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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2826 Collections and/or Records:

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Shellcamp River, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3070
Scope and Contents

Logs coming down from the dam through the sluice seen in distance.

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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Sherbrooke Street, Montreal, 1897 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062C/3
Scope and Contents

240 x 192 mm. A view looking along Sherbrooke Street with numerous pony-traps on the roadway.

Dates: 1897 - 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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Ship leaving Ocean Dock, 1908-10-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2661
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). From the Outer Harbour, Victoria, B.C. Note also small passenger steamer for local service. In the front is the Winona, H.P. Simpsons motor yacht: note people on beach Oct. 25th.

Dates: 1908-10-25
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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Shocked oats and standing wheat, 1908-08 - 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2259
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). On Stephens farm, Clover Bar District.

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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Shocked Red Fife Wheat, 1908-08 - 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 10/2260
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). On Otterwells Farm, Clover Bar District.

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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Short - eared owl (plate XXIII), 1876

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062H/23
Scope and Contents

104 x 139 mm.

Dates: 1876
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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Shoving logs to the sluice, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3065
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. At Shellcamp Dam, Kings County, 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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Showing two young boy scouts building a camp fire., 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062E/107
Scope and Contents

Boy Scouts at Pitman's Bay, Miskoko, Ontario

Dates: 1950 - 1967
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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Sicamous, B.C., 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/91
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A limp-bound book, number 36 of a numbered edition of 100, containing photogravure plates and coloured illustrations by various artists. Each page is preceded by a sheet containing the title and description; in most cases only the title is given in the typescript catalogue. Unless otherwise stated, the illustrations are full-page sepia photogravure, approximately 225 x 175 mm; the half-page coloured illustrations are c.125 x 85 mm.The title page reads 'His Royal Highness the Prince...
Dates: 1919
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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[Side view of lions], 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3064B/1
Scope and Contents

Taken from the left.

Dates: 1913
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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Side view of Trestle, Sailor Bar Bluff, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069B/15
Scope and Contents

245 x 192 mm. A view looking along the line showing the wooden trestle-work which carried the track round steep granite cliffs beside the Fraser River. Sailor Bar Bluff lies about 15 miles south of Hellgate Rapid.

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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Signal Hill, 1908-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 11/2483
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). And entrance to St. John's Harbour.

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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Signal Hill, St John’s, 1907 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061E/3
Scope and Contents

Seen from South Side, just before Fort Amherst. Fishing stages and shack, ice in water. Cabot Tower visible on Signal Hill.

Dates: 1907 - 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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Signal Hill St John’s, Cabot Tower visible, 1902 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061E/96
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album of photographs, with some loose insertions, including an annotated map of 'St. John's N.F, 1905', relating to Newfoundland 1902-1912. Most are 100 x 80 mm., but in many cases only part is visible owing to the size and shape of the frame through which they are seen.The collection was studied by Professor Maurice and Mrs Shirley Scarlett in 1985; their information is embodied in the captions to nos. 3, 5-17, 30-51, 53, 55-56, 67, 69, 71, 74-75, 80, 82, 86, 90, 92-93, 95-101,...
Dates: 1902 - 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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Sinking a shaft at Trinity Cobalt mine, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 15/3180
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format).

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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Sinking foundation for piers of steel bridge, 1908-09 - 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 12/2615
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Over False Creek, Vancouver, joining the main city to Mount Pleasant. Notice the air escaping from the surface of the water as fresh air is pumped in from above through the air pipe. Five men are at work beneath the water.

Dates: 1908-09 - 1908-10
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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Sir A. and Lady Geddes, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/121
Scope and Contents

130 x 78 mm. Auckland Geddes served as British Ambassador to the United States.

Dates: 1922
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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Sir A. and Lady Geddes, in Victoria, B.C., 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/61
Scope and Contents

140 x 85 mm. Auckland Geddes served as British Ambassador to the United States.

Dates: 1922
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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Sir Austen, Lady Chamberlaine and family, 1928-10-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/74
Scope and Contents

100 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1928-10-29
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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Sir Esme and Lady Howard, at Victoria, B.C., 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/85
Scope and Contents

145 x 95 mm.

Dates: 1927
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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Sir Harry Brittain Collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011AAA
Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints and others in an album relating to the career of Sir Harry Brittain (1873-1974).These photoraphs were selected by the Librarian from a large collection and have been chosen for their relevance to Sir Harry's Empire/Commonwealth interests. They are by various photographers, including Sir Harry himself; some of these are noted but it is probably that others were also taken by him. Among them are portraits of individuals, groups, travel scenes and some...
Dates: 1873 - 1974
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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[Sir John Jellicoe], 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/118
Scope and Contents

132 x 80 mm. This photograph may have been taken during the tour Jellicoe undertook in 1919 to advise on the creation of dominion navies.

Dates: 1919
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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[Sir John Jellicoe leaving the Royal Naval College Drawing Office], 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/120
Scope and Contents

130 x 82 mm. This may be The Royal Naval College of Canada, which was relocated to the naval dockyard at Esquimalt, British Columbia, in 1918. The visit may form part of Jellicoe's tour in 1919 to advise on the creation of dominion navies.

Dates: 1919
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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Sir Percy Vincent, Lord Mayor of London, planting tree at Beach Hill Park, 1936-08-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/66-68
Scope and Contents

150 x 75 mm.

Dates: 1936-08-19
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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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1929-08 - 1929-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/22
Scope and Contents Letters from Churchill's lecture tour of Canada and the United States, with Randolph Churchill, Jack [John S Churchill] and Jack's son Johnnie [John G Churchill]. Subjects include: the voyage out; articles Churchill was working on; preparatory work for his biography of 1st Duke of Marlborough; Churchill's poor view of the treaty with Egypt and the violence that was likely once British troops were withdrawn; staying in Quebec; Free Trade and protectionism; speeches at Montreal, Ottawa,...
Dates: 1929-08 - 1929-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.