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Tonga (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 73 Collections and/or Records:

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 Fonds

Modern Commonwealth photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC
Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...
Dates: 1936 - 1980
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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Mr Telfer Campbell, British Consul at Nukualofa, landing at Kolong [i.e. Kolonga], 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7305
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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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Native of Niufoa swimming with mail to Niufoa Island, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7321
Scope and Contents

[Seascape with wooded island in the distance to the left.]

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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Native of Niufoa swimming with mail to Niufoa Island. [Seascape with wooded island in the distance to the left.], 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7322
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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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Nuku 'alofa and Government Office, 1963

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham I/14
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains Kodachromes processed in Australia, arranged by processing number. Some items from H possibly originated in this group.

Dates: 1963
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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Nuku 'alofa - boy and pony, 1963

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham I/16
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains Kodachromes processed in Australia, arranged by processing number. Some items from H possibly originated in this group.

Dates: 1963
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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Nuku 'alofa Harbour, 1963

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham I/24
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains Kodachromes processed in Australia, arranged by processing number. Some items from H possibly originated in this group.

Dates: 1963
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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Painting only. Vavan Harbour: looking outwards, 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7310
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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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[Palace Chapel, Tonga], 1899

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/37
Scope and Contents

157 x 110 mm. Interior view towards window.

Dates: 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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Queen's dancers, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham I/28
Scope and Contents

[Taken at night].

Dates: 1963
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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[Same subject) [Native of Niufoa swimming with mail to Niufoa Island], 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7323
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Island visible to the right in this picture and swimmer just visible in the sea].

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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[Scene in a Tongan village], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/24
Scope and Contents

85 x 56 mm. An indistinct picture showing Tongans and Europeans standing in a central grassy square in a Tongan village.

Dates: 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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[Scene in Tonga], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/7
Scope and Contents

85 x 56 mm A view showing four Europeans standing at the entrance to a palm-thatch hut. The figure on the left is Alfred Tennyson. This page of the album also contains a list of the officers of SS ‘Waikere’, a half-tone reproduction of the ship, a route map of the journey, Violet Douglas Pennant’s ticket, and the address of one Fred Hanseu MD.

Dates: 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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[Scene in Tonga], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/8
Scope and Contents

85 x 57 mm. A view showing a European standing beside a palm-thatch hut.

Dates: 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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[Scene in Tonga], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/9
Scope and Contents

157 x 110 mm. A view showing a group of Europeans standing near a palm-thatch hut.

Dates: 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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[Scene in Tonga], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/10
Scope and Contents

157 x 109 mm. A view showing a group of Europeans standing at the entrance to a palm-thatch hut. Alfred Tennyson stands at the left of the group.

Dates: 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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Selesa Folau Silefaga, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/29
Scope and Contents

158 x 140 mm. A portrait of a young Samoan girl, signed Selesa and dated 1900. It is accompanied in the album by a letter to Lady Mary Keppel in uncertain English, asking for a copy of the photograph of the two sisters.

Dates: 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).
 Sub-Fonds

South Pacific 1963, 1963

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham D-M
Scope and Contents

Slides taken during a visit which included New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga, the Gilbert Islands and New Caledonia.

Dates: 1963
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 Eiki and his household: Nukualofa: Tonga, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7304
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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 Eiki, Tonga, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7303
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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 King’s Palace [Nukualofa, Tonga], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/36
Scope and Contents

194 x 144 mm. A view showing the lawn and the wooden palace, a two storey building with verandahs and a tower. On the lawn some kind of gathering is in progress, mainly attended by Europeans.

Dates: 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 mail : in sealed tin, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7320
Scope and Contents

For Niufoa: Tongan Group: British Protectorate. [Man in white uniform stands beside the tin resting on handrail on the ship].

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 wharf: Vavan Harbour, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7312
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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 wharf : Vavan Harbour, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7313
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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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Tonga. George Fatefehi known as the Eiki, father of the King of Tonga, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 28/7301
Scope and Contents

Painting only. [No print]. [Missing].

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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