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Victoria (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 195 Collections and/or Records:

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Panoramic view of Port Victoria [i.e. Victoria], Mahe, Seychelles, looking south-east,, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30484B/1
Scope and Contents 624 x 148 mm (three prints joined). View from a neighbouring hillside looking down on Port Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles. The waterfront area is seen in the right hand section. The two left hand portions of the panorama show the landing stage stretching out into the bay. Cerf Island can be seen at the extreme left. A pencilled note on the reverse of the mount reads: 'Taken at low water to show the importance of keeping small pier or carenage open to public (closed by Harb....
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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[(?) Path in the Public Gardens, Hong Kong], 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/183
Scope and Contents

A view looking along a tree-shaded path; exact location unknown.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
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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[People queuing before the British Columbia Parliament], 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/117
Scope and Contents

150 x 100 mm. This photograph probably relates to the visit of the Prince of Wales to Victoria in Oct. 1919.

Dates: 1919
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).
 Series

Photographs of Victoria and British Columbia, 1890 - 1939

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/39-202
Scope and Contents

Many of these images were taken by Chapman in his role as official photographer, chronicling the visits of the British Royal Family and other distinguished individuals to Victoria.

Dates: 1890 - 1939
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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Piermont, Sidney Pitt Esqs residence, 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2679
Scope and Contents

Victoria.

Dates: 1908-10
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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Pinehurst : Dr G.L. Milnes house off Dallas Road, 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2665
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Dr Milne is Dominion Immigration Officer.

Dates: 1908-10
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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Plague Hospitals, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4433
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Hong Kong. The Hygeia, Hospital Ships, and shore Plague Hospital. [A misty scene across the water].

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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Plantation of Funtumias, Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/90
Scope and Contents

152 x 110 mm. A view showing a plantation of seven-and-a-half year old Funtumias where alternate trees in each row have been cut out. A European stands in the foreground examining a tree.

Dates: 1903 - 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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Plantation of Funtumias, Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/91
Scope and Contents

116 x 162 mm. A view showing a plantation of seven-and-a-half year old Funtumias where alternate trees in each row have been cut out. A European stands in the foreground examining a tree. Photograph probably by Christy.

Dates: 1903 - 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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Planting tree at Beacon Hill Park, 1920 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/79
Scope and Contents

140 x 85 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 1936
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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Pottinger Street : Hong Kong, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4545
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 4477-4567 (originally there were 85). Added numbers are: 4541A and 4542A; not used: 4484, 4492, 4503, 4508, 4513, 4515, 4549 and 4550; missing: 4483, 4488, 4490, 4498, 4518, 4522, 4523, 4529, 4535, 4536 and 4542. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 4541A and 4542A follow 4520. Subjects covered in the album are: China: Canton; Hong Kong: general and harbour, Kowloon,...
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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Pottinger Street : Hong Kong, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4546
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 4477-4567 (originally there were 85). Added numbers are: 4541A and 4542A; not used: 4484, 4492, 4503, 4508, 4513, 4515, 4549 and 4550; missing: 4483, 4488, 4490, 4498, 4518, 4522, 4523, 4529, 4535, 4536 and 4542. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 4541A and 4542A follow 4520. Subjects covered in the album are: China: Canton; Hong Kong: general and harbour, Kowloon,...
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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Pottinger Street, Hong Kong : looking across the harbour, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4543
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 4477-4567 (originally there were 85). Added numbers are: 4541A and 4542A; not used: 4484, 4492, 4503, 4508, 4513, 4515, 4549 and 4550; missing: 4483, 4488, 4490, 4498, 4518, 4522, 4523, 4529, 4535, 4536 and 4542. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 4541A and 4542A follow 4520. Subjects covered in the album are: China: Canton; Hong Kong: general and harbour, Kowloon,...
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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Pottinger Street : Hongkong, 1909-01 - 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4544
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 4477-4567 (originally there were 85). Added numbers are: 4541A and 4542A; not used: 4484, 4492, 4503, 4508, 4513, 4515, 4549 and 4550; missing: 4483, 4488, 4490, 4498, 4518, 4522, 4523, 4529, 4535, 4536 and 4542. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 4541A and 4542A follow 4520. Subjects covered in the album are: China: Canton; Hong Kong: general and harbour, Kowloon,...
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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Premier John Oliver (Honest John) in his office at the Parliament Buildings, 1918 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/119
Scope and Contents

132 x 78 mm. Oliver was premier of the British Columbia between 1918 and 1927.

Dates: 1918 - 1927
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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Premier Mackenzie King at Victoria BC; on his right is Premier John Oliver, 1921 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/126
Scope and Contents

145 x 75 mm.

Dates: 1921 - 1927
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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Regatta - Victoria Harbour, Seychelles, 1910 - 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Seychelles/10
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Collection of ten monochrome postcards of views in the Seychelles.

Dates: 1910 - 1919
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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Residence in Rockland Avenue, 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2678
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Victoria, B.C.

Dates: 1908-10
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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Residence of Bickerstaff Wilson Esq, 1908-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 13/2676
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Rockland Avenue, Victoria, B.C.

Dates: 1908-10
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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Roman Catholic Cathedral And Glenealy, Hong Kong, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4463
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [View down to part of Cathedral with harbour and hills 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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Sandhurst City Market, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/23
Scope and Contents

172 x 123 mm. An exterior view of the market, a long single-storey brick building, with the Town Hall visible behind it to the left, and the Fire Brigade Depot to the right.

Dates: 1875
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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Seven-year-old Funtumias, Molive, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/93
Scope and Contents

101 x 75 mm. A view of a plantation of seven-year-old Funtumias showing the effects of close planting and late thinning. With an African youth seated in the foreground.

Dates: 1903 - 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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Seychelles, Carnegie Library, Port Victoria, 1910 - 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Seychelles/3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Collection of ten monochrome postcards of views in the Seychelles.

Dates: 1910 - 1919
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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Seychelles, Inner Harbour, Port Victoria, 1910 - 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Seychelles/9
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Collection of ten monochrome postcards of views in the Seychelles.

Dates: 1910 - 1919
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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Seychelles, Long Pier and Coaling Station, Port Victoria, 1910 - 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Seychelles/8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Collection of ten monochrome postcards of views in the Seychelles.

Dates: 1910 - 1919
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).