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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7962 Collections and/or Records:

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Bombay. A.A.N.S. Sisters at the Nurses Club

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 25/48
Scope and Contents

Matron, Miss Davis.

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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Bombay and Delhi, 1962-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/3/8
Scope and Contents A 16mm, colour cinefilm, without sound.0 - 24sec. Interior scenes (in a marquee) at an Air India meal to celebrate J.R.D Tata re-enacting his first Karachi-Ahmedabad-Bombay flight of 1932 - on 15th October 1962, Bombay airport. Guests include Mrs Thelma Tata (wife of J.R.D Tata). Many of the women are carrying red fans with Air India route maps on them.24sec - 33sec. Man driving a cattle drawn two-wheeled open cart with ‘Burmah Shell Aviation Service’ written in yellow...
Dates: 1962-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: With the exception of RCMS 20/3/1, the cinefilms may be viewed online with the University of Cambridge Streaming Media Service at: http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1532657 For copyright reasons, researchers wishing to view RCMS 20/3/1, (Colonial Cinemagazine 29, Colonial Film Unit, 1950) should make an appointment with the RCS Librarian to view the film in Cambridge University Library. Email: rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk.
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Bombay Cathedral 15038, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/5
Scope and Contents 247 x 194 mm. View looking west across Bombay Green towards St Thomas’ Cathedral. The building, a mixture of the classic and Gothic style (Maclean, p 229) was originally constructed in 1715-18 on the site of an abortive earlier attempt to build a church for the citizens of Bombay. It appears to have had no specific dedication but was occasionally referred to as ‘St James’. In 1814 Bombay became an Archdeaconry of the See if Calcutta and the church was dedicated to St Thomas. The See of...
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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Bombay [Cathedral] 15038, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/6
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245 x 194 mm. A similar view to Y3022A/5, but taken from a slightly different angle and from further away. More of the Green is visible in the foreground and one can also look directly down Church Gate Street at the right. This photograph is reproduced in Edwardes, vol 3, p 243 and there dated 1864.

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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Bombay [Cathedral] 15040, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/7
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242 x 195 mm. Similar to Y3022A/6 but taken from slightly further away, from near the Town Hall steps.

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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Bombay Chowpattee 15065, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/32
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250 x 297 mm. View from the foreshore at Chowpatty looking southwards out into Black Bay, with dhows moored near the beach and piles of timber stacked in the foreground. The view appears to be looking towards the place from which Y3022A/17 was photographed. Reproduced in Edwardes, vol 2, p 145, captioned ‘Lakri Bandar, Chaupati 1864’.

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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Bombay, Elephanta Caves, exterior, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/5
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Showing two of the pillars at the entrance to the rock temple: see Y3022A/24-31.

Dates: 1901
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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Bombay: Elphinstone Circle and the Cathedral, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/1/2
Scope and Contents

216 x 156 mm. (p. 3).

Dates: 1873
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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Bombay from Colaba Lighthouse, 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/1
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310 x 188 mm. View from the lighthouse looking over the rooftops northwards along Upper Colaba Road. Photograph by Bourne & Shepherd no. 2216.

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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Bombay from Mazagon Hill 15034, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/1
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251 x 199 mm. A view from the hillside, with trees in the foreground, looking over the roofs of bungalows towards the sea. The angle of view looks approximately NE, with the spit of land on which is situated Sewri Fort visible in the distance. A very similar view, probably taken on the same occasion, is reproduced in Edwardes, vol 3, p 43, and is there dated 1860.

Dates: 1860
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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Bombay [from Mazagon Hill] 15035, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/2
Scope and Contents

250 x 199 mm. Similar view to Y3022A/1, but with more vegetation in foreground.

Dates: 1860
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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Bombay Harbour, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG/1
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239 x 181 mm. View looking out into the harbour with small sailing boats moored in the foreground.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
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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Bombay Harbour, 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/100
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110 x 80 mm. Daylight version of Y3022V/99.

Dates: 1899 - 1901
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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Bombay Harbour. A Portuguese man of war, 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/104
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110 x 80 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 1901
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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[Bombay Harbour from above], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/102
Scope and Contents

110 x 80 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 1901
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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Bombay Harbour from St Xavier’s College, 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/3
Scope and Contents

290 x 235 mm. Probably 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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Bombay Harbour. Looking from my room at the top of the Yacht Club chambers., 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/103
Scope and Contents

110 x 80 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 1901
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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Bombay, interior of Elephanta Caves, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/159
Scope and Contents

Showing pillars and carved images in the caves: see note at Y3022A/24-31.

Dates: 1901
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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Bombay Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital 15037, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/4
Scope and Contents 247 x 199 mm. A view looking northwards across the Babula Tank towards the Jamsetji Jijibhoy Hospital. The Grant Medical College is visible at the left. The buildings are of a similar style and were built during the same period. The main building of the hospital contained 18 wards with a total of 237 beds for the relief of the native poor of all classes. The East India Company paid half the costs, the rest being supplied by the merchant and philanthropic Sir Jamsetji Jijibhoy (1783-1859)....
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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Bombay - Juhu Aerodrome, 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/14
Scope and Contents

78 x 53 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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Bombay Jumma Musjid 15047, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/14
Scope and Contents 249 x 198 mm. View from the upper storey of a building on Sheik Meman Street looking across the road towards the Jumma Musjid or Great Mosque, situated a short distance NW of the Crawford Market. Built between 1775 and 1802 over a tank in the garden of a Kankani moslem, the mosque is a quadrangular tiered construction of brick and stone decorated with turrets and ornate balustrades. The mosque was repaired and enlarged in 1837 and from this time date the row of two storey, terrace roofed...
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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Bombay, looking over the harbour, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/1/1
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208 x 160 mm. (p. 1).

Dates: 1873
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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Bombay Mahaluxemee [Mahalakshmi] Temple 15056, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/23
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246 x 194 mm. View of the temple and surrounding buildings, probably from the SE.

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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Bombay Malabar Hill 15049, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/16
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245 x 195 mm. View looking towards the summit of the hill, with Indians posed among the rocks in the foreground. The building on the summit of the hill appears to be the Malabar Government House, situated on the southern point of the Malabar promontory and with fortifications beneath it connected with the harbour defences. For a history and description of the residence see Edwardes, vol 3, p 291 – 293.

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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Bombay Medical College 15036, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/3
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250 x 199 mm. View of the Grant Medical College from the Parel Road. A T-shaped building in the Gothic style with pointed windows and turrets at each corner, the college was founded in memory of Sir Robert Grant (Governor of Bombay 1835-38). The foundation stone was laid in 1843 and the building opened in 1845; it stands in the grounds of the Jamsetji Jijibhoy Hospital.

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).