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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7962 Collections and/or Records:

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The 'Thunder' ashore at Colvin's Ghat, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/60
Scope and Contents

252x188mm. Showing the steamer 'Thunder' (the property of Apcar & Co.) beached beside the Strand Road at Colvin's Ghat at the west end of Hastings Street after the 1864 cyclone, (Massey p.35).

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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The Tiger shot at Tikanpur, 1905-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 17/73
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains prints, 290 x 235 mm (mounted on card) with printed captions are in a black leather bound album with 'Royal Visit to Gwalior, December 1905' on the cover; the Prince of Wales Feathers, the Arms of Gwalior and the Maharaja's signature 'M. Scindia Gwalior 1905' in metal are attached to the front cover.

Dates: 1905-12
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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The Tiger shot at Tikanpur (second day), 1905-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 17/74
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains prints, 290 x 235 mm (mounted on card) with printed captions are in a black leather bound album with 'Royal Visit to Gwalior, December 1905' on the cover; the Prince of Wales Feathers, the Arms of Gwalior and the Maharaja's signature 'M. Scindia Gwalior 1905' in metal are attached to the front cover.

Dates: 1905-12
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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The Tiger's Cave [near Coonoor?], 1875 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/35
Scope and Contents

381 x 228 mm. View of the entrance. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 31.

Dates: 1875 - 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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The Tomb of Akbar

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 4/53
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains prints measuring approximately 210 x 160 mm mounted in an album bound in padded red leather and inscribed on the front cover VM [Victoria Mary] surmounted by a coronet. The end papers have a label 'Bourne and Shepherd : Artists, Photographers and Publishers. Calcutta, Simla and Bombay'. This album deals with architectural views (with many close-up details) of buildings in Udaipur, Jaipur, Ajmir, Chitor, Mt Abu, Lahore, Amritsar, Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri.

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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The Tomb of Akhbar the Great at Sikandra, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/702
Scope and Contents

Half-plate.

Dates: 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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The Tomb of Chisti, the Durga, Ajmere, 1908-02 - 1908-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/922
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. While I was inside this temple I was garlanded with red roses and other flowers. (Fisher).

Dates: 1908-02 - 1908-03
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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The Tomb of Ikimad-ud-Doulah [i.e. Itmad ?], 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/698
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). From above the first floor of the entrance gateway.

Dates: 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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The tomb of Mirza Jehangir, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022D/13
Scope and Contents

298 x 237 mm. View of the entrance to the mausoleum of Prince Jahangir, son of Akbar Shah. The entrance is formed by a short flight of steps leading up to an elaborately carved arched doorway in marble. To either side are delicately worked pierced marble screens. Jahangir died at Allahabad and was placed in this tomb in 1832. The building forms one of a number of tombs at the shrine of Nizam-ud-din Aulia. Bourne no. 1365.

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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The tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan’s queen, surrounded by an octagonal marble screen within the Taj Mahal, 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/242
Scope and Contents From the Series: An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
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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The Tomb of Nizam-ud-din, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/733
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. In front is seen the tomb of daughter of Shah Jehan, named Jehanara : to the left of picture is seen the red sandstone mosque.

Dates: 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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The Tomb of Sharnshuddin, Delhi, 1874 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/18
Scope and Contents

205 x 265 mm. No. 1990.

Dates: 1874 - 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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The Tombs of Sahadat Ali Khan and his Queen, Lucknow, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/68
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: 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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The Toolsie Bridge, Halullai, N.B.S.R., 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/36
Scope and Contents

212 x 142 mm. General view of the bridge.

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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The tourists' guide to Lucknow, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/7
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Material collected during the Royal couple's two visits to India in 1905-1906 and 1911-1912 with a few items from other periods. There are printed books, many of them presentation copies, relating to India; programmes, orders of ceremonial and other items from the visits, many specially bound; and albums of photographs and other material presented to King George and Queen Mary or compiled by them as souvenirs of their visits. The material is in English with the exception of one item in...
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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The Tower of the Residency, Lucknow, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/602
Scope and Contents

350 x 250 mm.

Dates: 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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The Tower of the Residency, Lucknow, 1908-01 - 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/602
Scope and Contents

Half-plate.

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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The Tower of Victory, Chitor, 1908-02 - 1908-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/918
Scope and Contents Quarter-plate. Golden yellow in the declining sun. There is a lightening conductor on the Tower. On the top storey but one are 8 columns of marble, very old and intricately carved. By a wooden ladder I then ascended to the top, which is roofed over. At four corners, stones about 2 ft [i.e. feet] square covered with incised lines, and let into stone frame-work. 2 of these inscribed stones remain, the other two slabs appear to have replaced older stones which have been removed. ...
Dates: 1908-02 - 1908-03
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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The Town Hall, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/11
Scope and Contents 290x206mm. View from Esplanade Row showing the S. facade of the Town Hall, partially obscured by trees. The building is a two storey block with a hexastyle portico in the Tuscan- Doric order supporting a heavy entablature which runs the length of the terrace roofed building. The architect was John Garstin who had been responsible for the construction of the astonishing gola at Bankipur in the 1780s and who was afterwards Chief Engineer in Bengal (for full biographical details, see R.H....
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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The Town Hall, Calcutta, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022E/2
Scope and Contents

294 x 241 mm. View of the S facade of the Town Hall, a two storey building with a terraced roof and hexastyle portico in the Tuscan Doric order. Bourne no. 1700.

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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The Train Wallah, 1905 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/15
Scope and Contents

[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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The Trevor Town Hall

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 22/23
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains 32 prints approximately 300 x 235 mm (mounted on card) with captions and bound in a blue leather album. 'MRI Ajmer, Rajputana 1911' is on the front cover; it was presumably a presentation volume.

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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The Tripolia Gate of Palace, 1905-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 13/2
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains photographs, 290 x 215 mm., mounted on card in a black leather-bound album with 'Views of Udaipur' and the Udaipur arms on the cover. The photographs have hand-written captions. Subjects comprise a portrait of the Maharana of Udaipur and architectural views in the state.

Dates: 1905-11
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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The Tripolia Gate of the City Palace, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022II/1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of silver prints, originally in an album. No date or other details are known of the origin of the album. The photographs, of high quality, were taken by K.L. Syed, State Photographer, Palanpur, and show scenes in Udaipur, but there are no captions. Each print has a number preceded by 'V' on the back. Collections of photographs and published works have been used to caption these views of the complex of magnificent palaces and other buildings of and adjoining the Pichola lake,...
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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The Tusker hobbled and secured to a post

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 29/23
Scope and Contents

290 x 90 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).