV : Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, 1909
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Royal Canadian Regiment, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/3011
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Fife and drum band practising in front of officers quarters, Wellington Barracks, Halifax.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Fisher photograph collection / Volume XIV : Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, 1909
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Royal Canadian Regiment, Halifax, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3012
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). C Company at drill marching.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Fisher photograph collection / Volume XV : Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 1909
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Royal Canadian Regiment, Halifax, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3013
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). C Company moving in columns of sections.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Fisher photograph collection / Volume XV : Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 1909
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Royal Canadian Regiment, Halifax, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3014
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Band : for colour note that all the wind instruments are yellow brass : this band is said to be the finest in Canada.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Fisher photograph collection / Volume XV : Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 1909
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Royal Canadian Regiment, Halifax, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3015
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Firing line : half of D Company.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Fisher photograph collection / Volume XV : Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 1909
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Royal Canadian Regiment, Halifax, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3016
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Half of D Company advancing.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Fisher photograph collection / Volume XV : Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 1909
 Fonds

Royal Commonwealth Society Artefacts Collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS
Scope and Contents

Soon after its foundation in 1868, the Royal Colonial Institute had envisaged the establishment of a museum, but following the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in South Kensington, and the creation of the Imperial Institute, the plan was abandoned. Over the years, however, the society built up a small, eclectic collection of objects as members donated items they had received as gifts or purchased during work or travel overseas.

Dates: -2500 - 1970-05
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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[Royal Gorge, Black Canon], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/91
Scope and Contents

152 x 250 mm. A view looking along the single line railway, with the Arkansas River at the right of the picture, and with steep cliffs rising on either side of the track. Photograph possibly by W.H. Jackson. The handwritten caption here seems to be geographically inexact, this section of the line (beyond the junction of the Colorado and Arkansas Rivers) lying in the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas rather than Black Canyon.

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 / New Zealand and America
 Sub-Fonds

Royal grant of West Indian governorship, 1971

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240/19
Scope and Contents

A coloured photograph of an illuminated document dated 13 September 1625, 12'' x 8'', granting Sir Thomas Warner the governorship of St Christopher (St Kitts), 'Mevis' (Nevis), Barbados and Montserrat. There is an accompanying photocopy of a typed description of the grant and of the translation given in A. Warner, 'Sir Thomas Warner' (1933), pp. 28-33.

Dates: 1971
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 / Americas miscellanea
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Royal Hawai[i]an Hotel, 1948-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/181
Scope and Contents

54 x 53 mm. A view of the beach, with the hotel in the distance.

Dates: 1948-11
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 / Tymms collection on civil aviation / Photographs / Later photographs
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Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/84
Scope and Contents

A view from the street showing the front entrance to the museum.

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 / Photographs of Canada
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[Royal Palace, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1886], 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011P/5
Scope and Contents

243 x 176 mm. Showing crowds in the gardens, with the palace buildings in the background. The caption reads 'This is a view of the Royal Palace on the 50th birthday of the late King'. The King referred to in the caption is King David Kalakaua (1836-1891).

Dates: 1979
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 / Cruise of the Yacht St George, 1880s-92
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Royal Palms, Cumberland Street, 1890 - 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3071A/7
Scope and Contents

228 x 176 mm. A view looking from Cumberland Street towards the sea, with houses and palms in the foreground and the harbour lighthouse visible in the distance.

Dates: 1890 - 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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Photographs of the Bahamas
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Royal review in Nassau, 1959-04-24 - 1959-04-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/180
Scope and Contents

255 x 200 mm. The typescript caption continues: 'Prince Philip inspects Guard of Honor from the Worcestershire Regiment in Nassau on occasion of his four-day visit to the Bahama Islands. A Nassau constable stands in the background. -30-.' The caption also reads: 'From: Bahamas News Bureau ... by Bill Seward', and 'Direction of: Hill and Knowlton, Inc.' and gives full address details for both.

Dates: 1959-04-24 - 1959-04-28
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 / Sir Raynor Arthur Collection / Bahamas / [Visit of H.R.H the Duke of Edinburgh, 24-28 April 1959]
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[Royal review in Nassau], 1959-04-24 - 1959-04-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/181
Scope and Contents

255 x 200 mm. A view of Prince Philip inspecting the Guard of Honor.

Dates: 1959-04-24 - 1959-04-28
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 / Sir Raynor Arthur Collection / Bahamas / [Visit of H.R.H the Duke of Edinburgh, 24-28 April 1959]
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[Royal review in Nassau], 1959-04-24 - 1959-04-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/182
Scope and Contents

255 x 200 mm. A view of Prince Philip inspecting the Guard of Honor. The print is stamped on the reverse with 'Bahamas News Bureau Photo.'

Dates: 1959-04-24 - 1959-04-28
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 / Sir Raynor Arthur Collection / Bahamas / [Visit of H.R.H the Duke of Edinburgh, 24-28 April 1959]
 Fonds

Royal Tour of the West Indies, 1966

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307C
Scope and Contents A collection of loose photographs measuring approximately 205 x 155 mm, with captions pasted to the backs of the prints. The photographs show scenes and events during the tour of 1966 which started at Georgetown, British Guiana and following the line of the islands (apart from a detour to Nassau) and ended in Jamaica. This was the first visit of the Queen to most of the islands although she had been to Jamaica and Bermuda during her world tour of the Commonwealth in 1953-4. Photographs by...
Dates: 1966
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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