Oceania (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4738 Collections and/or Records:
Item
H.M. ‘Royalist’ bombarding Apia, ‘Porpoise’ steaming out, 1899-03-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/42
Scope and Contents
195 x 144 mm. A view showing ‘Royalist’ at the left of the picture, with smoke issuing from her guns, and ‘Porpoise’ to the right leaving the harbour. This bombardment took place on March 15th, 1899.
Dates:
1899-03-15
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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Tour of the South Seas
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'H.M.S. Espiegle' (?), in Port Moresby harbour, 1884
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084A/11
Scope and Contents
285 x 230 mm. A view of the ship, cruising under steam power and flying the white ensign. The town itself can be seen in the distance behind the ship's stern. The college and Rev. Lawes' Mission House (with white roofs) can be seen on the hill behind the village on Ethel Island.
Dates:
1884
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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'H.M.S. Nelson' in Port Moresby Harbour, 1884
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084A/8
Scope and Contents
285 x 230 mm. A view of Commodore Erskine's flagship, which arrived in Port Moresby on November 2nd with Elizabeth Island at extreme left and Mourilyan Island behind ship. An original for an illustration in Lyne p. 1.
Dates:
1884
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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HMS Nelson saluting the flag, Mission Station, Suau, Stacey Island South Cape, November 21st, 1884
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084A/5
Scope and Contents
285 x 230 mm. A view of the ceremony: the white ensign has been hoisted and the Union Jack is being raised. The view is across the bay to the mainland with HMS Nelson, Espiegle, Raven and Swinger at anchor.
Dates:
1884
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).
File
Hobart, 1961
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/8/2/20
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These files include annual reports, accompanied in some cases by explanatory letters, reports of annual general meetings, statements of accounts and other papers.
Dates:
1961
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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Hobart and Mount Wellington, 1890 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062R/15
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1890 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Canada
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Hobart from the Bay, 1888 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/124
Scope and Contents
215 x 171 mm. A view showing part of the harbour, the town and Mt Wellington in the background. The foreground is largely taken up by a steel-hulled, three masted steamer. Most of the foreground has been extensively and skilfully retouched to emphasize detail and contrast.
Dates:
1888 - 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).
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Hobart Town, 1870 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/179
Scope and Contents
188 x 107 mm. A view showing an iron road bridge in the foreground, with the harbour at the left of the picture and the town 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).
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Hokianga - Phormian Tenax - or flax rope-making, 1870
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089A/7
Scope and Contents
244 x 184 mm. A view showing a small rope-making factory. At the right, men can be seen winding and spinning long lengths of flax into ropes, while behind them the stripped flax is drying on lines. Other workers are standing outside the shed where the flax is prepared. At the left of the picture, at roof level, can be seen the last few feet of a water race. The wheel itself is out of the picture. Hokianga lies on the west coast of the North Auckland peninsula. Phorium Tenax (named by...
Dates:
1870
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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Holder: showing class of Permanent Homes, 1892
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B/13
Scope and Contents
270 x 215 mm. A view of small stone houses in the background, with a field of unidentified plants in front. For the degree of settlement achieved, the photograph may be compared to that of Ramco in Y3082B/2.
Dates:
1892
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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Home for Incurables, Fullarton, near Adelaide, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/20
Scope and Contents
260 x 200 mm. A view showing a single storey building with a corrugated iron roof and a verandah running along its length.
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).
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Homestead, Bridgetown, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/54
Scope and Contents
200 x 145 mm. View of homestead and farm buildings, with fruit trees growing at left and hill behind.
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).
File
Homewood, 1976 - 1982
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/14
Scope and Contents
This file contains material relating to the research, publication and reception of Lady Smedley’s history of the official residence of the British High Commissioner , ‘Homewood and its families: a story of Wellington’ (Wellington, 1980).
Dates:
1976 - 1982
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).
File
Homewood handover documents, 1980
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/12
Scope and Contents
This file contains material presumably prepared for the incoming New Zealand High Commissioner, R.J. Stratton, including information on running the house, tending to the large garden, speeches and office details (circa 80 sheets).
Dates:
1980
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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[Honeyeaters], 1919 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/48
Scope and Contents
Possibly by Violet Artah Bartlett, fl 1919-1930, although the signature is different from the other examples of her work in the collection.
Dates:
1919 - 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).
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[Hongi: nose pressing], 1884 - 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/63
Scope and Contents
97 x 140 mm. A studio photograph showing two Maori women dressed in korowai performing the Maori greeting of Hongi, pressing noses together. The greeting is performed by lightly pressing noses together, first on one side, then on the other, and not by rubbing.
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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Hongo, with island of Mandolina, 1892
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309A/12
Scope and Contents
205 x 151 mm. A view taken from the beach at Hongo, with Mandolians visible in the distance.
Dates:
1892
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 Melanesia
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[Hooded parrot], 1919 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/25
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:
1919 - 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).
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Hornsby Light, Sydney, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/30
Scope and Contents
190 x 140 mm. A view of the lighthouse on a cliff, with the harbour beyond. A thirty foot high tower, painted in red and white vertical stripes, the building was erected at Inner South Head in 1858 and named after Admiral Sir Phipps Hornsby, Commander-in-Chief of the British Pacific Fleet in the 1860's.
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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[Horse corrals on shore], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/42
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. Shows corrals and wooden buildings, with railway trucks behind.
Dates:
1899 - 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).
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[Horse corrals on shore], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/43
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. Similar to Y308m/42, but showing more on the left and a sailing ship at anchor beyond the trucks.
Dates:
1899 - 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).
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[Horse corrals on shore], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/44
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. Y308M/43 shows more of the left hand building. Scene as in Y308M/42.
Dates:
1899 - 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).
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[Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background], 1899 - 1901
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/39
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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
[Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background], 1899 - 1901
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/40
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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
[Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background], 1899 - 1901
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/41
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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).