North and Central America (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:
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1521 Bow River Valley from Hot Springs Road, Banff, Canadian National Park, 1888 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062R/11
Scope and Contents
240 x 170 mm. Shows the original construction of the Banff Springs Hotel, which opened in 1888. The building was redesigned from 1911. The names of the surrounding mountain peaks are captioned on the reverse.
Dates:
1888 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Canada
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1549 Lake Agnes Rockies near Laggan, Rocky Mountains, 1890 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062R/10
Scope and Contents
240 x 170 mm. Shows the lake with mountains behind.
Dates:
1890 - 1920
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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1677 Portion of Revelstoke, BC and Eagle Pass, CPR [Canadian Pacific Railway], 1890 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062R/9
Scope and Contents
240 x 170 mm. Shows a newly cleared forest in foreground, smoke rising in the town behind, with mountains in the distance.
Dates:
1890 - 1920
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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1690 Lake Louise and Chalet, Rocky Mountains CPR [Canadian Pacific Railway], 1890 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062R/12
Scope and Contents
240 x 180 mm. Shows a man outside a newly constructed chalet looking across the lake to the mountains.
Dates:
1890 - 1920
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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1754 Ottertail Bridge CPR [Canadian Pacific Railways], 1880 - 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062R/4
Scope and Contents
235 x 190 mm. Written on reverse 'Old wooden trestle bridge.' Shows the bridge in the process of construction.
Dates:
1880 - 1890
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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1757 CPR Station and Sir Donald Mountain Glacier BC, 1890 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062R/7
Scope and Contents
Shows the station with a number of people, including a station official, standing on the platform, with forest and mountains behind. Mt. Sir Donald and the lower part of Mt. Avalanche are identified on the reverse.
Dates:
1890 - 1920
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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1832 West Indies, 1832
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 263/32
Scope and Contents
Contemporary folder marked with list of correspondence.
Dates:
1832
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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1873 Big trees and Dirve [sic], Stanley Park, Vancouver BC, 1890 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062R/8
Scope and Contents
240 x 170 mm. A bridge and telegraph poles can be seen in the distance, with some buildings through the trees to the left.
Dates:
1890 - 1920
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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1932 Conference, 1960 - 1988
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/31
Scope and Contents
255 x 205 mm. modern copy print from the National Archives of Canada. Arrival of Stanley Baldwin, R.B. Bennett, Neville Chamberlain, Harry H. Stevens and Geoffrey Lloyd.
Dates:
1960 - 1988
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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1932 Conference, 1960 - 1988
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/32
Scope and Contents
255 x 205 mm. mm. modern copy print from the National Archives of Canada. Opening of the Imperial Conference in the House of Commons, Ottawa, with the Governor-General Lord Bessborough reading a message from King George V. A note on the back indicates the location of the delegations.
Dates:
1960 - 1988
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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2000 ft sheer drop. Grand Can., 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/129
Scope and Contents
70 x 48 mm.
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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2019[?] Buffalo Silver Heights Winnipeg, 1890 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062R/5
Scope and Contents
240 x 170 mm.
Dates:
1890 - 1920
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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[A banyan tree, Jamaica], 1895 - 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307G/15
Scope and Contents
212 x 136 mm. A view showing the main trunk of a banyan tree with a wooden seat at its base. A carving on the trunk of the tree is dated 1895.
Dates:
1895 - 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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A black bear, 1908-07 - 1908-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 9/2092
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). At White River.
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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A Body, 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307E/32
Scope and Contents
203 x 152 mm. A view showing a blackened and bloated corpse half burned in volcanic ash with blocks of masonry lying around.
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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A Bowring Red X Line ship, 1902 - 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061E/13
Scope and Contents
Fitted out for sealing, with boards on deck side.
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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A Bowring Red X Line ship in ice at entrance to the Narrows, 1902 - 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061E/15
Scope and Contents
Photo from Signal Hill. Freshwater Bay in background.
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).
File
A brief relation of the voyage into Maryland (description of Barbados), 1634, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/2/39
Scope and Contents
Copy by Davis.
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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A Canadian Guide of the West, 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/124
Scope and Contents
Coloured, 115 x 155 mm. by C.W. Simpson ARCA.
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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A Canadian Pacific Transcontinental Train, 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/13
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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[A Canadian soldier comes out of the line], 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/3
Scope and Contents
135 x 190 mm.
Dates:
1916
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
A Candid Examination of ‘The Defence of the Settlers of Honduras;' or, a Fair Enquiry into the Justice of Their Accusations against Colonel George Arthur, by John Armstrong (London, 1824), 1824
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 270/58
Scope and Contents
Thirteen copies.
Dates:
1824
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
A Candid Examination of ‘The Defence of the Settlers of Honduras', or, a Fair Inquiry into the Justice of Their Accusations Against Colonel George Arthur' (London, 1824) by John Armstrong, 1824
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 270/8
Scope and Contents
Two copies.
Dates:
1824
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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A Central Alberta Beauty, 1910 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y306861A/13
Scope and Contents
166 x 115 mm. Showing a prize black cow at the Edmonton Exhibition.
Dates:
1910 - 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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A Central Alberta farmer’s troubles, crops too heavy to pass through binder, 1910 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y306861A/19
Scope and Contents
164 x 113 mm. Showing a farmer standing beside a horse drawn binder clogged up with oats.
Dates:
1910 - 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).