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Oceania (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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Professional snapshots. Malaya - Java [i.e. Jawa] - Bali - New Zealand. February - May 1939, 1939-02 - 1939-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022YYY
Scope and Contents

This relates to a later stage in McKay's career than any of the other albums. Apart from its serial number 20, it is marked on the cover 'Album No 4' possibly of a collection of professional photographs made by McKay.

Dates: 1939-02 - 1939-05
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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Programme of Royal Tour to Tasmania, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/18
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

Dates: 1954
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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Programme of Royal Visit to New South Wales, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/11
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

Dates: 1954
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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Programme of Royal Visit to Queensland, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/23
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

Dates: 1954
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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Programme of Royal Visit to South Australia, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/26
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

Dates: 1954
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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Programme of Royal Visit to South Australia, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/27a
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

Dates: 1954
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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Programme of Royal Visit to South Australia, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/27b
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

Dates: 1954
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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Programme of Royal Visit to Tasmania, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/16
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

Dates: 1954
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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Programme of Royal Visit to Victoria, 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/19
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

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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Programme of Royal Visit to Wellington, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/5
Scope and Contents

A programme of the visit of 9-16 January 1954.

Dates: 1954
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

Progress in the Colonies, 1940s-1950s

 Fonds
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: 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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Properly pruned coffee tree : Java type, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7552
Scope and Contents

Kamerunga Nursery

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).
 Sub-Fonds

Province of South Australia land grant, 1875

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/28
Scope and Contents A parchment copy of an original land grant of 1839, including a sketch map of the property. There are two authenticating declarations by W.T. Scott and J.C. Lovely, 1875, and certification by John Warren Bakewell, Notary Public, Adelaide. The grant does not indicate where the property in question was located, other than 'N° 382' in the province of South Australia. The grantees were G.F. Angas of Jeffrey's Square, St Mary Axe, and H. Kingscote of Bank Buildings, both in London, and J.R....
Dates: 1875
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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Provinical Council Bdgs [i.e. buildings] : Christchurch, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6847
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. The river Avon in foreground. [Showing bridge and willow tree in the foreground].

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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Pruning coffee at Mr Street's plantation Kuranda, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7555
Scope and Contents

North Queensland.

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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PSET [Public Schools Empire Tour] group at Auckland, NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/19
Scope and Contents

74 x 58mm. A view showing a group of schoolboys on the dockside at Auckland.

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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Pt. Chalmers from near Junction, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/27
Scope and Contents

191 x 140 mm. A view looking down from the hills behind Port Chalmers, showing the spit of land on which the town lies, with Otago Harbour in the distance. Port Chalmers is situated about five miles north east of Dunedin.

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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Public Buildings, Bridge Street, Sydney, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/15
Scope and Contents

A view looking down Bridge Street towards the Domain end, and showing on the right the Royal Exchange, the Lands Office and the Chief Secretary's Office.

Dates: 1908
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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Public Library, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/143
Scope and Contents

183 x 130 mm. A view from across Swanston Street showing the front of the Library. For other photographs, and a brief history of the building, see Y3087D/16 and Y3087/G1-9.

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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Public Offices, Bridge Street, Sydney, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/2
Scope and Contents

A view from the gardens behind, looking between trees and shrubs towards the building, designed by James Barnet in 1878. The building was originally designed as the Chief Secretary's Office, but later became the Department of Works.

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).
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Public School, Grote Street, Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/9
Scope and Contents

260 x 200 mm. A three-quarters front view of the single-storey stone building, built in the Gothic style with a central fleche. The school is situated on the South-East corner of Grote Street and Morphett Street, and was built in 1874. With school children standing outside the gate.

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).
 Fonds

Public Schools Empire Tour to New Zealand. 1929

 Fonds
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: 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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Public Work Office, Sydney, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/46
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the building from the junction of Macquarie Street and Bridge Street. Another building designed by James Barnet (in 1878), it is an imposing structure with statues in recesses at the corner, and was originally the Colonial Secretary's Office.

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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Pulpit Rock, Cabbage Tree Point, Port Hacking, 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086H/3
Scope and Contents

275 x 220 mm. A view of the beach, with eroded rock formations in the foreground. Three men are some distance along the beach, one of them sitting on Pulpit Rock, an eroded top-heavy structure some 15 feet high.

Dates: 1888
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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Pumpkins, Roma State Farm, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/37
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing ripe, harvested pumpkins under a rough thatched barn.

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).