Oceania (continent)
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:
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Picton Bridge, Main Southern Road, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/28
Scope and Contents
346 x 250 mm. Information given states 'Stone abutment, 2 spans 55 feet each, total length 110 feet'. A side view of the wooden bridge, on wooden supports, with the abutment visible below the piers. A mill of some kind is visible behind the bridge.
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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Picton Viaduct, 1887
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/11
Scope and Contents
346 x 262 mm. A view of the viaduct from the stream bed which runs beneath it: 'The Railway viaduct at Picton is a work of considerable importance, built of masonry, set in cement and consisting of five openings of 40 feet each. The length is 276 feet, and the height from foundation to rail level, 78 feet.' (NSW Registrar-General's Office 1886, p.84).The line was opened as far as Picton in July 1863, the station lying just on the other side of the viaduct (not visible in this...
Dates:
1887
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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Picton Viaduct, 1887
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/12
Scope and Contents
345 x 262 mm. A view showing the side of the viaduct, with a man fishing in the foreground.
Dates:
1887
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
Pictures from New Zealand, 1901 - 1920
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/51
Scope and Contents
Undated postcards, envelopes and photographs containing images from New Zealand. The pictures include the War Canoe Race, tattooed Maori, 'tiki', South African postmen, a pictorial Christmas message and Robley surrounded by dried heads. There is also a painting by Robley of the 'Hongi or old Nose Salute'. The images are accompanied by a letter from Robley to the Secretary, Royal Colonial Institute, June 1920, enclosing a postcard with an original painting of a tiki and offering various...
Dates:
1901 - 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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Australasia miscellanea
Fonds
Pictures in the National Gallery, Melbourne
Fonds
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
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
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Pier, Suva 1885, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091A/7
Scope and Contents
228 x 177 mm. A view looking along the pier where a mixed group of unidentified Europeans and Fijians are standing. Tram tracks for goods trucks in foreground, two ships (single funnels) at anchor. The only part of the name visible on the foremost vessel is ‘--AT’. Pencilled note says ‘Ararat’.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views in Fiji
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Pier, Watsons Bay, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/29
Scope and Contents
190 x 140 mm. A view of the pier from the beach, a wooden construction with a shelter at the far end.
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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Pigeon Hill, Emu Bay Railway, Tasmania, 1910-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6533
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Showing burnt trees and wooden fences among scrubland].
Dates:
1910-01
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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Pigs at Merelav, 1892
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309A/47
Scope and Contents
205 x 152 mm. A view showing two pigs rooting about on the village street, with people and houses in the background.
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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Pinch Gut Fort, Sydney Harbour, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7522
Scope and Contents
[Silhouetted].
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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Pine scrub, Bunya Mountains, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/45
Scope and Contents
150 x 200 mm. View looking across forested treetops.
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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Pineapple Club, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7466
Scope and Contents
Sir Everard Im Thurn's Collection at Suva: Fiji
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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Pineapples for market, Woombye, north coastline, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/11
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. Photograph showing a pile of ripe pineapples, with boxes 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).
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Pineapples: Mr Windham's plantation, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7569
Scope and Contents
[Mr Windham with a pineaple in his hand].
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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Pink Terrace, 1884 - 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/2
Scope and Contents
196 x 141 mm A view of the Pink Terrace from Lake Rotomahana. For a contemporary description of the terraces see Y308B/99 and Y308A/131. For pictures of the area before and after it was destroyed in the eruption of 1886 see New Zealand Postcards 100-111.
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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Pink Terrace, 1884 - 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/42
Scope and Contents
198 x 146 mm. A close-up view of the encrusted formations on some of the cups on the Pink Terrace.
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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Pink Terrace-destroyed by Great Earthquake, 1886 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/131
Scope and Contents
198 x 147 mm. A view of the collapsed Pink Terrace, destroyed in the volcanic eruption and subsequent earthquakes of June 1886. Mt Tarawera believed even by the Maoris to be extinct, killed 153 people, submerged the Pink and White terraces and caused enormous devastation over hundreds of square miles.For photographs of the terraces before their destruction, and descriptions of the phenomena see D.L. Mundy’s ‘Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand’ (Sampson Low, London...
Dates:
1886 - 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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Pink Terrace [on Rotomahana Lake], 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/9
Scope and Contents
201 x 143 mm. A view of the Pink Terrace cascade with the lake in the foreground and steam rising from the geyser behind. For other pictures and descriptions of these formations, and the eruptions that destroyed them, see Y308B09-104, Y308A131 and New Zealand Postcards 100-111.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New Zealand and America
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Pink Terrace [Rotomahana], 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/20
Scope and Contents
186 x 148 mm. A view looking from the lake towards the terraces, with steam rising from the geyser behind.
Dates:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
New Zealand Scenery
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Pinnock, 2006
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I/32
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
200 x 150 mm. modern copies of original prints.
Dates:
2006
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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Piper Cub at Nausori before leaving for Korolevu 2 Feb, 1963-02-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham E/11
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains Kodachrome slides, processed in Australia and arranged by processing number.
Dates:
1963-02-02
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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Pitcairn Island, 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/15
Scope and Contents
75 x 45mm. A view of Pitcairn Island from the sea. The island was first discovered by the British in 1767 and was settled in 1790 by mutineers from the 'Bounty' and Polynesians from Tahiti.
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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Pitcairn Islanders, 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/18
Scope and Contents
74 x 56mm. A view showing a group of four Islanders on board the 'Ionic'.
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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Pitcairn Islanders coming aboard, 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/16
Scope and Contents
71 x 51mm. A view showing three crowded boats approaching the ship.
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).
Sub-Series
Pitcairn Islands, 1976 - 1980
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Archives relating to Smedley's service as High Commissioner in New Zealand and concurrently Governor of Pitcairn Island and High Commissioner in Western Samoa (1977-80).
Dates:
1976 - 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).