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Ceres (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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Ceres, the stream, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195/520
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company.

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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Ceres, the Stream, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/41
Scope and Contents

141 x 192 mm. Showing the tree-lined stream leading to a farmhouse and hills. This is presumably the Dwars River on which the town of Ceres, in the Western Cape lies.

Dates: 1900 - 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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Michell's Pass, near Ceres, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195/296
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company.

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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Rocks near Ceres. North entrance of Mitchels' Pass [also spelt Mitchell's Pass]. River winding through. Jany 1867, 1867-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/42
Scope and Contents

248 x 196 mm. Showing sheer rocky crags at the entrance to Mitchels' Pass (Mitchell's Pass) with the (?) Dwars River below. Additional note by C.W. Busk: 'There was a branch line railway through this pass in 1914. Railway not completed beyond Wellington in 1867'.

Dates: 1867-01
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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Rocks near Ceres, Warm Bokkeveld, north entrance to Mitchel's Pass [also spelt Mitchell's Pass]. Pool in River winding through. Jany 1867, 1867-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/43
Scope and Contents

244 x 196 mm. Showing a pool surrounded by boulder-strewn hillside in Mitchel's Pass (Mitchell's Pass). Although the title appears to suggest otherwise, Mitchell's Pass is located between what are now called the Witzenberg Mountains and Hex River Mountains just to the west of Ceres. The area known as Warm Bokkeveld is located a few miles NNE of Ceres.

Dates: 1867-01
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).