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China (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

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The International Settlement, Shanghai, 1908-11 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4012
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Formerly called the British Settlement.

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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The late Queen's statue, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4452
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. Women in foreground carrying pigs in baskets.

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 Lottery Street, Hong Kong, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/36
Scope and Contents

270 x 204 mm. View looking along the street, with rickshaw drivers and shopkeepers posed in the foreground and the signs of lottery ticket sellers over the roadway beyond.

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 mainland from the sea, 1908-11 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4021
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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The mainland from the sea, 1908-11 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4022
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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The mainland from the sea, 1908-11 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4023
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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The mainland of Weihaiwei from the island, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4104
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. [View from harbour wall to sailing boats and warship across to mountains on the mainland].

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 Mandarin’s Foot, neat Foochow, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/34
Scope and Contents

287 x 233 mm. Showing an outcrop of rock in the form of a slender outstretched foot.

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 Mansion in the Gardens, Hong Kong Island, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038E/4
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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The Marine Barracks, Linkungtau Island, Weihaiwei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4093
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). To the right note two old Chinese Wooden guns, captured from the Taku forts.

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 Marine Barracks, Linkungtau, Weihaiwei, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4094
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Island guard detachment. [Showing guards and dogs standing in the courtyard beside verandah where more guards are seated. A bell hangs from the eaves and potted plants stand on the verandah beside deep gutter].

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 Moloo [or] Nanking Road, Shanghai [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/19
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276 x 212 mm. View looking along the Nanking Road, a wide street lined with Chinese commercial premises.

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 Naval Canteen at Linkungtau Island, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4102
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). An old Chinese house.

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 Naval Canteen at Linkungtau Island, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4103
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. An old Chinese house. [Showing detail of steps up to the entrance with painted panels of Chinese design on either side of arch. Tiled roof with carved animals along corner ridge. Small group of Chinese in left hand corner].

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 Nine Storied Pagoda, Canton], 1863 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/82
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282 x 233 mm. View of the Nine-storied Pagoda at Canton, seen here in dilapidated condition

Dates: 1863 - 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 Observatory, Peking, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302E/7
Scope and Contents View looking along rows of instruments in the Peking Observatory. Norman (1895, p. 203) provides this description: A walk of a mile along the top of the wall brings you to the famous Observatory, and the marvellous bronzes of the Jesuit Father Verbiest, who made and eerected them in 1668. Below the wall, in a shady garden, are the much older ones which Marco Polo saw, less accurate astronomically, but even more beautiful for their grace and delicacy, and linking ones imagination closely...
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 old cemetery at Stanley, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4443
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Graves of British soldiers (1840) and wives of some of them.

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).
 Management Group

The Papers and Possessions of Dorothy Moyle Needham

 Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI4
Dates: c.1940-1970
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[The Paton family at Chin Chew (Quanzhou ?) doctor's house], 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/99
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100 x 140 mm. Dr B.L. Paton is holding his youngest son, Henry Oldham Paton (born 20 August 1909); standing next to him is Mrs Janet Paton. In front are John McFie Paton (born 23 March 1907, died 1975) and Robert Lewis Paton, donor of this collection (born 25 September 1905).

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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The Peak from the harbour ; Hong Kong, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4516
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing sea and steamer with buildings along the seafront and the Peak in the mist behind].

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 Peak, Hong Kong, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4421
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [With sailing boats in centre 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 Peak Railway Hong Kong , 1907 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/73
Scope and Contents

150 x 200 mm.

Dates: 1907 - 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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The Peak Tramway, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/175
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A copy of a half-tone photograph showing a tramcar ascending Victoria Peak on the steep track which runs from near St John's Cathedral up to the Peak Hotel. The line was opened in 1888.

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 Peak Tramway], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/176
Scope and Contents

A view showing a lower section of the tramway with residential houses 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 'Pearl' River of Canton, 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/80
Scope and Contents

286 x 212 mm. View looking along the Pearl River towards a gorge. With sampans moored to the bank in the foreground.

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).