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Mauritius (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 297 Collections and/or Records:

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Pointe d'Esny, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/69
Scope and Contents

88 x 61 mm. View looking along the beach at Pointe d'Esny on the NE coast near Flacq.

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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[Port Louis], 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/149
Scope and Contents

130 x 80 mm. postcard.

Dates: 1953
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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Port Louis from near the shoulder of the Ponce, 1852 - 1856

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/3/40
Scope and Contents

pen and ink sketch

Dates: 1852 - 1856
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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Port Louis from the shoulder of the Ponce, 1852 - 1856

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/3/41
Scope and Contents

pen and ink sketch

Dates: 1852 - 1856
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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Port Louis Races, 1919 - 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/115
Scope and Contents

105 x 82 mm.

Dates: 1919 - 1923
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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Port Louis Races, 1919 - 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/116
Scope and Contents

105 x 82 mm.

Dates: 1919 - 1923
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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Port Louis Races, August 1916, 1916-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/51
Scope and Contents

195 x 146 mm. View looking across the course towards the mountains, with race goers in the foreground. In the background can be seen the obelisk over Governor Malartic's tomb. Photograph by (? William) Baretti.

Dates: 1916-08
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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Port Louis Races, August 1916, 1916-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/52
Scope and Contents

200 x 123 mm. Showing Bell and other racegoers grouped in front of the grandstand on the Champ de Mers. Photograph probably by (? William) Baretti.

Dates: 1916-08
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).
 Sub-Fonds

Princess Margaret in East Africa, 1956, 1956

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/36
Scope and Contents

Ten pieces of typescript correspondence between the R.C.S. and its members in East Africa asking the latter for reports on the visit of Princess Margaret. There is also an edition of 'The month in Tanganyika', 30 October 1956 (7 pages), describing events in that country, and two photographs of Tanganyika and eight photographs of Mauritius relating to the visit.

Dates: 1956
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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Pte d'Esny, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/87
Scope and Contents

71 x 99 mm. View from the shore looking towards a sailing boat in the bay.

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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Publications, 1893 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/6
Scope and Contents Copies of books published by Bell or given to him, with one pamphlet he used as a source for 'Obeah':Agricultural and Commercial Society, Antigua, ‘Sir. H. Hesketh Bell’A bound address illustrated with photographs and signed by members of the society, presented to Bell on his departure from the colony on 30 Dec. 1915Bell, Hesketh, ‘Glimpses of a governor’s life’ (London, 1946)Bell, Hesketh, ‘Love in black’ (London, 1911)Bell, Hesketh, ‘Obeah: witchcraft in...
Dates: 1893 - 1948
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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Races, Port Louis, 1919 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/38
Scope and Contents

98 x 72 mm. Showing a race in progress at the Champ de Mars, with spectators in the foreground.

Dates: 1919 - 1921
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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Railway bridge and locomotive, Mauritius, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30483A/2
Scope and Contents

173 x 231 mm. View looking along a river towards a waterfall, above which is a bridge on which stands a locomotive and various types of passenger carriage. The exact location is unidentified.

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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Reduit 1916, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/21
Scope and Contents

100 x 73 mm. View of the rear of the house from the lawn.

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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Reduit 1921, 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/20
Scope and Contents

134 x 82 mm. General view of the house from the garden.

Dates: 1921
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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Reduit 1921, 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/24
Scope and Contents

124 x 78 mm. View of the rear of the house from the lawn.

Dates: 1921
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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Reduit cascade, 1921 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/75
Scope and Contents

84 x 147 mm. View of the waterfall at Reduit.

Dates: 1921 - 1924
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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[Reduit cascade], 1919 - 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/106
Scope and Contents

60 x 80 mm. View of the waterfall at Reduit.

Dates: 1919 - 1923
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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Reduit, from the Terrace Walk, at the back of the house, 1854

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/3/4
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...
Dates: 1854
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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Reduit garden, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/100
Scope and Contents

330 x 80 mm. 4 photographs joined to form a panorama.

Dates: 1919
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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Return to Mauritius, March 1923, 1923-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/91
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. Showing Bell arriving by launch.

Dates: 1923-03
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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Return to Mauritius March 1923, 1923-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/92
Scope and Contents

110 x 85 mm. HHB and guard of honour.

Dates: 1923-03
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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Return to Mauritius March 1923., 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/93
Scope and Contents

110 x 85 mm. HHB by his car.

Dates: 1923
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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[Return to Mauritius March 1923], 1923-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/95
Scope and Contents

110 x 85 mm. Showing HHB in his car as it drives off.

Dates: 1923-03
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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Return to Mauritius, March 1923, 1923-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011N/5
Scope and Contents

224 x 169 mm. Showing Bell inspecting a guard of honour on his return to Mauritius.

Dates: 1923-03
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).