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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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A war dance of native warriors at Namuamua, Viti Levu, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7377
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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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A war dance of native warriors at Namuamua, Viti Levu, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7378
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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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A war dance of native warriors at Namuamua, Viti Levu, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7379
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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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A war dance of native warriors at Namuamua, Viti Levu, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7380
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Close up of warriors dancing in rows].

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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A war dance of native warriors at Namuamua, Viti Levu, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7381
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Close up of warriors dancing in rows].

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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A war dance of native warriors at Namuamua, Viti Levu, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7382
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [General view of dancers among palm trees with audience in the shade of the trees].

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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A war dance of native warriors at Namuamua, Viti Levu, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7383
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [General view of dancers among palm trees with audience in the shade of the trees].

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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A war dance of native warriors at Namuamua, Viti Levu, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7384
Scope and Contents

[General view of dancers among palm trees with audience in the shade of the trees].

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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A war dance of native warriors at Namuamua, Viti Levu, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7385
Scope and Contents

[General view of dancers among palm trees with audience in the shade of the trees].

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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A wattle E.J.D discovered growin (sic) on the Victoria River and called after him by the Director of Kew Gardens 'Acacia Dunni', 1886 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305L/7
Scope and Contents

191 x 198 mm. Showing Edward John Dunn standing beside two young wattle trees.

Dates: 1886 - 1920
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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A Wool Show-Room, Sydney, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/44
Scope and Contents

An interior view of a large warehouse filled with sacks of different grades of wool.

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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A wool showroom, Sydney, 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086U/8
Scope and Contents

195 x 150 mm. A view of a warehouse interior, showing long lines of sacks overflowing with various types of wool. Negative number 2620.

Dates: 1885 - 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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[A young dancer], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/65
Scope and Contents

Smithson has pencilled '23/9' next to '65.'.

Dates: 1903
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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[A young Maori woman], 1884 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/57
Scope and Contents

139 x 197 mm. A head and shoulders portrait of a long haired Maori girl, with characteristic tattooing beneath the lower lip.

Dates: 1884 - 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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[A young Maori woman], 1884 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/58
Scope and Contents

98 x 137 mm. A three quarter length studio portrait of a Maori girl, with tattooing beneath her lower lip and draped in a korowai, or cloak decorated with black cords.

Dates: 1884 - 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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A.A. Company No 2, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/60
Scope and Contents

242 x 178 mm. A view looking across to the Australian Agricultural Company’s second pit, with loaded railway trucks in the foreground and the colliery works and machinery beyond.

Dates: 1870 - 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).
 Fonds

A.B. Brewster photograph album

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. modern copies of original prints.

Dates: 2006
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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Aboriginal Arch, George St Brisbane (Caption on print), 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/11
Scope and Contents

205 x 155 mm. A view of the arch, with the crowds in front and the Lamington Hotel behind.

Dates: 1901-05
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).
 Fonds

Aboriginal Australian Art

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308K
Scope and Contents

Loose prints produced by the Australian Information Service. The printed captions on the reverse have been recorded as found.

Dates: 1973
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).
 Sub-Fonds

Aboriginal Australian drawings, 1897

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/20
Scope and Contents

Two original Zulu drawings dated March 1897 with descriptions on the reverse.

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).
 Sub-Fonds

Aboriginal Australian portraits, 1836

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/64
Scope and Contents

Five framed prints of engravings 'printed and sold by J.G. Austin & Co., No. 12, Bridge Street, Sydney'. The captions have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.

Dates: 1836
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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[Aboriginal Australian women and child], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/116
Scope and Contents

150 x 198 m A very fine study of three women, the youngest of whom, at the right, holds a sleeping child on her lap.

Dates: 1870 - 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).
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[Aboriginal Australian women and children], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/120
Scope and Contents

152 x 193 mm. A view showing two seated women with two children lying on the ground to their left beneath a bark windbreak.

Dates: 1870 - 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).
 Fonds

Aboriginal Australians

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308J
Scope and Contents

Book containing two portrait images.

Dates: 1881
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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Aboriginal bark painting, 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308K/1
Scope and Contents

250 x 165 mm. This bark painting from Australia's Northern Territory is shown by Aboriginal healers to young men on being accepted into society after their initiation rites. The painting indicates the paths that are taken by certain Aboriginal families into a central corroboree ground, in this case situated in the Whistle Duck country. Produced by the Australian Information Service.

Dates: 1973
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).