Oceania (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:
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[Robert Louis Stevenson and Tuimaleali’ifagu], 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/45
Scope and Contents
140 x 200 mm. A copy of the portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, in riding boots, standing beside his friend the high chief Tuimaleali’ifagu. Elsie Campbell, in ‘Last Witness for Robert Louis Stevenson’ (Melbourne, 1960), states that this photograph was taken by a Lutheran missionary on her way home from work in Melanesia
Dates:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Tour of the South Seas
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Robert Louis Stevenson's tomb, 1899 - 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993A(LS)/55
Scope and Contents
Stevenson died on 3 Dec. 1894. He was buried on the summit of Mount Vada, where by 1897 a tomb was constructed. The image shows a quotation from his poem ‘Requiem’ inscribed upon its side. No print.
Dates:
1899 - 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
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Rockery and Pond, Zoological Gardens, Adelaide, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/39
Scope and Contents
260 x 200 mm. A view of the pool, with the rockery to the right. A flamingo stands in the water.
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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Rocks near Mount York on the road from Hartley to Mount Victoria, N.S.W, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7610
Scope and Contents
[Seen behind fence beside the road].
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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Rokewood Apple seed, Bridgetown, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/61
Scope and Contents
195 x 145 mm. View of a young apple tree similar to Y3081B/53.
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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Rokewood apple tree, 8 years, Willmott, Bridgetown, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/53
Scope and Contents
200 x 145 mm. Showing an apple tree heavy with fruit.
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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Roko Tui Bua: Ame: Osea, 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091F/2
Scope and Contents
145 x 195 mm. In album 2, page 75. Ame and Osea were Fijian members of the crew of the cutter 'Aggie', owned by Mr. E. Wilkinson, which was wrecked in the Levuka hurricane on 1-14 March 1901. They were awarded Royal Humane Society Medals for their unsuccessful endeavours to save Wilkinson and another crew member, Ratu Mele. These were awarded by W.L. Allardyce, then Administrator of Fiji, at Government House in September 1901, and a press cutting from 'Western Pacific Herald' is included...
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).
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Rolling scrub, Newmarracarra Station, Geraldton (K. Grant), 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/76
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. Showing yoked cattle, standing among grass and trees.
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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Roma St Fruit Market, Brisbane, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/6
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. A view looking down Roma Street with the fruit market on the left, and horse-drawn taxicabs parked on either side of the road.
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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Rose Bay. Sydney Harbour, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7516
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).
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[Rosella parrot], 1919 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/26
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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[Rosellas], 1900 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/15
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).
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'Roseneath', Kew, Vic. [i.e. Victoria] North side of hall, 1912 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305L/35
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing South African and Australian artifacts mounted on the wall in Dunn's home in Kew, Victoria; with part of the drawing room visible in the background. The caption on the reverse of the print contines: 'North wall of Hall 'Roseneath', looking into drawing room, South African and Australian objects'.
Dates:
1912 - 1937
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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'Roseneath', Kew, Vic. [i.e. Victoria] North side of hall, 1912 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305L/36
Scope and Contents
205 x 150 mm. Showing South African and Australian artifacts mounted on the wall in Dunn's home in Kew, Victoria; with part of the drawing room visible in the background.
Dates:
1912 - 1937
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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'Roseneath', Kew, Vic. [i.e. Victoria] North side of hall, 1912 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305L/37
Scope and Contents
205 x 150 mm. Showing South African and Australian artifacts mounted on the wall in Dunn's home in Kew, Victoria; with part of the drawing room visible in the background.
Dates:
1912 - 1937
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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'Roseneath', Kew, Victoria. East end of dining room, 1912 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305L/40
Scope and Contents
203 x 150 mm. A view looking along the dining room towards the fireplace, with animal horn trophies mounted on the walls.
Dates:
1912 - 1937
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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Roses Orangery, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085P/1
Scope and Contents
210 x 150 mm. Showing young orange trees recently planted out, with figures in the distance. Stamped on the reverse with 'Silverwood Gazette.'
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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Roses! Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, NZ, 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/61
Scope and Contents
75 x 54mm. A view looking down onto a bubbling mud pool. The 'roses' of the caption refer to shapes made by the bubbling mud.
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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Rotokanapanapa (Mud Volcano), 1884 - 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/7
Scope and Contents
123 x 196 mm. A view looking down the temporarily inactive mouth of the geyser.
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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Rotomahama Springs, 1870 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/99
Scope and Contents
240 x 191 mm. A view showing part of the Pink Terrace Cascade. ‘Its terraces, formed of a peculiar pink-coloured siliceous deposit, extend by gentle descents, one below the other, down to the edge of the lake… ‘Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand’ by D.L. Mundy and F. Von Hochstetter (Sampson Low, London 1875). The terraces were destroyed in the volcanic eruption of 1886, for more details of which, and a photograph of the collapsed terraces, see 308A/131. See also New Zealand...
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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Rotomahama Springs, 1870 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/100
Scope and Contents
240 x 192 mm. A view showing the lower terraces of the White Terrace Cascade (or ‘Te Tarata’ – tattooed Rock) with a Maori sitting in one of the pools in the saucer-like formations. Just above this terrace (not in the picture) is a geyser, the chemically impregnated water from which formed the terraces. Like the Pink Terrace, it too was destroyed in the eruption of 1886.
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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Rotomahana, 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/15
Scope and Contents
206 x 140 mm. A view along the lakeside looking towards the geysers and mineral terraces from which steam is rising. For other pictures and for contemporary descriptions of these phenomena, which were largely destroyed in the eruption of 1886, see Y308B/99-104, New Zealand postcards 100-111 and Y308A/131.
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
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New Zealand Scenery
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Rotomahana and Tarawera Lakes, 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089EE/2/7
Scope and Contents
A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.
Dates:
1920 - 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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Rotomahana Boiling Mud Hill, 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/21
Scope and Contents
187 x 148 mm. A view looking across one of the boiling pools of mud in the Rotomahana district, with hills in the background.
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
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New Zealand Scenery
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Rotomahana Lake, 1900 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089EE/2/5
Scope and Contents
A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.
Dates:
1900 - 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).