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China (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

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The Cathedral, Shanghai [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/25
Scope and Contents

281 x 218 mm. View looking towards the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity from the corner of Kiangse and Hankow Roads (the edge of the building seen at the left is part of the Municipal Council Offices). The view shows the east end of the Cathedral. The Cathedral, designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, was erected with some modifications to his original plan (the chancel, for example, was shortened) in 1866-69. The spire, however, was not completed until 1892.

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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The Cathedral, Shanghai [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/26
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275 x 216 mm. View of the east façade of the Cathedral from Kiangse Road, with the tower and spire at the right. A small part of the Kiukiang Road can be seen at the right of the print. See also Y3077C/25.

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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The Cenotaph and Statue Square, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/173
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A copy of a half-tone photograph showing the Cenotaph Statue in Statue Square with the Queen's statue and Siemessen and Co.'s headquarters in the background.

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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The Central Police Station : Hong Kong, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4509
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [Showing rickshaws parked outside a three storey building].

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).
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The Children's Friend [temple of the 500 gods, Canton], 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/92
Scope and Contents

233 x 241 mm. View of one of the images in the temple, a bronze figure of a jovial man with children on his lap and shoulders.

Dates: 1870 - 1920
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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The Club, Foochow (A.S.H. on verandah)., 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/41
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272 x 216 mm. General view of the club building at Foochow, a two storey house with wide verandahs. A.S.H. is one of the figures standing on the open first floor balcony over the main entrance.

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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The Commissioner of Wei-haiwei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4088
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Quarter-plate (landscape format). And Headman of village wih his grandchildren.

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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The Commissioners daughter, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4114
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Half-plate. Pears and apple grown in Gov. House garden, Weihaiwei, one of the pears photographed weighs a pound. [Showing young girl dressed in black and wearing a boater with ribbon saying: King Alfred, round it, sitting on a cannon on the corner of the verandah with garden and hills in the background. The Commissioners was Sir James Stewart Lockhart (1858-1937].

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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The Commissioners daughter, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4115
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. [Showing girl sitting in an ornately carved chinese armchair inside a house with a bonsai plant in a pot on the table beside her].

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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The Customs Building, Shanghai, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4556
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[A brick building with clock tower].

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).
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The Distillery and Dockyard Buildings, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4095
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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Hospital wall on the left: Linkungtau Island, Weihaiwei.

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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The East village on the Island of Linkungtau, Weihaiwei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4106
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing path crossing a river by bridge leading up to village on right with trees on the left].

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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The East village on the Island of Linkungtau, Weihaiwei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4107
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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing path near sone wall with side view of covered arch showing tiles and a carved animal at each corner of roof. Chinese manin cloak approaches the arch with wester lady in long black dress and white hat, some way behid to the right].

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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The East village on the island of Linkungtau, Weihaiwei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4108
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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [2? Grave stones, one with Chinese writing, the other patterned marble, with trees hiding buildings behind and Chinese man and western lady seen in previous picture standing in the back right].

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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The East village on the island of Linkungtau, Weihaiwei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4109
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Indistinct view of millstone with thatched roofs behind and hills in the distance].

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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The 'Empress of Canada' at Kowloon Wharf, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/162
Scope and Contents

A copy of a half-tone photograph showing the large liner berthed at Kowloon, with a row of taxi-cabs in 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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The English Bridge, Shameen, Canton, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4483
Scope and Contents

[No print]. Missing.

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).
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The Examination Halls, Peking, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302E/5
Scope and Contents View looking along the path running between the two rows of small stone huts used for examinations. Norman (1895, p. 203) provides this description. The Government of China is a vast system of competitive examination tempered by bribery, and this Kao Chang is its focus. It is a miniature city, with one wide artery down the middle, hundreds of parallel streets running from this on both sides, each street mathematically subdivided into houses, a big semblance of a palace at one end of the...
Dates: 1890
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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The five hundred disciples of Buddha [Canton], 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/91
Scope and Contents

292 x 203 mm. View looking down an aisle with rows of sculptured images on either side.

Dates: 1870 - 1920
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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The Flower Market, Hong Kong, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4465
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. [View down onto the market below in the shade of trees with tall buildings on either side].

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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The Flower Market : Hong Kong, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4505
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate.

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).
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The Flower Market : Hong Kong, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4506
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate.

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).
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The Flowery Pagoda, Canton, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4477
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From top of City Wall : 8 of the 9 storeys are visible form here. The British Yamen is to the right beyond the two B.A. masts. [View over rooftops].

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).
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The Flowery Pagoda, seen over the wall of the British Yamen, Canton, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4498
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. [No print]. Missing.

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).
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The Harbour, Hong King, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/4
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269 x 205 mm. View from above the Botanical Gardens looking northwards across the Harbour, with Causeway Bay in the right background. In the left middleground can be seen Government House and below it to the right, the tower of St John’s Cathedral.

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).