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India (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7962 Collections and/or Records:

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View in the Fernery, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Y/13
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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View in the Wingfield Park, Lucknow, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/46
Scope and Contents

320 x 190 mm. View looking across the lawns towards marble pavilions and statues in the Wingfield Park. Named after Sir Charles Wingfield, Chief Commissioner of Oudh 1859-66, the park is situated to the west of, and adjoining, the Martiniere Park.Bourne no. 1154.

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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View in Zozzi-La Pass, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/15
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242 x 291 mm. View looking between the faces of a steep-sided gorge towards distant peaks and a glacier which extends down to the foot of the pass. The Zoji La Pass is situated on the Srinager-Leh road some 40 miles ENE of Srinagar. Bourne no. 990.

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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[View looking along Corporation Street from junction with Chowringhee Road], 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/14
Scope and Contents

288x214mm. A view looking E. along Corporation Street (formerly Jaun Bazar Street) from its junction with Chowringhee Road. In the left foreground are part of the premises of Laidlaw & Co., drapers. Further down Corporation Street the premises of the Hindusthan Co-operative Insurance Society can be seen, (Massey p. 102).

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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[View looking down at a group of bungalows], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/97
Scope and Contents

75 x 50 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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View N.E. [i.e north-east] from Madras, 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/243
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). Showing High Court and portion of Harbour. Inside bastion is green grass. Distant buildings are mainly red. In front of them is a strip of green grass. In front, to right, is modern barrack work.

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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View near Hyderabad, Deccan, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/979
Scope and Contents

On the road to Secunderabad, showing characteristic scenery - looking back towards Hyderabad. (Fisher).

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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View of Ajmer City from the Mayo College

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 22/24
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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View of Ajmer from the Pushkar Ghat

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 22/27
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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View of BB and C.I. Railway Office and Queen's Road, Bombay. Taken from the top of the University clocktower, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/415
Scope and Contents

Approximately 235 x 175 mm. Collotype. Illustration photographed by Clifton and Co.

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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View of Bikanir City, 1908-02 - 1908-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/897
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). From the Jain Temple.

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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[View of buildings with country beyond, possibly Mhow] , 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/39
Scope and Contents

285 x 205 mm.

Dates: 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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View of Cathedral across Tank, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/35
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283x222mm. View looking N. across the Birjee Tank towards St Paul's Cathedral, with most of the building obscured by trees. (Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffmann).

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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View of City, 1905-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 13/11
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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View of Clive Street, looking N, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/30
Scope and Contents 287x202mm. View looking N. along Clive Street from the junction with Lyon's Range, towards the Eastern Bank at the further end of the street. In the right foreground at No. 1 Clive Street, looking more like government offices than commercial premises, is the headquarters of James Finlay & Co., a three storey building with a rusticated ground floor supporting a colonnade in the Corinthian Order running through two storeys. Above the main entrance the colonnade projects slightly to support...
Dates: 1915
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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View of Clive Street, looking S, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/31
Scope and Contents

284x214mm. View looking along Clive Street towards Dalhousie Square, with the Holwell Monument and the W. corner of the Bengal Secretariat visible in the distance. The National Bank of India can be seen on the right, and on the left hand side of the street are Martin & Co., the South British Insurance Company, the old Exchange Buildings, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, and James Finlay & Co. Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman.

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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[View of dam] , 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/104
Scope and Contents

Loose print.

Dates: 1909
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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[View of dam] , 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/106
Scope and Contents

Loose print.

Dates: 1909
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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View of exterior of great outer gateway, Srirangam, 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/230
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format).

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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View of Fairlie Place from the Strand, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/29
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281x208mm. View looking E. along Fairlie Place towards Clive Street. Part of the National Bank can be seen at the end of the street, with a corner of the premises of James Finlay & Co. at the right on Clive Street. The polychrome brick and stone building next to it is the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman.

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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View of Fort St. George, Madras

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/290
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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View of Government House, north aspect, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/2
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164x102mm. View looking down onto the N. facade of Government House, possibly taken from the Government House Out-Office. Particularly notable in this later view are the classical urns placed at regular intervals along the roof parapet by Lord Curzon to add interest to the flat roof line. Also added by Curzon and visible in this view are the coats of arms on the two northern wings and in the tympanum of the pediment over the main entrance (see Curzon i, p.86, Massey p.2.)

Dates: 1916
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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[View of Indians grouped on steps leading down to the water in the entrance to a large building, perhaps a fortress], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/94
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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View of Lake from waterside path, with distant buildings, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022II/20
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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View of Lake looking towards hills, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022II/18
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).