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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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Camel sowars of the 18th (P.W.O) Tiwana Lancers, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/718
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). Also a mounted orderly (dress in review order). Of the sowars, one is a Sikh and the other three are Punjabi Mohamedans. (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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Camel transport cart

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/64
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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Camels in a desert, 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Q/88
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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Camp

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/424
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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Camp at Nia, G.I.P.R., 1868, 1868

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/56
Scope and Contents

247 x 178 mm. Showing a European and his wife seated at a dinner table in front of their tent at Nia on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, with servants, bullock carts and other tents in the background. In the centre of the print is an unidentified building, possibly a mausoleum. Exact location of Nia is unidentified.

Dates: 1868
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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[Camp at Walajabad Station], 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/117
Scope and Contents

100 x 72 mm. Showing a bedroll, table and chairs laid out on the platform of Walajabad Station.

Dates: 1895
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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Camp in Lallgarh grounds, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/33
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints the majority of which are circa 290 x 215 mm., but 4-6, 9-18, 20-27, 51-55, 91-94, and 96-98 are approximately 140 x 100 mm. Nos. 4-27, 51 are scenes of the Royal Visit in November 1905, 19-26 being triumphal arches. The other subjects are the Maharajah and his family (1-3), Lallgarh Palace (28-50), Gujner (52-64), the Old Palace (65-82, 85), Bikaner City (83-84, 891-98 and Bikaner forces (89-90). There are printed captions: the collection is in a richly bound album...
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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Camp Raipur, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 19/9
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains prints of two main sizes, circa 295 x 210 mm and 137 x 93 mm.,the latter are indicated by (S): other sizes are noted. They are mounted on card and bound into a lavishly decorated album with metal corners, lettered on the front cover Souvenir of Gwalior 1906 and with the inscription 'With most respectful homage from Madhorao Scindia, Gwalior 1906'. The photographs, which include hunting scenes at Singhpur and Raipur and also architectural views, have printed captions.

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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Canarese [Kannada] Brahmins 15174, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/141
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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Cane bridge over Rungeet, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/33
Scope and Contents

236 x 180 mm. View showing the cane bridge over the Ranjit River below Darjeeling. The same bridge can also be seen in Y3022I/74. Photographer unknown, possibly R. Phillips.

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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Cane bridge over the Runjeet River below Darjeeling [Darjiling], 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/74
Scope and Contents

387 x 236 mm. Photograph by Bourne, no. 1879.

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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Canon B.B. Srisunder talking to Major Sam Pyper at Badnapur, 1952, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/21
Scope and Contents

157 x 133 mm. matt print with 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1952
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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Capital of marble pillar recently excavated Sarnath, 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/16
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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Captain T(?). D.L. Sheppard (Navigator), Commodore the Honourable Hugh Tyrwhitt, Commander Godfrey Paine, 1905-11-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/2
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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Captured elephant hobbled to trees outside the stockade. (The Truculent cow which was re-captured died the following day and can be seen in the middle of the picture)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 29/29
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).
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[Cart at Benares], 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/77
Scope and Contents

78 x 52 mm. Two men in a cart pulled by oxen, probably at Benares.

Dates: 1932
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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Carved Pillar in the Fort Warumgah, 1900 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022UUUU/12
Scope and Contents

210 x 280 mm.

Dates: 1900 - 1950
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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Carved stone temple near the Pagoda, 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022E/38
Scope and Contents 296 x 225 mm. General view from the side of the Subrahmanya Temple in the courtyard of the Great Pagoda. This smaller temple is of later date than the main shrine (built in the 17th century), and is described by Fergusson (p. 365), as 'as exquisite a piece of decorative architecture as is to be found in the south of India, and though small, almost divides our admiration with the temple itself'. The temple is a single storey rectangular structure, decorated with pilasters of various design...
Dates: 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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Carvings on Rajah Amehti's Temple, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B/136
Scope and Contents

287 x 233 mm.

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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Cascades on Scinde [Sind] River, 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/61
Scope and Contents

98 x 106 mm. Photograph by Bourne, no. 892.

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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Cashmir man in Darjiling, 1908-01 - 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/536
Scope and Contents

Quarter-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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Caste, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/44
Scope and Contents

185 x 125 mm. Performed by Poona Gymkhana ADC, 2 September 1904. Programme inserted.

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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[Castellazzo Bros., confectioners and caterers], 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/19
Scope and Contents

294x216mm. View from the street showing the premises of Castellazzo Bros. at 18 Chowringhee Road, a two storey building with a decorated cast-iron balustrade and a porch projecting over the street from the entrance. (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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Catamaran for fishing, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/86
Scope and Contents

283x203mm. Showing four men posed in a rough wooden outrigger on the beach at Madras. These are in fact probably not fishermen, but rather the crew of the boats which follow the massulah boats in case of accidents. Photographer unknown, probably John P Nicholas and Co.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
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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Cathedral, Calcutta, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/34
Scope and Contents

207x148mm. An interior view looking eastwards along the nave towards the altar and showing the trussed iron beams of the ceiling and the fans for ventilation, (Massey p.25).

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).