Oceania (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Gilberts atoll, south of Tarawa, 1963
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham J/6
Scope and Contents
[From the air].
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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Girls at Pantutun’s school, 1892
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309A/33
Scope and Contents
152 x 205 mm. A view showing a group of youths standing in front of the church at Vava (as in Y309A/32 and 31).
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views in Melanesia
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Glaciated boulder, Irwin River, Upper Irwin District, 1907-10-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/6
Scope and Contents
107 x 151 mm. A view looking west at a glaciated boulder embedded in the blue clay of the Irwin River Bank. A pick is placed in the foregound as an indication of scale. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 338.
Dates:
1907-10-25
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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[?Glacier, Southern Alps], 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/29
Scope and Contents
64 x 58mm. A view looking down a glacier towards a lake beyond.
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).
Series
Glass spearheads, 1930 - 1935
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.8.02
Scope and Contents
A set of seven spearheads of various sizes crafted in the early 1930s by the indigenous people of Kimberley District, Western Australia. They are made from recycled glass bottles and insulators removed from telegraph poles and continue a three thousand year-old tradition of making spearheads. Their distinctive serrated edges were made by ‘pressure flaking’—a technique which involves applying a pointed stick or a shaped piece of animal bone at a very slight oblique angle to the flat of the...
Dates:
1930 - 1935
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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Glebe Island Bridge, 1870 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/24
Scope and Contents
200 x 161 mm. A view looking north from the Glebe towards the wooden bridge which connects Glebe Island to Pyrmont, with some small factories by the water’s edge, and with grazing horses and cattle in the foreground. The bridge was built in 1857 to shorten road communications between Balmain and Pyrmont and was replaced in 1901. (Glebe Island is not in fact an island nor even part of the Glebe, but is a peninsula on the other side of Rozelle Bay from Glebe.)
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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Glen Dhu State School for boys and girls : Launceston, Tasmania, 1910-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6584
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Young man in boater standing in front of entrance tower of brick and stone with brick building beside and a flagpole].
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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Glen Tin smelting Co. Works, Tent Hill, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/42
Scope and Contents
A view from a different angle of the same tin works, with men sluicing the mud in the foreground. New South Wales, formerly a large tin producer, has since the 1950s closed most of her remaining mines.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New South Wales, 1908
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Glimpse of Maternity Ward, BCA [i.e. Bush Church Aid] Hospital, Penong, 1910 - 1930
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/101
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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Glimpse of Women's Ward, BCA [i.e. Bush Church Aid] Hospital, Penong, S.A [i.e. South Australia], 1910 - 1930
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/100
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).
Fonds
Glimpses of New Zealand
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089J
Scope and Contents
An album containing 39 mounted black and white prints, measuring approximately 195 x 140 mm, and 11 coloured reproductions of scenes in New Zealand. All the photographs are mounted on thin card which has printed on it a caption followed by descriptive notes on the picture. The album contains an advertisement for holidays in New Zealand.
Dates:
1925
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Glow before sunset, Mt Koscuisko, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7621
Scope and Contents
[No print]. Painting only.
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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Glow before sunset, Mt Koscuisko, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/7621
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).
Item
Gneissix granite slope, near Donnybrook, 1904-01-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/61
Scope and Contents
151 x 108 mm. A view showing a wooded slope near Donnybrook showing the characteristic 'blackboy' trees. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 172.
Dates:
1904-01-30
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).
Item
Godley Head Lighthouse at the entrance to Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/6908
Scope and Contents
Full-plate. [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).
Item
Going to the the shearers, Berkshire Valley, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/22
Scope and Contents
200 x 145 mm. Showing a fully fleeced flock of sheep being driven through the bush.
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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Gold Creek, Fernshaw, 1888 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/65
Scope and Contents
204 x 160 mm. A woodland scene, showing trees and ferns.
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).
Item
Gold dredging, Clutha River, near Cromwell, South Island, 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/126
Scope and Contents
130 x 80 mm.
Dates:
1948
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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Gold mining district, Darwin, 1890
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3083A/7
Scope and Contents
201 x 137 mm. A general view of wooden huts and shacks among scrubland, exact location unidentified. From 1872 Darwin had several goldrushes, which continued off and on until the late 1890s. These were precipitated when gold was noticed in the holes that were being dug for the new telegraph system between 1870-1872.
Dates:
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).
Item
Gold-mining District, Darwin, 1890
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3083A/8
Scope and Contents
205 x 139 mm. A view of an unidentified building, a store possibly, with horses, carts and Aboriginal Australians standing in front. In the background a Chinese labourer can be identified by his hat.
Dates:
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).
Item
Gold-mining District, Darwin, 1890
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3083A/9
Scope and Contents
206 x 139 mm. A view showing wooden cabins standing above a small river.
Dates:
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).
Fonds
Gold rush watercolours
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 391
Scope and Contents
These small painted figures, animals and scenes illustrating the Australian gold rushes were created by an unknown artist. The donor W.H. Carter recorded in a letter filed with the collection, 'They were given to my mother in Adelaide at the time of an early gold-rush by a local artist about the year 1851.’ They may be the work of George Hamilton (1812-1883), who emigrated to Australia from England in 1839 and became a clerk in the South Australian Treasury in 1848, an inspector of mounted...
Dates:
1851
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Gold workings in auriferous conglomerate, Grants Hill, Nullagine area, 1896-08-28
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/51
Scope and Contents
152 x 108 mm. A view showing the excavated hillside with small caverns and mounds of quarried earth. Photogrpah by S.J. Becher. Negative No. 127.
Dates:
1896-08-28
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).
Item
Golden Shiraz vines, age 26 years. In 1886, average production 1340 gallons per acre, 1886
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086B/9B
Scope and Contents
150 x 105 mm. A view of growing vine plants. A note is appended here stating 'In 1886 the Black Hermitage Vines, aged 13 to 33 years, produced an average of 810 gallons per acre'.
Dates:
1886
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).
Item
[Gorge in the Mt Lofty Ranges], 1870 - 1880
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/170
Scope and Contents
216 x 167 mm. A view looking along a gorge towards the plain on which Adelaide lies.
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).