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New Zealand (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1026 Collections and/or Records:

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Smith’s Sound from Hall’s Arm [56 miles from Wet Jacket Arm], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/35
Scope and Contents

193 x 136 mm. A view looking along the Sound, with steep wooded hillside rising on either side.

Dates: 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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Sorting lengths : the longer the length the better, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6957
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Shannon Flax Mills, near Paikakariki, N.Z.

Dates: 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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South African War Memorial in the Public Gardens, Auckland, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7046
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 7006-7085 (originally there were 100). Added numbers: 6891-6917; spoiled: 7034, 7035, 7051, 7052, 7066; not used: 7012 and 7074.Subjects covered in the album are:New Zealand: Dunedin; journey to Southern Alps: Burke's Pass, Lake Tekapo, Lake Pukaki, Mount Cook, Tasman Glacier, Hochstetter; Balmoral: sheep shearing; Timaru; Christchurch: Lincoln Agricultural College: Domain Fete and general; Wellington: from sea;...
Dates: 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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Speeches, 1975 - 1999

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/11/3
Scope and Contents This file contains notes, transcripts, correspondence, advertisements and guest-lists relating to speeches that Lady Smedley gave to the Sri Lanka Women’s Conference, June 1975; the Levin Plunket Society, October 1976; and the interprovincial conference of The Women's Division Federated Farmers of New Zealand, November 1976. Later speeches deal with her experiences as the wife of a diplomat and her book ‘Partners in diplomacy’ given to the English-Speaking Union, 19 February, 10 April 1991;...
Dates: 1975 - 1999
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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Speeches in New Zealand, 1976 - 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/3
Scope and Contents This file contains notes and in some cases transcripts of speeches delivered by Smedley to Royal Overseas League; Victoria League; Damaru ANZAC Parade; North Invercargill Rotary; Royal Commonwealth Society; Wellington Rotary; Petone Rotary; RNZAF Officer Club; Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee; New Zealand Administrative Staff College; Invercargill Chamber of Commerce; Apia [Samoa] Rotary; Pitcairn speech; Porirua Rotary; Palmerston North Rotary; Upper Hutt Chamber of Commerce;...
Dates: 1976 - 1980
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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St Mary's Church : Timaru, New Zealand, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6843
Scope and Contents

[Church with stone and brick square tower and two horse and carts on street in foreground].

Dates: 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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Stag hunting, Barton, NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/87
Scope and Contents

74 x 58 mm. A view showing two men about to skin a dead stag.

Dates: 1929
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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[Stagecoach, NZ], 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/99
Scope and Contents

67 x 54 mm. A view showing a stagecoach drawn by a team of four horses on a country road in New Zealand.

Dates: 1929
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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Stewards at Picnic, Picton, Marlbro' Sounds NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/89
Scope and Contents

74 x 49 mm. A group of men lined up before a food laden table.

Dates: 1929
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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Store house, model pah, Whaka., Rotorua, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/72
Scope and Contents

62 x 42 mm. A view showing a raised wooden store, decorated with elaborate carvings.

Dates: 1929
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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Students of Lincoln College 'stacking', 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6874
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Two stacks supplied by horse and carts].

Dates: 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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Students of Lincoln College stacking, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6875
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Two stacks supplied by horse and carts].

Dates: 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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Sulphur beds : Wai-o-tapu, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6993
Scope and Contents

[No print]. Missing.

Dates: 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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Sulphur beds : Wai-o-tapu, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6994
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Scattered trees about].

Dates: 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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Sulphur Crater Rotomahana, 1884 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/5
Scope and Contents

199 x 143 mm. A view looking into the steaming mouth of the crater with Lake Rotomahana in the background.

Dates: 1884 - 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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Summit of Mt. Egmont, Taranaki, NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/22
Scope and Contents

75 x 62mm. A view of the summit taken from some way up the mountain.

Dates: 1929
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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Summit Road

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089G
Scope and Contents An album containing uncaptioned prints of various sizes, showing scenery and rest houses on the Summit Road. Photographs by C. Beken and others. The Summit Road owes its existence chiefly to the dedication and perseverance of Harry George Ell (1862-1934) who fought and planned for many years for the building of the scenic road which follows the summits of the hills overlooking Christchurch and Lyttleton Harbour. He originally envisaged 53 miles of road from Godley Head to Akaroa, with...
Dates: 1920
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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Supreme Court, Auckland, New Zealand, 1860 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089L/1
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253 x 190 mm. A view showing the front of the Supreme Court, a red brick building in Gothic Style, designed by Edward Rumsey in the late 1860s. Rumsey's original plan for the building included spires on the roof, but these were never built.

Dates: 1860 - 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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Supreme Court, Auckland, New Zealand, 1876

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/38
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360 x 260 mm. A similar view to Y3089L/1 but taken at an earlier date, with figures standing in the road outside the court. In this picture the land in front of the Court House has not yet been entirely cleared.

Dates: 1876
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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Supreme Court Buildings : Christchurch, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6846
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [View from river bank].

Dates: 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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Suspension bridge : Lake Tekapo, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6800
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. South Island: New Zealand.

Dates: 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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Swimming baths and small boat harbour : Wellington, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6890
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [This is Oriental Bay. Baths known as Te Aro Baths. J.S.]. [Distant view from a boat].

Dates: 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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Taipari’s Meeting House, Thames, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/132
Scope and Contents 200 x 144 mm. A view showing the entrance to an elaborate meeting house at Thames, a town S.E. of Auckland on the Firth of Thames. These carved houses, or ‘Whare Whakairo’, embodied an elaborate symbolism in their construction: the house is named after a revered ancestor, and each part of the house is then considered a representation of part of that ancestor’s body: the rafters his ribs, the window his eyes, the ‘kokoru’, the carved frontal effigy, his face, etc. Wirope Hoterini Taipari...
Dates: 1888 - 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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Tarawera, 1876

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/31
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345 x 250 mm. An interesting photograph looking down on this small settlement set in a hollow among surrounding hills. Additional information is given on the caption: ‘About midway between Napier and Lake Taupo, New Zealand. Contains a hotel at which the Napier and Tauranga coach stops one night, and a stockade, with small detachment of the Armed Constabulary’.

Dates: 1876
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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Tasman Glacier, NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/36
Scope and Contents

71 x 56mm. A view looking across the glacier towards mountain ranges.

Dates: 1929
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).