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New Zealand (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1117 Collections and/or Records:

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[Maori Woman], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/15
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140 x 200 mm. Portrait of a Maori woman. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO.ROTORUA.No.67’.

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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[Maori Woman], 1890 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/16
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140 x 200 mm. Portrait of a Maori woman with cloak, standing in front of flax bushes. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. AUCKLAND. NZ. No.?’. The same photo as Y3089FF/52. It was also issued as a postcard.

Dates: 1890 - 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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[Maori woman], 1899 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/17
Scope and Contents

140 x 200 mm. Portrait of a Maori woman wearing a korowai cloak. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. ROTORUA. No.232’.

Dates: 1899 - 1911
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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[Maori woman], 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/44
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140 x 203 mm. Half length portrait. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: 'ILES PHOTO. AUCKLAND REGISTERED. No. 85'.

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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[Maori Woman], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/52
Scope and Contents

130 x 195mm. loose photograph. Portrait of a Maori woman with cloak, standing in front of flax bushes. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. AUCKLAND. NZ. No.?’. The same photo as Y3089FF/16. It was also issued as a postcard.

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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Maori woman, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/1
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135 x 200 mm. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: 'Iles Photo. Registered No. 92'. Portrait of a Maori woman named Annie Chadwick, the daughter of Miria Merritt (nee Parata) and Joseph Merritt from the Whakatane region. She wears a kahu kiwi (kiwi feather cloak) about her shoulders.

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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Maori Woman, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/11
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140 x 201 mm. Portrait of a Maori woman. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. AUCKLAND REGISTERED. No. 75'.

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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[Maori woman], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/13
Scope and Contents

132 x 201 mm. Portrait of a Maori Woman. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘ILES PHOTO. AUCKLAND. REGISTERED.No.84’.

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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[Maori woman], 1870 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/16
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140 x 200 mm.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Maori woman and child by the pool at Whakarewarewa, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7018
Scope and Contents

[Woman wearing a hat. Wooden buildings in the background].

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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Maori woman bathing a child, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/7002
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Landscape format. [Showing wooden construction making tanks of water possibly on river edge with shrubs in the background. Child bathing on one of tanks].

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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Maori women, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7014
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North Island: New Zealand. [Showing women outside meeting house smoking].

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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Maoris singing, Whaka., Rotorua. NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/71
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74 x 53 mm. A view showing a group of Maori women, in traditional dress, performing a dance in the model pah at Whakarewarewa.

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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Map of Royal Tour to New Zealand, 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/3
Scope and Contents

A map detailing the route of the Royal Tour, including photographs of the places to be visited accompanied by details of the itinerary.

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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Marble statue in the Public Gardens, Auckland, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7043
Scope and Contents

[Statue to right and people on benches to the left].

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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Mechanics’ Bay, Auckland, New Zealand, 1876

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/41
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260 x 265 mm. A view looking towards the breakwater and wharves at Mechanics’ Bay, with barns and farm buildings in the foreground. On the wharf itself stands a warehouse with timber piled in front of it. The North Shore can be seen across Waitemata Harbour, with the extinct volcanic island of Rangitoto in the distance.

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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Meeting house, model pah, Whaka., NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/73
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62 x 40mm. A view showing members of the tour standing in front of the entrance to the Maori assembly house.

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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Meeting house, model pah, Whaka., NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/74
Scope and Contents

75 x 59 mm. A view showing a Maori woman standing in front of the Assembly house.

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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Mercury Bay - where Captain Cook took the transit of Mercury, 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089A/3
Scope and Contents 232 x 186 mm. A view of Whitianga, with a jetty in the foreground leading to houses, the 'Whitiangi Hotel' and the 'Whitiangi Music Hall'. The photograph also has several people posing for the camera. Mercury Bay is a large inlet on the east coast of Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island. Whitianga is situated at a narrow strait between Mercury Bay and Whitianga Harbour, an inland extension of the Bay. It was east of Whitianga, at Cook's Beach, that Cook observed the transit of...
Dates: 1870
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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Milford Sound, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/43
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190 x 140 mm. A view looking along a river in the Milford Sound area, with trees on either side and mountains in the distance.

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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Milford Sound, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/48
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180 x 143 mm. A view looking across the Sound, with mountains rising steeply from the far shore (though here almost faded into invisibility).

Dates: 1880
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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Milford Sound, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/49
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180 x 143 mm. A view looking across Milford Sound towards Mitre Peak which rises from the water’s edge on the far shore.

Dates: 1880
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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Milford Sound from Deepwater Basin, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/130
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278 x 220 mm. A view looking across the sound to the sheer mountains beyond. Milford Sound is the most northerly of the fiords which cut into the south western corner of the South Island of New Zealand.

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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Miscellaneous glass plates, 1880 - 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII
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Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

Dates: 1880 - 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).
 Sub-Fonds

Mitre Peak, Milford Sound, 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/47
Scope and Contents

An account of the Milford Sound area written to accompany paintings of Mitre Peak and Pembroke Peak given to the Royal Colonial Institute in 1895.

Dates: 1895
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).