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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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The Avon at Christchurch: City Surveyor's Office, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/6848
Scope and Contents

350 x 250 mm. No print.

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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The Avon Christchurch, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/6903
Scope and Contents

Full-plate. The spot where Mark Twain boiled the Billy. New Zealand. [Showing punt with woman reclining in it and man lying on river bank with another woman sitting on tree trunk under umbrella, beside footbridge with trees 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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The Avon, Christchurch, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/19
Scope and Contents

192 x 139 mm. A view looking along the river, with willow trees lining the banks on either side.

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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The Avon in the Domain, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6884
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Peaceful river scene with rowing boat and willows on both sides of river].

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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The Ball Glacier and the South Spur of Mount Cook, New Zealand, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/6895
Scope and Contents

Full-plate.

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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‘The Baron’, Girth 114 feet, height 466 ft, Age 3700 years, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/53
Scope and Contents

207 x 157 mm. A view showing the base of this large tree, with two figures standing beside it. Presumably the tree is some kind of eucalypt, although the dimensions appear to be wildly exaggerated: ‘The Australian Encyclopaedia’ gives 375 feet as the highest certified tree found in Australia, and the other measurements would appear to be equally dubious.

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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The Barron Crossing after flood, near Atherton, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7572
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Flooded ford on the Barron river].

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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The Barron Falls from above, North Queensland, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/7540
Scope and Contents

350 x 250 mm. No print.

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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The Barron Falls from above the gorge, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7540
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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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The Barron Falls from above the gorge, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7541
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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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The Barron Falls from above the gorge, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7542
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [View down to river below].

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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The Barron Falls, North Queensland, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/7661
Scope and Contents

350 x 250 mm. No print.

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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The Bendigo Benevolent Asylum and Industrial School, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/33
Scope and Contents 179 x 124 mm. A view of the front façade of the building, a large construction in Ionic style, with central pillars and a pediment. The patients and staff pose in front of the building. The text beneath the photograph reads ‘This noble Institution is provided for 100 adults and 150 children. Out-door aid is afforded to 220 families weekly. The average expenditure is £9,000 per annum. The cost of its erection is estimated at £20,000. The Hon. J.F. Sullivan, M.L.A. was the first President. The...
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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The Bendigo District Hospital, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/17
Scope and Contents

178 x 125 mm. A view up the main drive towards the front entrance of the building from Lucan St, which consists of two wings connected by a central portion. The building was completed in 1859, and in 1891 ‘next to the Melbourne Hospital the institution accommodates a larger number of patients and gives a greater amount of outdoor relief than any hospital in the colony’.

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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The Benevolent Asylum, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/138
Scope and Contents

181 x 128 mm. A view from outside the grounds of the asylum, a large attractive building with something of the look of a country house. With two horse cabs outside the gate.

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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The Black Geyser : the cold stream runs behind within a foot of the boiling water, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6982
Scope and Contents From the File:

The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 6787-7005 (originally there were 173 in the album). Added numbers are: 6933-7005; not used: 6791, 6821, 6834 and 6872; missing 6790, 6792-6794, 6802, 6809, 6812, 6814, 6848-6849, 6936-6937, 6941, 6944, 6947, 6981, 6984, 6989-6890, 6992-6993 and 6995.

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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The Black Hill, Ballarat, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/72
Scope and Contents

201 x 154 mm. A view across a (man made?) lake towards a hill created from goldmining excavations, with mine buildings in the background.

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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The Blue Bath, Rotorua, 1884 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/12
Scope and Contents

197 x 146 mm A view of the man-made bathing pool at the sanatorium at Rotorua.

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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The Blue Lake between the Bale Hut and Hermitage, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6822
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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The Bluff [The Bluff 217 miles from Milford Sound], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/44
Scope and Contents

189 x 148 mm. A view looking back from a jetty in the harbour towards the hotels which line the waterfront. With a man sitting on the jetty in the foreground. Bluff, one of the southernmost settlements on the mainland of the South Island lies on a promontory 17 miles south of Invercargill on the Foveaux Strait.

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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The Boar’s Head, White Terrace, 1884 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/40
Scope and Contents

194 x 141 mm. A close up view of a formation on the 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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The boilers and fuel conveyors in the same sugar mill, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7352
Scope and Contents

Half-plate(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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The Boiling Cauldron [Pohutu Geyser], 1900 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089EE/2/15
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).
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The Botanical Gardens, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/18
Scope and Contents

202 x 158 mm. A view in the Gardens, showing lawns and trees, with a figure sitting on a bench in the foreground.

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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The Botanical Gardens, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/19
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208 x 159 mm. A view in the northern part of the gardens, looking across Farm Cove, with Government House visible on the skyline. With a man standing beside some pampas grass in the foreground.

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).