Oceania (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4939 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Maori Woman, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/11
Scope and Contents
140 x 201 mm. Portrait of a Maori woman. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. AUCKLAND REGISTERED. No. 75'.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
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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[Maori woman], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/13
Scope and Contents
132 x 201 mm. Portrait of a Maori Woman. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. AUCKLAND. REGISTERED.No.84’.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
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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[Maori Woman], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/15
Scope and Contents
140 x 200 mm. Portrait of a Maori woman. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO.ROTORUA.No.67’.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
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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[Maori Woman], 1890 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/16
Scope and Contents
140 x 200 mm. Portrait of a Maori woman with cloak, standing in front of flax bushes. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. AUCKLAND. NZ. No.?’. The same photo as Y3089FF/52. It was also issued as a postcard.
Dates:
1890 - 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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[Maori woman], 1899 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/17
Scope and Contents
140 x 200 mm. Portrait of a Maori woman wearing a korowai cloak. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. ROTORUA. No.232’.
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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[Maori woman], 1870 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/16
Scope and Contents
140 x 200 mm.
Dates:
1870 - 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).
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Maori woman and child by the pool at Whakarewarewa, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7018
Scope and Contents
[Woman wearing a hat. Wooden buildings in the background].
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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Maori woman bathing a child, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/7002
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Showing wooden construction making tanks of water possibly on river edge with shrubs in the background. Child bathing on one of tanks].
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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Maori women, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7014
Scope and Contents
North Island: New Zealand. [Showing women outside meeting house smoking].
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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Maoris singing, Whaka., Rotorua. NZ, 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/71
Scope and Contents
74 x 53 mm. A view showing a group of Maori women, in traditional dress, performing a dance in the model pah at Whakarewarewa.
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).
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Map of Australia, 1900 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308H(LS)/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of lantern slides of Australia (plus one duplicate). 5-10 are marked 'Commonwealth of Australia' and have serial numbers. 12-22 are marked 'Department of Agriculture and Stock, Brisbane'. The slides' captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1900 - 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).
Sub-Fonds
Map of New Holland, 1910
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/14
Scope and Contents
A copy of a map of New Holland (Australia), 7'' x 5½''. On an accompanying sheet of paper is written 'An M.S. map of New Holland as explored by Capt. Cook in 1770'.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Australasia miscellanea
File
Map of Royal Tour to New Zealand, 1953
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/3
Scope and Contents
A map detailing the route of the Royal Tour, including photographs of the places to be visited accompanied by details of the itinerary.
Dates:
1953
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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[Map of Samoa], 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/99
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...
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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Map of Samoan Islands, 1889 - 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993A(LS)/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of 60 lantern slides, which Wilfred Powell had made from photographs in Y309993A with the addition of 11 slides for which there are no photographic prints: Y30993A(LS)/1, 11, 21, 30, 32, 34, 37-38, 44, 46 and 55. The lantern slides have a separate numbering sequence, although each catalogue entry records the number of the corresponding photographic print. The photographers:Y30993A and Powell’s other photograph collection reflecting his time in Samoa, Y309B,...
Dates:
1889 - 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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Lantern slides of Samoa
Sub-Fonds
Map of Samoan Islands, 1871
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/61
Scope and Contents
'Samoan or Navigator Islands by the U.S.Ex.Ex. Charles Wilkes Esq. Commander 1839', 698 x 442 mm, 'corrected Aug. 1871 at the Hydrographic Office, Washington D.C. R.H. Wyman Capt. U.S.N. Hydrographer to the Bureau of Navigators'. Above the title is the emblem of the Department of the Navy, Bureau of Equipment. The map is mounted in a plastic sleeve, and has been stamped 'U.S. Navy, Bourse Building, Philadelphia, PA'.
Dates:
1871
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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Australasia miscellanea
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Marathon No 1 Bore, 1894
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085K/9
Scope and Contents
210 x 135 mm. Shows the bore flowing into a circular stone enclosure, with a stone irrigation channel leading off. Two men standing by bore with pony and trap behind. ‘Marathon No. 1, 1200 ft, 2,150,000 gals’.
Dates:
1894
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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Marathon No 2 Bore, 1894
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085K/10
Scope and Contents
210 x 135 mm. Showing the bore flowing, and with a rough ditch dug to channel the water. ‘1500 ft 2,300,000 Gals’.
Dates:
1894
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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'Marble Bar' in Coongan River, Pilbara Marble Bar Area, 1896
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/49
Scope and Contents
151 x 108 mm. A view showing an outcrop of veined (?) jasper in the Coongan River. See also plate 27. Photograph by S.J.Becher. Negative No. 123.
Dates:
1896
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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Marble statue in the Public Gardens, Auckland, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7043
Scope and Contents
[Statue to right and people on benches to the left].
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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Market Street from (?) Sussex Street, 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/9
Scope and Contents
268 x 203 mm. View looking up along Market Street, presumably from the junction with Sussex Street. Margaret Pugh's Old Boomerang Inn is on the corner in the right foreground, with the Lenehan Brothers' (Robert and Christopher H.) New Bridge Grocery Warehouse two doors along at 3 Market Street.
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).
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Market Street Works West from [illegible], 1870 - 1879
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/10
Scope and Contents
263 x 205 mm. View of business premises with the masts of moored ships visible in the right background. The precise location has not been identified, but is presumably one of the streets at the west end of Market Street near the Pyrmont Bridge. In the left foreground is R. Grant's Timber Offices with the Harrison Joinery Works beyond. Next comes the tiny boarding hotel, the Paris Board and Residence, with the more substantial three storey premises of A.B. Armstrong and Co. beyond and...
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).
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[Markham Valley, Kassam Pass], 1960-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1584
Scope and Contents
View looking over the tree canopy to hills and the sea beyond.
Dates:
1960-09
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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Markham Valley, Kassam Pass, 1960-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1585
Scope and Contents
View looking over the tree canopy to hills and the sea beyond.
Dates:
1960-09
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).
Fonds
Marnham collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham
Scope and Contents
This collection of slides records the travels of the British civil servant and diplomat John Ewart Marnham, and in particular his considerable interest in wildlife as well as in gardening. The RCS originally received a collection of 3358 slides. Marnham appears in a few of them and some others may have been given to him, but he was the photographer of the vast majority of the collection. There are 1631 relating to the Commonwealth countries or those with Commonwealth connections. ...
Dates:
1939 - 1980
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