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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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Aker's Dairy, Coorabella, North Coast District, N.S.W, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/30
Scope and Contents

A view of a dairy herd in a field, with farm buildings behind, and hills beyond.

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).
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Aker's Dairy, Coorabella, North Coast District, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/66
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view of the dairy herd in a field, with farm buildings behind, and hills 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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Albany, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/30
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. A view across the city, with the sea to the right; looking towards King George Sound and with Bald Head in the distance.

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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Albany, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/31
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. A duplicate print of Y3081B/30.

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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Albany, W Australia, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/9
Scope and Contents

275 x 210 mm. A view looking down on the town from a slight rise with a hill beyond. Albany is situated about 250 miles by road S.E. of Perth and lies on the site of the first settlement in Western Australia. Its fine harbour (not visible in picture) was, before Fremantle harbour was constructed, the most important port of the west coast.

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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Albert Bridge, Indooroopilly, near Brisbane, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/7
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing the rail bridge across the Brisbane River, completed in 1895, after the old bridge was destroyed in the flood of 1893. Indooroopilly is now a suburb of south-west Brisbane.

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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Albert Park, Auckland, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/3
Scope and Contents

195 x 147 mm. A view looking across an ornamental pool and fountain towards City buildings in the background. Albert Park, formerly part of the Albert Barracks, is on the side of the hill that overlooks Queen Street and fills the curve formed by Bowen Street and Coburg Street.

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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Albion St front of Dr. Mangelt’s House, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085D/11
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195 x 145 mm. Photograph taken from farther back than Y3085D/7, facing in same direction, with the post office and shops now in background. This photograph was taken some time after Y3085D/7; a verandah has been added to the first floor frontage of the land office, and there are more telegraph poles along the pavement. Also evidence of some excavation in the road. Two traps stand in front of Dr. Mangelt’s house.

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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Albion Street, showing Land Office and Post Office, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085D/7
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195 x 145 mm. A view looking along the street, unpaved like Palmerin Street. The Post Office is the stone building at the right, nearest the camera, and beyond that is the Land Office. Beyond the Land Office is the store of ‘Russell Wilkins and Co., Importers’.

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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Albury Station, exterior, 1872 - 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/2
Scope and Contents 344 x 261 mm. A view of the station buildings and entrance, with railway officials and a horse cab standing in front of the station. Opened in January 1881: 'It was built at the end of Smollett Street ... The handsomest structure of its kind in the Colony. It is constructed of red and white bricks of exceptionally excellent manufacture, dressed with cement and surmounted by a clocktower 80 feet high' (NSW Registrar-General's Office 1886, p.98).Albury lies in the far south of New...
Dates: 1872 - 1895
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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Albury Station, platform and lines, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/3
Scope and Contents

345 x 262 mm. A view looking along the station platform, with railway employees posing for the photographer, and other workers gathered around a locomotive on the line.

Dates: 1887
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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Aldgate Railway Station, Adelaide and Melbourne Railway, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/26
Scope and Contents

260 x 200 mm. A view from the railway track towards the station, with the stationmaster and others on the platform, and a passenger train drawing in to the station. Aldgate lies between Crafters and Bridgwater in the Mount Lofty Ranges and the section of the railway to Aldgate was opened in March 1883, the last 21 miles of the line costing £20, 500 per mile to construct.

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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Alfred Hospital, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code:  GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/152
Scope and Contents

183 x 129 mm. A view of the hospital, a brick building with white stone facings situated in Commercial Road, Prahran. The hospital, the second in Melbourne, was built as a thanksgiving to commemorate the Duke of Edinburgh’s survival of the attempted assassination in Sydney in 1868. Prince Alfred laid the foundation stone in 1869, and the building was opened in 1871.

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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Alluvial miners sluicing wash-dirt, Nullgine area, 1896

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/50
Scope and Contents

152 x 107 mm. A view showing two bearded prospectors working a rudimentary wooden slicing apparatus. Photograph by S.J. Becher. Negative No. 126.

Dates: 1896
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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Alluvial Tin-washing at Torrington, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/51
Scope and Contents

A view showing prospectors at work beside a crude sluice for separating the alluvial tin.

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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Alluvial Tin Washing at Torrington, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/46
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view showing prospectors at work beside a crude sluice for separating the alluvial tin.

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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American Court: Great Hall, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087A/45
Scope and Contents

291 x 234 mm. A view showing a section of the American Court, with paintings on a gallery above and various models of organ on the ground floor.

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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American Court: Temporary Annex: Front View, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087A/46
Scope and Contents

287 x 233 mm. A view of the entrance to the main section of the American Court showing a horse-carriage, a safe, a weighing machine and other products.

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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American Gatling gun, Point Mulinu’u, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/66
Scope and Contents

195 x 145 mm. A view showing a row of armed American sailors standing behind a Gatling gun team at Mulinu’u Point.

Dates: 1899
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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American Machinery, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087A/47
Scope and Contents

288 x 235 mm. A view looking down an aisle between two long rows of mainly agricultural machinery.

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).
 Fonds

Among the Maoris (MSS 89) [now RCMS 301]

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089R
Scope and Contents Containing a journal of 18 typescript pages, 11 small watercolours and photographs. The prints measure approximately 200 x 150 mm. Photographs are captioned on the prints, and also have handwritten captions stuck to the prints. Photographers unknown with the exception of 11, by A. Martin of Wanganui.The journal (author unknown) describes a six month holiday in New Zealand taken by the writer and her husband, arriving in New Zealand in December 1898. The journal is chiefly...
Dates: 1899
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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[An Aboriginal Australian family], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/122
Scope and Contents

152 x 200 mm. A view showing a man, a woman and a youth; the man is seated, holding a boomerang and has scars on his chest and arms, the woman and youth lying on the ground to one side beneath a bark windbreak.

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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[An Aboriginal Australian man], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/106
Scope and Contents

152 x 195 mm. A frontal view of a seated man, with long hair and scars on his chest. Around him are arranged various plants and a shield. The man holds a cleft stick.

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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[An Aboriginal Australian man], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/107
Scope and Contents

152 x 198 mm. A view showing an older man holding a shield and club.

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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[An Aboriginal Australian man], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/109
Scope and Contents

200 x 152 mm. A portrait of a bearded man with scars on his chest and holding a cleft stick. Draped in front of him is a fishing net.

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).