Oceania (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4939 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Sugar Crushing Mills at Nansori on the Rewa River, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7436
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. (Colonial Sugar Refining Company) wrecked by hurricane.
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).
Item
[Sugar plantation], 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091A/28
Scope and Contents
216 x 169 mm. A view looking across a field planted with young cane, with plantation buildings in the background. For a note on the Fijian sugar industry, see Y3091A/17.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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
/
Views in Fiji
Item
Sugar plantation (small part of), 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091A/17
Scope and Contents
224 x 170 mm. A view from a hillside, looking down on the plantation headquarters located beside a river, with fields of cane beyond. Sugar was first planted on a commercial scale in the early 1870’s and soon after this the Colonial Sugar Refining Company of Sydney opened a large mill and refinery. The growth in output was therefore impressive: in 1875, 95 tons of sugar were exported, to the value of £650. By 1904 these figures had risen to 52,138 tons, earning £469,391.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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
/
Views in Fiji
Item
Sulphur beds : Wai-o-tapu, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6993
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).
Item
Sulphur beds : Wai-o-tapu, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6994
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Scattered trees about].
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).
Item
Sulphur Crater Rotomahana, 1884 - 1885
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/5
Scope and Contents
199 x 143 mm. A view looking into the steaming mouth of the crater with Lake Rotomahana in the background.
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).
Item
[Sulphur crested cockatoo], 1900 - 1930
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...
Dates:
1900 - 1930
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).
Item
Summit of Mt. Egmont, Taranaki, NZ, 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/22
Scope and Contents
75 x 62mm. A view of the summit taken from some way up the mountain.
Dates:
1929
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
Summit Road
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089G
Scope and Contents
An album containing uncaptioned prints of various sizes, showing scenery and rest houses on the Summit Road. Photographs by C. Beken and others. The Summit Road owes its existence chiefly to the dedication and perseverance of Harry George Ell (1862-1934) who fought and planned for many years for the building of the scenic road which follows the summits of the hills overlooking Christchurch and Lyttleton Harbour. He originally envisaged 53 miles of road from Godley Head to Akaroa, with...
Dates:
1920
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
Sunbird cinnyris frenata, 1887 - 1918
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/7/5
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Fifteen labelled but undated watercolours on gilt-edged card, each 105 x 165 mm.
Dates:
1887 - 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).
Item
Sunlight Gold Mine, Hill Grove, New South Wales, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/79
Scope and Contents
350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on to the mine, which lies in a valley between steep hills. With a stream running past, and a railway track leading up the hillside.
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).
Item
Sunset at Albany, West Australia, 1901
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/73
Scope and Contents
View from the sea looking towards the harbour and surrounding hills.
Dates:
1901
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).
Item
Sunset, Sydney Harbour, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7521
Scope and Contents
Landscape format.
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).
Item
Sunset, Tarawa lagoon, 1963
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham J/4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Slides taken during a visit which included New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga, the Gilbert Islands and New Caledonia.
Dates:
1963
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).
Item
[Superb lyrebird], 1900 - 1930
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/53
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...
Dates:
1900 - 1930
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).
Item
Supreme Court, Auckland, New Zealand, 1860 - 1879
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089L/1
Scope and Contents
253 x 190 mm. A view showing the front of the Supreme Court, a red brick building in Gothic Style, designed by Edward Rumsey in the late 1860s. Rumsey's original plan for the building included spires on the roof, but these were never built.
Dates:
1860 - 1879
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
/
Buildings in Auckland
Item
Supreme Court, Auckland, New Zealand, 1876
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/38
Scope and Contents
360 x 260 mm. A similar view to Y3089L/1 but taken at an earlier date, with figures standing in the road outside the court. In this picture the land in front of the Court House has not yet been entirely cleared.
Dates:
1876
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).
Item
Supreme Court, Brisbane, George Street frontage., 1886
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/3
Scope and Contents
280 x 230 mm. Two horses are tethered outside the grounds of the court, while a policeman and one other man watch the camera. The law courts were first used in 1879.
Dates:
1886
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).
Item
Supreme Court Buildings : Christchurch, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6846
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [View from river bank].
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).
Item
Supreme Court House, Adelaide, 1890
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/7
Scope and Contents
260 x 200 mm. A front view of the court house. A building in rather heavy classical style standing in Victoria Square, it was erected in 1869 for the Local and Insolvency Courts and has been used as the Supreme Court since 1873.
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).
Item
Surf bathing at Coogee, near Sydney, 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/16
Scope and Contents
A view from near the water's edge of the sandy beach, with surfers and swimmers.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
New South Wales, 1911
Item
Surf Bathing at Manly, Near Sydney, 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/15
Scope and Contents
A view of the beach at Manly, with bathers in the surf in the background, and men and women posing for the camera in front. Laws forbidding public bathing during the hours of daylight had been in force since 1838, and were invoked against would-be surfers who had caught the craze from a certain Tony Tanna, who came from Tanna Island in the New Hebrides. By 1902, however, widespread disregard of this law stopped the police from taking any action and by 1907 Surf Clubs were founded at Manly...
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
New South Wales, 1911
Item
Surveying on the Federal Capital site with tacheometer, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7632
Scope and Contents
[Three men invloved in survey job].
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).
Item
Suspension bridge : Lake Tekapo, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6800
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. South Island: New Zealand.
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).
Item
Sussex Street [?] from Bathurst Street, 1870 - 1879
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/28
Scope and Contents
268 x 201 mm. View looking towards the Governor Bourke Hotel which stands on the corner of Sussex Street, probably at its junction with Bathurst Street. The hotel abuts a ledge of rock which rises to a height of one storey. On top of this are modest two storey dwellings.
Dates:
1870 - 1879
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).