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India (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Sketches in India : taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency, London : Lovell Reeve, 1862

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022F
Scope and Contents The book consists of a frontispiece and 100 prints, each measuring 74 x 72mm. The images, which are pasted in opposite text by C.R. Weld, appear to be halves of stereo pairs. The pages are not consecutively numbered and the volume is divided into five sections: scenery and antiquities at Golconda (1-12); miscellaneous tombs and temples (13-19); views at Hyderabad and Secunderabad (20-34); sketches illustrating English life in India (35-47); sketches of people and portraits of noblemen...
Dates: 1862
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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Skinner's Church; Delhi, 1860 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022VVVV/5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A collection of photographs, each 250 x 190 mm, probably dating from the late 19th century. The prints are captioned in pencil on the back and the titles transcribed in the catalogue.

Dates: 1860 - 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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Skinners horse, 1905 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/32
Scope and Contents

Major H.L. Roberts, Hon. A.D.C. [Location unknown].

Dates: 1905 - 1906
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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'Slasher and Crasher’, Darjeeling, 1872, 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/49
Scope and Contents

265 x 209 mm. Group portrait of figures dressed for a theatrical performance. Photograph taken in the same room, and probably on the same occasion as Y3022S/17. Figures identified are: Capt Lemessurier; Capt Henderson; Major Lance; Miss Vice [Vyse]; Major Woodward; Miss E. Judge.

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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Slopes of Chiltun, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/2
Scope and Contents

185 x 145 mm.

Dates: 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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Small Cause Court, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/19
Scope and Contents

285x220mm. View from the junction of Hare Street and Bankshall Street looking towards the main entrance of the Small Cause Court, a terrace-roofed three storey building, with a rusticated ground storey above which columns of an indeterminate order flank the doors near the camera. Date of construction unknown, probably c.1910, (Massey p.69). Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman.

Dates: 1918
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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[Small holdings], 1941 - 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/13/44
Scope and Contents

90 x 130 mm. Showing closely grouped buildings, situated at the foot of the mountains, each with a small area of land fenced off with stone walls or wooden fences.

Dates: 1941 - 1944
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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Small Moulali Trimulgherry, 1900 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/162
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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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Small shoot, Khair Island, near Hurdwar, Jan 1st 1900, 1900-01-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH/16
Scope and Contents

Group portrait of two European couples standing with the pile of birds they have shot; with an elephant and mahout in the background. The figures are identified as: Capt. & Mrs Pratt (I.M.S.), Mr & Mrs W-S, the photograph taken by Mr Hall. James John Pratt (b 1860) served in the Indian Medical Service 1883-1912. ‘W-S’ is possibly William Ward-Smith, Indian Public Works Department from 1872: in 1900 he was attached to the Irrigation Department.

Dates: 1900-01-01
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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Small waterfall above Prini, 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/21
Scope and Contents

296 x 243 mm. View of a waterfall cascading over a massive rock, with an Indian figure seated in the foreground. Bourne and Playfair remained at Prini for three days but, the weather being unfavourable, no photographs were taken. This picture is presumably of 'the pretty waterfall close by' which they came across while preparing to ascend the Humta Pass, (B.J.P., 24 December 1869, p. 613). Bourne no. 1440.

Dates: 1866
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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Smiler, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/79
Scope and Contents

119 x 95 mm. Showing a woman seated on a horse. The rider has been scratched out of the print.

Dates: 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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Smoking out bears, Raipur, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 19/95
Scope and Contents

137 x 93 mm.

Dates: 1906
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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[Snake charmer], 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/11
Scope and Contents

76 x 56 mm.

Dates: 1931
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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[Snake charmer] - Delhi, Sunday morning, 1936 - 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/12/40
Scope and Contents

85 x 105 mm. A snake charmer playing a bamboo flute. There is a cobra on a blanket before him.

Dates: 1936 - 1938
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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Snake charmers

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/247
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
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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Snake charmers

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/248
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
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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Snake charmers

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/249
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
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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Snake charmers, 1908-01 - 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/585
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. On the Desasumay Ghat at Benares - a cobra, python, and other snakes.

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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[Snake charmers] - Delhi, Sunday morning, 1936 - 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/12/38
Scope and Contents

130 x 85 mm. Two snake charmers playing bamboo flutes. There is a cobra on a blanket before one of them, and a smaller snake on the ground before the other.

Dates: 1936 - 1938
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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[Snake charmers] - Delhi, Sunday Morning, 1936 - 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/12/39
Scope and Contents

125 x 80 mm. A snake charmer playing a bamboo flute. There is a cobra on a blanket before him.

Dates: 1936 - 1938
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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Snake charmers [three] 15180, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/147
Scope and Contents

200 x 250 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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[Snake charming] - Delhi, Sunday morning, 1936 - 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/12/41
Scope and Contents

105 x 85 mm. A view of a cobra on a blanket, presumably as the snake charmer (not visible) plays his bamboo flute.

Dates: 1936 - 1938
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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Snow capped cedars, snowy range in the distance, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/72
Scope and Contents

242 x 287 mm. Part of the ‘Simla in winter series’. Photograph by Bourne, no. 1774.

Dates: 1860 - 1869
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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Snow scene, 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Q/109
Scope and Contents From the Series:

An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

Dates: 1902 - 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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Snow scene in the Neela Pass, 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/33
Scope and Contents 297 x 237 mm. View showing a snow-filled section of the steep-sided pass, ‘Skirting the edge of the [Buspa] glacier for a short distance I began to ascend the Neela Pass, but had not proceeded more than a mile and a half when I found myself surrounded by such wonderful scenes of ice and snow that I decided to halt for the night (unfavourable as such a place was for encampment) to get some views next day, clouds and mist now obscuring the view. It was bitterly cold, the snow and sleet beat in...
Dates: 1866
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).