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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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[Coastal scene, marked '?Coco pt Barbuda?'], 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham GG/27
Scope and Contents

[It seems likely that both Marnham GG/26 and Marnham GG/27 were taken in the same area, and as Marnham must have returned to St Lucia soon after, as 5-6 - see CC - were taken at Ciceron, it seems probably that they were of Barbuda, where the latter photographs of the previous film were taken, rather than Bequia on St Vincent].

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).
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Coasting Steamer, 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2471B
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Kingfisher entering the Narrows.

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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[Coastline at Bathsheba], 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3072A/13
Scope and Contents

197 x 150 mm. A view looking along the north-eastern coastline and showing the series of rocky outcrops.

Dates: 1905
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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[Coastline near Bissex Hill from inland], 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3072A/14
Scope and Contents

203 x 143 mm. A view looking across hilly land towards the sea. A pencilled note on the back of the print states that owing to the wind which blows across the island, the sound of the sea was audible from the spot at which the photograph was taken.

Dates: 1905
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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Cobalt, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3185
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Seen from the McKinley Darragh Mine. Nipissing on the right.

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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Cobalt, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/22
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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Cobalt : the Larson vein, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/3194
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. (The white paper slips show width). [Two men leaning on log fencing by the vein].

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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Coco-nut avenue leading from wharf to lighthouse at Plum Point, Palisadoes, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073D/27
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239 x 177 mm. A view looking along the railway line that stretches to the lighthouse between the avenue of palms.

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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Cocoa propagation in Trinidad, 1940 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/71
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146 x 115 mm. View looking along rows of seedlings growing under cover. The caption on the reverse reads 'La Pastora has 40 propagating units consisting of sand-tanks for cutting and potting areas. There are 100 Imperial College selections there, about 15,000 plants, and 12,000 disease resistant plants from South America. A hundred people work at the centre'.

Dates: 1940 - 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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Cocoanut [i.e. coconut] tree in full bearing, 1879 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307G/11
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176 x 226 mm. A view showing a coconut tree heavily laden with fruit.

Dates: 1879 - 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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Cocoanut Walk, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307H/8
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218x133mm. View showing labourers in a coconut plantation. Duplicate of Y307A/26.

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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Coconut tree in full bearing, 1890 - 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3071A/51
Scope and Contents

177 x 225 mm. Showing a coconut palm heavy with fruit. Print not signed by Coonley. Another print of the same photograph can be found at Y307G/11.

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).
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Coconuts, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3078B/18
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127 x 101 mm. Showing coconut palms growing near the shore with boats in the foreground. Exact location unknown.

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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[Colbeck & party. Lachine], 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/254
Scope and Contents

78 x 111 mm. Five people, including Lady Tymms and Johnny Verhagen, standing in front of a tree.

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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Colbeck & party. Lachine, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/259
Scope and Contents

111 x 79 mm. Five people, including Lady Tymms and Johnny Verhagen, standing in front of a tree.

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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Coldstream Estate Company Ltd, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2598
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). View from the water tower overlooking 200 acres of orchard.

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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Coleman-Kananaskis Highway, Alberta , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/184
Scope and Contents

A view looking along the highway with mountains in the distance.

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).
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Colonel A.B. Ellis, 'White slaves and bond servants in the plantations', reprinted from 'Popular Science Monthly' (extracted from 'The Argosy', 5 May, 1893), 1893

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/1/39
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: 1893
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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Colonel Lewis Morris, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/1/30
Scope and Contents

Notes extracted from the work of Rose C. Moon; 3 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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[Colonel Verhagen], Far Hills Inn, 1949-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/163
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80 x 110 mm.

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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[Colonel Verhagen with car], North Hero, 1949-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/180
Scope and Contents

50 x 50 mm.

Dates: 1949-07
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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Colonial Conference on trade and communication, June to July 1894, held in the Senate Chamber, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, 1960 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/5
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255 x 205 mm. modern copy print from the National Archives of Canada. Shows meeting of 28 June, 1894.

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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Colonial governors, 1912 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/5
Scope and Contents

This file contains the draft of a magazine article on noteworthy or notorious early colonial governors with notes, newspaper clippings and periodical articles that Bell collected during his research (50 sheets).

Dates: 1912 - 1937
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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Colonial Office probationers: Cambridge 1954-54 & Trinidad 1954-55, 2003-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 317/3a
Scope and Contents The volume consists of two sections: 'Illustrated memories' by J.M.A. Sly, with contributions from K.M. Harris and M.H.D.F. Fyfe, a collection of around 260 photographs taken by Sly and his colleagues relating to their years in Cambridge and Trinidad, including memories of events; and 'What happened to them all', a collection edited by A.J. Pritchard of what happened to the nearly 40 expatriates who attended the courses, with most of the contributions written by the persons concerned. There...
Dates: 2003-11
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).
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Colonial Office probationers: Cambridge 1954-54 & Trinidad 1954-55, 2003-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 317/3b
Scope and Contents The contents of the disk are divided into two sections: 'Illustrated memories' by J.M.A. Sly, with contributions from K.M. Harris and M.H.D.F. Fyfe, a collection of around 260 photographs taken by Sly and his colleagues relating to their years in Cambridge and Trinidad, including memories of events; and 'What happened to them all', a collection edited by A.J. Pritchard of what happened to the nearly 40 expatriates who attended the courses, with most of the contributions written by the...
Dates: 2003-11
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).