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Borneo (island)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 291 Collections and/or Records:

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Bachelors quarters in Dyak village - the heads are kept here; Land Dyaks, Tabakong, Ulu Sadong, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/56
Scope and Contents

Showing a wood and thatched hut raised on piles, with a group of Dyak youths gathered at an opening in the roof.

Dates: 1904 - 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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Bahalla Island, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4399
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Just outside Sandakan. [Showing wooded hill at end of island across water].

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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Bahalla Island, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4400
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Reddish sandstone - dark almost purple in places: The face of the rock rises almost sheer from the sea.

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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Bajan and Dyak wedding, Bunyan, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3034A/19
Scope and Contents

Showing the guests and participants gathered in the village square.

Dates: 1904
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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Bajan Cemetry at Sambulon, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4379
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format]. Close to Jesselton. [Carved wooden posts among shrubs].

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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Bajan houses. Kindu, Sulaman, 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3034A/10
Scope and Contents

Showing thatched houses built on stilts at the edge of the river.

Dates: 1903
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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Bakatans, Borneo, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/47
Scope and Contents

273 x 209 mm. Group portrait of Bakatan warriors, dressed in war costume and carrying spears. Roth (1896) lists two types of Bakatan, the Batoi (Rejang River) and the Bintulu (Tatau River), but this group has not been precisely identified. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert and Co.

Dates: 1880 - 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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[Beach scene, Sarawak, 1960s], 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/128
Scope and Contents

158 x 109 mm. A view from the sea looking towards a sandy beach with a jungle covered mountain in the background. Exact location unidentified.

Dates: 1960 - 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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[Beach scene, Sarawak, 1960s], 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/129
Scope and Contents

158 x 108 mm. View looking along the beach towards a kampong situated among palm trees on the waters edge.

Dates: 1960 - 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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Bengkoka River, Pitas, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3034A/29
Scope and Contents

A view looking along the river, with a canoe in the background and a raft made from bamboos roped together, moored in the foreground.

Dates: 1904
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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Bongong River at Timbang Batu, 1903, 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3034A/1
Scope and Contents

A view looking along the river with forest on either shore.

Dates: 1903
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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Borneo, 1946 - 1962

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

Album.

Dates: 1946 - 1962
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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[Borneo], 1946 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 41
Scope and Contents

Loose prints of mostly Borneo, captioned and measuring approximately 85 x 55 mm.

Dates: 1946 - 1962
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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Borneo East. Balik Papan [i.e. Balikpapan], 1910 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/286
Scope and Contents

A view looking down on the harbour facilities at Balikpapan with ships moored at the end of long jetties which stretch out into the harbour and with a settlement on the shoreline in the background. Balikpapan lies on the Macassar Strait coastline of Kalimantan Timur.

Dates: 1910 - 1915
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

Borneo in the sixties: letters from Sarawak

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 337
Scope and Contents Letters written by Elizabeth O'Kelly in Borneo and photographs from her time on the island. The document is a photocopy of the original 1965 typescript. There are 27 letters, written from Kuching and Tarat, dating from 29 March 1962 to 16 February 1965. They are concerned principally with the background to the establishment of the Sarawak Federation of Women's Institutes, but also cover people and places of Borneo, the advent of Independence, the situation in Indonesia, the rebellion in...
Dates: 2004
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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'Borneo vignettes', 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/16
Scope and Contents

An account of a visit to Northern Borneo and Brunei in 1962 highlighting changes which had occurred since Clark left in 1950.

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
 Sub-Fonds

Borneo without the British, 1967

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 63/21
Scope and Contents

The transcript of a B.B.C. Home Service talk of 16 February 1967.

Dates: 1967
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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[Boys of the Roman Catholic School for Boys : Jesselton]. Same boys racing in flat race, 1909-01-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4269
Scope and Contents

Jesselton Sports, 1 Jan 1909

Dates: 1909-01-01
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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Brass figure : North Borneo, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4567
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing lion-like figure from centre of previous plate].

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-02
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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Bridge at Sekong, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4403
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing European crossing the high wooden bridge to the village among the palms. Copy of print sent to Dr Davies, Sandakan, Br. N.B. on 29.iv.09, so maybe of him].

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).
 Sub-Fonds

British Borneo, 1897

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 63/18
Scope and Contents

Gallery-proofs of a paper read to the Royal Colonial Institute, 14 December 1897.

Dates: 1897
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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Brunei, 1908-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4244
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Note fishing screen : market boats : in distance Sultans Palace, and on left palace of one of the two regents.

Dates: 1908-12
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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Brunei : entrance to main street, 1908-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4245
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [Street being waterfront to houses on stilts with boats moored outside].

Dates: 1908-12
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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Brunei from the water, 1908-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4238
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. On the left a cutch factory - extracting a tannin from Bakau bark - used for tanning leather (see Sandakan cutch factory for other kind of cutch).

Dates: 1908-12
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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Brunei : part of the city, 1908-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4240
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Dug-out canoe in the foreground. [Showing thatched huts on stilts beside the water].

Dates: 1908-12
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).