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India (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7957 Collections and/or Records:

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Fort view, Jhansi, 1874 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/41
Scope and Contents

265 x 200 mm. No. 1379.

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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Fort view showing Boro Bunder Station and the National Bank, Bombay, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG/7
Scope and Contents

270 x 205 mm. A view looking NE across the Fort district of Bombay from the Rajabai Tower. Rampart Row runs across the picture and into Hornby Row in the distance at the end of which the Victoria Railway Terminus can be seen. The National Bank stands on the corner in the foreground, with a small portion of the High Court visible at the extreme left of the print. In the middle distance at the right is the tower of the Cathedral (see Y3022A/5).

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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Fort William and Church, Calcutta, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/68
Scope and Contents

238x189mm. View looking north across Fort William towards the Hooghly, with the garrison church of St Peter's in the centre of the print. Built in 1822 in Gothic style, the church has now been deconsecrated and is used as a military library.

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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Fort William, Calcutta, 1907-12 - 1908-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/504
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Distant view, indistinct].

Dates: 1907-12 - 1908-01
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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[Fortified building at Delhi], 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/177
Scope and Contents

52 x 76 mm.

Dates: 1935
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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Fortress Gwailor [1860], 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/65
Scope and Contents

317 x 192 mm. Duplicate of Y3022I/81. Samuel Bourne (no 1324).

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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Fortress Gwalior from Morar Road, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/81
Scope and Contents

317 x 189 mm. View looking from the east towards the ridge upon which the fortress and palaces are located. Photograph by Bourne, no. 1325.

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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Fortress Gwalior from the ramparts, & City below, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/82
Scope and Contents

315 x 186 mm. View looking north along the east side of the ridge, with the houses of the old city on the plain below. Photograph by Bourne, no. 1324.

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).
 Fonds

'Foundation stones in Manoharpur'

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 73
Scope and Contents

A memoir by Gerald Dickson based on his diaries, 270 pages, with an index at the back, 4 pages.

Dates: 1971
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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Fountain in the Esplanade Road, Bombay, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/963
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate.

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).
 Fonds

Four photographs of India, circa 1912

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022RR
Scope and Contents

A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 150 x 115 mm, with pencilled captions on the reverse. The views show architectural remains in Bihar and Orissa. Photographs by Miss Mary F.A. Tench.

Dates: 1912
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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Fourth tiger, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/3/17
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A collection of programmes, invitations, menus, photographs and other material issued in connection with the Royal Visit to India during 1905-1906.

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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F.P. Raynham. Dum Dum, 1931 - 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/14
Scope and Contents

54 x 78 mm. A man and a woman with two dogs.

Dates: 1931 - 1934
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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Francis Childers, 1886

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/20
Scope and Contents

Letters of condolence to H.C.E. Childers and Mrs. (Katherine) Childers on the death of Francis in India in 1886: from Sir M.E. Grant Duff, Mrs. Gladstone, Leontius Verempman [?], Lord Kenmare, Edward M. Young, F.E. Culling Carr (enclosing newspaper cutting), Godfrey Clerk, Herbert Somers Cocks (enclosing copy of letter from his sister in India), St. John F. Michell, M. Neuland [?]; copy to Childers to the Queen acknowledging her letter.

Dates: 1886
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).
 Fonds

Frith India Series Vol. I

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A
Scope and Contents A collection of albumen prints, probably by Johnson and Henderson, mounted in an album. The album was labelled on the front cover 'Frith Series India Vol I' and was bound by Thacker and Co. of Bombay. It contains views in Bombay and the Bombay Presidency and a series of ethnographical studies, with handwritten captions. The captions have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the...
Dates: 1850 - 1879
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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From a window in the Kashmiri Bazar Agra on the day of the procession of Tazias in Moharram, 1908-01 - 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/672
Scope and Contents

350 x 250 mm.

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).
 Fonds

'From Aden to Quetta'

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 57
Scope and Contents

Part of a book left incomplete on the author's death. The title, introduction, glossary and index were supplied by the author's daughter, Mrs Rosamond Griffin. The full title is 'From Aden ... to Quetta ... to Lahore ... to Delhi ... to Quetta: the peripatetic life of one army household between 1910 and 1917'. The memoir contains descriptions of train journeys in India and the accommodation, domestic arrangements and social amenities of army families in the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1917
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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From Ladakh, 1941 - 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/13/52
Scope and Contents

85 x 130 mm. A local man with a horse or pony. Location not identified, but probably Sonamarg.

Dates: 1941 - 1944
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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From Nakhanda Dhak Bungalow, 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V/6
Scope and Contents

210 x 150 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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From The Priory, Simla, 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/26
Scope and Contents

156 x 109 mm. A view of hills.

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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From the Toll Bar looking towards the plains, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022H/17
Scope and Contents

232 x 280 mm. View looking along a steep wooded gorge in the Nilgiris. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 232.

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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Front of the Maharaja's Temple, Bharatpur, 1880 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022K/2
Scope and Contents

271 x 208 mm. View looking towards the verandah and its double row of multifoil arches supported on richly carved tapering pillars. Numbered '1894'.

Dates: 1880 - 1885
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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Front of the Motee Musjid, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022D/22
Scope and Contents

297 x 240 mm. Close up view of N side of the Moti Musjid courtyard with three Europeans posed on the central flight of stairs. Bourne no. 1229.

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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Front view of Fort and Old Palace, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/67
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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Front view of the Palace [of the Raja of Mysore, Bangalore], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/111
Scope and Contents

262x209mm. View showing the west façade of the Palace of the Raja of Mysore in North Bangalore. The building is in the form of a lavish and miniature version of Windsor Castle.

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).