Oceania (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:
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Hokianga - Phormian Tenax - or flax rope-making, 1870
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089A/7
Scope and Contents
244 x 184 mm. A view showing a small rope-making factory. At the right, men can be seen winding and spinning long lengths of flax into ropes, while behind them the stripped flax is drying on lines. Other workers are standing outside the shed where the flax is prepared. At the left of the picture, at roof level, can be seen the last few feet of a water race. The wheel itself is out of the picture. Hokianga lies on the west coast of the North Auckland peninsula. Phorium Tenax (named by...
Dates:
1870
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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Holder: showing class of Permanent Homes, 1892
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B/13
Scope and Contents
270 x 215 mm. A view of small stone houses in the background, with a field of unidentified plants in front. For the degree of settlement achieved, the photograph may be compared to that of Ramco in Y3082B/2.
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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Home for Incurables, Fullarton, near Adelaide, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/20
Scope and Contents
260 x 200 mm. A view showing a single storey building with a corrugated iron roof and a verandah running along its length.
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).
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Homestead, Bridgetown, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/54
Scope and Contents
200 x 145 mm. View of homestead and farm buildings, with fruit trees growing at left and hill behind.
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).
File
Homewood, 1976 - 1982
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/14
Scope and Contents
This file contains material relating to the research, publication and reception of Lady Smedley’s history of the official residence of the British High Commissioner , ‘Homewood and its families: a story of Wellington’ (Wellington, 1980).
Dates:
1976 - 1982
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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Homewood handover documents, 1980
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/12
Scope and Contents
This file contains material presumably prepared for the incoming New Zealand High Commissioner, R.J. Stratton, including information on running the house, tending to the large garden, speeches and office details (circa 80 sheets).
Dates:
1980
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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[Honeyeaters], 1919 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/48
Scope and Contents
Possibly by Violet Artah Bartlett, fl 1919-1930, although the signature is different from the other examples of her work in the collection.
Dates:
1919 - 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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[Hongi: nose pressing], 1884 - 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/63
Scope and Contents
97 x 140 mm. A studio photograph showing two Maori women dressed in korowai performing the Maori greeting of Hongi, pressing noses together. The greeting is performed by lightly pressing noses together, first on one side, then on the other, and not by rubbing.
Dates:
1884 - 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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Hongo, with island of Mandolina, 1892
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309A/12
Scope and Contents
205 x 151 mm. A view taken from the beach at Hongo, with Mandolians visible in the distance.
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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Views in Melanesia
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[Hooded parrot], 1919 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/25
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...
Dates:
1919 - 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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Hornsby Light, Sydney, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/30
Scope and Contents
190 x 140 mm. A view of the lighthouse on a cliff, with the harbour beyond. A thirty foot high tower, painted in red and white vertical stripes, the building was erected at Inner South Head in 1858 and named after Admiral Sir Phipps Hornsby, Commander-in-Chief of the British Pacific Fleet in the 1860's.
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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[Horse corrals on shore], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/42
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. Shows corrals and wooden buildings, with railway trucks behind.
Dates:
1899 - 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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[Horse corrals on shore], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/43
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. Similar to Y308m/42, but showing more on the left and a sailing ship at anchor beyond the trucks.
Dates:
1899 - 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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[Horse corrals on shore], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/44
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. Y308M/43 shows more of the left hand building. Scene as in Y308M/42.
Dates:
1899 - 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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[Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/39
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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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[Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/40
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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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[Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/41
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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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[Horses ascending gangway, seen from the shore], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/25
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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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[Horses ascending gangway, seen from the shore], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/26
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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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[Horses being driven between hurdles to gangway; view of the quayside looking down from the ship], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/23
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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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[Horses being sent up the gangway], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/13
Scope and Contents
200 x 150mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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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Horses clearing land, 1885 - 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086U/5
Scope and Contents
192 x 149 mm. A view showing a team of 12 horses working in a large pit. Uncaptioned on front or back apart from negative number 424.
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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[Horses crossing a waterside railway track and walking up a gangway (seen from ship). Bales of hay strewn about], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/24
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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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[Horses in central stabling being fed, with men gathered round], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/32
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1899 - 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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Hospital, Brisbane-from Bowen Bridge Road, 1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/11
Scope and Contents
230 x 180 mm. A notice by the gate informs us that visiting days were Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday from 2 till 5 p.m. The hospital is now in the centre of the city. In 1867, when it was opened, there was anger at its being built so far out of town.
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).