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Great Britain (island)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 889 Collections and/or Records:

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Unloading raw material (American) at the Rome Mill, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5343
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Showing bale of raw cotton being hoisted up into mill from cart pulled by a horse].

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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Unloading skips of yarn at Blackburn Mills, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5265
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing horse and carts in neat yard. Skips made of woven wicker-work].

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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Unloading skips of yarn at Blackburn Mills, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5266
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing horse and carts in neat yard. Skips made of woven wicker-work].

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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Unloading skips of yarn at Blackburn Mills, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5267
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing horse and carts in neat yard. Skips made of woven wicker-work].

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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Ventnor, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5069
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [The town below the hill with a few ships in the harbour].

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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Vickers Sons and Maxim's workshops looking west, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5180
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). From top of crane.

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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View from Edinburgh Castle looking east, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/366
Scope and Contents

197 x 137 mm. A view looking eastwards over Edinburgh from the Castle, with the railway station in the foreground. 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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View from forebridge looking aft and showing a main-top : King Edward VII, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5013
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate.

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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View from my quarters, 1887 - 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/68
Scope and Contents

208 x 153 mm. A view from the Long Course Officers Quarters looking out over a small orchard towards the garrison church at Shoeburyness.

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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View from the North Wall Jetty, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5049
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). To the left foreground two camels for raising sunken ships: on the right in the distance the Vernon torpedo depot, made of old hulks Warrior Marlborough and Vernon: in front of them the Nelson and Active: in the middle distance the Patrol, the Forward, the Sappho and the Vestal.

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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View from top of 150 ton crane, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5177
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Showing man in right foreground on crane pointing out 150 ton crane below].

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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View from top of crane looking east over Michaelson Bridge, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5174
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Shows ice breaker Earl Grey, Vanguard, San Paolo, and another 150 ton crane.

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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View from top of crane looking east over Michaelson Bridge, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5175
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Shows ice breaker Earl Grey, Vanguard, San Paolo, and another 150 ton crane.

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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[View of Coronation procession from Malaya House, 1953], 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/18
Scope and Contents

68 x 79 mm. View from Malaya House looking across Trafalgar Square and down Northhumberland Avenue, with part of the Coronation procession in the foreground.

Dates: 1953
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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[View of distant fleet], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5023
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [With tug in 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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View of Portsmouth Dockyard, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5035
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). To the left the Victoria and Albert: in the distance, the Alberta, Queen Victorias yacht which carried her body from Cowes, in front a torpedo gunboat. [Enterprises stern near 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).
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View of Uganda Exhibit. British Empire Exhibition, 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/1
Scope and Contents

The caption on the reverse reads: '1. A corner of the exhibit, showing ivory, pottery and basket work. The basket work is very fine, and the pottery is unique owing to its burnished appearance'.

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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Village horse market, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011V/11
Scope and Contents

212 x 157 mm. View showing a village square, with prospective purchasers strolling among the lines of tethered horses. Location unknown.

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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Village school, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011V/12
Scope and Contents

157 x 111 mm (mounted on card). View showing a lesson in progress in a schoolroom.

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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Volume XXI : Great Britain, 1909, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21
Scope and Contents The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 5002-5184 (originally there were 174). Added number is: 5157A; not used: 5039, 5059, 5076, 5077, 5080, 5092, 5112, 5140, 5146, 5176, 5179; missing: 5088. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 5079 follows 5091. Subjects covered in the album are: England: London; Portsmouth: naval scenes, ship building, dockyard, H.M.S. Victory, Dickens' birthplace; Isle of Wight; Salisbury....
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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Volume XXII : Great Britain, 1909, 1909

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

The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 5351-5487. Numbers not used are: 5367, 5386, 5394, 5410-5443, 5445, 5456-5460 and 5476.

Subjects covered in the album are:
England: Manchester: docks landing Canadian cattle, grain elevators; Warwick; Kenilworth Castle; Tring: farming scenes; Aldershot: barrack buildings, soldiers drilling; Farnborough: balloon shed. Scotland: Edinburgh.


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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W. Moloney, 1919-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/9
Scope and Contents 72 x 98 mm. Snapshot of William Moloney and two unidentified ladies standing on a tennis court. Moloney is mentioned in Bell's diary synopsis for August 26, 1919:'While at Henley I made the acquaintance of Wm. Moloney, a very remarkable young man with great natural gifts of many kinds. He has been a prisoner of the Germans during the War and while in captivity had learnt Arabic and had deeply studied the Koran. He was a remarkable musician, and he was able to make pictures of the...
Dates: 1919-07
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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Warping coloured yarns, Hollinshead Mill, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5249
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Shows different angle of machines].

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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Warping from the bobbins in the beam, at Hollinshead Mill, Blackburn, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5246
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Showing four women standing / sitting in front of their machines].

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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Watching the boats from the end of Sandown Pier, I.o.W [Isle of Wight], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5066
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [People leaning over the balustrade].

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).