North and Central America (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:
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Statement of case by W. G. Adams of Lincoln’s Inn on customs fees at Antigua, 29 June 1829, 1929-06-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 263/11
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Loose papers and one newspaper from Patrick and his son James Colquhoun's correspondence files. RCMS 263/1-9 have a cover headed 'Nevis 1820' and RCMS 263/11-31 are in a similar cover '1832 West Indies'. Each has a note of contents, but these do not tally exactly with the items now present.
Dates:
1929-06-29
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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West Indian documents
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Statements of Bills drawn by Lt. Col. Arthur, 1814-12-31 - 1822-08-13
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 270/4
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...
Dates:
1814-12-31 - 1822-08-13
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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Statue of Joseph Howe, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3023
Scope and Contents
To left of the Provinical Building, 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).
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Statue of the Virgin Mary, 1902
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.7.01
Scope and Contents
This porcelain statue bears the tag, ‘Found in ruins of St. Pierre, miraculously preserved 1902’. It was recovered from the ruins of St. Pierre, Martinique, in June 1902, by Sir Hesketh Bell, Administrator of Dominica, who visited immediately after the eruption of Mt. Pelée, ‘To our intense surprise, we found that this image was almost entirely undamaged, the hands and feet only having been broken off. This was a really an amazing thing, as it lay almost completely covered by big stones and...
Dates:
1902
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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[Steam locomotive, Montreal?], 1928-11-17
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/57
Scope and Contents
Print at RCMS 353/2/332.
Dates:
1928-11-17
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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Steamer 'Bermudian' entering Hamilton Harbour, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070B/1
Scope and Contents
130 x 77 mm. A view looking out over the harbour and showing the twin-funnelled 'Bermudian' in the distance.
Dates:
1910
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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Stockyards, St. Boniface , 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/128
Scope and Contents
Showing carcasses in storage in a St. Boniface warehouse.
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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Stonecrushing plant, Edmonton, 1908-08 - 1908-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2243
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Stones dredged from the river bed are here crushed for roadmaking - a side issue, all stuff dredged from river being first washed for gold. View taken from Saskatchewan Bridge.
Dates:
1908-08 - 1908-09
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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Stonecrushing plant, Edmonton, 1908-08 - 1908-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2244
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Stones dredged from the river bed are here crushed for roadmaking - a side issue, all stuff dredged from river being first washed for gold. View taken from Saskatchewan Bridge.
Dates:
1908-08 - 1908-09
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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Stooked Corn at Brantwood, 1908-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2435
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. Ontario: apple orchards in background.
Dates:
1908-09
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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Stooking on Kennedy's Farm, 1908-08 - 1908-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2234
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. The two figures to the left are Russians.
Dates:
1908-08 - 1908-09
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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Stooking on Kennedy's Farm, 1908-08 - 1908-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2235
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. The two figures to the left are Russians.
Dates:
1908-08 - 1908-09
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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Stooking on Kennedy's Farm, 1908-08 - 1908-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2236
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. The two figures to the left are Russians.
Dates:
1908-08 - 1908-09
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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Stores at Summerside, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/2939
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).
File
Stowe MS 184, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/1/3
Scope and Contents
Extracts regarding the attitude of Barbados to the dispute between King and Parliament. 17 sheets.
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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Stratford, 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/137
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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[Straw Market], 1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/224
Scope and Contents
Showing a couple watching a straw hat maker at work. The typescript caption attached to the reverse of the print reads: 'Products sold from the stalls of Nassau's straw market have become the most popular souvenir of a visit to the Bahama Islands. Frivolous or utilitarian they have a tremendous appeal to vacationers, and those who have predetermined ideas as to style and decoration may even have special designs completed in time to carry the prize home with them. -30-.' The caption also...
Dates:
1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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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Strawberry Hill, Port Royal Mountains, Jamaica. Residence of Hon. Alan Ker, Senior Puisne Judge, 1879 - 1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073D/65
Scope and Contents
190 x 112 mm. A view showing the judge’s bungalow perched in the summit of a wooded hill in the mountains.
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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[Street decorations in St. John's Antigua, in honour of the visit of Princess Marie Louise], 1913-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/48
Scope and Contents
245 x 197 mm. A view looking along High Street, St. John's, with crowds lining the roadway and a large decorated arch of welcome in the foreground. Bell's description of the Princess' visit, and his assessment of her character, can be found in a letter in which he mentions the success of the decorations: 'The decorations etc were really extraordinarily good and the local photographer [Jose Anjo] has taken a lot of excellent pictures of them.' (Bell 1913, April 6).
Dates:
1913-03
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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[Street decorations in St. John's Antigua in honour of the visit of Princess Marie Louise], 1913-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/49
Scope and Contents
246 x 197 mm. A view from the landing stage looking along the High Street towards the arch of welcome with crowds lining the street and looking down from the verandah of the Public Library in the right foreground. In the middleground a mounted guard is stationed on either side of the street, while a carriage, presumably containing the princess' party drives towards the arch of welcome.
Dates:
1913-03
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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Street in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062D/5
Scope and Contents
137 x 81mm. A view looking along a tree-lined street in Niagara-on-the-Lake, a town first settled by United Empire Loyalists and which was made the capital of Upper Canada for a short time in 1792.
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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Street scene, Morse, Sask [i.e. Saskatchewan], 1910 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/21
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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Street shopping malls, Ontario, 1960 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Canada/179
Scope and Contents
Colour postcard, the reverse reads: 'Street shopping malls: are becoming plentiful in Ontario for the enjoyment of both the resident and the visitor. You may find many enhancing items when you go shopping in Ontario. Postcard produced by Grant-Mann Lithographers, Vancouver.
Dates:
1960 - 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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Street view, Stann Creek [i.e. Dangriga] [signed] Avery, 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3078B/35
Scope and Contents
138 x 88 mm. A postcard (original photograph) by Avery showing Carib villagers standing amongst thatched huts at Stann Creek.
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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Strip mining for coal, Minto, Newfoundland , 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/17
Scope and Contents
A view looking along one of the excavated trips with men and bulldozers at the bottom of the pit and a large crane beyond.
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