North and Central America (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:
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Excellences Lord and Lady Willington, Governor-General of Canada, visiting Victoria, B.C., 1927-03-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/87
Scope and Contents
150 x 100 mm. View of a visit to a First Nations site.
Dates:
1927-03-26
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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Exhibition Buildings, Jamaica 1891, 1891
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307H/1
Scope and Contents
193 x 128mm. General view of the exhibition buildings in Kingston, photographed from the open space in front. The buildings consist of a long two storey range with towers at either end and a central dome flanked by towers on each side of the main entrance. The exhibition was opened by the Prince of Wales, then commanding H.M.S. Thrush on the North America and West Indies Station, on 27 January 1891. Nearly 303,000 persons were recorded as having visited the exhibition before it closed on 2...
Dates:
1891
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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Exit from Sessions House, 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070D/2
Scope and Contents
195 x 241 mm. Showing the Queen, Prince Philip and Sir Alexander Hood leaving the Sessions House.
Dates:
1953
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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Exit Toad, C [Ciceron], 1971-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham CC/20
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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‘Expedition from Barbados against Jamaica 1642 & 43’, 1911
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/14/28
Scope and Contents
Reprinted from the ‘West India Committee Circular' 15, 29 August, 12 September, 10, 24 October 1911.
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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Exterior of cotton factory, Barbados, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3072A/18
Scope and Contents
201 x 150 mm. Showing the cotton factory buildigns with a tall chimney in the background.
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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Exterior of Provincial Museum, Regina , 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/149
Scope and Contents
Showing the front facade of the single storey concrete building.
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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Extract from 'Mercurius Americanus' (Sloane MS) on Journal of Capt. William Jackson to America (including Barbados), 1642, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/2/36
Scope and Contents
18 sheets and a fuller transcript by Davis of 43 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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Extract from 'New York Evening Post', 31 Aug. 1891 about a visit of John Washington to Barbados, with covering letter from W.C. Ford, Library of Congress, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/1/28
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:
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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Extracts concerning the West Indies from material in the Radcliffe, Bodleian and British Museum Libraries, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/9-10/6
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:
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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Extracts from 'Barbados Chronicle', concerning births, marriages and deaths, 1807-9, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/3/20
Scope and Contents
8 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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Extracts from Calendar of Clarendon MS, etc. (Items relating to the history of the West Indies), 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/3/17
Scope and Contents
7 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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Extracts from Clarendon’s ‘Life’, Shakespeare, the ‘Origin of Species’ and other works containing references to the West Indies, commerce and religion, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/9-10/3
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:
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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Extracts from D’ Oyley’s Orderly Book, 1655, (B.M. Add. MSS 12410), 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/1/16
Scope and Contents
Accompanied by a printed version in 'Early Times in Jamaica and Barbados', 'Agricultural Reporter', 14 April 1908.
Dates:
1908
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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Extracts from Du Tertre, ‘Voyage of Monsieur d’ Enambue, Captain for the King in the Western Seas, in America’, 1909 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/11/18
Scope and Contents
Notes and anecdotes at back of notebook.
Dates:
1909 - 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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Extracts from English newspapers of 1759 regarding the capture of Quebec, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/4/19
Scope and Contents
8 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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Extracts from gazettes and other newspapers relating to the descent made by the Spaniards on British Honduras in 1798, 1890
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 269/7
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Extracts from the archives, news cuttings and various original documents. They appear to have been compiled by Frederick Hardyman Parker, probably as research for a projected history of British Honduras. Some were likely collected by his father, William Alexander Parker, Chief Justice of British Honduras.
Dates:
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).
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Extracts from George Gardyner’s 'Description of the New World of America, Islands and Continent', 1650 relating to West Indies, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/3/21
Scope and Contents
Embodies RCMS 259/4/10 and 4/22; 21 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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Extracts from legal records, 1890
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 268/2
Scope and Contents
The first extract records Chief Justice Temple's charge to the jury during the trial of William Eustace Fitzgibbon, in Oct. 1847, for publishing an allegedly seditious libel in 'The Honduras Observer and Belize Gazette'. The second records Temple's charge to the jury during trials for murder in Aug. 1848. The file also contains an apprenticeship indenture, notes on Crown land, burial rights and serving summons, and shipping receipts.
Dates:
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).
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Extracts from 'Oxford Gazette', 1663, respecting the island of St Christopher, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/2/40
Scope and Contents
4 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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Extracts from Rawlinson MS C94 regarding Barbados and St Kitts, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/6/2
Scope and Contents
10 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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Extracts from Rawlinson MSS, Shaftesbury, ‘Knights and Baronets of Barbados’, Council Minutes, and Charters, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/9-10/7
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:
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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Extracts from Sloane MS 2302: description of Barbados, 1710, by J. Walduck, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/1/5
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:
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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Extracts from Sloane MSS regarding Dominica, Montserrat, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/3/18
Scope and Contents
4 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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Extracts from State Papers regarding Colonel Daniel Searle, Governor of Barbados, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/1/15
Scope and Contents
2 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).