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Japan (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 273 Collections and/or Records:

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1923 earthquake and typhoon: barrack dwellings after earthquake, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/29
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

Dates: 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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A Japanese belle - another picture in Real Japan, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302E/29
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait of a girl posed against a background of leaves. This is similar to the illustration in Norman, 'The real Japan' (1891), p. 177.

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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A Japanese garden, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302E/28
Scope and Contents

View looking across an ornamental lake towards pavilions and houses.

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).
 Fonds

A journey to Asia and Africa

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011MMM-XXX
Scope and Contents A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...
Dates: 1935-09 - 1936-03
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).
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A Mousme [hand coloured], 1870 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/147
Scope and Contents

205 x 232 mm. Full length studio portrait of a Japanese girl examining her hairstyle with the aid of two mirrors. A mousme is an unmarried Japanese girl, a term particularly applied to a tea girl or waitress.

Dates: 1870 - 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).
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Africa and Asia, 1914 - 1950

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 22
Scope and Contents

A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated from 1937.

Dates: 1914 - 1950
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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Africa, Asia and the Middle East, 1930 - 1939

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 19
Scope and Contents

A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.

Dates: 1930 - 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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Annotated article on ‘Resort to War’ and the interpretation of the League of Nations Covenant during the Manchurian dispute , 1934-01

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/11
Scope and Contents

Article published in the American Journal of International Law on Japan's invasion of the Manchuria region of China.

Dates: 1934-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Areas of Tokyo devastated by 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/40
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

Dates: 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).
 Fonds

Articles from 'The Field'

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 322
Scope and Contents Ten volumes of cuttings from 'The field', including a few articles from other publications, and loose cuttings concerning the Malay Peninsula. The volumes concern countries throughout the world, but in particular Australia, British East Africa (Kenya), Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Uganda, United States and the West Indies. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, including administration, agriculture, the British Empire, climate, colonisation,...
Dates: 1888 - 1921
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).
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Asaka Pagoda, 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/145
Scope and Contents

194 x 243 mm. General view of the pagoda, with smaller houses in the foreground. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 1912
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

Ascension, West Africa, New Zealand, etc

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III
Scope and Contents A collection including scenes from Ascension, Canary Islands, Madeira, Egypt, Brazil, New Zealand, Japan, Senegambia, Sierra Leone, the U.K., Gibraltar and Norway. The arrangement is a random one, but is seems likely that the left-hand photographs, one of Norway, the remainder definitely or probably New Zealand, were inserted later than those on the right. 108-113 are loose prints. The following is a list of the locations:New Zealand: 1, 12, 14, 16, 18Possibly New Zealand: 3, 7,...
Dates: 1850 - 1900
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).
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Atago Yama Tokio, 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/134
Scope and Contents

269 x 209 mm. View from a terrace looking out across Tokyo. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 1912
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-Series

Badge and papers relating to Sidney Baddeley on his liberation from Fukuoka prisoner-of-war camp, Japan, 1945 - 2024

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/22
Content Description

Comprises: badge presented to Sidney Baddeley by United States Air Force 5th Air Force on the liberation of Fukuoka prisoner-of-war camp in 1945; an account of the capture of Baddeley and his assistant, F.W. Chamberlin, in 1942; Baddeley family history papers; related papers.

Dates: 1945 - 2024
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Band [Bund] of Kobe [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/72
Scope and Contents

270 x 207 mm. View looking along the waterfront at Kobe, with buildings in European style on the right and the Hiogo Hotel in the foreground.

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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Band [Bund] of Kobe [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/73
Scope and Contents

270 x 210 mm. Duplicate of Y3077C/72.

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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Benten Dori, Yokohama, 1870 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/39
Scope and Contents

254 x 206 mm. View looking along Benten Dori Street, situated in the quarters between Minami Naka Dori and Ota Machi.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Birds of the view [sic] at Higashiyarna, 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/106
Scope and Contents

527 x 204 mm., (two prints joined). Panoramic view of Kioto.

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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Bishop Poole Girls School, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 19/40
Scope and Contents From the File:

A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.

Dates: 1930 - 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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Biwa Lake from Ishiyama, 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/116
Scope and Contents

271 x 206 mm. Duplicate of Y3039A/64.

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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Biwa Lake from Ishiyama, 1870 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/64
Scope and Contents

261 x 203 mm. View looking down onto Biwa Lake from the balcony of house. The 40 mile long lake is in South Honshu a few miles north east of Kyoto.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Biwa Lake from Miidera, 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/117
Scope and Contents

269 x 209 mm. View looking out over the lake with the town on the shore 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).
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Blind shampooer, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/10
Scope and Contents

263 x 207 mm. Showing a girl lying on her side on the floor, with the shampooer (masseur) kneeling beside her with his hands resting on her leg.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Bluff Garden, Yokohama, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/57
Scope and Contents

265 x 207 mm. View looking down onto the tennis courts in the Bluff gardens in the southern part of Yokohama.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Bronze portal, Nikko, 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/150
Scope and Contents

269 x 201 mm. View looking towards the torii, or free standing entrance arch, with the Shinto temple beyond. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 1912
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).