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South America (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 588 Collections and/or Records:

 Sub-Series

Guyana, 1963 - 1991

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/23-33
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of the University of Guyana. The University of Guyana, Georgetown, was established in 1963.

Dates: 1963 - 1991
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

Guyana 1970, 1970

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

Contains slides recording a visit to Guyana in 1970 though there is no indication whether it was in an official capacity. The earlier slides show aerial views flying inland from the coast, followed by a journey up the Rupununi River to the border with Brazil. The return route was apparently to the north of the outward journey and included a series of aerial photographs of the Kaieteur Falls.

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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Guyana coastland, 1970

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham HH/1
Scope and Contents

[From the air].

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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Guyana forest and river? Demerara or Essequibo, 1970

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham HH/4
Scope and Contents

[From the air].

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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Guyanan forest, ? Essequibo, 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham HH/3
Scope and Contents

[From the air].

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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[Harbour scene], 1870 - 1929

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/21
Scope and Contents

213 x 162 mm. Oval. Possibly Rio de Janeiro.

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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Hauling up the Tabinetta Cataract 15 April, 1872

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3079C/4
Scope and Contents

203 x 138 mm. View looking across rocks towards the cataract, where porters and Europeans are posed in the act of dragging the boats up-stream over the rocky channel.

Dates: 1872
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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Heavier pack-ice, 1920 - 1929

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/18
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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Heavy pack-ice, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/17
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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[Her Majesty's Birthday], 1954-04-21

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/100
Scope and Contents

160 x 120 mm. The caption on the reverse of the print, probably written by Arthur himself, in red ink, continues: 'O. R. A on Faith. O'Sullivan on Tomato. (Behind) Hoare on Marquita. Facing Royal Standard'.

Dates: 1954-04-21
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).
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High jinks, Port Stephens' sports, 1890 - 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 277/1/23
Scope and Contents

135 x 85 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 1950
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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Hill Cove, 1962

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham B/66
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...
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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Holland, Darwin, 1931

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 277/1/49
Scope and Contents

75 x 100 mm. Showing Jim Robertson?

Dates: 1931
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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[Horse], 1890 - 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 277/1/139
Scope and Contents

115 x 70 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 1950
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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Horse racing, Port Stephens, 1931

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 277/1/38
Scope and Contents

117 x 65 mm.

Dates: 1931
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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[Horse riders], 1920 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 277/1/44
Scope and Contents

43 x 63 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 1950
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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[Horse riders on a hillside], 1890 - 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 277/1/14
Scope and Contents

135 x 85 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 1950
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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Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, 1870 - 1929

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/38
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).
 Fonds

H.S.B. 'To the Kaieteur and back,' (printed for private circulation by Hatchards, London 1872)

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3079C
Scope and Contents A printed volume containing an account of a trip to the Kaieteur Falls in British Guiana, illustrated with twenty-one albumen prints measuring approximately 200 x 140 mm., with manuscript captions. As well as an account of the journey by H.S.B. the volume reprints the report of Charles B. Brown to the Geographical Society (dated July 1871) of the latter's trip to the falls. The prints show scenes on the river taken during the journey. The expedition of H.S.B. to the Kaieteur...
Dates: 1872
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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Hunziker's Leap, Port Stephens, 1900 - 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 277/1/65
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. 'The chasm leads to the sea. Hunziker is said to have jumped it on horseback while chasing cattle.' Johann Friedrich Hunziker (1836 - 1907) was flock master and first farm manager at Port Stephens.

Dates: 1900 - 1950
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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Iceberg-a break-away from the Great Ice Barrier showing line of rocks & earth pinnacle to water line, 1920 - 1929

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/21
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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In lasting memory, after many days and much suffering by land and sea, this gun was laid here by HMS Durban, Nov. 1932, 1932

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 277/1/27
Scope and Contents

132 x 86 mm. The memorial continues, 'Sparrow Cove has been much improved since the gun has been removed. Now it rests on Sapper Hill where it is just as useless still.'

Dates: 1932
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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Indian banana seller, Georgetown, British Guiana [i.e. Guyana], 1900 - 1909

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011W/2
Scope and Contents

59 x 102 mm. Full length portrait of an Indian woman standing in front of the premises of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in Georgetown. West India Committee photograph.

Dates: 1900 - 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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Inhabitants of Terra del Fuego, 1817 - 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 343/44
Scope and Contents

Published by Thomas Kelly, London, undated.

Dates: 1817 - 1866
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

Institute of Education Collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U
Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...
Dates: 1930 - 1949
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).