Oceania (continent)
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'Photographs of savage lands' [historic title]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted prints of various sizes, most prints captioned in an ornate script. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The album contains photographs from Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia, and is split into somewhat haphazard sections:1-50 Sydney...
Dates:
1870 - 1880
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of suburbs of Melbourne
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087B
Scope and Contents
An album containing forty-three mounted photographs, uncaptioned and measuring approximately 145 x 110 mm. This family album shows scenes mostly at unidentifiable locations in the Melbourne area.A sizeable number of these photographs appear to have been taken in the Botanical Gardens, but this is the only location that can be identified with any certainty. The rest of the prints show small family groups in private houses or gardens without well-known landmarks visible. It is...
Dates:
1865 - 1885
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Tasmania
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3088E
Scope and Contents
The album measures 200 x 300 mm and contains 93 images which are 105 x 90 mm in size. Three photographs are missing. None are captioned. The subjects are rural scenes: woodlands, grasslands, rivers, bridges, and coastline. Several farms are featured, including images of crops, livestock, buildings and residences, as well as European and Aboriginal farming families.
Dates:
1904
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of the Dalwood Vineyards, near Branxton, New South Wales, Australia, 1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086B
Scope and Contents
An album consisting of mounted prints of various sizes, with printed title page and key to photographs. It was presumably created for the purpose of publicity, with the last page of the album given over to a photograph of John Wyndham, together with a short printed history of his vineyard at Dalwood. This was founded by his father, George Wyndham, who emigrated from Wiltshire in 1827. Having previously studied viticultural methods in Europe, he set up an experimental vineyard of 6 acres...
Dates:
1886
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of the National Park, 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086H
Scope and Contents
A commercially produced album containing mounted prints, measuring approximately 275 x 220 mm, with one printed page of introduction and one page of brief printed captions to the photographs. The introduction is by the Government Printing Office. The photographs are possibly by Charles Kerry of Sydney, and certainly possess enough quality to be his work. Jack Cato states: 'In 1895 Kerry advertised that he would take, free of charge, 'Likenesses of volunteers bound for the...
Dates:
1888-03
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Victoria
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D
Scope and Contents
An album containing eighty-four prints, mounted two to a page, and measuring approximately 200 x 145 mm. All prints have handwritten copperplate captions, and most of the older photographs have the embossed stamp in one corner of the photographers Norrie and Sutcliffe of Melbourne. The prints show scenes in Melbourne and other Victorian towns, notably Walhalla and Ballarat, and various country scenes. Victoria, only legally constituted a colony in 1851, saw a furious growth in...
Dates:
1885 - 1901
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Cambridge University Library
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Pictures in the National Gallery, Melbourne
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087K
Scope and Contents
A portfolio containing five mounted prints of various sizes with descriptive letterpress by Marcus Clarke on separate sheets. The portfolio has been discarded due to flood damage. An advertisement on the portfolio cover reads: 'With a view to furnishing the public with photographic copies of the best pictures in the Melbourne National Gallery, the Trustees decided on entrusting the task of reproducing them, under the supervision of M. Eugene Von Guerard, to a competent photographic...
Dates:
1873
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Cambridge University Library
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Polynesian School, Levuka, Fiji
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091B
Scope and Contents
A collection of five prints mounted on card and measuring approximately 205 x 155 mm. They are accompanied by a paper-cutting from a Fijian newspaper which contains a letter from William Floyd explaining the origins and progress of the Polynesian School. Dated May 5 1888, it recounts how Floyd was approached the previous year by several Solomon Islanders who asked him to form a school. This he did in one of his empty cottages, and by the time this letter was written over fifty youths were...
Dates:
1888
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Port of Brisbane
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085W
Scope and Contents
Album containing nine coloured (180 x 130 mm) and one black and white (205 x 135 mm) photographs of the Port of Brisbane, with printed captions. The album, which is not full, is a Saga self-adhesive album made in Japan. The first page reproduces the Charter and the Coat of Arms, with description (all in colour). The second page sets out brief facts about the Port's involvement in coal exports.
Dates:
1983
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'Portonian' cartoons
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 300
Scope and Contents
A large folio volume of pasted in satirical cartoons relating to South Australia. The cartoons are titled at the top 'Portonian', and have captions below the image. Many of the pictures are numbered and dated. The volume includes a satirical annual diary with a cartoon in the centre, 4 December 1875, and a plan of the city of Adelaide 'compiled and published by the proprietors, Frearson and Brother, Adelaide, 1874', which was a supplement to the 'Portonian', 13 March 1875. The volume is...
Dates:
1872 - 1879
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Cambridge University Library
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Portrait of John McDouall Stuart, April 1863
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308C
Scope and Contents
56 x 68 mm. Showing a seated head and shoulders portrait of the explorer. Around the perimeter of the print, is printed 'Professor Hall, Photo: Adelaide, Apr: 1863.' Stuart (1815-1866) was born in Fife and emigrated to South Australia in 1839. His first exploring expedition was with Charles Sturt in 1844, after which he practised as a surveyor until 1858. In that year he explored the Lake Torrens and Lake Gairdner hinterland, discovering rich grazing land of which he was later granted...
Dates:
1863-04
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Cambridge University Library
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Portraits, circa 1900s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011W
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints with captions on the reverse, which have been recorded as found. The photographs, which are of various sizes, are portraits of people from Africa, the West Indies and Australia.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
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Cambridge University Library
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Postcard Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC
Dates:
1890 - 1969
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Cambridge University Library
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Postcards of Busselton, Western Australia 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081C
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographic postcards, 138 x 85 mm., with 'Busseldon [sic] W.A. 1925' written on the back of each. Busselton is a holiday resort on Geographe Bay, 149 miles by rail south of Perth. Though settled by the Bussell family in 1832, it made little progress until it received an impetus, about 1921, under the group settlement policy of the State Premier, Sir James Mitchell. The photographs are not captioned and the following descriptions are derived from their content.
Dates:
1925
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Progress in the Colonies, 1940s-1950s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints produced by the Central Office of Information. The prints measure approximately 165 x 115 mm and have typewritten captions pasted onto the reverse. A sheet of paper with the prints gives the title: 'Progress in the Colonies. Rejected photographs'. This selection appears to be part of a larger series of prints -the captions are often numbered and frequently make references to 'Feature Sets'. The photographs illustrate post-war developments in agriculture,...
Dates:
1940 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Public Schools Empire Tour to New Zealand. 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs by an unknown tour member consisting of black and white lantern slides most measuring approximately 75 x 55 mm. Most of the slides have been captioned: the titles of those without captions are enclosed in square brackets.The Public Schools Empire Tours came into being through the Church of England Council of Empire Settlement's decision in 1925 to send a party of schoolboys to Australia after the visit to England of a party from the Young Australia...
Dates:
1929-01-04 - 1929-05-18
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Queen Elizabeth II in Fiji
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091D
Scope and Contents
115 x 89 mm. Taken during the Queen's tour of the Pacific. There is a handwritten caption on the reverse explaining the occasion:‘H.M. the Queen standing, reading her speech in reply to the Colony’s Loyal Address. Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, having presented this to her is now seated on a bench along L.H. side wall with throne to be decorated at the investiture to follow. A table carrying the decorations will be seen slightly to L. of H.M., and in front of Sir Ronald...
Dates:
1953-12-18
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Queensland and Tasmania
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308G
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints each 200 x 260 mm. It reproduces fourty-five photographs contained in an album whose origin is unknown apart from an inscription in a childish hand on one page: 'For dearest Mother from Wilfred 5 May 1883.' This is very different from the handwriting on the caption of a photograph on the same page, and on most of the rest of the collection. One item is dated 1875, and a number are dated 1885. Despite the uncertainty of their origin, most of these photographs...
Dates:
1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Queensland Government gold field reports
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 292
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises twenty-two boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. Each of the boxes is individually labelled with subject summaries (ten in total) as follows:1 - Constitutional and Independence Conferences x 5 boxes2 - Britain and ... x 6 boxes3 - Commonwealth Parliamentary Association visitors (incl. Commonwealth Relations 1-61) x 2 boxes4 - Commonwealth Exhibitions x 3 boxes5 - Miscellaneous Conferences x 1...
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Queensland State Schools
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085G
Scope and Contents
Album containing seventy three coloured lithographic plans and elevations, pages measuring 200 x 335 mm. of various country buildings to be made of wood, with additions such as fences and gates, drawn to various scales. The title on the front cover is blocked in gold and reads: 'Queensland Court/Colonial and Indian Exhibition/Queensland State Schools. /Lithographed plans/ of /Country Buildings etc. /With additions complete / Constructed of Hardwood.'
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Remains of the Emden
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30315A
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs of the wreck of the German Cruiser 'Emden', sunk by HMAS 'Sydney' whilst attacking the Cocos-Keeling Islands on 9 November 1914.
These photographs were extracted from the file in the RCS Archives on 'The Empire at War', edited for the Royal Empire Society by Sir Charles Lucas. References appear in volume III at pages 29, 76, 78, 212-3 and 223.
Dates:
1914-11-09
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Cambridge University Library
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Report on Gilbert and Ellice Islands
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 310
Scope and Contents
An incomplete, printed report, 86 pages, with manuscript marginal annotations and a 2-page typed introduction by the R.C.S. Librarian. The report comprises papers respecting the declaration of a British Protectorate over the Gilbert Islands by Captain Davis, of H.M.S. 'Royalist', and general reports on the Gilbert, Ellice and Marshall Islands. The original cover, which is made out of a linen-backed chart of Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, is bound in at the start. Loose with the volume is a...
Dates:
1892
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Royal Commonwealth Society Artefacts Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS
Scope and Contents
Soon after its foundation in 1868, the Royal Colonial Institute had envisaged the establishment of a museum, but following the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in South Kensington, and the creation of the Imperial Institute, the plan was abandoned. Over the years, however, the society built up a small, eclectic collection of objects as members donated items they had received as gifts or purchased during work or travel overseas.
Dates:
-2500 - 1970-05
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Royal Tour of Commonwealth 1953-54
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011EEE
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs by various photographers. Captions are derived from information on the back of some photographs and from official programmes and published books on the tour.H.M. King George VI was anxious to undertake a major post-war tour of the Commonwealth, but was prevented by ill-health. It was therefore agreed that H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth and H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh would travel to East Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and they flew from London airport on the...
Dates:
1953 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Samoa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993D
Scope and Contents
Collection of sepia photographs of Samoan people.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library