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Oceania (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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Two BCA [i.e. Bush Church Aid] nurses, Ceduna, S. Aust [i.e. South Australia], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/98
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Australia.

Dates: 1910 - 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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[Two Europeans in Fiji], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/86
Scope and Contents

82 x 56 mm. An amateur snapshot showing two white-suited Europeans standing in a Fijian street.

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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Two Fijian breastplates. Whales teeth and mother of pearl, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7464
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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Two Samoan houses, 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309B/62
Scope and Contents

100 x 58 mm. A view showing two typical Samoan houses with walls partially hung with mats and thatched roofs.

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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Two Samoan warriors, 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309B/81
Scope and Contents

57 x 100 mm. A studio portrait of two Samoan men, one seated and one standing; the standing warrior holds a serrated club.

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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[Two women and small boy], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/48
Scope and Contents

Smithson has pencilled '25/7' next to '48. Wild pigeons are poentiful [sic] - excellent eating'.

Dates: 1903
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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Twofold Bay, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/73
Scope and Contents

210 x 194 mm. A view on the seashore showing low rocky cliffs leading down to the water’s edge. In the distance the town of Eden can be seen on the clifftops. Twofold Bay lies on the south coast of New South Wales and was discovered and named by George Bass in 1797.

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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Twofold Bay, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/74
Scope and Contents

228 x 194 mm. A view from above the bay looking down on the sandy beach, with trees reaching almost to the water’s edge. With wooded hills in the distance.

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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Twofold Bay, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/75
Scope and Contents

202 x 190 mm. A view looking across to a cliffy headland at Twofold Bay, with a small lighthouse near the cliff edge.

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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Twofold Bay, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/77
Scope and Contents

221 x 190 mm. A similar view to Plate 74, but taken further along the coast and with a ship at anchor in the bay. The headland and beach in the foreground of Plate 74 can be seen in the distance in this picture.

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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Twofold Bay, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/78
Scope and Contents

Twofold Bay 216 x 195 mm. A view showing cliffs and rocks leading down to the seashore.

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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Twofold Bay, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/79
Scope and Contents

224 x 188 mm. A view looking out between two rocky headlands, across the bay to land in the distance.

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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Typical Farmer's Home, Nth Coast District, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/33
Scope and Contents

A view of an extremely tidy small farmhouse, perched on top of a hill, and surrounded by a wooden fence. The house is a wooden building with corrugated iron roof, with adults and children standing on the verandah.

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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Typical 'group' cottage built by Govt. [i.e. Government] was used for hospital now 2nd vicarage, 37 miles from Denmark, 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/106
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Australia.

Dates: 1910 - 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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[Uncaptioned Print], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/56
Scope and Contents

194 x 139 mm. A view looking along a river valley with steep wooded hillside rising 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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[Uncaptioned print], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/58
Scope and Contents

194 x 135 mm. A view looking along a river towards a valley and a mountain in the distance. Exact location unidentified, but probably somewhere in the Lake Wakatipu region.

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).
 Fonds

Under many flags: my pilgrimage

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 15
Scope and Contents

An account of a journey undertook in 1953-1954 to Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Manila, North Borneo, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and the U.S.A. The volumes are undated, but the last entry in the epilogue is dated 1957.

Dates: 1957
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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Underground - Coal Cliff Colliery, Sth. Coast District, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/49
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view showing the junction between two large tunnels, with a miner standing beside small railway trucks packed with coal.

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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Underneath the wire suspension bridge. The Hooker River in flood, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7080
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing]. Half-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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Undersurface of Western Australian obsidianites, Coolgardie/Kalgoorlie area, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/12
Scope and Contents

152 x 97 mm. A view showing seven types of rounded stones which have the appearance of man-made artefacts: 'these are not artefacts, but a natural phenomenon; they are now referred to as tektites. Their origin is still controversial. The photograph was published as plate VII of GSWA Bulletin 6, where individual locations are given'. Photograph by Greehams Studio. Negative No. 65.

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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Unidentified bridge, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/35
Scope and Contents

340 x 262 mm. Possibly the iron tubular bridge 'supported by four large piers of solid masonry' which crosses the Nepean about a mile from Penrith station (NSW Registrar-General's Office 1886, p.35).

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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Unidentified bridge, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/36
Scope and Contents

340 x 262 mm. Possibly the iron tubular bridge 'supported by four large piers of solid masonry' which crosses the Nepean about a mile from Penrith station (NSW Registrar-General's Office 1886, p.35).

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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Unidentified bridge, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/37
Scope and Contents

340 x 262 mm. Possibly the iron tubular bridge 'supported by four large piers of solid masonry' which crosses the Nepean about a mile from Penrith station (NSW Registrar-General's Office 1886, p.35).

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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[Unidentified building - caption illegible], 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/78
Scope and Contents

274 x 211 mm. View looking towards a substantial brick building with rusticated masonry piers and quoins standing at the junction of two unidentified streets. Three bays of the building are of three storeys, the remainder of two. The main block is surmounted by a lantern with a drum composed of windows giving clerestory light to the interior.

Dates: 1870 - 1879
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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[Unidentified church interior, Tonga], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/33
Scope and Contents

198 x 124 mm. A view showing a church interior built in Tongan style out of wood.

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).