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Indonesia (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 293 Collections and/or Records:

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Java [i.e. Jawa] - H[otel der] Nederlanden, Batavia [i.e. Jakarta], 1910 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/254
Scope and Contents

A view along the street with the hotel on the right.

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).
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Java [i.e. Jawa] - H[otel der] Nederlanden, Batavia [i.e. Jakarta], 1910 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/255
Scope and Contents

A view from the street looking towards the balconied frontage of this small hotel.

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).
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Java [i.e. Jawa] - H[otel der] Nederlanden, Batavia [i.e. Jakarta], 1910 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/256
Scope and Contents

A view showing the roadway with the hotel premises on the right.

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).
 Series

Java Rice Field, 1919

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/26-27
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...
Dates: 1919
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).
 Series

Kabat Swimming Bath. Near Bw, 1920

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/73-74
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...
Dates: 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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Kali Mas (gold River) in Soerabaija, with the Roodebrug (Red Bridge), centre of European trade, 1880 - 1899

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30333A/10
Scope and Contents

287 x 204 mm. View looking along the Kali Mas, with wharves crowded with small vessels and lighters. The Red Bridge, presumably hidden behind boats, is not visible in this print.

Dates: 1880 - 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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Kali Mas (Gold River), Soerabaija, 1880 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30333A/9
Scope and Contents

277 x 186 mm. View looking along the Kali Mas in Surabaya, here seen crowded with small trading vessels. The river is here embanked into a canal lined with commercial premises, with a railway running along the road to the left of the river.

Dates: 1880 - 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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Klambier [i.e. Klimbir ?], Lankat, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/4
Scope and Contents

278 x 208 mm. A view looking along a street in Klambir with wooden houses with verandahs on the first floor overhanging the walkway beneath. Klambir is another name for Tanjong Poera (also spelt Tanjungpura and Tandjoengpoera), situated near the mouth of the Sarangan River 30 miles north-west of Medan and the seat of the Sultan of Langkat.

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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Kleine Boom, Semarang, 1880 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30333A/22
Scope and Contents

170 x 118 mm. View looking along a canal lined with small steam vessels.

Dates: 1880 - 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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Landing place on Deli River, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/5
Scope and Contents

274 x 208 mm. A view looking across the river, with off-loaded timber, a bullock cart and labourers grouped on the open space in the foreground. The Deli River rises at Mt Sibayak in north-east Sumatra and flows northwards for 60 miles past Medan and Labuan Deli to the Strait of Malacca.

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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[Landscape photograph, probably from a studio, view of Mount Bromo], 1919 - 1920

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/170
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...
Dates: 1919 - 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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Lankat [or Langkat] River [Eastern Sumatra], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/1
Scope and Contents

270 x 209 mm. A view looking along the Langkat River with houses on stilts in the left foreground and a few figures posed beside their boats at the water's edge.

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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Lankat River, 1880 - 1889

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

278 x 207 mm. A view looking along an unidentified stretch of the Lankat River towards its junction with another river.

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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Legong dancers, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/55
Scope and Contents

85 x 53 mm.

Dates: 1949
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

Letter from Sir Stamford Raffles to Charles Grant, 1815 - 1915

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 63/19
Scope and Contents

A letter from Sir Stamford Raffles in Batavia to Charles Grant, Chairman of the East India Company, 25 October 1815 (3 pages), defending Raffles' administrative record in Java, written before he had received news of the decision to return Java to the Dutch. There is an undated typescript copy of this letter (2 pages) and a photocopy of a second letter, written by Raffles in Singapore to David Brown, 12 November 1822 (3 pages).

Dates: 1815 - 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).
 File

Letter to Lieutenant-General Sir John Glubb, 1958 - 1963

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/33/21
Scope and Contents

A letter discussing the importance of political propaganda, illustrated by Churchill's success in countering a pro-Indonesian propaganda campaign in Kelantan during 1946-1947.

Dates: 1958 - 1963
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8227C.
 Series

Letters from Hugh Le Fleming to Florence Le Fleming, 1929 - 1941

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 371/1
Scope and Contents The collection includes original letters from Le Fleming to his mother Florence, known in the family as 'FM’. Subjects include Le Fleming’s travel to Malaya and within the region for work and leisure; descriptions of his duties and colleagues at the FMSR in Ipoh and Kula Lumpur; friends and social life; painting and design; holidays in Europe; the Malay and Chinese people; Malaya’s landscape, butterflies, botany and wildlife; training with the FMS Volunteer forces; and the deteriorating...
Dates: 1929 - 1941
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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[Lillian with her mother and uncle, Charles Robertson, on the latter's tea estate in Java], 1920 - 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/58
Scope and Contents

130 x 100 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 1925
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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London-Dutch East Indies [i.e. Indonesia]-Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula]-Penang [i.e. Pinang]-Hong Kong. Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], 1935-09 - 1935-10

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011MMM
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...
Dates: 1935-09 - 1935-10
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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Macassar [i.e. Ujung Pandang] Harbour, with private piers and British S.S. Ban Poh Guan in front, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30333B/1
Scope and Contents

167 x 110 mm. View looking along the water-front of Macassar Harbour, with the steamer Ban Poh Guan moored at the pier in the foreground and sailing ships beyond. As the capital of the Celebes and a free port, Macassar was the busiest trading port in the archipelago.

Dates: 1900
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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Malay memories, 1969-12

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/15
Scope and Contents

A detailed description of Morkill’s varied work as magistrate and district officer, and of Malay landscape, life and culture (34 sheets).

Dates: 1969-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Managers house, Brahrang, Lankat, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 10/26
Scope and Contents

350 x 265 mm. Showing a group of European men and women posed on a tennis court, with servants standing behind and a two storey wooden house with thatched roof, and a verandah on the first floor, in the background.

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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Mango Tree, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/54
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...
Dates: 1919
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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Mango Tree. Banjoewangi, Java, 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/113
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...
Dates: 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).
 Fonds

Modern Commonwealth photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC
Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...
Dates: 1936 - 1980
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).