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Oceania (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

 Sub-Fonds

National register of Australian biography, 1959

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/42
Scope and Contents

An undated photocopy of an alphabetical list of names prepared by the History Department of the Australian National University, July 1959, 108 pages.

Dates: 1959
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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Native boat with German colours alongside T.S.S. Atua near Mulifanua, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7315
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Tongan Group.

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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Native Bush, Lake Rotoiti, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/113
Scope and Contents

85 x 140 mm.

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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Native Bush near Gisborne, NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/81
Scope and Contents

58 x 74 mm. A view showing a country road passing through tall woodland.

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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Native girls washing on River Rewa, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091A/19
Scope and Contents

233 x 173 mm. A view showing Fijian girls doing their laundry from wooden outrigger canoes. Good detail of anchored canoes. A few girls have hair worn as tobe, i.e. long plaits characteristic of unmarried girls.

Dates: 1880 - 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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Native of Niufoa swimming with mail to Niufoa Island, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7321
Scope and Contents

[Seascape with wooded island in the distance to the left.]

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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Native of Niufoa swimming with mail to Niufoa Island. [Seascape with wooded island in the distance to the left.], 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7322
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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Native paintings in gorge near Trig Hill, 1908 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/2
Scope and Contents

122 x 91 mm. A view showing Aboriginal Australian designs on a rock face in the Nabberu District. Photograph by H.W.B. Talbot. Negative No. 430.

Dates: 1908 - 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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Native provincial scribes house in Fijian town near Nanduruloulou after the hurricane, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7452
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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Native Town, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091A/11
Scope and Contents

211 x 174 mm. A view from behind the town, looking over the thatched roofs and towards the harbour. It shows the Strangers’ House, an immensely long bure where visitors were accommodated, in the foreground.

Dates: 1880 - 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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Native Town, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091A/12
Scope and Contents

228 x 175 mm. A view looking down on the town showing Fijian huts and neatly fenced-off gardens, with the harbour in the background.

Dates: 1880 - 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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Native Town, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091A/13
Scope and Contents

227 x 173 mm. A similar view to Y3091A/11, looking over the thatched roofs to the harbour beyond.

Dates: 1880 - 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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Native village above Karunda, Barron River, North Queensland, 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/7745
Scope and Contents

350 x 250 mm. No print.

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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Natives at Isle of Pines [historic title], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/176
Scope and Contents

200 x 153 mm. A view showing men posed with their spears on a beach on the Isle of Pines. In the background stand boats and a long thatched hut. The Isle of Pines lies south-east of the main island of New Caledonia.

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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Natives-Lake Tyers, Gippsland, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/85
Scope and Contents

207 x 155 mm. A view of the lake with tree lined banks in the background, showing Aboriginal Australians in rowing boats and a canoe. Photographer possibly Charles Bayliss.

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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Natives of New South Wales [historic title], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/105
Scope and Contents

279 x 190 mm. A group portrait showing about 50 Aboriginal Australians among woodland trees, carrying spears and shields and some wearing decorative body-paint. Behind them can be seen shelters made from bark and branches.

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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Natives of Nukapu, 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309A/30
Scope and Contents

152 x 205 mm. A view showing a group of men, wearing loin-cloths and nose rings, standing among bananas and palm trees.

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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Natives of Numbukaluka Town, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7428
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Showing group of natives standing in area between huts].

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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Natives of Numbukaluka Town, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7429
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Showing group of natives standing in area between huts].

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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Natives of Solomon Islands, 2006

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I/3
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).
 Series

Natives of Tahiti, 1949

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/86-89
Scope and Contents

Commercial postcards.

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).
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Natives of Tanna, 2006

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I/5
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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Natives of Tokolau, 2006

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I/6
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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Natives ready for a meke (dance), 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091A/42
Scope and Contents

142 x 100 mm. A view showing a group of Fijian girls in white skirts preparing to perform a ceremonial dance.

Dates: 1880 - 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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Natives spearing fish from a dug-out, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/90
Scope and Contents 210 x 158 mm. A study of Aboriginal Australian fishermen, showing three men in a small dug-out canoe, one of whom holds a spear while others stand or sit on a tree trunk which juts into the river. Photograph by Charles Bayliss (stamped in relief on corner of print). The positive identification of this print as Bayliss' leads to the supposition that the previous Aboriginal Australian photographs are by him. They too display the same compositional exactitude and a striving to include as much...
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).