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West Indies (archipelago)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1045 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

[Sailing], 1959-04-24 - 1959-04-28

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/189
Scope and Contents

255 x 200 mm. A view of six sailing boats. Location unidentified.

Dates: 1959-04-24 - 1959-04-28
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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[Sailing], 1959-04-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/190
Scope and Contents

255 x 200 mm. A view of four sailing boats. Location unidentified.

Dates: 1959-04-24
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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[Sailing], 1959-04-24 - 1959-04-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/192
Scope and Contents

255 x 200 mm. A view of a sailing boat numbered '3962' with two occupants, possibly Prince Philip and one other, with the headland in the background. Exact location unknown.

Dates: 1959-04-24 - 1959-04-28
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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Sav[anna] la Mar, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073B/1
Scope and Contents

76 x 81 mm. Showing public buildings in Savanna la Mar, a seaport at the south-western corner of Jamaica. Photograph probably by Dr. Sinclair.

Dates: 1900 - 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).
 Fonds

School Empire Tours Record 1927-1939

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF
Scope and Contents A collection of photographs, by various photographers, relating to School Empire Tours, probably compiled by Miss Margaret Best. All the prints are captioned and some also have dates and places written on the back in Miss Best's hand.It should be noted that most of the images show groups of the participants, either before setting out or in the country concerned, but there is very little to show their activities - the 1932 tour to Canada is the best in this respect. It is clear from...
Dates: 1927 - 1939
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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Schooner, Bequia, 1971-05

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham EE/15
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides all in Kodachrome mounts. Only a few of these show St Vincent itself; the majority are of the Grenadines including several of Mustique. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Dates: 1971-05
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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Schooners and roofs, May 1970, 1970-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham FF/5
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Dates: 1970-05
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).
 File

Scrap Book, 1889 - 1899

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/1
Scope and Contents The notebook contains cuttings of many reviews of Bell’s publications, including ‘Obeah : witchcraft in the West Indies’ (London, 1889) and ‘A witch's legacy’ (London, 1893) which appeared in British, African and West Indian periodicals, along with copies of:‘The Fetish-mountain of Krobo’, ‘Macmillan’s Magazine’, July 1893, 210-19‘His Highness Prince Kwakoo’, ‘The Idler Magazine’, Dec. 1896, 685-96‘History, trade, resources, and present condition of the Gold Coast...
Dates: 1889 - 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).
 File

Scrapbook II, 1914 - 1922

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/17/1/2
Scope and Contents

Press cutting relating to Australia and New Zealand, West Indies, British Guiana, and Lord Milners's visit to Manchester.

Dates: 1914 - 1922
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).
 File

Scrapbook II, 1914-1922 (Australia, New Zealand, West Indies), 1914 - 1922

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011YY/9-14
Scope and Contents

A scrapbook containing press cuttings, correspondance, photographs, tickets, invitations, menus and programmes.

Dates: 1914 - 1922
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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Sea Island Cotton, 1900 - 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30773B/4
Scope and Contents

208 x 152 mm. A scene in a cotton ginnery showing mounds of separated cotton awaiting pressing.

Dates: 1900 - 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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Seeing a ship off, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073B/6
Scope and Contents

135 x 89 mm. A postcard (original photograph) taken from the deck of a ship and looking back towards the jetty where a waving crowd stands.

Dates: 1900 - 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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[Selecting maize seeds, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, March 1955], 1955-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/70
Scope and Contents

117 x 141 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'A post-graduate student from the Gold Coast and the acting Professor of Botany at the College, Mr. Jacob Wilson, select maize seed for trials on the experimental plot of the College farm. Mar:1955'. It continues, at length, to give an outline of the College and its history.

Dates: 1955-03
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).
 Series

Settlement to city, 1959 - 1982

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E/8-14
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs relating, as the title suggests, to the developments of settlements. The title was chosen by the National Library of Jamaica, and is one of those based on the headings used for the sections of the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition.

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).
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Sgt Murphy and SM [Susan Marnham], 1970-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham EE/2
Scope and Contents

[Same spot].

Dates: 1970-05
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).
 File

Shackle (?), 1765 - 1928

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.7.02
Scope and Contents

Received with the archives of the Hillsborough estate, Dominica, which was owned by the Greg family between 1765 and 1928.

Dates: 1765 - 1928
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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[Shanty housing, Antigua], 1912 - 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/74
Scope and Contents

126 x 99 mm. Showing a row of tumbledown wooden cottages of the sort which Bell wished to replace with model villages.

Dates: 1912 - 1913
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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Sheep, Craigton, Carriacou, 1971-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham FF/13
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Dates: 1971-10
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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Sheep, Craigton, Carriacou, 1971-10

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham FF/14
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Dates: 1971-10
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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Sheep, Craigton, Carriacou, 1971-10

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham FF/15
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Dates: 1971-10
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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Sheep, Craigton, Carriacou, 1971-10

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham FF/16
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Dates: 1971-10
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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Ship ?, 1971-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham BB/5
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides showing scenes in the house and gardens of John Ewart Marnham's residence just outside Castries. They include slides of the very attractive views from the garden and a series of aerial views taken at varying heights in May 1972. This section concludes with photographs of members of the domestic staff taken just before Marnham left St Lucia (dated Oct 72 nos 18-25). Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Dates: 1971-05
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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Shipping cassaia flour from Trelawny wharf, Ja., B.W.I. 15.10.11, 1911-10-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073B/13
Scope and Contents

160 x 115 mm. Showing labourers unloading sacks of flour from a lorry, supervised by a foreman and two pith-helmeted Europeans. The writing on the sacks has been painted on by hand.

Dates: 1911-10-15
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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Silk Cotton Tree, 1879 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307G/5
Scope and Contents

228 x 177 mm. A view showing two Bahamians standing in front of the huge curling roots of a silk cotton tree. Written on the back: 'The Great Silk Cotton Tree in the Public Square, Nassau, Bahamas, about 200 years old'.

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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[Sir Arthur Raynor making presentations], 1957-04-11 - 1957-04-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/175
Scope and Contents

255 x 200 mm. Arthur shaking hands with one of the participants of the Fourth Out Island Regatta. (Sir) Roland Symonette, leader of Government in the House of Assembly is in the background. The reverse of the print is stamped by the Bahamas News Bureau, with their reference: '12829', and is annotated in pencil with 'Alfred Bain, Mystery (?) J'. Presumably this is the name of the man pictured shaking Arthur's hand, and the name of his vessel.

Dates: 1957-04-11 - 1957-04-13
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).