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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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Broken Hill Silver Mines, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/50
Scope and Contents

A view looking towards the mines, with a railway track in the foreground, and a residential district in the distance.

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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Broken Hill Silver Mines, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/80
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view of a cluster of mine buildings in operation, with excavated earth in the foreground.

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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Broughton's Pass Weir overflowing, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086I/2
Scope and Contents

289 x 238 mm. A view looking down on the weir, with two men in the foreground watching the river. The weir, on the Cataract River, was built as a result of a Commission's recommendation in 1867, and in order to turn the intermingled waters of the four streams into a 36 mile conduit consisting of a series of tunnels, open canals and aqueducts.

Dates: 1915
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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Brown's Bridge, Taree, Manning River, New South Wales, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/60
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view looking down the fenced road towards a wooden bridge over the river, with a bicyclist on the road.

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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BTH Dynamos. Power St. L. Coleridge NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/42
Scope and Contents

75 x 57mm. A view inside the power station with a group of boys being shown the dynamos. Lake Coleridge lies west of Christchurch in the Canterbury district.

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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Bubbling mud, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/65
Scope and Contents

74 x 56 mm. A largely out of focus photograph showing part of a boiling mud pool.

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).
 Sub-sub-class

Buchanania, Lae Botanical Garden, 1960-08

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1532-1533
Scope and Contents

A view of trees and foliage.

Dates: 1960-08
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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Buffalo Mountains, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/91
Scope and Contents

205 x 159 mm. A view from cleared land, looking over woodland to the mountains in the distance. This range lies about 150 miles NE of Melbourne, and the area is now a National Park.

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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Buggy going through a giant fig tree near Atherton, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7574
Scope and Contents

[The split trunk of the giant fig tree makes an arch for the buggy to pass under].

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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Buggy going through a giant fig tree near Atherton, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7575
Scope and Contents

[The split trunk of the giant fig tree makes an arch for the buggy to pass under].

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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Bugler Donu saluting, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7478
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).
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Building a cattle landing at Westfield near Auckland, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7031
Scope and Contents

Note the man using wires to reinforce the concrete.

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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Building a cattle landing at Westfield near Auckland, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7032
Scope and Contents

Note the man using wires to reinforce the concrete.

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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Building a shelter on bamboo raft in Viria, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7447
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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Building a shelter on bamboo raft in Viria, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7448
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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Building house, 1899 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993A(LS)/26
Scope and Contents

A view of a half-completed house, showing the wooden roof structure partially laid over with a palm thatch. Print number 11.

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).
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Building Native huts, New Caledonia [historic title], 1874-06-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/200
Scope and Contents

152 x 197 mm. A view showing two large huts, the one in the background completed, the one in the foreground in the process of being built; a spire-shaped wooden framework (composed of heavy uprights held in place by thinner horizontal bands) has been completed, and people are at work on the structure thatching it from the top downwards. The structure must be about 70 or 80 feet high. A group of Europeans is watching the building work. Photograph by Hughan, and dated 6[18]74.

Dates: 1874-06-18
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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Building Pyramids. Atlantic, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/2
Scope and Contents

75 x 55mm. A view showing schoolboys making a human pyramid on the deck of the 'Ionic'.

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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Building the fibre stack, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6967
Scope and Contents

North Island: New Zealand. [Two men unloading horse and cart onto stack].

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).
 Series

Buildings and agriculture, Victoria, 1890 - 1900

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Victoria/203-245
Scope and Contents

Colour and monochrome postcards.

Dates: 1890 - 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).
 Fonds

Buildings in Auckland

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089L
Scope and Contents

Prints mounted on card and measuring approximately 255 x 190 mm. With handwritten captions beneath each print.

Dates: 1860 - 1879
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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Buildings of Quarantine Station, Queenscliffe [sic], Victoria, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6511
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Distant view from the ship].

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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Bullock team near Davis River, Pilbara, 1905 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/28
Scope and Contents

152 x 108 mm. A view showing a large bullock team and wagon standing in a woodland clearing in the Pilbara area. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 542.

Dates: 1905 - 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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Bullocks drawing timber, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/27
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing two wagons, loaded with three trunks, pulled by teams of 12 bullocks, with wagonners beside them.

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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Bunch of cocoanuts [i.e. coconuts], 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091C/1
Scope and Contents

145 x 205 mm. A view showing a bunch of coconuts hanging in a shed.

Dates: 1905
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).