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Bombay (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 244 Collections and/or Records:

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Views from top of Rajabase Clock Tower, Bombay, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/945
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). Opium warehouse - Uran Island - Govt. Dockyards Jetty - Fort - P. and O. boat - St Andrews Church - Govrnment Docks extend all along this line. (Fisher). (Looking south-east).

Dates: 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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Views from top of Rajabase Clock Tower, Bombay, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/946
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). White boat, Royal India Marine - Sailors Home - Taj Mahal Hotel - Elphinstone College - The Crescent - Foundation Stone of Prince of Wales Western India Museum - Watsons Hotel. (Fisher). (Looking south-south-east).

Dates: 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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Views from top of Rajabase Clock Tower, Bombay, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/947
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Taj Mahal Hotel - Secretariat of Govt. of Bombay - Bandstand Oval (Fisher). (Looking south).

Dates: 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).
 Fonds

Views in Bombay

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG
Scope and Contents

A collection of loose prints by Raja Deen Dayal (plate 7), Bourne and Shepherd (plate 13) and others unknown. The prints, mainly measuring approximately 270 x 205 mm, show Bombay scenes. Some of the prints are captioned. Captions composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
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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Villagers of Elephanta, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/960
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Population of Elephanta 700. (Fisher).

Dates: 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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Volume VII : Bombay, Hyderabad, Aden, Somaliland, 1908

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7
Scope and Contents The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 939-1073 (originally there were 134). Added numbers are: 967A, 995A, 1004A, 1071A, 1072A, 1008A (is a painting); spoiled 964-966 and 1055; not used 1063 and 1066; missing 1009, 1010, 1012, 1013, 1015, 1017, 1020, 1030, 1040, 1042, 1044 and 1060. The photographs are not totally in numerical order within the album so that: 967A follows 988. Subjects covered in this album are: Ahmednagar; Bombay: views from the Clock...
Dates: 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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Waiting, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 12/11
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains prints, of various sizes, mounted in an album bound in red half-leather inscribed on the front cover 'Photographs: Royal Tour in India: Bombay and Indore. Raja Deen Dayal and Sons. State Photographers' and with the Prince of Wales Emblem above. All prints have typed captions.

Dates: 1905
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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Wellington Cycle Club, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022CCCC/2
Scope and Contents

300 x 215 mm. Group of thirteen men and women of varied races with some cycles.

Dates: 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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Wilson College Bombay: Dr and Mrs Simmons entertaining two student friends, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 23/88
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Collection of 150 film negatives with 14 prints. Numbers 1-51, all from Kashmir, have clear inscriptions. 52-86 were sent by David George Stevens, CMS Regional Secretary in Bombay, to Miss Pamela Meister, CMS Photo Librarian, during the early 1960s. Canon Stevens (1912-1976) was a CMS Missionary at Nashik and Aurangabad between 1938-1960 and CMS Representative for the Church of India, based at Bombay, 1960-1963. 83-86 are listed, the remainder have descriptive captions. 87-135 are covered by...
Dates: 1962
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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Wilson College Bombay: Dr and Mrs Simmons entertaining two student friends, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 23/89
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Collection of 150 film negatives with 14 prints. Numbers 1-51, all from Kashmir, have clear inscriptions. 52-86 were sent by David George Stevens, CMS Regional Secretary in Bombay, to Miss Pamela Meister, CMS Photo Librarian, during the early 1960s. Canon Stevens (1912-1976) was a CMS Missionary at Nashik and Aurangabad between 1938-1960 and CMS Representative for the Church of India, based at Bombay, 1960-1963. 83-86 are listed, the remainder have descriptive captions. 87-135 are covered by...
Dates: 1962
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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Wilson College Bombay: Dr Simmons, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 23/87
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Collection of 150 film negatives with 14 prints. Numbers 1-51, all from Kashmir, have clear inscriptions. 52-86 were sent by David George Stevens, CMS Regional Secretary in Bombay, to Miss Pamela Meister, CMS Photo Librarian, during the early 1960s. Canon Stevens (1912-1976) was a CMS Missionary at Nashik and Aurangabad between 1938-1960 and CMS Representative for the Church of India, based at Bombay, 1960-1963. 83-86 are listed, the remainder have descriptive captions. 87-135 are covered by...
Dates: 1962
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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[Women carrying rocks], 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/13
Scope and Contents

55 x 78 mm. Possibly photographed in Bombay.

Dates: 1931
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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Women selling' fuel for native use [Bombay], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/5
Scope and Contents

235x185mm. Showing four Indian women posed with shallow wicker baskets containing twigs, firewood and cakes of dung.

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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Working at the finish when the bunkers get jammed

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 23/4
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains hand-coloured prints, 196 x 140 mm., each set in a deep mount with title in gold lettering below and bound in a dark green padded untitled album. The printed title page of this album indicates its purpose. 'The Ships of the Royal Indian Tour coaled in Bombay in the fastest manner possible and Uniqe record for speed established on H.M.S. Terrible while equipping for the return voyage, by J.F. Karaka and Co., Bombay coaling contractors to His Majesty's Navy. The achievement was...
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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Workmen actively engaged in coaling

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 23/3
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains hand-coloured prints, 196 x 140 mm., each set in a deep mount with title in gold lettering below and bound in a dark green padded untitled album. The printed title page of this album indicates its purpose. 'The Ships of the Royal Indian Tour coaled in Bombay in the fastest manner possible and Uniqe record for speed established on H.M.S. Terrible while equipping for the return voyage, by J.F. Karaka and Co., Bombay coaling contractors to His Majesty's Navy. The achievement was...
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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Xth Royal Hussars, 1905-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/10
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
Dates: 1905-11
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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Xth Royal Hussars. Bombay, 1905-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/9
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
Dates: 1905-11
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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Yacht Club, Apollo Bunder and harbour, Bombay, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG/4
Scope and Contents

234 x 182 mm. View looking eastwards towards the Harbour, with the Yacht Club and the Apollo Bunder (see Y3022GG/5) in the foreground. A crowd is gathered at the landing stage on the Apollo Bunder and the quayside is draped with the flags of various nations; the occasion, however, has not been identified.

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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Yacht Club at Apollo Bunder, Bombay, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GG/5
Scope and Contents

281 x 176 mm. View from the water’s edge looking towards the Yacht Club building with its polychrome observation tower. The buildings were designed by Mr Adams, the Government Architect, and opened in November 1881.

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).