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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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Mob of Hereford cows, Braeside, Darling Downs, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/33
Scope and Contents

A herd of cows, beyond a pool, grazes, with a farmer on horseback among them.

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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Mob of horses, Gowrie Station E 41, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/39
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing a herd of horses in the field.

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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Mobile canteen presented to the Society by the High School Girls of Sydney, for use in South Wales, 1942-07-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/IIIa/16
Scope and Contents

203 x 150 mm. In the group are (left) Stanley M. Bruce, Australian minister in London, Australian broadcaster Colin Wills (behind) British food minister Lord Woolton and Lady Woolton.

Dates: 1942-07-21
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

Modern Commonwealth photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC
Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...
Dates: 1936 - 1980
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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Moke Lake, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/59
Scope and Contents

190 x 138 mm. A view looking across the lake, with hills and mountains rising on either side. The stillness of the water has allowed the photographer to capture a perfect reflection of the scene in the lake.

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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Molonglo Bridge, Molonglo River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/26
Scope and Contents

232 x 183 mm. Information given states '3 spans of 75 feet each with 2 approach spans, total length 300 feet'. A side view of the bridge across a small river, with wooden supports and superstructure.

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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Mongarewa Gorge, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/22
Scope and Contents

185 x 144 mm. A view looking along the river which runs through the bottom of the gorge, with dense woodland on either side.

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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Monstera Deliciosa plant (Custard Apple), Brisbane Botanic Gardens, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/16
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. A view of the palm-like plant.

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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Moonbi Pass, near Tamworth, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/46
Scope and Contents

257 x 208 mm. A view from the hillside, looking down on the pass, with the road driven through and wooded hills on either side.

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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Moore Street, Sydney, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/19
Scope and Contents

A view from above along Moore Street, looking west to its junction with George Street. With pedestrians and horse cabs, but only one car visible. Moore Street became Martin Place when it was widened after a fire in Pitt Street in 1890 had destroyed a number of buildings in the area.

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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Moorook, 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B/10
Scope and Contents

275 x 225 mm. A view of the settlers’ cabins, with women and children posing for the camera by their vegetable plots.

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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[More usual sort of bells, carried by boy advertising an auction], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/72
Scope and Contents

Smithson has pencilled '28/8' next to '72. Another bell'.

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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Morgan's Ball Mill, 'Dumpling Gully', Greenbushes, 1896 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/29
Scope and Contents

138 x 80 mm. A view showing partially cleared bush with the timber mill buildings in the background. Photograph by H.P. Woodward. Negative No. Film 10.

Dates: 1896 - 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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Mort, Thos [remainder of caption illegible], 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/71
Scope and Contents

282 x 210 mm. View looking towards Mort's large wood-frame factory buildings, with the harbour in the background. Precise location unidentified.

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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Mort’s Wool Warehouse, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/18
Scope and Contents

206 x 154 mm. An exterior view of this imposing stone building, which stands at a wide street junction.

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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Mortuary Station – Haslem’s Creek, 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/69
Scope and Contents

270 x 221 mm. A view of the mortuary buildings, with an arch for the railway to proceed through and three men standing on the platform in the foreground. The building is dated 1868. Haslem’s Creek was a station on the Sydney to Parramatta line which at that time lay 11 miles west of the city. Presumably some funeral train service was offered between the two points.

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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Mortuary Station, Sydney Terminus, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/15
Scope and Contents

206 x 158 mm. A view of the mortuary at Redfern, of pseudo-ecclesiastical architecture, with a squat spire in the foreground. See also plate 69.

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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Moseley’s Exhibit, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/25
Scope and Contents

160 x 114 mm. A view of one of the stands at the Melbourne Exhibition, showing coats and dresses.

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).
 File

Moss, F.J., 'A planter's experience in Fiji: being a concise account of the country, its present condition, and its prospect as a field for emigration' (Aukland, 1870)., 1870

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 355/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A diary, a scrapbook and a printed book.

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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Motor Car returning from the summit of Mount Kosciusko, three and a half miles away, N.S.W., 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7618
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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Motutaiko Island, Lake Taupo, 1884 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/29
Scope and Contents

198 x 141 mm. A view from the eastern shore of the lake looking past trees and a reclining man towards the small island which lies just offshore.

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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Moung Egmont [i.e. Taranaki.e], North Island, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/94
Scope and Contents

130 x 70 mm. A view of the snow capped dormant volcano, 8,260 ft (2,517 m) high.

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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Mount Ainslie, Yass Canberra site, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7633
Scope and Contents

[Tree and stumps with Mount Ainslie in the far background].

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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Mount Ainslie, Yass Canberra site, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7634
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

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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Mount Baw-Baw, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087H/1
Scope and Contents

204 x 148 mm. A view looking along a muddy road towards Mount Baw-Baw in the distance. Two horse wagons, with several passengers, approach along the road. The handwritten caption reads: 'View of Mount Baw-Baw (snow-capped) from hills above Walhalla. This view was taken in midwinter.'

Dates: 1913
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).