Great Britain (island)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 912 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Unloading skips of yarn at Blackburn Mills, 1909
Item
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).
Item
View from forebridge looking aft and showing a main-top : King Edward VII, 1909
Item
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).
Item
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
Item
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).
Item
View from top of 150 ton crane, 1909
Item
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).
Item
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).
Item
View from top of crane looking east over Michaelson Bridge, 1909
Item
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).
Item
[View of Coronation procession from Malaya House, 1953], 1953
Item
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).
Item
[View of distant fleet], 1909
Item
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).
Item
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
Item
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
Item
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
Item
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).
File
Volume XXI : Great Britain, 1909, 1909
File
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).
File
Volume XXII : Great Britain, 1909, 1909
File
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
Item
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
Item
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
Item
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).
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[Waterfall and wooden footbridge], 1880 - 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/136
Scope and Contents
150 x 110 mm. Showing a 'waterfall' water feature behind railings, with a small wooden bridge at the top. A woman and a young boy are just about visible on the bridge, possibly posing for the photograph. Exact location unidentified.
Dates:
1880 - 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).
Fonds
West African Railways
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448W
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs created by the railway engineer Charles Bell Swan. The discovery of gold at Tarkwa during the 1890s provided the stimulus for the establishment of the Gold Coast Government Railway. Sekondi was chosen as the terminal port to support mining operations and construction began there in 1898, reaching Tarkwa in 1901. The line was extended to Kumasi in 1903. Items 1-18 and 44 document the building of the harbour facilities and station at Sekondi, and the European and...
Dates:
1902 - 1912
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
Item
West front, Croyland Abbey [i.e. Crowland Abbey], 1930 - 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/293
Scope and Contents
90 x 140 mm. Postcard.
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).