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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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Cabbage Trees, a type of the Illawarra District, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/51
Scope and Contents

274 x 350 mm. A view of the trees growing in a field where cows are grazing. Tall palm trees, their fronds grow only at the very top of the tree in a fan-like shape.

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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Cacalua galerita [Sulphur-crested cockatoo], 1887 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/7/3
Scope and Contents From the File:

Fifteen labelled but undated watercolours on gilt-edged card, each 105 x 165 mm.

Dates: 1887 - 1918
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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Camillerips Gold Mine, on gold mining lease 2PP near Donnybrook, 1904-01-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/60
Scope and Contents

151 x 107 mm. A view looking at the mine workings, situated among partially cleared and burnt woodland. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 168.

Dates: 1904-01-28
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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Camp after Hunting, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/88
Scope and Contents

202 x 137 mm A view showing a posed group of Aboriginal Australians (in European clothes) sitting and standing by their camp fire, and holding spears and boomerangs. Photographer possibly Charles Bayliss (Y308A/90).

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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Canberra, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham M/2
Scope and Contents

[Similar scene to 1 - no city visible].

Dates: 1963
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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Canberra, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham M/3
Scope and Contents

[Similar scene to 1 - no city visible].

Dates: 1963
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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Canberra memorial, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham M/4
Scope and Contents

[Distant views similar to 1-3, with portions of the Australian War Memorial in foreground].

Dates: 1963
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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Canberra memorial, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham M/5
Scope and Contents

[Distant views similar to 1-3, with portions of the Australian War Memorial in foreground].

Dates: 1963
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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Canoe, 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309B/24
Scope and Contents

181 x 113 mm. Showing a decorated outrigger sailing canoe and its crew. The decorations and boat design are of the type seen in the Solomon Islands.

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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Canoe at Hongo-Florida, 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309A/16
Scope and Contents

205 x 151 mm. A view showing a canoe, in which three islanders are seated.

Dates: 1892
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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Canon Herbert Mission Van, 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/107
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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Canterbury, 1961 - 1989

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/8/2/13
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These files include annual reports, accompanied in some cases by explanatory letters, reports of annual general meetings, statements of accounts and other papers.

Dates: 1961 - 1989
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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Canterbury Farmers Co-operative Association at Timaru, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6839
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. The N.Z. millionaire's (William Grant) wagon loading coal for threshing. [Wagon pulled by horses].

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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Cape Hawke, from Bennet Head, New South Wales, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/54
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on to the wide sandy beach, with a hilly headland beyond.

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).
 Fonds

Capt. A. Liston Blyth, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., F.R.C.I., Resident Magistrate, Delta Division Papua and Native Constabulary

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084D
Scope and Contents

205 x 160 mm. A loose black and white print. Captain Blyth posed among native policeman armed with rifles and bandoliers. A. Liston Blyth appears in Colonial Officers records for Papua from 1915, when he was a patrol officer, until 1930. He was Resident Magistrate in the Delta Division, from 1926-1930.

Dates: 1926 - 1930
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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Captain and crew of the ‘Southern Cross’, 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309A/57
Scope and Contents

204 x 152 mm. A group portrait of the captain and eleven crew members posed in the stern of the ‘Southern Cross’.

Dates: 1892
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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Captain [James] Cook, 1880 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII/30
Scope and Contents

Reproduction of J.K. Sherwin's circa 1779 engraving.

Dates: 1880 - 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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Captain James Cook bicentenary plaque, 1968

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.1.08
Scope and Contents

102 x 76 mm Wedgewood blue and white plaque with profile view of Cook. The reverse reads, 'Bicentenary of Cook’s First Voyage. 200 copies made for Maggs Bros. Ltd, 21st July 1968.'

Dates: 1968
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

Captain James Cook Memorial, Kealakeakua Bay, Hawaii, circa 1890

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309992A
Scope and Contents

A collection of three glass plate negatives measuring 215 x 165 mm, briefly captioned and signed by the photographer, S.H. Davis. Modern prints have been made from the negatives.

Dates: 1890
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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[Caption torn] Plane - Wilcannia and [caption torn] Daniels, N.S.W. [i.e. New South Wales], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/88
Scope and Contents

Showing a light plan with folded wings being 'garaged'.

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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Carlisle Bay - Commodore Goodenough’s memorial cross - killed 1875, 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309A/27
Scope and Contents

204 x 147 mm. A view showing the cross erected at the water’s edge in memory of Commodore James Goodenough who was killed by natives in that place. In the background stand a group of natives beside a ship’s boat - positioned there by Montgomery in order to reproduce the scene when Goodenough landed. Montgomery describes the taking of this photograph in some detail, how it was thought wise to inform the inhabitants of what they were doing, and the positioning of the natives.

Dates: 1892
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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Carlotta Arch, near the Devil's Coach House, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7608
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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Carriers fording the river at Wainikarailuva: Viti levu, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7397
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Showing Fijians carrying boxes and baskets across on poles. Far bank overexposed].

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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Carriers fording the river at Wainikarailuva: Viti levu, Fiji, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7397A
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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Carrington Hotel, Katoomba, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/51
Scope and Contents 190 x 140 mm. A front view of the hotel, a large brick building with wrought iron verandahs. Always a popular tourist spot in the Blue Mountains, the railway station at Katoomba was opened in 1876, giving easy access.'The design of the hotel is on the modern American style ... It has accommodation for seventy to eighty persons, contains nearly sixty rooms, consisting of a large dining-room, general ladies drawing room, and gentlemen's smoking and reading room ... Gas is laid on,...
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).