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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2775 Collections and/or Records:

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Christmas mails from England on the Omrah, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6504
Scope and Contents From the File: This album now contains photographs numbered in the ranges 6178-6238A and 6501-6612 (originally there were 167). Added numbers are 6238A, 6515A and 6547A; spoiled: 6198; not used: 6210, 6212, 6217, 6228, 6232, 6502, 6604 and 6611; missing: 6184, 6197, 6199, 6205, 6209, 6211, 6220, 6230, 6233, 6235, 6501, 6513-6516, 6520-6521, 6527-6529, 6538, 6540, 6545, 6552-6554, 6556-65563, 6565, 6582, 6600-6602, 6605-6606 and 6608.Subjects covered in this album are: Malta: views from sea -...
Dates: 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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Christmas mails from England on the Orient R.M.S. Omrah, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6503
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In the Gulf of St Vincent.

Dates: 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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Chrysophyllum Imperiale, Benth, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086S/5
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153 x 203 mm. Mounted print, mount stamped 'Henry King, Sydney'. A view of a tree in the Botanic Gardens. Handwritten caption on reverse of mount reads 'Chrysophyllum Imperiale Benth. Native of the West Indies and Brazil. Planted by H.R.H. the late Duke of Edinburgh in the Sydney Botanic Gardens in 1868. Photographed 1901'.

Dates: 1901
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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Church Hill, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/35
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274 x 212 mm. View of Wentworth House Private Boarding Establishment, a two storeyed verandahed building on Church Hill. The two other houses in the block, without the elaborate cast-iron verandahs but with similar porches supported on Ionic columns, form part of the same terrace.

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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Church of England Grammar School, 1870 - 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/140
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183 x 130 mm. A view looking up towards the front of the building situated off Domain Road near St Kilda Road in South Yarra. Designed by Webb and Taylor, building started in 1856. This photograph was taken before 1876, when the building was extended, and a central tower added.

Dates: 1870 - 1875
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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Circular Quay, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/5
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270 x 212 mm. View looking along the row of warehouses facing the Circular Quay, with Talbot's Wool Stores in the centre of the group.

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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Circular Quay, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/34
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274 x 208 mm. View of warehouses on the Circular Quay. In the left background are the massive premises of Mort and Co., with the warehouses of Harrison, Jones and Devlin and Maiden, Hill and Co. in the foreground.

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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Circular Quay, Sydney, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/20
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A view of the curving road on the south side of the Circular Quay looking west with numerous trams. Wharves and shipping (not visible) are to the right of the picture.

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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Circular Quay, Sydney, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/47
Scope and Contents 190 x 140 mm. A view of moored shipping taken from the west side of the quay which stretches around Sydney Cove, and looking towards the east side. A vast reclamation project created the quay in the years 1837-1844, putting ten acres of mudflat behind a sea wall. Well before this, however, the west side of the quay was the site of Sydney's first shipbuilding dock and in 1789 the first vessel built in Australia was launched from here. Government House can be seen on the horizon beyond the...
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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Circular Quay, Sydney, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/48
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190 x 140 mm. A view from the west side of the quay, looking over Sydney Cove to the east side, and showing Government House, Fort Macquarie and Fort Denison.

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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Circular Quay, Sydney Harbour, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/98
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288 x 142 mm. (2 prints joined). A panoramic view of the Circular Quay, taken from the roof of the Customs House and looking towards the north side of the harbour. The steam paddle boats in the foreground are the harbour ferry service, and the ships moored on the east and west side of the quay are cargo vessels and passenger ships.

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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Circulars/memoranda, 1943-01-16 - 1945-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/7
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: 1943-01-16 - 1945-09
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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Circulating Library, Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/11
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260 x 205 mm. A front view of the two storey building, with a central portico supported by four columns.

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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City of Melbourne, Law Courts, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/10
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197 x 127 mm. A view taken from the junction of William Street and Lonsdale Street showing the Law Courts in the final stages of completion, with just some minor work continuing in Lonsdale Street. This would date this photograph to around 1882, when the buildings were completed.

Dates: 1882
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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Claims for goods insured under the Malayan War Risks Insurance Scheme, 1944

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/10
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: 1944
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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Clarence River at Lawrence, N.S.W, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/58
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A view looking across this broad river, which rises on the foothills of the Macpherson Range just south of the Queensland-New South Wales border, and flows SE for 245 miles. With a road in the foreground and farms on either side of the river.

Dates: 1911
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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Clarence River at Lawrence, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/62
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350 x 274 mm. A view looking across this broad river, which rises on the foothills of the MacPherson Range just south of the Queensland - New South Wales border, and flows south-east for 245 miles. With a road in the foreground and farms on either side of the river.

Dates: 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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Clarence Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/17
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274 x 202 mm. View of houses along Clarence Street, probably at the back of Wynyard Square. The houses are of three storeys, with cast-iron covered verandahs on the first floor.

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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Claverton Downs Bore No 1, 1894

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085K/3
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205 x 145 mm. Showing the flow from a bore being directed into a creek. 'Daily flow 2,750,000 gals. Casing 5 in. 1873 ft. Temp. 118'.

Dates: 1894
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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Claverton Downs Bore No 3, 1894

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085K/2
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205 x 145 mm. Showing the flow from the bore, but without machinery or figures. Caption on print reads ‘Claverton Downs Bore No 3. Daily flow 2, 000, 000 fals. 1, 810 ft. Temp 125’.

Dates: 1894
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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Clearing new scrubland, Warra, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/49
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200 x 150 mm. Showing partially cleared land, with a wagon and horses in the 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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Cleveland Road, Redfern, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/62
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267 x 212 mm. View of a mixed group of domestic residences on Cleveland Street. The house-types vary between thin two storey houses with verandahs on both floors to wood-frame bungalows with dormer windows. From the alternating disposition of these buildings it would appear that the bungalows were built between the verandahed houses on land originally belonging to the latter.

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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Cleveland Street West, Redfern, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/3
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285 x 205 mm. View looking along Cleveland Street, with Edward Bennett's pawnbroking establishment in the left foreground. Further along the street Alfred Lee's Royal Standard Hotel stands at the junction with Woodburn Street.

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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Cliffs on west side of Barr Smith Range, 1898-10-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/55
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151 x 108 mm. A view taken one mile west of Oasis Wel in the Wiluna area showing a small cliff face with a figure standing at the base as an indication of scale. Photograph by T. Blatchford. Negative No. 138.

Dates: 1898-10-16
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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Clifton Gardens, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/13
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350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on the gardens, which are situated in Chowder Bay. With beach huts and strollers on the seashore. Chowder Bay has always been a popular resort.

Dates: 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).