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Australia (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2775 Collections and/or Records:

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Constitution and rules, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/1
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: 1943
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
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[Construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge], 1928-09-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/32
Scope and Contents

Print at RCMS 353/2/170.

Dates: 1928-09-04
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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[Construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge], 1928-09-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/33
Scope and Contents

Print at RCMS 353/2/172.

Dates: 1928-09-04
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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[Construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge], 1928-09-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/34
Scope and Contents

Print at RCMS 353/2/175.

Dates: 1928-09-04
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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Convict transportation documents, 1839 - 1843

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/9
Scope and Contents

One letter and seven official printed forms, completed in manuscript, relating to three voyages of convicts to Australia: the 'Barrossa' to New South Wales and the 'Margaret' and 'Lord Petre' to Van Diemen's Land. The papers are accompanied by 'Royal Commonwealth Society library notes', no. 39, March 1960, which discusses the collection, and a typescript list of seven of the items.

Dates: 1839 - 1843
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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Cooma Street, Yass, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086W/2
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).
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Cooper Window, Great Hall, Sydney University, 1895 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086O/11
Scope and Contents

98 x 133 mm. A view of the stained glass window depicting various founders of Cambridge Colleges.

Dates: 1895 - 1900
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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Cooperative Butter Factory adding new additions, 1890 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085L/4
Scope and Contents

220 x 150 mm. Showing building work on small wooden factory, with railway track at side, and truck beside factory.

Dates: 1890 - 1900
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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Copy memorandum on Australian and New Zealand naval defence by Winston Churchill [First Lord of the Admiralty], 1939-11-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HOBE 5/89
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection, though small, is interesting as no other papers appear to have been left by Hore-Belisha. It comprises letters, diaries, some photographs and documents (mainly copies) covering most of Hore-Belisha's career but concentrating on his most important position as War Minister from 1937-1939 and particularly the events surrounding his dismissal by Neville Chamberlain.

Dates: 1939-11-21
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Copy of a letter from Doreen Kelley to her mother, 1942-05-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/21/3
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter describing the bombing of Kuching during the Second World War and Kelley's eventual evacuation to Sydney, following a trek through the jungle of Dutch Borneo (16 sheets).

Dates: 1942-05-27
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Coquette Point, mouth of Johnstone River, Geraldton, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/59
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. View of the estuary from the shore, with rowing boats moored on the beach.

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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Cora Linn, Hobart Town, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/187
Scope and Contents

189 x 105 m A view looking down on the river, with steep rocky banks and an iron road bridge crossing the highest point of the cliffs.

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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Cora Linn, Hobart Town, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/188
Scope and Contents

189 x 105 mm. A view looking along the river between two steep cliffs.

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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[Cora Linn River], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/186
Scope and Contents

185 x 99 mm. A view looking up the river, with large rocks in and around the edge of the water and thick forest on either side.

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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Corduroy Road, Fernshaw, 1885 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/70
Scope and Contents

202 x 153 mm. A view showing a curve in a woodland road, the road itself being constructed from planks of timber laid side by side, with foundations made from piles of wood. For a view of a corduroy bridge in New South Wales, see Y3086U/25. The same picture as Y3087D/70 also occurs in Y308A/61.

Dates: 1885 - 1891
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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Corduroy Road, Marysville, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/61
Scope and Contents

207 x 152 mm. A view showing a curve in a woodland road, the road itself being constructed from planks of timber laid side by side, with foundations made from piles of wood. For a view of a corduroy bridge in New South Wales, see Y3086U/25.

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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Corner of King Street and York Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/65
Scope and Contents 274 x 206 mm. View taken from the junction of King Street and York Street, looking east along King Street with the spire of St James's Church visible in the distance. York Street proceeds south out of the right hand side of the print, with Forbes' Hotel at the junction of the two streets in the right foreground. The following shops can be identified on the south side of King Street: F. Hermelin and Co.; L. Ehbe and Co., Metropolitan Dining Rooms; and A. Marks Clothing Hall at number 412,...
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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Corner of Oxford Street and Forbes Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/53
Scope and Contents

257 x 189 mm. View from Forbes Street looking towards the junction with Oxford Street. In the right foreground stands Johnston's Family Hotel, and on the opposite corner, the Queen's Arms Hotel. Next door to the Queen's Arms at number 189 Oxford Street are the premises of Baily and Co.

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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Country bungalow, 1890 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085L/5
Scope and Contents

215 x 155 mm. A view of the bungalow with three ladies in white on the verandah. On the grass in front of the house, a woman and child sit in pony and trap. Pencilled on reverse is ‘A.D. McGregor’ probably the owner of farm and bungalow.

Dates: 1890 - 1900
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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Country Bungalow, 1890 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085L/6
Scope and Contents

215 x 155 mm. A bungalow with corrugated iron roof and elaborate wrought-iron decoration around the verandah. With two men posing on verandah. Pencilled on reverse, in same handwriting as Y3085L5 and Y3085L7, ‘D. Henly', again probably the owner.

Dates: 1890 - 1900
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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Country Scene from Government House, Marble Hill, Adelaide, looking North-East, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/34
Scope and Contents

260 x 200 mm. A view of similar country to Y3082A/33, but with less evidence of farming.

Dates: 1890
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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Country Scene from Government House, Marble Hill, near Adelaide, looking South-East, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/33
Scope and Contents

260 x 200 mm. A view over wooded hills, dotted here and there with houses and cultivated fields.

Dates: 1890
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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Cowra Bridge, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/38
Scope and Contents

158 x 108 mm. A side view of the bridge, looking along the almost dry river bed.

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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Cowra Bridge, Lachlan River, Cowra, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/37
Scope and Contents

280 x 104 mm. 2 prints joined. Information given states '3 spans of 130 feet each, (McCallum Truss), 3 of 75 feet with {blank] approach spans. Total length 700 feet'. A view from the roadway to one side of the bridge, showing wooden superstructure and supporting piers.

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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Cranadilla [i.e.Granadilla] Passion Fruit on vine, Kurandah, Cairns, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/18
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing the ripe fruit hanging from the plant on trellises.

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).