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South America (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 588 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Views in Australia, Egypt, Aden, Asia and other places chiefly circa 1908-1915

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)
Scope and Contents The collection was originally housed in seven boxes, four of which were specially made with individual slots for slides. These were numbered 3, 6, 10 and 11 and the remaining boxes were unnumbered. Presumably these formed part of a larger collection, but nothing is known of the original owner or the fate of any other boxes. For conservation reasons, the collection has since been re-boxed. The captions given are normally those which appear on the slides themselves. They have been used as...
Dates: 1908 - 1915
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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Views on a whaling ship: on the mother (factory) ship. The whale is hauled aboard to be cut up and boiled down. Every particle is used, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/3
Scope and Contents

165 x 120 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 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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Views on a whaling ship: typical Antarctic whale sea the mother (factory) ship follows the chasers, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/2
Scope and Contents

165 x 120 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 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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Views on a whaling ship: whale factory ship 'Southern Princess' showing working up of whales on deck, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/4
Scope and Contents

165 x 120 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 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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Views on a whaling ship: whale factory ship. Working up on deck, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/5
Scope and Contents

165 x 120 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 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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Views over sea - birds swimming in foreground, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham C/36
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides obviously taken on the same visit as B since the numbers inter-relate with the original numbers of 72-75 in that list. These comprise 29 Kodachrome slides printed in England undated, 4 Ektachromes and one in a grey and red Photopia frame. They are not captioned or numbered by John Ewart Marnham and arranged by processing number.

Dates: 1962
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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[Visit by Sir John F. Stevens], 1955-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/107
Scope and Contents 110 x 85 mm. Group showing the Governor in full-dress uniform with naval officers and others, identified by the Naval Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence, through the good offices of Mr William Stravely, as the visit of the Commander in Chief, America and West Indies, Vice-Admiral Sir John F. Stevens, KBE CB, in February 1955. The group shows Commander (S) A. J. Petrie-Hay, Admiral's Secretary; Commodore D. H. Connell-Fuller, Commanding Officer of 'Superb', the flagship; the Governor;...
Dates: 1955-02
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).
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Wai-wai, 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham HH/20
Scope and Contents

[Small group of Amerindians near the Brazilian border].

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).
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Waterfall Rio de Janeiro, 1870 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/37
Scope and Contents

140 x 204 mm.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Waterfront houses, Port Stanley, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795A/9
Scope and Contents

159 x 115mm. A view looking along the waterfront from behind the row of houses that line the harbour. The harbour can be seen in the background and mountains in the distance. In the middle ground stands Christ Church Cathedral whose tower was completed in 1903.

Dates: 1905
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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West coast from 'Philomel', 1953-04-01 - 1957-01-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/120
Scope and Contents

110 x 85 mm. A view of the west coast of the Falkland Islands taken from the 'Philomel', a motor fishing vessel which was brought out in 1947 to link up town and scattered farms. On the reverse of the print, written in pencil, is the reference '8A'.

Dates: 1953-04-01 - 1957-01-22
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

West Indies 1970-1973, 1970 - 1973

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham AA-HH
Scope and Contents The majority of this group (AA-CC) relate to St Lucia, including views of the house and grounds, and of flora and fauna. There are also transparencies of visits to other Associated States, Dominica (DD); St Vincent and the Grenadines (EE); Grenada (FF), Antigua, St Christopher [St Kitts] and Nevis and the remaining Leeward Islands which remained dependent territories, Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands (GG). A slide of a map of the West Indies precedes the geographical sequence, and...
Dates: 1970 - 1973
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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[Whale carcases], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/69
Scope and Contents

240 x 140 mm. Enlargement, rather faint and of indifferent quality, with two holes punched in top.

Dates: 1920 - 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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[Whale carcases], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/70
Scope and Contents

240 x 140 mm. Enlargement, rather faint and of indifferent quality, with two holes punched in top.

Dates: 1920 - 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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[Whale carcases and factory], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/71
Scope and Contents

240 x 140 mm. Enlargement, rather faint and of indifferent quality, with two holes punched in top.

Dates: 1920 - 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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[Whale carcases at factory], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/75
Scope and Contents

240 x 140 mm. Enlargement, rather faint and of indifferent quality, with two holes punched in top.

Dates: 1920 - 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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[Whale carcases at factory], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/76
Scope and Contents

240 x 140 mm. Enlargement, rather faint and of indifferent quality, with two holes punched in top.

Dates: 1920 - 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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[Whale carcass at factory], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/72
Scope and Contents

240 x 140 mm. Enlargement, rather faint and of indifferent quality, with two holes punched in top.

Dates: 1920 - 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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[Whale carcass at factory], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/73
Scope and Contents

240 x 140 mm. Enlargement, rather faint and of indifferent quality, with two holes punched in top.

Dates: 1920 - 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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[Whale carcass at factory], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/74
Scope and Contents

240 x 140 mm. Enlargement, rather faint and of indifferent quality, with two holes punched in top.

Dates: 1920 - 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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Whale catcher showing result of freezing up of winches etc on arrival on whaling grounds, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/8
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 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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Whale ‘Claw’ hanging in position over the entrance to stern slipway, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/14
Scope and Contents

105 x 80 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 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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[Whale jaw bone arch, adjacent Christ Church Cathedral], 1880 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 277/1/31
Scope and Contents

85 x 135 mm. The arch was constructed in 1933 from the jawbones of two blue whales, celebrating the centenary of British government in the Falklands.

Dates: 1880 - 1940
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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[Whaler at sea, showing harpoon gun], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/78
Scope and Contents

240 x 140 mm. Enlargement, rather faint and of indifferent quality, with two holes punched in top.

Dates: 1920 - 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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[Whaler at sea, showing harpoon gun], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/79
Scope and Contents

240 x 140 mm. Enlargement, rather faint and of indifferent quality, with two holes punched in top.

Dates: 1920 - 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).