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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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[Group photograph], Far Hills Inn, 1949-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/164
Scope and Contents

80 x 115 mm. Showing four people sat posing for the camera. The two women are Madame Verhagen (left) and Lady (Millie) Tymms.

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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[Group photograph], Far Hills Inn, 1949-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/165
Scope and Contents

110 x 85 mm. Showing six people seated. Millie (Lady Tymms) is far right, Tymms is sat next to her.

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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[Group photograph], Far Hills Inn, 1949-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/162
Scope and Contents

80 x 110 mm. Showing six people sat posing for the camera. Colonel Verhagen is stood at the back, Tymms is sat on the right. The others are unidentified.

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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[Group photograph], Montebello, 1949-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/169
Scope and Contents

125 x 80 mm. Showing twelve people and two dogs stood before a large house. Lady Tymms (Millie) is fourth from the right.

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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[Group swimming], Montebello, 1949-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/171
Scope and Contents

125 x 80 mm. Group swimming off a small jetty 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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Group taken in Government House: HRH The Prince of Wales, sitting between Sir Frank and Lady Barnard, Lieut-Governor of BC., 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/110
Scope and Contents

250 x 200 mm.

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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Group with the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. R.B. Bennett, who entertained them to lunch, outside the Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa, where he lived, 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF/20
Scope and Contents

240 x 150 mm. A note on the back of the print reads: 'abs. John Chertain' - from other references in this collection, this probably refers to the individual being absent from the photograph although present at the occasion.

Dates: 1932
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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Growing cucumbers, British Columbia , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/221
Scope and Contents

Showing Japanese-Canadian women working in a field covered in cucumber frames overlooking the North Thompson River near Kamloops. 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).
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[Guard of Honour, Nassau, August 22 1899], 1899-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/4
Scope and Contents 86 x 70 mm. Showing colleagues of Bell lined up on the quayside in a mock military parade on his departure from the Bahamas to take up his appointment as Administrator of Dominica: 'Left Nassau today much to my regret. A great number of people came to see me off, and I had no idea I had made so many friends here. By way of a genial joke, Spencer-Churchill, Rees Davies, Harcourt Malcolm and a number of other good fellows formed up into a Guard of Honour and 'presented sticks' at me as I...
Dates: 1899-08
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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Guatemala, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/137
Scope and Contents

132 x 82 mm. colour postcard.

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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Guelph Agricultural College, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/136
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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Gulf of Saint Lawrence, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/212
Scope and Contents

80 x 55 mm. A view of an iceberg.

Dates: 1950
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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Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/281
Scope and Contents

49 x 43 mm. A view out across the Gulf.

Dates: 1950
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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Gypsum cliffs and railway bridge, Fischells, 1899 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061A/41
Scope and Contents

152 x 202 mm. A view looking along the river with white gypsum cliffs at the left and the iron girder railway bridge in the background. Fischels (correct spelling) lies on the west coast of Newfoundland near Bay St. George.

Dates: 1899 - 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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Habitant. Montreal, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/250
Scope and Contents

52 x 51 mm. Lady Tymms and a second woman standing outdoors.

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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Half Dome, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/148
Scope and Contents

55 x 80 mm.

Dates: 1948
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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Half Dome, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/150
Scope and Contents

55 x 80 mm.

Dates: 1948
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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Half - time, 1908 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/48
Scope and Contents

152 x 102 mm. Showing the two teams posing for a snapshot at half - time

Dates: 1908 - 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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Half - Way Tree Church, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073G/7
Scope and Contents

178 x 228 mm.

Dates: 1887
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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Halifax, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/3
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).
 Fonds

Halifax Memorial Tower Lions

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3064B
Scope and Contents Framed, hand coloured photographs each 275 x 190 mm in frames 380 x 290 mm.In April 1912, Sir Sandford Fleming, who had given the ground on which the tower was built, suggested that the Royal Colonial Institute might contribute two lions to flank the base of the tower. This proposal was approved by the Institute's Council on 18 June and subscriptions were invited. Two bronze lions, each 10 feet in length, were designed on the general model of those at the base of Nelson's column by...
Dates: 1913
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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Halifax Memorial Tower Lions, 1912 - 1913

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/12/3
Scope and Contents

The National Memorial Tower at Halifax was erected to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first elected legislature of Nova Scotia on 2 Oct. 1758. It was dedicated by the Governor-General of Canada, the Duke of Connaught, on 15 Aug. 1912. Sir Sandford Fleming suggested that the RCI become involved, and two bronze lions, modelled on those at the foot of Lord Nelson's column, were installed in 1913. This file contains archives related to the project.

Dates: 1912 - 1913
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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Halifax, Nova Scotia , 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/24
Scope and Contents

A view looking across the bay and showing part of the harbour area of Halifax.

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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Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1908, 1908-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/14
Scope and Contents

80 x 107 mm. Showing the party picnicking in the Nova Scotia woods.

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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Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1908, 1908-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/15
Scope and Contents

81 x 105 mm. Showing the party picnicking in the Nova Scotia woods.

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).