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New Zealand (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1182 Collections and/or Records:

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Island Bay, Stewart Island, 1880

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/54
Scope and Contents

206 x 144 mm. A view looking out onto a small bay surrounded by woodland in the centre of which is a small island. Stewart Island is the most southerly part of New Zealand, separated from the south coast of the South Island by Foveaux Strait.

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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Jets of steam. Lake bank, Tarawera NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/63
Scope and Contents

59 x 74mm. A view showing clouds of steam rising from the shores of the lake, a phenomenon caused by steam percolating through cracks in the ground from hot underground streams.

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).
 Fonds

John Abercromby Alexander: Papers on trees and woods

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 7
Scope and Contents

Tables, articles and other material regarding trees and woods in Ceylon, Fiji and New Zealand, and in general.

Dates: 1888-03-29 - 1925-06-10
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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Kaikoura, NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/50
Scope and Contents

72 x 57mm. A view looking along the rugged coastline at Kaikoura.

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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Kakahi Fall, Tawhata, Wanganui River, King Country, 1884 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/20
Scope and Contents

141 x 196 mm. A view from across the river towards the falls, a delicate fan-shaped cascade that drops among trees into the river. Presumably an area abundant in fresh water mussels, this being the translation of the Maori word Kakai.

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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Kauri Forest on the Northern Wairoa River, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 340/1
Scope and Contents

A print of a watercolour of 1840 showing pit sawing of timber, published by The Friends of the Turnbull Library.

Dates: 1952
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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Kauri Gumfield : near Auckland : New Zealand, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7063
Scope and Contents

The 200 lb piece of gum. [Showing ? Peter Dean standing beside his lump of gum].

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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Kauri Gumfield : near Auckland : New Zealand, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7064
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. General view of the Gum diggers camp. [Showing wooden huts among scrubland].

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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Kauri Gumfield : near Auckland : New Zealand, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7065
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. The Gum Diggers Camp. [View inside camp with group of men standing about near huts].

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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Kauri Gumfield : near Auckland : New Zealand, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7067
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Croatian Gum Diggers in cabin: four brothers and wife of the eldest.

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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[Kawarau Falls, Franktown], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/53
Scope and Contents

190 x 124 mm. A view showing a small waterfall in the foreground with houses on the opposite shore of the river and mountain ranges 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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Kawarau River, Otago, New Zealand: miners’ water supply crossing the river, 1876

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/64
Scope and Contents

351 x 266 mm. A view looking along the river, with steep rocky banks on either side. Crossing the river is the piped water supply, presumably pumped up from the river. In the background a road can be seen, following the course of the river, half way up the hillside.

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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Kea Bird, New Zealand, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/102
Scope and Contents

74 x 43mm. A view showing this New Zealand bird standing on a wooden box.

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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Keas close to the Ball Hut, Mount Cook : afternoon, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6805
Scope and Contents

Landscape. [Showing birds on stones 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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Kereru Geyser and Terrace Formation, 1900 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089EE/2/14
Scope and Contents

A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.

Dates: 1900 - 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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King George's Sound, Albany, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 306/6
Scope and Contents

13½'' x 6½''.

Dates: 1887
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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King Tawhiao’s Wharepuni, Te Kuiti, King Country, 1884 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/43
Scope and Contents 194 x 138 mm. An exterior view of the entrance of the assembly house, with a Maori woman standing in front. This famous house, built in the 1870s, was for many years the part time home of King Tawhiao and was built by carvers from many parts of King Country and the North. A very full description of the house is given in ‘Carved Maori Houses of Western and Northern Areas of New Zealand’, W.J. Phillips (Wellington, 1955). An interesting feature in this photograph is the use of a European door...
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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Kiwi from life in natural habitat: Stewart Island, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7079
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). 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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Kiwis at Napier Fish hatchery, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/88
Scope and Contents

70 x 50 mm. View of three kiwis, and one egg.

Dates: 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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Kiwis. Hastings Fish Hatchery, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/163
Scope and Contents

74 x 69 mm.

Dates: 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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Kuirau (spring) and Ngongotaha (hill), Ohinemutu, 1884 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/14
Scope and Contents

198 x 139 mm. A view looking down on the spring with hills in the distance. In the foreground is the road which leads to the settlement with a pony trap, a wagon and two figures. Ohinemutu means in Maori the place of the girl who was murdered and commemorates the murder of a daughter of Ihenga.

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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Kumeroa and family at Kotukutuku, King Country, 1884 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/47
Scope and Contents

198 x 144 mm. A portrait of an old bearded Maori (presumably Kumeroa), a younger man, a woman and three children sitting under a makeshift canvas awning.

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).
 File

Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1934-12 - 1935

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/20
Scope and Contents Letters sent while Clementine was aboard the steam yacht the Rosaura with 1st Lord Moyne [earlier Walter Guinness] and his party, on a cruise to the Dutch East Indies [later Indonesia]. Subjects include: landing in Madras [India] and Rangoon [Burma, later Myanmar]; impressions of Sumatra and Malacca [Melaka]; Churchill's landscaping work at Chartwell [Kent]; Singapore, particularly the new naval dockyard; the divorce of Diana Bailey [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Sandys]; visiting...
Dates: 1934-12 - 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Lady Smedley’s speeches, 1976 - 1980

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/11
Scope and Contents

This file contains preparatory notes, copies of speeches, newspaper cuttings and letters of thanks relating to Lady Smedley’s public speaking engagements at Nelson College for Girls; Women’s Division Federated Farmers; Royal Society of St. George; Victoria League for Friendship; South Canterbury Travel Club; Auckland Travel Club; Palmerston North Coffee Club; Nelson Travel Club; Federation of University Women; Levin Plunkett Club; the Girl Guides and other organisations.

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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Lake Ellesmere, Mount Herbert, Banks Peninsula, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 306/4
Scope and Contents

16½'' x 10''.

Dates: 1886
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).