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Oceania (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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The King’s Palace [Nukualofa, Tonga], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/36
Scope and Contents

194 x 144 mm. A view showing the lawn and the wooden palace, a two storey building with verandahs and a tower. On the lawn some kind of gathering is in progress, mainly attended by Europeans.

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).
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The Kirtle Burn, or Roaring Meg, on the road from Cromwell to Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand, 1876

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/63
Scope and Contents

265 x 360 mm. A view looking along the boulder strewn stream, with a cliff at the left side and a steep hill at the right.

Dates: 1876
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 kitchens of the same camp, 1909-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6517
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

Dates: 1909-12
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 kitchens of the same camp, 1909-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6518
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

Dates: 1909-12
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 Kosciusko Hotel, 5015 ft [i.e. feet] above sea level, N.S.W., 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7624
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 Kosciusko Hotel, 5015 ft [i.e. feet] above sea level, N.S.W, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7625
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Showing hotel across a lake or 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 Ladies Bath Falls, Eurobin, Buffalo Mts, 1885 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/73
Scope and Contents

155 x 208 mm. A view of the falls, which drop in woodland among boulders and ferns.

Dates: 1885 - 1891
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 Lagoon, Near Racecourse, Tumut, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/67
Scope and Contents

A view across the river, with two rowing boats, with the race course on the other side of the river.

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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The landing stage : Timaru, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6841
Scope and Contents

[Showing sailing boat tied up and small rowing boats, with train on landing stage].

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 Lands and Works Office, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085C/8
Scope and Contents

280 x 210 mm. A view of the Lands and Works Office from Adelaide Street. Signs in the window of the building read ‘Brisbane Land Agent’ and on plaques by the door, ‘Land Commissioner, Moreton District’, ‘Land Agent, Brisbane’, ‘Commissioner of Crown Lands’, and ‘Department of Public Lands’. A horse cab and driver stand in front of the building.

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 largest whale in the world, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6887
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). Skeleton in Christchurch Musuem: length 87 feet: length of head 21 ft: length of lower jaw 20 feet, 8 inches., estimated total weight 9 tons. [In covered area resting on wooden trestles, with woman standing below looking up].

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).
 Fonds

The last Tasmanians

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3088C
Scope and Contents

Three prints mounted on thin card and captioned on the reverse. The captions have been recorded as found. These photographs show head and shoulders portraits of some of the last representatives of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

Dates: 1866
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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The Lawn, Flemington Paddock, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/44
Scope and Contents

200 x 145 mm. A view of the racecourse paddock, with crowded stands in the background, and smartly dressed women with parasols sitting in the foreground.

Dates: 1885 - 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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The little gleaners, Elsternwick (?), 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/19
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. Showing five children sitting in a stook of wheat.

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 long and short of it.' Sub Inspector Ratu Timcoe and Bugler Donu, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7477
Scope and Contents

[Sub Inspector with white jacket and skirt with young child playing the bugle]

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 Long Tunnel Mine, Walhalla, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/61
Scope and Contents

199 x 146 mm. A view looking down on the mine, with workings extending into the hillside behind. The Long Tunnel Mine opened in 1865 and proved to be the most productive of Victorian mines: over 815,000 oz. of gold were recovered in the 50 years of its existence.

Dates: 1885 - 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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The Looking Glass Rock, Kuringai Chase, Hawkesbury River, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/16
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A river scene with steep wooded hills on the far bank and two large tower-like rocks in the foreground, the rock to the left, half out of the picture, being called 'Toilet Table' Rock.

Dates: 1909
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 Lower Waterfall (111 feet) close to Waterfall Road, 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086H/23
Scope and Contents

220 x 275 mm. A view looking down at the top of the waterfall among the woods, where it drops over an overhang. With two men standing at the edge of the cliff.

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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The mail : in sealed tin, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7320
Scope and Contents

For Niufoa: Tongan Group: British Protectorate. [Man in white uniform stands beside the tin resting on handrail on the ship].

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 main dividing range, Snowy Mts [i.e. Mountains], 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086U/2
Scope and Contents

198 x 152 mm. A view looking out over rounded mountain-tops, here and there patched by snowfields. Negative number 2514.

Dates: 1885 - 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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The main street, Scottsdale, Tasmania, 1910-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6574
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [A wide rough street with wooden building on the left and pair of horses and buggy carrying man and woman in the shade. Stone building on right behind fence].

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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The male bird fighting, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7593
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 7455-7491; 7334-7344 and 7494-7634. Added numbers are: 7519A-7528A; spoiled: 7484-7486, 7525, 7562, 7611-7614, 7621 and 7626; not used: 7459-7460, 7463, 7526-7528, 7336, 7340, 7543-7544; missing: 7455-7456, 7458, 7462, 7464, 7471, 7473, 7476, 7480, 7489, 7334-7335, 7337-7339, 7341, 7533, 7535-7537, 7540-7541, 7547, 7550, 7560-7561, 7570, 7585, 7608, 7618, 7620, 7624, 7631. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order...
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).
 Fonds

The Marjory Warren Geriatric Unit, Brisbane

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085V
Scope and Contents Collection of twenty-four 165 x 122 mm black and white prints and 18 35 mm coloured slides. Dr Majory Warren, C.B.E. (1898-1960) consultant Physician at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, was a pioneer in the treatment of elderly patients. Her work was recognised when she was created C.B.E. in the New Years Honours of 1960, but she was killed in a car crash in France on 5th September of the same year. The Marjory Warren Geriatric Unit, attached to the Royal Brisbane Hospital, was...
Dates: 1963
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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The Mbaka tree opposite Vurevure Town, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7424
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 Melbourne Hospital, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/139
Scope and Contents

194 x 127 mm. A view from the roof of a nearby building looking over Lonsdale Street to the complex of hospital buildings. The first hospital opened on this site in 1848 had only 22 beds and further buildings were added in the following years. The whole hospital was rebuilt in 1910.

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).