North and Central America (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5483 Collections and/or Records:
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Index to wills, Barbados, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/14/7
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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Index to wills in Registrar’s Office, Barbados, 17-18th centuries, 1908 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/14/6
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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Indian boat, near Alberni River, Vancouver Island, 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062D/21
Scope and Contents
83 x 57mm. Showing a wooden boat in a field.
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).
Sub-Fonds
Indian chart, 1800 - 1880
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240/13
Scope and Contents
An crudely drawn, undated map, 19½'' x 15'', of an area roughly bounded 60°N and 48°N, 125°W and 90°W. The Rocky Mountains appear on the left side of the map.
Dates:
1800 - 1880
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
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Indian Head, Saskatchewan, 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/128
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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Indian houses. El Tovar. Arizona, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/133
Scope and Contents
67 x 47 mm.
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).
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Indian Pueblo. Alberquerque NM, 1918-09-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/38
Scope and Contents
70 x 48 mm.
Dates:
1918-09-02
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).
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Indian Rancherie and mouth of Fraser Canyon, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069A/1
Scope and Contents
243 x 192 mm. A view looking towards the Fraser River and Canyon with mountains in the distance. In the foreground beside the river is an Indian Reservation of wooden cabins, with a section of line visible at the left of the picture. The word 'rancherie', indicating a settlement of Indians, probably comes from the communal plank-house of the Pacific Coast Indians: 'We pulled the goods ... into a near-by large Indian house, called in those days a rancheree ...' (Moberly, c.1906, p....
Dates:
1885
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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Indian River, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30745B/10
Scope and Contents
233 x 167mm. A view showing two Dominicans and a horse crossing the Indian River in a punt by pulling themselves along the rope stretched across the river.
Dates:
1900
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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Views in Dominica
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[Indigenous Canadian], 1890 - 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/51
Scope and Contents
80 x 135 mm. A head and shoulders portrait of a man with short hair and a moustache.
Dates:
1890 - 1936
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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Induction motor, 1908-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2366
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. 800 H.P. 2200 volts : made in Montreal. The motor is largest of its kind in Dominion (said the manager): this drives grinding machinery alone.
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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Inland Letter Book No. 8, 1817-09-08 - 1818-09-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 270/42
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters written by Arthur to government officers and others within the colony.
Dates:
1817-09-08 - 1818-09-08
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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Inland Letter Book No. 9, 1818-08-28 - 1819-10-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 270/43
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters written by Arthur to government officers and others within the colony.
Dates:
1818-08-28 - 1819-10-04
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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Inland village from air, 1972-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham AA/58
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains slides of St Lucia. The majority are of views of scenery, many from the sea or from the air (two sequences in February 1971 and September 1972). There is not much relating to Marnham's work, though his official house in Castries is shown in February 1971. Among events which are shown are: a youth rally at Vieux Fort on 1 May 1971 and 11 scenes at the Castries Carnival of 1972. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript...
Dates:
1972-09
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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Inscription and sculpture, New Provincial Museum of Natural History Regina , 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/160
Scope and Contents
An inscription and sculpture dedicating the museum to the memory of the early pioneers of Saskatchewan.
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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Inscription on a door at English Harbour [i.e. Saint Johns] dockyard done by H.M. King George V in 1883, 1914 - 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/3
Scope and Contents
109 x 87 mm. The inscription reads 'A Merry Xmas 2 you all' and was painted by the then Prince George of Wales when he visited Antigua while serving as a Lieutenant on H.M.S. Canada. A newspaper cutting in Y3011E reproduces this photograph, crediting it to Dr Louis W. Sambon. That paper dates the painting 1884, although a letter from Sandringham confirms Bell's date: 'I have laid before the King your letter of the 19th December to Lord Stamfordham, together with the photograph ... His...
Dates:
1914 - 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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Inside a steam sawmill, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3087
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). Showing the sawn timber coming out of the gang.
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).
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Inside a steam sawmill, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3088
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). Showing the sawn timber coming out of the gang.
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).
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[Inside Government House], 1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/211
Scope and Contents
Showing an interior view of Government House, possibly a Drawing Room, with grand fluted columns, soft arm-chairs, a coffee table and pictures of Chinese floral images on the walls.
Dates:
1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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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[Inside Government House], 1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/212
Scope and Contents
Another view of the Drawing Room (?), described in Y3011/211, at Government House, but looking the other way and showing a glass-fronted corner bookcase.
Dates:
1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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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[Inside Government House], 1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/212a
Scope and Contents
Another view of the Drawing Room (?), described in Y3011/211, at Government House, but looking the other way and showing a glass-fronted corner bookcase. Identical to Y3011XX/212.
Dates:
1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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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[Inside Government House], 1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/214
Scope and Contents
Another view ot the Drawing Room (?) at Government House, (see: Y3011XX/211 and Y3011XX/212), but from a different angle.
Dates:
1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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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[Inside Government House], 1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/215
Scope and Contents
Showing another view of the Drawing Room (?) at Government House, (see: Y3011XX/211, Y3011XX/212 and Y3011XX/214), but from a different angle.
Dates:
1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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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[Inside Government House, Dining Room], 1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/213
Scope and Contents
Showing the dining room in Government House, with the table set for 14 diners.
Dates:
1956-04-01 - 1960-06-14
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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[Inspecting Guard of Honour, Saint Johns, Antigua, 28.9.14], 1914-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/6
Scope and Contents
125 x 98 mm. Showing Bell standing in front of a Guard of Honour of the Antigua Volunteers commanded by Major Ledeatt, on his return from leave.
Dates:
1914-09
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).