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Oceania (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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Isle of Pins : reef, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham L/18
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Slides taken during a visit which included New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga, the Gilbert Islands and New Caledonia.

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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Italian Court: Front View: Main Avenue, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087A/36
Scope and Contents

289 x 232 mm. A view showing statues at the entrance to the Italian Court, with display cases and stands behind.

Dates: 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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Italian Statuary: Great Hall, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087A/37
Scope and Contents

291 x 234 mm. A view showing a row of statues in the Italian Court.

Dates: 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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Iwagalion State Farm, Nangeenan, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/41
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing a man standing by and controlling the flow of water form a pipe, presumably an artesian bore.

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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Jail and court house, 2006

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I/24
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

200 x 150 mm. modern copies of original prints.

Dates: 2006
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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[James Buick and Co., Beehive Stores], 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/20
Scope and Contents 170 x 118 mm. A view showing the front of the building on Pall Mall, with a large group of people posing in front of the store. This photograph is on a different mount to the rest of the portfolio and has no captions apart from ‘N.J. Claire, Photo, View Street, Sandhurst’. It was presumably taken to celebrate the opening of the new Beehive. The old Beehive stores, which Buick and Co. had shared with Moore Bros, was burnt down in August 1871. The new building, pictured here, was completed in...
Dates: 1875
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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Jarrah forest, Western Australia, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/10
Scope and Contents

150 x 205 mm. Showing large forest trees, with two men on horseback. In the background two lumberjacks are starting to fell a tree.

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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Jarrahdale mills, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/9
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. Showing mills in the background, with timber loaded onto railway freight trucks in front.

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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Jebb’s Pool, Loutit Bay, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/67
Scope and Contents

198 x 142 mm. A view showing a small cascade on a woodland river, with dense vegetation either bank.

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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Jets of steam. Lake bank, Tarawera NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/63
Scope and Contents

59 x 74mm. A view showing clouds of steam rising from the shores of the lake, a phenomenon caused by steam percolating through cracks in the ground from hot underground streams.

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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'Jimmy' : native woman of the Tinaroo Tribe, Atherton, North Queensland., 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7571
Scope and Contents

[A poorly clad woman with a bundle on her head and basket on her back standing in front of a field of maize].

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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'Jimmy': native women of the Tinaroo Tribe, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7570
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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Joe Takala and farmers, Rakiraki, 1963-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham F/2
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains Kodachrome slides, processed in Australia and arranged by processing number.

Dates: 1963-02
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

John Abercromby Alexander: Papers on trees and woods

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 7
Scope and Contents

Tables, articles and other material regarding trees and woods in Ceylon, Fiji and New Zealand, and in general.

Dates: 1888-03-29 - 1925-06-10
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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John Girdwood J.P., Commissioner for Lancashire Court, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/30
Scope and Contents

100 x 125 mm. A portrait of the Commissioner, formally dressed with a top hat, standing outside his office. With large fern trees hanging on either side.

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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Jones' Bridge on the Tumut River, New South Wales, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/41
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view looking down from the riverbank on to a small wooden road-bridge, with cultivated fields 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).
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Joss-house, China Town, Atherton, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7579
Scope and Contents

[View of doorway to Joss-house with Chinese writing round the door].

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).
 Fonds

J.S. Smithson collection on Samoa

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)
Scope and Contents A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...
Dates: 1903
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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Jugiong Bridge, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/17
Scope and Contents

270 x 225 mm. Information given states '3 spans of 90 feet each on iron cylinders, with 7 approach spans. Total length 480 feet'. A view from one side, and from slightly above the bridge, showing the wooden roadway and superstructure resting on iron girders and supports. With various figures standing in the foreground.

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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[Jumping into the water], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/69
Scope and Contents

Smithson has pencilled '29/4' next to '69.'.

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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[Jumping into the water], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/70
Scope and Contents

Smithson has pencilled '29/3' next to '70.'.

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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Junction of Bligh Street and Bent Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/66
Scope and Contents

276 x 214 mm. View looking south-west along Bligh Street from its junction with Bent Street, which proceeds south-east out of the right-hand side of the print. Bligh Street is built up along its north-west side with domestic residences, with a verandahed terrace block of four houses (? of the 1860s) in the foreground.

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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[Junction of Gisborne Street and Parliament Place], 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/13
Scope and Contents

389 x 271 mm. A view looking down on the junction of these two streets with a large unidentified building in the foreground, presumably Government offices of some kind (the State Public Offices).

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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Junction of River Watt and Cavie’s Creek, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/60
Scope and Contents

205 x 159 mm. A view showing the meeting of these two small rivers, with two men sitting on a fallen tree which spans one of the rivers.

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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Junction of the River Watt and Contentment Creek, 1877 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087L/1
Scope and Contents

187 x 132 mm. A view looking across the narrow river towards woodland and a path on the further bank which leads to the summit of Mount Munda. The photograph was taken ‘about two miles to the westward of Fernshawe, a small but extremely romantic township’. An indistinct figure can be seen beside the creek, partially obscured by ferns.

Dates: 1877 - 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).