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Mauritius (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 295 Collections and/or Records:

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Memorial to Governor David, 1921 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/73
Scope and Contents

104 x 76 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

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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Memorial to Governor David, 1921 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/74
Scope and Contents

70 x 93 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

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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[Memorial to Governor David at Le Reduit], 1921 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/77
Scope and Contents

71 x 92 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

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).
 Series

Miscellaneous oversize prints, 1890s-1923, 1890 - 1923

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

Loose mounted prints of various sizes by various photographers. The prints relate to different periods of Bell's career. The captions have been composed for this catalogue.

Dates: 1890 - 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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Miscellaneous photographs from Uganda, Northern Nigeria, the Caribbean and Mauritius 1899-1930s, 1899 - 1939

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G
Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints of various sizes (mainly snapshots) by various photographers. The prints are largely uncaptioned and are mainly duplicates of prints in the other parts of the collection. The prints have been grouped chronologically thus: Uganda (1-47), Northern Nigeria (49-68), Caribbean (69-88), Mauritius (89-111), miscellaneous (112-117). The collection also includes 10 original negatives which are listed with the prefix 'Y3011G/ON'. Two geographical anomalies have crept...
Dates: 1899 - 1939
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

Miscellaneous sketches, 1840 - 1860

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/2/15
Scope and Contents

A list on the inside of the front cover indicates that the now empty album contained botanical drawings. It is filed with two loose sketches. The sketches may originally have been housed in the missing albums 4 and 5 which held work on Africa.

Dates: 1840 - 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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Mlles Adam, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/86
Scope and Contents

71 x 121 mm. Showing Bell standing on a pier (probably at Blue Bay) with the three daughters of Pierre Adam.

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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[? Model village at Cassis], 1921 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/78
Scope and Contents

120 x 90 mm. Showing partially constructed buildings probably part of the model village on which work started in 1920. In 1924 it was named 'Bell Village'.

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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[? Model village at Cassis], 1921 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/80
Scope and Contents

120 x 90 mm. Showing tiles being placed on roof of partly constructed building.

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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Moka Plains, 1856

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/3/9
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: 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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Mon Ilot, 1923 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/124
Scope and Contents

65 x 85 mm. A general view of HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

Dates: 1923 - 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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Mon Ilot, 1923 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/125
Scope and Contents

100 x 80 mm. A general view of HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

Dates: 1923 - 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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Mon Ilot, 1923 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/126
Scope and Contents

100 x 80 mm. A side view of HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

Dates: 1923 - 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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Mon Ilot, 1923 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/127
Scope and Contents

80 x 100 mm. A view through the oriental style doorway of HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

Dates: 1923 - 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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Mon Ilot, 1923 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/128
Scope and Contents

100 x 80 mm. A view of three men seated round a table in a courtyard of HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

Dates: 1923 - 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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[Mon Ilot: doorway and dome], 1923 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/133
Scope and Contents

70 x 80 mm. HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

Dates: 1923 - 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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Monument to Sir J Stevenson, 1919 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/42
Scope and Contents

73 x 97 mm. Statue of Sir William Stevenson at the entrance to Government House, Port Louis. The likeness was made by the Mauritian artist Prosper d'Epinay, and unveiled in 1867. The caption wrongly gives Stevenson's initial as 'J'.

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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Morne Brabant, 1852 - 1856

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/3/39
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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Moslem orphanage, 1921 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/98
Scope and Contents

110 x 82 mm. Group of children with a few adults.

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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Mouth of Souillac River, Mauritius, from the Military Post, 1856

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/3/8
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: 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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Mrs H. Ireland, Mrs Lloyd, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/62
Scope and Contents

98 x 73 mm. Showing the two named women seated with Bell on the steps leading up to the verandah of a house, probably Le Reduit.

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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Mrs Harwood, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/73
Scope and Contents

72 x 97 mm. Showing Mrs Harwood (probably the wife of S.F.D. Harwood, Professor of Chemistry) seated on a low stone wall.

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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My 38 h.p. Daimler, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/42
Scope and Contents

134 x 79 mm. Showing Bell seated in his Daimler on the drive in front of Le Reduit.

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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My aquarium, Blue Bay, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/89
Scope and Contents

74 x 99 mm. Showing Bell seated beside the stone aquarium built by him near the waters edge at Blue Bay in 1916.

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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My box, 1919 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/36
Scope and Contents

119 x 82 mm. Showing Bell and other Europeans in the Governor's box in the grandstand at Champ de Mars Race Course.

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).