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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7962 Collections and/or Records:

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Bombay Munguldass Temple, Walkeshwar 15053, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/20
Scope and Contents

195 x 246 mm. View looking up a steep flight of steps between two rows of houses towards the dome of a temple.

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 November 9th 1905, 1905-11-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/3
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...
Dates: 1905-11-09
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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Bombay Old Black Bay 15050, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/17
Scope and Contents

247 x 196 mm. View looking north eastwards across Black Bay, with Indian sailing vessels at anchor, large stockpiles of felled timber on the foreshore and the houses of north Bombay in the distance. The hills on the Indian mainland can be seen in the distance. The Grant Medical College can be made out in the right background. Reproduced in Edwardes, vol 2, p 165 and there dated c 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 photographs

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022CCCC
Scope and Contents

Sepia prints on mounts. Their appearance suggests that cardboard frames, originally stuck down surrounding the photograph, have been crudely removed. The prints are interesting reflections of British social life and were the property of the grandfather of Mrs. M. Heuston (no further identification or information given).

Dates: 1900
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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Bombay : sun rising behind city. Taken from Government House, Malabar Hill

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 24/78
Scope and Contents From the File:

Album containing prints, of a total size of 300 x 185 mm. (actual print surface 260 x 165 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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: the arrival ceremony, 1911-11 - 1911-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/80
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains photographs ranging in size from 85 x 70 mm to 290 x 235 mm bound in a black leather album with 'Indian Tour 1911-1912' on the front cover. This records the visit to India for the Delhi Durbar of December 1911. Taken by various photographers, it appears to have been the personal record of the King or Queen, and covers the outward voyage from Portsmouth via Port Said, Suez, and Aden to Bombay, a detailed record of the Durbar and other events in Delhi, shooting in Nepal, the...
Dates: 1911-11 - 1911-12
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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Bombay: the arrival ceremony, 1911-11 - 1911-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/81
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains photographs ranging in size from 85 x 70 mm to 290 x 235 mm bound in a black leather album with 'Indian Tour 1911-1912' on the front cover. This records the visit to India for the Delhi Durbar of December 1911. Taken by various photographers, it appears to have been the personal record of the King or Queen, and covers the outward voyage from Portsmouth via Port Said, Suez, and Aden to Bombay, a detailed record of the Durbar and other events in Delhi, shooting in Nepal, the...
Dates: 1911-11 - 1911-12
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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Bombay : the arrival ceremony, 1911-11 - 1911-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/82
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains photographs ranging in size from 85 x 70 mm to 290 x 235 mm bound in a black leather album with 'Indian Tour 1911-1912' on the front cover. This records the visit to India for the Delhi Durbar of December 1911. Taken by various photographers, it appears to have been the personal record of the King or Queen, and covers the outward voyage from Portsmouth via Port Said, Suez, and Aden to Bombay, a detailed record of the Durbar and other events in Delhi, shooting in Nepal, the...
Dates: 1911-11 - 1911-12
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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Bombay : the arrival ceremony, 1911-11 - 1911-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/83
Scope and Contents

King George replying to the welcoming address by Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, President of the Bombay Municipal Corporation.

Dates: 1911-11 - 1911-12
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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Bombay Walkeshwar Tank 15051, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/18
Scope and Contents

246 x 196 mm. View looking across the tank (one of the few remaining in modern Bombay) towards the houses and temple spires and domes on the farther side. The tank (also known as the Banganga Tank) is situated on Malabar Hill.

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 Walkeshwar Temples 15052, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/19
Scope and Contents 194 x 246 mm. View looking across the tank towards the dwellings on the farther side, with the temple beyond. Dedicated to Walkeshwar, the Sand Lord, this temple was destroyed by either Muhammadans or the Portuguese and this building, built of stone and surmounted by a tall carved dome, was erected c 1715 by Rama Kamat, a member of the Gaud Sarasvat or Shenvi community. A flourishing Brahmin community grouped itself in the area and, as protected against the brigands for whom Malabar Hill was...
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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Borneo in the sixties: letters from Sarawak

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 337
Scope and Contents Letters written by Elizabeth O'Kelly in Borneo and photographs from her time on the island. The document is a photocopy of the original 1965 typescript. There are 27 letters, written from Kuching and Tarat, dating from 29 March 1962 to 16 February 1965. They are concerned principally with the background to the establishment of the Sarawak Federation of Women's Institutes, but also cover people and places of Borneo, the advent of Independence, the situation in Indonesia, the rebellion in...
Dates: 2004
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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Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, 1900 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/146
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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Botanical Gardens, Calcutta

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/252
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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[Boy at Shali], 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/50
Scope and Contents

52 x 72 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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Boy Wilks, 1906 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3026A/3
Scope and Contents

90 x 137 mm. Portrait of a young officer of the 13th Hussars. A caption records that he died in India in 1910.

Dates: 1906 - 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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Boys Government High School, Delhi, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/713
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). 5th High Class. The master is lecturing on Nelsons blind eye. (Fisher).

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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Boys Government High School, Delhi, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/714
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). 5th High Class. The master is lecturing on Nelsons blind eye. (Fisher).

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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Boys learning floriculture, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Y/10
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Contains loose photographs (mounted on loose cards), 200 x 150 mm (unless otherwise stated) by K.B. Padhye. The collection sustained flood damage in 1980, the second such fate to befall this collection. Sixteen of the photographs were transferred from an album damaged by flooding in December 1974. Mounts and albums bore the name of K.B. Phadye, 'Photographic artist', Aurangabad. Mr John Wright and his colleagues at the Tropical Products Institute Library assisted in linking photographs...
Dates: 1908
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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Brahmin Clerk and Mussulman 15171, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/138
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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Brahmin Ladies of the Dakkan 15149, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/116
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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Brahmin women close to the top of the Rock, 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/218
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Trichinopoly, looking northwards towards Surangam. Womens dress red and saffron. (Fisher).

Dates: 1907-12
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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Brahmins (Pundits), 1862

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B/102
Scope and Contents

231 x 177 mm.

Dates: 1862
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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Bramley and the Honble and Revd, 1905 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/47
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints, of an approximate size of 80 x 100 mm, mounted on card, six to a page, in a padded black leather album inscribed on the cover India 1905-06 from C.C. and 'Photographs taken by Sir Charles Cust Bt. 1905-06' is written on the fly leaf in Queen Marys hand. Sir Charles Cust took this collection of amateur photographs while accompanying the Royal Party. Most of the photographs have elegant hand-written captiions, but these are not always very explicit - some portraying...
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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Brass Bazaar, Benares, 1908-01 - 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/554
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 512-669 (originally there were 162). Added numbers are: 605A, 598A, 719A-B, 529A (refers to a painting); spoiled: 515, 555-559, 650; not used: 517, 530, 535, 569, 591, 625, 639, 649, 653 and 664; missing: 558. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 605A follows 528; 554 follows 598; 719A-B follow 669. Subjects covered in the album are: India: Calcutta, Botanical Gardens;...
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).