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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2826 Collections and/or Records:

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A Central Alberta farmer’s troubles, crops too heavy to pass through binder, 1910 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y306861A/19
Scope and Contents

164 x 113 mm. Showing a farmer standing beside a horse drawn binder clogged up with oats.

Dates: 1910 - 1912
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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A Central Alberta Homestead, 1910 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y306861A/14
Scope and Contents

166 x 116 mm. Showing a flock of sheep grazing in a field with farm buildings in the background.

Dates: 1910 - 1912
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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A farmers (T. Lindsay) house, 1908-08 - 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2258
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Clover Bar District, near Edmonton.

Dates: 1908-08 - 1908-09
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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A fatal shot, 1899 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061A/48
Scope and Contents

201 x 151 mm. Showing two hunters posed beside a dead stag among woodland.

Dates: 1899 - 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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A field of oats in the Edmonton District, 1910 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y306861A/20
Scope and Contents

166 x 111 mm. Showing a horse drawn binder in a partially harvested field of oats.

Dates: 1910 - 1912
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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A fight to the death, 1890 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/45
Scope and Contents

135 x 85 mm. Showing two dead deer lying with antlers entwined. The caption continues: 'One of the tragedies of the wilds.'

Dates: 1890 - 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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A fish flake, 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2455
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate.

Dates: 1908-09
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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A fish flake, 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2457
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate.

Dates: 1908-09
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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A French Canadian at Joliette, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2785A
Scope and Contents

[No print]. Missing.

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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A good voyage, landing seals at St John’s, 1899 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061A/34
Scope and Contents

201 x 151 mm. A view on a wharf at St John’s showing a pile of seal carcases on the pier with the sealing ship behind. Part of the city of St John’s can be seen in the background.

Dates: 1899 - 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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A great country for roots and vegetables, 1910 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y306861A/22
Scope and Contents

165 x 113 mm. Showing a worker standing in a large field of turnip plants.

Dates: 1910 - 1912
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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A hawthorn hedge at Yarmouth, N.S, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3092
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 3012-3188 (originally there were 159). Added numbers are: 3164A, 3165A; spoiled: 3143-3149; not used: 3022, 3024, 3046-3048, 3094, 3097, 3129, 3133, 3139, 3140, 3153 and 3182; missing: 3172. Subjects covered in this album are:Canada: Royal Canadian Regiment Halifax; Halifax; Lunenberg; Bridgewater; Springfield; Muscauna Lake; Frog Lake; Shellcamp: lumbering; copy of photographs of natural gas explosion, Sarnie, 1902;...
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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A jumping salmon, the Big Falls, Humber River. The fall is 12 ft.[i.e. feet] at this point, 1880 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061B/3
Scope and Contents

166 x 120 mm. Showing a leaping salmon on the falls.

Dates: 1880 - 1904
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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A Labrador Bay, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061C/2
Scope and Contents

105 x 61 mm. A view looking out over Spoon Cove near Shecatica, in the ancient seigniory of Terre Firme de Mingan.

Dates: 1934
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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A Labrador Salmon, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061C/1
Scope and Contents

61 x 105 mm. Showing a fisherman holding a large salmon, with two dogs in the foreground.

Dates: 1934
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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A load of timber, 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/76
Scope and Contents

Showing lumberjacks beside a load of timber.

Dates: 1910 - 1930
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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A man going up a tree with climbing irons, Cobalt, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/3192
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate.

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).
 Fonds

A mythology of Nova Scotia

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 254
Scope and Contents

An unpublished collection of typescript prose and poetry fragments, 162 pages, described by the author in a letter to the R.C.S. Librarian, 26 September 1996: 'This resulted out of a year spent in Cambridge in 1979-80 and the literary effort trying to mend the split in my mind between Cambridge and Nova Scotia/Canada'.

Dates: 1996-07
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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A railway construction camp, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/2851
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. On Canadian Northern Railway. St. Jacques to Rawdon Branch.

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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A railway construction camp, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 14/2852
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. On Canadian Northern Railway. St. Jacques to Rawdon Branch.

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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A remarkable photo, salmon leaping falls, Upper Humber, 1899 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061A/44
Scope and Contents

193 x 140 mm. Showing a salmon leaping up a broad weir on the Humber.

Dates: 1899 - 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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A residence near Grand Pre, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3117
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. House of Chief Justice Weatherbe, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia.

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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A road in Digby, N.S, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3096
Scope and Contents

[Showing large residences].

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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A sportsman’s camp in the interior of Newfoundland (‘Norton’s Camp, Goose Brook’ written on negative), 1899 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061A/43
Scope and Contents

201 x 151 mm. Showing a cluster of tents among bare fern trees with a railway track in the foreground.

Dates: 1899 - 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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A stream near Bridgewater, N.S, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3042
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 3012-3188 (originally there were 159). Added numbers are: 3164A, 3165A; spoiled: 3143-3149; not used: 3022, 3024, 3046-3048, 3094, 3097, 3129, 3133, 3139, 3140, 3153 and 3182; missing: 3172. Subjects covered in this album are:Canada: Royal Canadian Regiment Halifax; Halifax; Lunenberg; Bridgewater; Springfield; Muscauna Lake; Frog Lake; Shellcamp: lumbering; copy of photographs of natural gas explosion, Sarnie, 1902;...
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).