Great Britain (island)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 912 Collections and/or Records:
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1. View of Uganda Exhibit. British Empire Exhibition, 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/7
Scope and Contents
The caption on the reverse reads: '1. A view of the Uganda exhibit, showing a portion of the cottons, fibres, cereals, bark-cloth and jams'.
Dates:
1924
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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1st Class Cruiser 'General O'Higgins' at sea, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011V/23
Scope and Contents
364 x 273 mm. Showing the three funnelled cruiser under steam. Photograph stamped 'Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd.'
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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6th August 1908, 1908-08-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/22
Scope and Contents
142 x 84 mm. Showing a wedding group in front of the bride's house, with Lieutenant Roberts and his wife, the three bridesmaids, Commander Green (best man) and an unidentified naval officer.
Dates:
1908-08-06
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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89. East Africa Pavilion. The British Empire Exhibition., 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC BEE/10
Scope and Contents
Original photograph.
Dates:
1924
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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98. Indian Pavilion by night. The British Empire Exhibition, 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC BEE/15
Scope and Contents
Original photograph.
Dates:
1924
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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150 ton crane lifting a submarine at Barrow, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5165
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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531. Clovelly from Hobby Drive, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/71
Scope and Contents
85 x 135 mm. Postcard showing the village harbour and coastline.
Dates:
1930 - 1937
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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653 Conwy Castle and railway, 1868
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/77
Scope and Contents
The photograph is dated 1868 beneath the print, and the caption is numbered '653''.
Dates:
1868
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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2844 High Street, Clovelly, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/73
Scope and Contents
85 x 135 mm. Postcard showing a boy with two laden donkeys on a cobbled street.
Dates:
1930 - 1937
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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A Company of the R.A.M.C. paying out after inspection (as on every Saturday) : Aldershot, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 22/5463
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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A Company of the R.A.M.C. paying out after inspection (as on every Saturday) : Aldershot, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 22/5464
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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A Shoebury job, 1887 - 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/66
Scope and Contents
272 x 203 mm. A view showing artillery officers and men posed beside a piece of heavy artillery suspended by blocks and tackle above a railway sidecar.
Dates:
1887 - 1888
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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A Shoebury Shift, 1887 - 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/71
Scope and Contents
275 x 202 mm. A view showing the barrel of a large piece of artillery resting on blocks of wood, with an artillery man standing beside the barrel.
Dates:
1887 - 1888
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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A vessel from Garston, Liverpool, discharging gas coal at Penarth Hydraulic House, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5115
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). This Power House works the whole of Penarth Dock, Cardiff with hydraulic power.
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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Aberdeen-Angus Cross Young bullocks for fattening, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 22/5389
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Rather distant views of the bullocks in a large field].
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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Aerial view of Vickers Works, Barrow-in-Furness, 1949 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/4
Scope and Contents
336 x 174 mm. Photographic copy of a sketch of an aerial view of the Vickers shipworks.
Dates:
1949 - 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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Albert Square : Manchester, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5302
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. [Showing statues across the square over cobbled road with cars and horse and carriages].
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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Albert Square : Manchester, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5303
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. [Showing statues across the square over cobbled road with cars and horse and carriages]
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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Album 1890-1891, 1890 - 1902
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022ZZ
Scope and Contents
Contains albumen and collodio-chloride prints, with dates written under in three groups. 19 relate to a visit to Ceylon via the Suez Canal and Aden 1890-1891 (1-18, 24) and all appear to be professional photographs. It is not known whether these relate to a journey undertaken by Douglas, who was 16 at the time. Secondly, there are 5 professional photographs of Durham (19-23) and finally, 7 photographs of India of a later date (25-31), 3 of which are duplicates of photographs in other...
Dates:
1890 - 1902
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
Album of coastal profiles
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 6
Scope and Contents
Fifty-eighty pages of sepia drawings (12" x 6"), with captions and dates. The drawings give latitude and longitude, and appear to be competent renderings of coast profiles. The places featured include the Cape Verde Islands, Trinidad, Table Bay (including plan), Ceylon, Malaya and the East Indies, Macao, Sunda Straits, St Helena, Ascension and Britain. Some of the profiles, including those for Cape Town, Macao and Jamestown, St Helena, give details of buildings. None are signed, but...
Dates:
1783-12-30 - 1785-06-06
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Alloway Kirk, '22, 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/108
Scope and Contents
65 x 45 mm. A view of the Alloway Parish Church.
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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Alloway Kirk : and grave of father and mother of Robert Burns, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5221
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. [Burns gravestone near right with other stones in front of old kirk [i.e. church].
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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Alloway Kirk (vide Tam O'Shanter), 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5220
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. [Deserted kirk [i.e. church] with gravestones on the foreground].
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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Amusement Park, 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089EE/1/7
Scope and Contents
Captioned 'Campbell Gray' in bottom right-hand corner.
Dates:
1924
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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An English country cottage, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011V/10
Scope and Contents
203 x 153 mm. View looking along a road towards a part-thatched, part-tiled cottage. Location unindentified. Photograph by H.W. Taunt.
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).