North and Central America (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Demarara Georgetown, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/71
Scope and Contents
240 x 188 mm. A view looking south west over the Georgetown roof tops from the Cathedral. The Town Hall and St Andrews Kirk can be seen on the skyline. The road at the right of the photograph is King Street.
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).
Item
Demarara Georgetown Market Square, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/73
Scope and Contents
242 x 192 mm. A view looking south from the Market Square, with the open square, pedestrians and a horse tram in the foreground and Lombard Street beyond. The Demerara River can just be seen in the distance at the right of the photograph.
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).
Item
Demarara Victoria Lilies, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/72
Scope and Contents
248 x 195 mm. A view looking south along Camp Street. The street is divided in two by a wide canal in which are growing the huge pads of the Victoria Lily.
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).
Item
Demerara Field and Rusk’s Camp, Chinese Creek, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/82
Scope and Contents
243 x 193 mm. A view showing a gold prospectors’ camp in a forest clearing with European and native workers grouped for the photographer in front of tents slung over branches between the trees. One man at the rear of the group displays a Union Jack. Unsigned, but probably by Julio Siza.
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).
Item
Demerara Gold Prospecting, Chinese Creek, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/80
Scope and Contents
243 x 193 mm. A view showing prospectors at work panning for alluvial gold beside a river. Unsigned photograph.
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).
Item
Demerara High Street Georgetown, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/74
Scope and Contents
184 x 106 mm. A view looking along High Street in the west of the city and showing the two halves of the street divided by a canal with grassy-banks (see Y307A/72).
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).
Item
Demerara Indian Village, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/81
Scope and Contents
242 x 191 mm. A view showing an Indian settlement on the Masuruni River. The photograph shows a group of Indians and one European posed in front of thatched huts in a clearing in the forest. Photograph unsigned but probably by Julio Siza.
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).
Item
Demerara Orinoco Indian, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/85
Scope and Contents
107 x 150 mm. A studio portrait, with painted backdrop, showing an Indian youth sitting on a rough stone seat. Beside him two stuffed parrots sit on a perch.
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).
Item
Demerara Orinoco Indian Chief, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/86
Scope and Contents
97 x 137 mm. A full length portrait showing a chief in ceremonial robes and carrying a shield and spear.
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).
Item
Demerara Orinoco Indians, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/84
Scope and Contents
99 x 150 mm. A view showing three Indians (two women and a man) standing in a line while being photographed. A white sheet has been hung up behind them as a backcloth.
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).
Item
Demerara Orinoco Indian’s Grave, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/83
Scope and Contents
171 x 235 mm. A view showing an Indian grave in a forest clearing. The corpse has been wrapped in palm leaves and tied onto a crude wooden trestle. The wrapped corpses of three more Indians can be seen in the background.
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).
Item
Demerara The Gardens, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/79
Scope and Contents
237 x 192 mm. A view looking along a tree-shaded path in the Botanical Gardens at Vlissengen in the east of Georgetown.
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).
Item
Demerara Town Hall, Georgetown, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/75
Scope and Contents
248 x 199 mm. A view showing the Georgetown Town Hall in High Street, a mock-gothic affair with a decorative tower, completed in 1889. See also Y307A/76.
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).
Item
Demerara Town Hall Georgetown, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/76
Scope and Contents
108 x 162 mm. Another view of the Town Hall. Some sort of ceremony is about to take place, with a small crowd in front of the Town Hall gates and one or two flags and banners in evidence.
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).
Item
Demerara Upper Water Street, Georgetown, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/77
Scope and Contents
184 x 108 mm. A view looking along Upper Water Street, which runs parallel to the Demerara River in the west of the city, and showing commercial premises. With a horse tram in the foreground.
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).
Item
Demerara Water Street from Market Tower, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/78
Scope and Contents
185 x 123 mm. A view looking north along Water Street from the tower of the Stabroek Market. The Demerara River can be seen at the left of the picture in the distance.
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).
Item
[Demolished trenches], 1915 - 1918
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/18
Scope and Contents
190 x 145 mm.
Dates:
1915 - 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).
Item
Demonstration Farm, Strathmore, 1919
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/50
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).
Item
Demonstration in support of Tibet outside Canada's Parliament Building, Ottawa 17 January 1984, 1984-01-17
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062O/2
Scope and Contents
The Chinese Premier Zhoa Ziyang, with an accompanying delegation, spent 10 days in the United States and 7 in Canada in January 1984. He visited Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, but his visit was the occasion for a number of demonstrations against various aspects of China's policy. In Ottawa, where he was the first Communist leader to address Parliament, one MP remained seated during applause after his speech and the demonstrators in the photograph held the flag of Tibet as well as...
Dates:
1984-01-17
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).
Item
Department of Horticulture, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2803
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). Demonstration in practice work : hard and soft wood cuttings (vine and geranium).
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).
Item
Department of Horticulture, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2804
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). Demonstration in practice work : hard and soft wood cuttings (vine and geranium).
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).
Item
[Departure of H.R.H the Duke of Edinburgh], 1959-04-28
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/207
Scope and Contents
255 x 250 mm. Showing Prince Philip waving goodbye from the open hatch of the airplane.
Dates:
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).
Item
[Departure of Sir Henry Hesketh Bell on leave from Antigua, May 9 1914], 1914-05
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/4
Scope and Contents
126 x 99 mm. Showing Bell, accompanied by Inspector Ruane (Commander of Police), inspecting a guard of honour at the quayside of St John's. The figures standing in the background appear to be, from left to right: (Sir) Thomas Alexander Vans Best (1870-1941), Colonial Secretary; Benyon, Bell's A.D.C.; and Thomas Stafford Sidney (1863-1917), Attorney General.
Dates:
1914-05
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).
Item
Depot for collection of eggs, ginger and other local products, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/537
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...
Dates:
1940 - 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).
Item
Desbarats, 1919
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/26
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).