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North and Central America (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:

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Englishman's River, Vancouver Island, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062D/26
Scope and Contents

139 x 81mm.

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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Engravings and sketches, 1827 - 1860

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/3
Scope and Contents

This box contains several drawings of Canada and Mauritius by Frome which formed part of his missing sketchbooks, and engravings by other artists acquired by him. It also includes photographic reproductions of Frome’s five sketches of Kingston, Ontario, which were sold to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre of Queen’s University, Kingston in 1975. These were originally numbers 186, 189-91 and 196 of Album 6 (now RCMS 40/1/6).

Dates: 1827 - 1860
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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Enter Toad, C [Ciceron], 1971-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham CC/19
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides taken chiefly in Ciceron and its grounds. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Dates: 1971-06
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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Entering the Narrows, 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2472
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. St. John's Harbour.

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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Entrance to a slope shaft, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2507
Scope and Contents

In front is Mr John Bennet: 75 years old, born on Bell Island.

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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[Entrance to Rideau Canal, 1832], 1929 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062T/1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Reproductions of original artwork by Frome

Dates: 1929 - 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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[Entrance to Rideau Canal, 1832], 1929 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062T/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Reproductions of original artwork by Frome

Dates: 1929 - 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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Entrance to the Oxford Caves, Jamaica, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073C/8
Scope and Contents

100 x 76 mm. Showing a young man standing among the stalactites in the caves. 'In these caves situated near Balaclava it is believed the Spanish hid their treasure when driven out by the British in 1655. And here also the persecuted Arawaks sought refuge during the Spanish occupation'. (Clemens)

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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Erecting new 400 gall. rum still, Hillsboro', Feb. 1897, 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307H/71
Scope and Contents

156x98mm. Showing workers posed beside the partially completed still.

Dates: 1897
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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Erection of wireless telegraph station in Barbados: debate in House of Assembly 2 July 1912, 1912

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/6/34
Scope and Contents

Cutting from 'The Advocate'.

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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Eroded rock forms, Hopewell Cape, near Moncton, New Brunswick , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/26
Scope and Contents

Showing rocks eroded by Bay of Fundy tides. Photograph by the Smith Studio, Sackville, N.B.

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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Escort of Governor General, 1908-08 - 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2270
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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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Escort of Governor General, 1908-08 - 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2271
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [R.N.W.M.P].

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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Eskimo girl and baby, Manitoulin , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/106
Scope and Contents

Showing a woman with her baby strapped into a wooden framed carrying cradle.

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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Espanola, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/25
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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Esquimalt, 1900 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/24
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

Dates: 1900 - 1940
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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Esquimaux dog, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2533
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. 9 months old, brought from Etah, N. Greenland. This dog just brought down from Pearys Camp is a different variety from the Labrador dog. Taken at North Sydney - dog just disembarked from the Bruce.

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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Esquimaux dog, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2534
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. 9 months old, brought from Etah, N. Greenland. This dog just brought down from Pearys Camp is a different variety from the Labrador dog. Taken at North Sydney - dog just disembarked from the Bruce.

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).
 Fonds

'Establishment of British government in the island of St John, 1758-1784': MA thesis

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 255
Scope and Contents

An M.A. thesis for the University of London, 188 pages and one map.

Dates: 1934
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).
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Estate cattle being watered, St Ann’s, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073D/78
Scope and Contents

240 x 182 mm. A view showing a large herd of cattle in the river at St Ann’s, with a stone bridge and houses in the background.

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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Evangeline’s Well, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/6
Scope and Contents

Coloured half page, by Berthe des Clayes.

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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Evelyn Williams, 1972-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham BB/64
Scope and Contents

[Presumably of the household staff and dated 'Castries Oct 72'].

Dates: 1972-10
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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Evidently something wrong with the works. Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1908, 1908-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/10
Scope and Contents

89 x 85 mm. Showing an unidentified figure repairing mechanical equipment, with Commander Green in the background.

Dates: 1908-05
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).
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Excavation for future power house, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2518
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Seen from the top of a derrick.

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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Excavation for one of the turbine wheel pits, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2519
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). And flume coming down from above.

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).