China (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 785 Collections and/or Records:
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Shanghai : The Bund, 1908-11 - 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4009
Scope and Contents
Landscape format.
Dates:
1908-11 - 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).
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Shantung [i.e. Shandong], 1908-11 - 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4014
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. N.E. (i.e. north-east) promontory lighthouse : about 31 miles from Wei Hai Wei.
Dates:
1908-11 - 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).
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Shantung [i.e. Shandong], 1908-11 - 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4015
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. N.E. (i.e. north-east) promontory lighthouse : about 31 miles from Wei Hai Wei.
Dates:
1908-11 - 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).
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Shau Kiwan, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4446
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. On the left note the docks of Butterfield and Swire: in the distance note Taimoshan mountains, which means big cloud or big hat mountain. Note lion rock: a railway tunnel has been begun under the left of this in the distance. [View down onto docks with misty 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).
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Shiakuan [Xiaguan], 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/36
Scope and Contents
80 x 55 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).
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Shoeing a donkey, Feng Lin, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4083
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate.
Dates:
1908-11
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).
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Shopping with baby, Hong Kong, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038E/29
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...
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).
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Showing mules on market day, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4034
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Port Edward: Wei hai Wei.
Dates:
1908-11
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).
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Showing mules on market day, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4035
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Port Edward: Wei hai Wei.
Dates:
1908-11
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).
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'Shrine in Amoy [i.e. Xiamen]', Jan. 23.90, 9.30am, dull, F.32, 2 secs, 1890-01-23
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/9
Scope and Contents
Paton has annotated the image 'Inscription above was: [Chinese characters], èng, pit, kiû, iú, answered certainly pray have (Vide Douglas p.102)'.
Dates:
1890-01-23
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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Signal Station, Hong Kong, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/2
Scope and Contents
269 x 203 mm. View looking eastwards down onto the Hong Kong waterfront, Causeway Bay and the Happy Valley from the summit of the Peak, with the Signal Station in the foreground.
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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Siong-Si Church, Feb 15.96, 12.30 noon, bright, windy, F.16 counted 5, 1896-02-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/59
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...
Dates:
1896-02-15
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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Sip-Lê, Tau-Bêng, Tsoân-[illegible], Sin-hun[?], [illegible], Ap 18.96, 4.30pm, bright, F.32, counted 8, 1896-04-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/65
Scope and Contents
Showing five Chinese men sitting on chairs in front of a door.
Dates:
1896-04-18
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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Sir Harry Parkes' statue, Shanghai, 1909-01 - 1909-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4555
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Back view of statue on square with three storey buildings around].
Dates:
1909-01 - 1909-02
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
Sir Henry Norman Far East collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302E
Scope and Contents
Original glass negatives measuring 164 x 122 mm by Sir Henry Norman. Some of the negatives are accompanied by handwritten captions. Views shown are of French Indo-China [Vietnam], China, Malaya [Malaysia], Siam [Thailand], Korea and Japan.
Dates:
c. 1890
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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Sketches from ‘The Illustrated London News’, 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/5/8
Scope and Contents
240 x 320 mm. A series of six drawing illustrating an English mercantile agent’s visit to China to taste, price and buy teas for the British market.
Dates:
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).
Sub-Fonds
Sketches of the University of Hong Kong, 1951 - 1964
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 63/24
Scope and Contents
Fourteen undated sketches depicting views of the University of Hong Kong, many of which have since disappeared under high-rise developments. Twelve of the sketches are incorporated into Christmas cards from F.S. and D.M. Drake. The sketches are presumably from Drake's time as Professor of Chinese. There is an accompanying letter from Bernard Drake to T.A. Barringer, R.C.S. Librarian, 7 December 1996.
Dates:
1951 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Asia miscellanea
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Snow Lion (Wei hai Wei), 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4131
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Showing snow lion on terrace beside a building].
Dates:
1908-11
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).
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[Some of the street crowd]., 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4081
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate.
Dates:
1908-11
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).
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Soochow Creek with Union Church at right [1890s], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/17
Scope and Contents
265 x 211 mm. View from the North Soochow Road (probably from the vicinity of the General Hospital) looking eastwards along the Soochow Creek towards the small bridge which joins the Chapoo Road and the Soochow Road. At the right on the far side of the Creek is the spire of the Union Church (opened in 1866 and enlarged in 1901).
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).
File
Spectacles, 1894 - 1948
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/7
Scope and Contents
Notes, newspaper cuttings and illustrations on the history of spectacles. Bell collected spectacles, including Joseph Chamberlain’s eyeglass, which was presented to him by Chamberlain’s widow after his death.
Dates:
1894 - 1948
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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SS 'Chung Ou' wrecked in Kowloon Bay, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/164
Scope and Contents
A view showing the beached boat lying just offshore.
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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SS 'Kwong Sai' at Stonecutter's Island [i.e. Ngong Shuen Chau], [23 Aug. 1923]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/163
Scope and Contents
A view showing the wrecked ferryboat lying near rocks off Ngong Shuen Chau (West of Kowloon). The slide is undated; the date is assumed as the ship was stranded after the typhoon which raged from 17 to 22 Aug. 1923 (source: Klaus Liphard, Gwulo).
Dates:
[23 Aug. 1923]
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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Stanley, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4441
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). The backs of the houses which face on to the main street. [Showing houses on stilts with boats at the waters edge].
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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Stanley, from near the old well, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4442
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). [View down onto the harbour with boats in the bay]
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).