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Scotland (country)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:

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Looking up the Clyde towards Glasgow, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5185
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). John Brown's shipyards and an 150 ton crane (of English manufacture : those at Barrow are of German make).

Dates: 1909
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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Lower Fall of Foyers, Loch Ness, 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2/17
Scope and Contents

167 x 107 mm.

Dates: 1874
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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MacLean's Cross, Iona, 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2/14
Scope and Contents

115 x 167 mm.

Dates: 1874
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

Margaret Fraser's India letters: a young wife and mother corresponds with her family in Scotland, 1820-1826

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 386
Scope and Contents Margaret Mackenzie was born in Knockbain, Easter Ross, Scotland, in 1789, the fourth child and second daughter of the clergyman Roderick Mackenzie. Her mother Margaret (May) was the sister of the director of the East India Company, Charles Grant. In 1820, she married the Revd William Fraser, and the couple travelled to India, where he was a chaplain with the East India Company. Margaret’s correspondence with her family documents her experience of early nineteenth-century India and also...
Dates: 2015
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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Medical qualifications, 1893

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/11
Scope and Contents

Christy's degrees for M.B. and C.M. from the University of Edinburgh.

Dates: 1893
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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Melrose Abbey, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5239
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [General view of ruined abbey].

Dates: 1909
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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Melrose Abbey from the S.E. [i.e. south-east], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5242
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 1909
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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"Mons Meg" Edinburgh Castle, 1859

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/7/242
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: 1859
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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New University buildings, Edinburgh, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/369
Scope and Contents

204 x 133 mm. A view showing the new University buildings. Photograph by James Valentine and Co.

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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Non-Malayan photographs, 1927 - 1969

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9
Scope and Contents

Contains loose prints, some mounted, of events outside Malay but relating to it - visits of Malayan notables to the U.K., trade exhibitions, gatherings of the British Association of Malaysia and other events.

Dates: 1927 - 1969
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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Old University, Edinburgh, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/368
Scope and Contents

203 x 135 mm. A view from inside the quadrangle looking towards the dome of the Old University. Photograph by James Valentine and Co.

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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On road from Fort William to Inverness, 1859

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/7/235
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: 1859
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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Pass of Melfort, Oban, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/383
Scope and Contents

202 x 150 mm. Showing a crowded carriage pair on a road through the Pass. Reproduction of an original photograph by James Valentine and Co.

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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Portree, Isle of Skye, 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2/20
Scope and Contents

165 x 106 mm.

Dates: 1874
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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Power House showing nine 500 H.P. gas engines for generating electricity, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5191
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). And for compressing air for pneumatic tools : the only gas power house in a shipyard in Scotland : Beardmores near Glasgow.

Dates: 1909
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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Preparing a davit for warships, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5190
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 1909
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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R. Ayr [i.e. River Ayre], 1922, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/126
Scope and Contents

65 x 45 mm.

Dates: 1922
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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R. Ayr [i.e. River Ayre] valley, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/127
Scope and Contents

65 x 45 mm.

Dates: 1922
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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R. Ayre [i.e. River Ayre], 1922, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/116
Scope and Contents

65 x 45 mm.

Dates: 1922
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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Robert Burn's Cottage [Alloway], 1920 - 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/110
Scope and Contents

65 x 45 mm. A view of the cottage where Robert Burns, Scotland’s National bard, was born.

Dates: 1920 - 1922
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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Roman Bridge, Lanark, 1880 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/262
Scope and Contents

180 x 130 mm.

Dates: 1880 - 1920
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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Roman Legionary Tablet, found 14th April 1868, at Bridgeness, on the Forth, Linlithgowshire, and now in the possession of Mr Cadell of that place ..., 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011A/96
Scope and Contents

136 x 99 mm.

Dates: 1860 - 1869
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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Round Britain Flight. Gullane, Easter 1919, 1919-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/6
Scope and Contents

65 x 45 mm. A view of an aeroplane parked in front of grey metal hangers. The number 'D4606' is visible on the tail fin. There is a vehicle to the left, with three men visible, handling crates.

Dates: 1919-04
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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Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/370
Scope and Contents

200 x 135 mm. A view looking across a field of sheep towards the turrets and spires of the Royal Infirmary. Photograph by J. Patrick.

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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Ruined castle, Arran, 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2/9
Scope and Contents

170 x 115 mm.

Dates: 1874
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).