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India (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7957 Collections and/or Records:

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Poona [Pune] from the hill near the Bund, 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/8
Scope and Contents

274 x 211 mm. View of the eastern part of the town containing the cantonment area, the Bund River and the Bund Gardens. Photograph by Bourne & Shepherd no. 2228.

Dates: 1870
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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Poona [Pune], the Bund, 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/10
Scope and Contents

284 x 234 mm. View from the south bank of the Mula-Mutha River. Photograph by Bourne & Shepherd no. 2225.

Dates: 1870
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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Poona [Pune] view from Parbutti Hill, 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/9
Scope and Contents

309 x 191 mm. Little of the town is visible among the trees. At the left of the summit of the hill is the temple to Parvati. Photograph by Bourne & Shepherd no. 2211.

Dates: 1870
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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Poona [Pune] view of the river from the Sungum Bridge, 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/11
Scope and Contents

284 x 236 mm. View looking along the Mutha River from the tongue of land at the confluence of the Mutha and Mula Rivers. Photograph by Bourne & Shepherd.

Dates: 1870
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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Poona Temple of Simguna 15088, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/55
Scope and Contents

250 x 200 mm.

Dates: 1850 - 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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Poona. The Deccan British War Hospital at Kirkee

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 25/49
Scope and Contents

1000 beds.

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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Poor people receiving food, 1908-01 - 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/654
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. The caption continues, 'At door of Mohammedan [i.e. Muslim] Church at Moharam time, Agra'.

Dates: 1908-01 - 1908-02
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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Poor people receiving food, 1908-01 - 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/655
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. 'At door of Mohammedan [Muslim] Church at Moharam time, Agra'.

Dates: 1908-01 - 1908-02
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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Poplar avenue, Serinuggar, Srinagar, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022NN/17
Scope and Contents

160 x 206 mm. View looking along one of the famous poplar avenues at Srningar, similar to Y3022C/9. Frith series photograph

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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Poplar avenue, Srinuggur, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/9
Scope and Contents 246 x 295 mm. View looking along the famous poplar-lined avenue at Srinagar, ‘The next day was devoted to an ascent of the Takht Hill and a stroll among the poplar avenues, of which, as I before stated, there are several about Srinuggur. One of them is known as the "poplar avenue," and is a mile long and quite straight. This is a fine walk, and is almost perfect - hardly a tree is wanting, and the effect on looking down it is very striking. It is carpeted with grassy turf, and a level grassy...
Dates: 1864
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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Poplars and vines [Srinagar], 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/32
Scope and Contents

98 x 108 mm. Photograph by Bourne, no. 663.

Dates: 1864
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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Porch and entrance, Lallgarh Palace, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/36
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints the majority of which are circa 290 x 215 mm., but 4-6, 9-18, 20-27, 51-55, 91-94, and 96-98 are approximately 140 x 100 mm. Nos. 4-27, 51 are scenes of the Royal Visit in November 1905, 19-26 being triumphal arches. The other subjects are the Maharajah and his family (1-3), Lallgarh Palace (28-50), Gujner (52-64), the Old Palace (65-82, 85), Bikaner City (83-84, 891-98 and Bikaner forces (89-90). There are printed captions: the collection is in a richly bound album...
Dates: 1905
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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Porte-cochere at the Secretariats

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 27/6
Scope and Contents

350 x 275 mm.

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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Portion of the ghaut road between Ootacamund and Coonoor, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022FF/3
Scope and Contents

212 x 275 mm. View looking down onto the road which curves round a sheer cliff face at the left, with three bullock carts in the foreground. Coonoor is situated eight miles SE of Ootacamund.

Dates: 1905
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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[Portrait group], 1871 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/19
Scope and Contents

210 x 145 mm. Group portrait of engineers of the North Bengal State Railway, location unknown, probably Darjeeling. The figures are identified as follows: Mr Montague C.E.; Mr Vigors C.E.; Dr Dease; Mr Byrne; Mr English C.E.; Col Staunton; Col Lindsay; Dr Gilligan. Col Moberly R.E. can also be identified from comparing with Y3022S/28, taken on the same occasion. Photograph signed on negative ‘S.R.’

Dates: 1871 - 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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[Portrait group], 1871 - 1894

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/28
Scope and Contents

207 x 126 mm. Portrait group similar to Y3022S/19. Identified figures are: Col Staunton R.E.; Col Moberly R.E.; Col Lindsay R.E.; Mr Vigors; Dr Gilligan. It is also possible, by comparison, to identify Mr Montague and Mr English. Photograph signed on negative ‘S.R.’

Dates: 1871 - 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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Portrait group, Darjeeling 1872, 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/18
Scope and Contents

270 x 209 mm. Portrait group of 13 figures, taken in the same room and almost certainly during the same round of theatrical performances as seen in Y3022S/17 and 49. Figures identified as follows: Major Lance; Miss Vyse; Captn Le Messurier; Captn Gwyn; Major Lindsay, R.E.; Capt Henderson; Mrs Judge; Miss E. Judge; Mr Anderson; Miss Judge; Mr Goldsbury; Major Woodward.

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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[Portrait of Prince of Wales]

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/80
Scope and Contents

Full length close up of Prince of Wales standing by a tree with a cigarette in his hand.

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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Post Office, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/74
Scope and Contents

246x194mm. View from the south side of Dalhousie Square looking across the Tank towards the Post Office on the west side.

Dates: 1880 - 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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Postcards, 1870 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/3
Scope and Contents

A collection of colour and black and white postcards reproduced by Weatherstone to illustrate his two books on the history of the tea industry.

Dates: 1870 - 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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[Postcards of India], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/1-144
Scope and Contents Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...
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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[Postcards of India], 1900 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/145-162
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous monochrome postcards of India. The majority of the photographers and publishers are unknown.

Dates: 1900 - 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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Prabhu Narayan Singh, Maharaja Sir (1855-1931), 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O/163
Scope and Contents

124 x 173 mm. Maharaja of Benares (U.P.) 1889-1931. Full length standing portrait.

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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Pranamayam

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 26/3
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains prints 90 x 130 mm (unless otherwise stated), mounted in an album. The first eight show ritual positions and ceremonies, and descriptive letterpress is inserted opposite each. QM 26/9-QM 26/14 show scenes by the Ganges.

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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Pratap Mahendra Bahadur, Raja Sir 1911, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O/178
Scope and Contents

90 x 129 mm. Raja of Dhenkanal (Bengal) 1906-. Half length portrait.

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).