North and Central America (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:
Item
‘Dildoes’ or giant cacti Kingston, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073D/40
Scope and Contents
239 x 185 mm. A view showing an unsurfaced track surrounded on both sides by huge bushes of tall, cylindrical cacti, with two men standing on the road as an indication of scale.
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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‘Dildoes’ or giant cacti near Kingston, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073D/43
Scope and Contents
240 x 186 mm. A similar view to Y3073D/40, this time with a top-hatted and suited man standing in the foreground.
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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Dinghy racing, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070B/4
Scope and Contents
115 x 90 mm. Showing a group of small dinghies sailing in Hamilton Harbour.
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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Dinner time, 1908-08 - 1908-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2255
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). Dalys Farm.
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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Dinner time, Bassano Dam, 1910 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/37
Scope and Contents
Showing workers on the Bassano (Horseshoe Bend) irrigation dam on the Bow River.
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).
Sub-Fonds
Directions to Calder Bank off Guadeloupe, 1795 - 1980
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240/32
Scope and Contents
An account by Calder of his discovery on 30 January 1795 of a sea bank off Guadeloupe, which he named after himself (3 pages). The bank has not been traced, and presumably has an alternative French name. There is an accompanying note on Calder's account, 1975, and correspondence about the collection, 1976-1980, including a map of Guadeloupe and other West Indian islands.
Dates:
1795 - 1980
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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Director and 12 participants in Canada, signed on the back by those present, 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF/27
Scope and Contents
140 x 90 mm. A postcard with an ink caption on the front which reads: 'School Empire Tour 1933'.
Dates:
1933
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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Disc harrowing, British Columbia , 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/220
Scope and Contents
Showing a farmer on a tractor harrowing a field in the Peace River area near Dawson Creek. Photograph by National Film Board.
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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Distant view of Nassau, 1890 - 1895
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3071A/2
Scope and Contents
226 x 176 mm. A view from inland looking over flat scrubland towards Nassau with a thatched cottage in the foreground. Nothing of the town itself can be seen.
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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Distant view of the Rockies, 1908-07 - 1908-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 9/2121
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). From Bow River Ranch.
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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Distant view of the Rockies, from the Bow River Horse Ranch, 1908-07 - 1908-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/2121
Scope and Contents
350 x 250 mm.
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).
Item
Distant view showing entrance to Careenage, Grenada, 1890 - 1893
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771A/4
Scope and Contents
310 x 223 mm. A fine view showing Grenadians washing clothes in an unidentified river. An unsurfaced road runs alongside the stream, with a few huts in the background.
Dates:
1890 - 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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Distributor at Fort Norman, Northwest territories, 1942, 1970
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 345/14
Scope and Contents
'From the painting by J.S. Hallam, R.C.A.'
Dates:
1970
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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Disused sugar refinery, 1900 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30773B/5
Scope and Contents
153 x 207 mm. A view showing St. Vincent islanders standing outside a derelict stone building, inside which can be seen a large water wheel and various other pieces of machinery. Formerly dependent on sugar, by the early 1900s the island's economy had switched to a reliance on cotton and arrowroot.
Dates:
1900 - 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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Dixie Land. Memphis, 1918-08-19
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/91
Scope and Contents
51 x 76 mm. A man standing next to a tree in a field.
Dates:
1918-08-19
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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Dixieland, 19.8.18, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/116
Scope and Contents
50 x 75 mm. A view of a man in a white robe stood before tall fauna or crop. Exact location unidentified.
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).
Sub-Fonds
Document of the Mosquito Nation, 1840-02-19
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240/27
Scope and Contents
A printed parchment form, 11½'' x 11½'', completed in manuscript, appointing Leonard P. Cox as Receiver General to the King of the Mosquito Nation in Central America. The document has been signed by King R.C. Frederic and the three Commissioners of the Mosquito Nation, and has an embossed seal. The parchment is accompanied by the article 'A document of the Mosquito Kingdom' in 'Royal Commonwealth Society library notes', no. 57, September 1961, pp. 1-2, which transcribes the document and...
Dates:
1840-02-19
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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Americas miscellanea
Series
Documents, 1826 - 1831
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/4
Scope and Contents
Documents collected by Frome during his work on the Rideau Canal.
Dates:
1826 - 1831
Conditions Governing Access:
These items are stored in the RCS Plan Chest.
Fonds
'Documents on the loss of Tobago'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 267
Scope and Contents
The volume begins with 'The whole proceedings on the trial of the Hon. Major Henry Fitzroy Stanhope at a court martial...in the month of June 1783, taken in shorthand by Joseph Gurney', printed in 1783 (104 pages). This is followed by manuscript transcriptions of two documents: 'Address of Governor Ferguson to the public relative to the capture of Tobago', 1781 (12 pages), and 'Capitulation of the island of Tobago received from Lieutenant Governor Ferguson', 1781 (8 pages). The rest of the...
Dates:
1781 - 1787
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
Sub-Fonds
Documents regarding Grenada, 1767 - 1964
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240/16
Scope and Contents
Letters and papers concerning Grenada written by Robert Melville and others and an edition of 'Royal Commonwealth Society Library notes' concerning Melville and this collection.
Dates:
1767 - 1964
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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[Dog] Montebello, 1949-06
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/170
Scope and Contents
120 x 80 mm. Showing a dog sat on a rock in the river.
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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Dogfish Reduction Works, Cape Sable Island, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/2982
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. Shelbourne Co., N.S. This is near Clarks Harbour and is the southernmost point of N.S.
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
Dominica, 1971-02 - 1973-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham DD
Scope and Contents
Contains slides all in Kodachrome mounts. The early photographs include scenes during a visit by J.B. Godber, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and his Private Secretary; some leading political figures are also shown. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.
Dates:
1971-02 - 1973-02
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
Dominica, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/28
Scope and Contents
148 x 107 mm. A view showing an unidentified street in Dominica (probably in Roseau) lined with tiny huts and cabins.
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
Dominica, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/29
Scope and Contents
196 x 145 mm A view looking along a section of hilly coastline in Dominica. Exact location unidentified.
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).