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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Life in New Zealand 1982

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089AA
Scope and Contents Colour transparencies. When planning the exhibition 'Commonwealth in Focus,' the Royal Commonwealth Society Library requested material from Commonwealth Governments and these slides, with the photographs listed at Y308E, were sent in response. A continuous slide show was prepared to portray contemporary aspects of the countries of the Commonwealth and twelve of these slides were copied for inclusion.The list is that supplied with the slides which are filed in the order given. A...
Dates: 1982
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).
 Fonds

Life in New Zealand 1982 (II)

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089BB
Scope and Contents Coloured and black and white photographs. When planning the exhibition 'Commonwealth in Focus,' the Royal Commonwealth Society Library requested material from Commonwealth Governments and these photographs were sent in response. The majority of the photographs, all of which are of high quality, are by the National Publicity Studios, Wellington. They have been numbered consecutively and arranged in twelve groups: Agriculture; Forestry and Fisheries; Antarctica; Arts and Crafts; Cities and...
Dates: 1982
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).
 Series

Life in the South Seas and Papua, 1970

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 22/52/1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Series seven and eleven of a collection of postcards. The postcards are undated but probably originate from the 1960s or 1970s.

Dates: 1970
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

Lifu [Lifou], 1949

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/83
Scope and Contents

54 x 80 mm.

Dates: 1949
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

Lighthouse. Geraldton, 1920

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/228
Scope and Contents

106 x 83 mm.

Dates: 1920
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

Lily Ponds, Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, 1886

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/43
Scope and Contents

225 x 175 mm. A view over the ponds to a willow tree.

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

Lime kiln on mineral Lease No. 1, Lake Cowan, Norseman area, 1904-06-18

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/66
Scope and Contents

151 x 107 mm. A view showing a makeshift lime kiln on a hillside with Lake Cowan in the distance. Lease 'owned by R.P Nugent - produces gritty impure lime'. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 222.

Dates: 1904-06-18
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

Limestone Hills, Willow Gully, Northampton area, 1903-05-15

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/35
Scope and Contents

152 x 107 mm. A view looking across level scrubland towards the sharply pointed Razorback Mount. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 22.

Dates: 1903-05-15
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

Lincoln Agricultural College, near Christchurch, 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6867
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [Similar to 6837 but with horse and lawn mower approaching camera].

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

Lincoln Agricultural College near Christchurch : South Island, New Zealand, 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6828
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing brick and stone building and man and woman walking along path in front of it].

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

Lincoln Agricultural College : West Side, 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6868
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing farm buildings in the foreground and main building at the far end of road].

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

Lincoln College : the front : near Christchurch, 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6837
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [View from other end of frontage seen in 6828, with horse drawn lawn mower with two men involved cutting lawn in front of the building].

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

'Linton' War Veterans Home, Yass, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1949

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086W/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Collection of professional photographs, each 90 x 70 mm, published for the Yass Newsagency by the Valentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney and Melbourne. Yass is 43 miles north of Canberra. Its population in 1947 was 3254.

Dates: 1949
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).
 Sub-Fonds

List of minerals discovered in South Australia, 1845

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/22
Scope and Contents 'Classified list of minerals discovered in the Province of South Australia to the close of the year 1844. Showing the class, family and species to which each specimen belongs, with its description and locality. To which is subjoined a summary of the geology of the located districts'. The geological summary is contained in the last two pages. A pencil note above the heading records 'Copy of this list given to the Surveyor-General [E.C. Frome] 11 February 1845'. On the back in another...
Dates: 1845
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

Lists of names and addresses of the members of the Adelaide and Perth Associations as at 1st January, 1945, 1945

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.

Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).

Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
 Item

Lithgow Valley, showing Ironworks, 1908

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/38
Scope and Contents

A view across the valley, with a small residential community in the middle distance, and the ironworks beyond, with smoke drifting across the valley.

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).
 Item

Littleton Harbour, N.Z., 1948

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/173
Scope and Contents

54 x 53 mm. A view of the harbour, situated at Christchurch.

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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Liverpool Street, 1870 - 1879

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/25
Scope and Contents

275 x 206 mm. View looking up Liverpool Street towards the Willow Tree Inn at the junction with Castlereagh Street. The right foreground of the print is occupied by a large four storey bonded warehouse and factory named the Virginia Factory. The right-hand portion of the building is occupied by Cameron's Bond.

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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Liverpool Street [?] East, 1870 - 1879

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/69
Scope and Contents

277 x 207 mm. View looking downhill and along Liverpool Street, with an unidentified road junction in the middleground and open country in the distance. The street is lined with modest domestic dwellings.

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).
 Item

Liverpool Street looking west from Sussex Street, 1870 - 1879

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/24
Scope and Contents 265 x 192 mm. View looking along the westernmost section of Liverpool Street, with the southern tip of Darling Harbour visible at the end (this section of water was later reclaimed). In the right foreground, at the junction with Sussex Street, the entrance to the Builder's Arms can be seen. On the left-hand side of the road a row of two storeyed terraced houses with cast-iron balconies on the first floor runs down to the junction with Harbour Street, on the further side of which is M.W....
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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Loading bullocks for China at Pinkenbah, 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/31
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing a herd of bullocks in the foreground with a large cargo steamer 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).
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Loading coal, Newcastle, N.S.W, 1911

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/46
Scope and Contents

A view from the wharfside, showing coal being winched aboard a sailing ship.

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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Loading Coal, Newcastle, N.S.W, 1908

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/25
Scope and Contents

A view taken from the wharfside showing coal being winched aboard a sailing ship.

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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Loading flour at Ritchie's Cataract Mills, Launceston, 1910-01

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6607
Scope and Contents

[Showing man loading bags of flour onto horse and cart].

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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Loading sleepers for South Africa, Sydney harbour, 1908

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/23
Scope and Contents

A view looking down on to a pier piled with timber which is being loaded on to the steamer moored alongside.

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).