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West Indies (archipelago)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1045 Collections and/or Records:

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Sylvania, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/13
Scope and Contents

85 x 85 mm. A view showing estate houses and the plantation at Sylvania.

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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Sylvania, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/14
Scope and Contents

85 x 85 mm. A view showing estate houses and the plantation at Sylvania.

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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Sylvania, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/15
Scope and Contents

85 x 85 mm. A view showing estate houses and the plantation at Sylvania.

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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[Sylvania, Dominica], 1899 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/48
Scope and Contents

89 x 87 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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Tapion Point, 1972-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham AA/46
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains slides of St Lucia. The majority are of views of scenery, many from the sea or from the air (two sequences in February 1971 and September 1972). There is not much relating to Marnham's work, though his official house in Castries is shown in February 1971. Among events which are shown are: a youth rally at Vieux Fort on 1 May 1971 and 11 scenes at the Castries Carnival of 1972. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript...
Dates: 1972-05
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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Tennis Court, Government House, Grenada, 1890 - 1893

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771A/6
Scope and Contents

318 x 220 mm. An evocative period photograph looking down onto the shaded tennis court of Government House, where a game is in progress. The small group in the foreground is probably the Governor, Sir Walter Hely Hutchinson and his wife and two children.

Dates: 1890 - 1893
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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[The Acting Governor speaking], 1922-11-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073F/2
Scope and Contents

105 x 160 mm. Showing Colonel Herbert Bryan, who performed the ceremony in the absence of the Governor Sir Leslie Probyn, standing beside the cross. (Sir) Herbert Bryan (1865-1950) had a distinguished career as a soldier, and was Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast 1904-1914, and of Jamaica 1914-1925, though he was absent from the post when on active service in World War I (dispatches five times, D.S.O.), K.B.E. 1925.

Dates: 1922-11-11
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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The Banyan Tree, 1879 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307G/6
Scope and Contents

210 x 168 mm. A view showing a banyan tree in Nassau.

Dates: 1879 - 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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The Bell Jetty, 1912-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/25
Scope and Contents 129 x 79 mm. A view looking along the jetty at Roseau which is decorated with flags in honour of Bell's visit to Dominica in July 1912. At the end of the jetty stands an arch with messages of welcome from the Dominica Guardian, the Voice of Dominica and the people of Dominica: 'Lovely weather and everything propitious for the reception which the good folk gave me. The Administrator, Mr. Young, and good old Porter came off to the ship and we all went ashore together. The harbour was full...
Dates: 1912-07
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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[The Boiling Lake, Dominica, Jan 1900], 1900-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011I/1
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81 x 84 mm. A view looking down on to the Boiling Lake in the crater of a semi-extinct volcano containing a geyser which periodically empties and fills. A visit by Bell to the Boiling Lake is described in 'Glimpses of a governor's life' (Bell 1946, pp 10-12).

Dates: 1900-01
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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The Boiling Lake. Jan 1900. Beginning to fill 11.30, 1900-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011I/3
Scope and Contents

84 x 84 mm. As captioned.

Dates: 1900-01
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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The Boiling Lake. Jan 1900. Boiling 12.15, 1900-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011I/5
Scope and Contents

86 x 84 mm. Showing steam rising from the surface of the lake.

Dates: 1900-01
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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The Boiling Lake. Jan 1900. Empty 11am, 1900-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011I/2
Scope and Contents

84 x 82 mm. A view looking down on the lake bed.

Dates: 1900-01
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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The Boiling Lake. Jan 1900. Simmering 11.45, 1900-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011I/4
Scope and Contents

84 x 84 mm. A close up view of the lake, with two figures standing at its edge and steam rising in the foreground.

Dates: 1900-01
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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The British West Indies: their situation, and their physical condition, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/4/3
Scope and Contents

Probably the draft of an historical article or chapter in Davis's projected book.

Dates: 1908 - 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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The Brothers Est., Grenada, 1890 - 1893

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771A/31
Scope and Contents

286 x 224 mm. A view showing the working premises on the Brothers Estate, set among lush vegetation in the hills of St John's parish, north of St George's. This estate, owned by the donor of the album (refer to originator details), was of about 590 acres and seems to have yielded a far richer output of cocoa, spices, coffee, nuts and sugar than many of the larger estates. See production figures for 1894 in Drayton (1896), pp 11-12.

Dates: 1890 - 1893
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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The Camp, Newcastle, Jamaica, 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307J/4
Scope and Contents

229 x 291 mm (overall), 140 x 203 mm (image). Halftone print. Studio name printed as part of image, print inscribed by hand in ink, au recto, below image. Photograph is taken from an elevated location and shows a densely populated area, believed to be 'The Camp' indicated in the caption, among distant mountaintops. There are negligible details present in the sky. For another photograph of the same scene see Y307J/5.

Dates: 1897
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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The Camp, Newcastle, Jamaica, 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307J/5
Scope and Contents

229 x 291 mm (overall), 140 x 203 mm (image). Halftone print. Studio name printed as part of image, print inscribed by hand in ink, au recto, below image. Photograph is taken from an elevated location and shows a densely populated area, believed to be 'The Camp' indicated in the caption, among distant mountaintops. See Y307J/4 for another image of the same scene.. This print exhibits higher contrast, and has clouds which have been added in to create a more complete scene.

Dates: 1897
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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The Careenage or Inland Harbour, Grenada, 1890 - 1893

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771A/9
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329 x 240 mm. A view from the east, looking across the inland harbour towards the town, with the open sea visible in the distance. St George's Fort stands on the hill at the left of the picture overlooking the entrance to the Carenage. With cultivated land and a few houses in the foreground.

Dates: 1890 - 1893
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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The Caribbean, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 338/11
Scope and Contents

A World History Outlines education pack produced by the Inner London Education Authority.

Dates: 1977
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

'The Caribbean in international politics, 1670-1707': PhD thesis

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 257
Scope and Contents

A Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, 554 pages, with a map.

Dates: 1933
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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The Caribs, 1901 - 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/1
Scope and Contents This is a large file of research notes on the Caribs, organised partly by chronology and partly by subject, with the plan for a book. It also includes a few pencil sketches of Carib artefacts, one photograph, and copies of the following publications: Bell, Hesketh, ‘Colonial Reports Miscellaneous, No. 21: Report on the Caribs of Dominica’ (London, 1902)‘The Carib Inquiry in Dominica’, ‘The West India Committee Circular’, 17 Mar., 1932‘Conditions in the Carib...
Dates: 1901 - 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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The Cathedral, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/21
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278 x 200 mm. A view from the road looking up towards the twin-towered west façade of the Cathedral of St. John's, Antigua. The building replaces the earlier church which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1843. The corner stone of the later building was laid in 1845 and the cathedral opened for worship in 1847 although not completed until the following year.

Dates: 1912
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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The Cathedral, St. John's, Antigua, 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307J/12
Scope and Contents

229 x 291 mm (overall), 102 x 130 mm (image). Halftone print. Studio name printed as part of image, print inscribed by hand in ink, au recto, below image. Photograph was taken from a slightly lower vantage point and shows St. John's Cathedral from overlooking other buildings.

Dates: 1897
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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The Causeway linking Portmore, St. Catherine and Kingston was completed in 1969 to facilitate the speedy transportation of the thousands of residents of this area into the Metropolitan area of Kingston, 1959 - 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E/5
Scope and Contents

370 x 300 mm. Aerial photograph by J.S. Tyndale-Biscoe.

Dates: 1959 - 1982
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).