Skip to main content

Great Britain (island)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 912 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

Portsmouth, 1911-11-11

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/6
Scope and Contents

Arrival of the royal train from London, 11 November 1911.

Dates: 1911-11-11
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).
 Item

Portsmouth, 1906

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/202
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...
Dates: 1906
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).
 Item

Portsmouth Dockyard from the sea, 1909

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5082
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Bellerophon to the left.

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).
 Item

Portsmouth Dockyard : general view from Admiralty Superintendent's Office, 1909

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5038
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Royal Yacht 'Alexandra' to left of left hand shear in distance.

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).
 Item

Portsmouth, The Hard

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/108
Scope and Contents

207 x 142 mm.

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).
 Item

[Postcard], 1908

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/419
Scope and Contents

279 x 89 mm. A panoramic view of the Court of Honour from Congress Hall, Franco-British Exhibition, London.

Dates: 1908
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).
 Item

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

 Item
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).
 Item

Preparing a davit for warships, 1909

 Item
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).
 Item

Preparing colonial mails, 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011V/5
Scope and Contents

159 x 120 mm. Showing parcels being packed into wooden boxes for shipment to various colonial territories.

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).
 Item

Primary sorting of parcels, 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011V/3
Scope and Contents

163 x 119 mm. View looking along a sorting office, with a line of sorters in the foreground, and baskets for the sorted mail behind them.

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).
 Item

Professor Abdus Salam, Pakistani scientist, teaching in London, 1964, 1964

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011Y/12
Scope and Contents

157 x 204 mm. Showing Professor Salam writing on a blackboard. Professor Salam (born 1926), a scientist of international repute, was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College in 1956.

Dates: 1964
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).
 Item

Quarter deck of King Edward VII : and the Atlantic Fleet, 1909

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5016
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Fleet rather distant in mist].

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).
 Item

Quarter Masters, 1860 - 1869

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011A/141
Scope and Contents

226 x 186 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).
 Item

Queen Alexandra : Cardiff, 1909

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5125
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. In foreground a coaling crane (Lewis Hunter coaling crane): in distance the entrance to Roath Dock, and on right of it a row of electric discharging cranes for emptying ships of imports.

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).
 Item

Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff, 1909

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5127
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Electric cranes discharging pit props from Norway.

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).
 Item

[Queens' College], 1950 - 1952

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/8/7
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. Postcard. This shows part of the Cloister Court and the cloisters, seen below the timbered facade.

Dates: 1950 - 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).
 Item

[Queens' College], 1950 - 1952

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/8/8
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. Postcard. This shows part of the Cloister Court and the cloisters, seen below the timbered facade.

Dates: 1950 - 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).
 Item

[Queens' College], 1950 - 1952

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/8/9
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. Postcard. This shows part of the Cloister Court and the cloisters, seen below the timbered facade.

Dates: 1950 - 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).
 Item

[Queens' College], 1950 - 1952

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/8/10
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. Postcard. This shows part of the Cloister Court and the cloisters, seen below the timbered facade.

Dates: 1950 - 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).
 Item

[Queens' College], 1950 - 1952

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/8/11
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. Postcard. This shows part of the Cloister Court and the cloisters, seen below the timbered facade.

Dates: 1950 - 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).
 Item

Queen's Cottage, Kew Gardens, 1920 - 1929

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/141
Scope and Contents

The postcard consists of a print of a painting. The painting is signed 'C.T. Howard'. The postcard was printed and published by J. Salmon Ltd, Sevenoaks, England.

Dates: 1920 - 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).
 Item

R. Ayr [i.e. River Ayre], 1922, 1922

 Item
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).
 Item

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

 Item
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).
 Item

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

 Item
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).
 Item

R.A.F. Training Depot Display. The British Empire Exhibition, 1924

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC BEE/24
Scope and Contents

Original photograph. Captioned 'Photo. 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).