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France (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 224 Collections and/or Records:

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Notre Dâme. Paris, 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/214
Scope and Contents

50 x 70 mm.

Dates: 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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Notre Dame - Paris, May '20, 1920-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/17
Scope and Contents

50 x 70 mm. A view of rooftops and gargoyles, taken from a window.

Dates: 1920-05
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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Noumea, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham L/2
Scope and Contents

[Distant views, possibly from the air].

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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Noumea, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham L/3
Scope and Contents

[Distant views, possibly from the air].

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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Noumea, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham L/4
Scope and Contents

[Distant views].

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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Noumea, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham L/5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

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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Noumea, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham L/20
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

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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Noumea : Isle of Pines, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham L/6
Scope and Contents

[Aerial view of beach].

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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Noumea : Isle of Pines, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham L/11
Scope and Contents

[From the air].

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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Noumea : M. Martinet, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham L/14
Scope and Contents

[At the controls of aeroplane].

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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[Open area and hills], 1902-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307I/14
Scope and Contents

80 x 55 mm.

Dates: 1902-05
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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[Open area with extensive debris], 1902-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307I/6
Scope and Contents

80 x 55 mm. And hills in the background.

Dates: 1902-05
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

Painting of Vimy Bridge, 1931

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 59/10
Scope and Contents

A framed print of a painting by William Longstaff 'presented to the Canadian Government by Capt. John Arthur Dewar, 1931'.

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).
 Series

Palace of the Popes, Avignon, 1922

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304H/299-300
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 220 x 285 mm, this album contains postcards, some of which are coloured. The majority portray Algiers (including 12 of the museum), Algerian people, Biskra, and the ruins of Timgad, Constantine, Tunis and Carthage.

Dates: 1922
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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Panthion [i.e. Pantheon ], Paris, 1868 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/101
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A group of stereoscopic halves each measuring approximately 72 x 72 mm, showing general views of the architecture in the British Isles, Belgium and Paris.

Dates: 1868 - 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).
 File

Papers about meeting in Paris , 1939-09-19 - 1939-09-26

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HOBE 5/72
Scope and Contents Papers about the meeting in Paris of Hore-Belisha and 1st Lord Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet] with Edouard Daladier [French Foreign Minister], and General Maurice Gamelin [Commander-in-Chief of the French Army], including: their report to the War Cabinet with related paper and cuttings; copy of Hore-Belisha's letter to General 6th Lord Gort [Commander-in-Chief of British Field Force, earlier John Vereker] about supplementing of the Field Force after his visit to France, with flimsy letter...
Dates: 1939-09-19 - 1939-09-26
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Paris advertisements, 1764 - 1765

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 22/10/8
Scope and Contents

Printed slips, in French, containing advertisements for a menagerie, animal contests and other events in Paris.

Dates: 1764 - 1765
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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Paris square with statue, 1922

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304I/70
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 205 x 265 mm, this album contains 48 sepia photographs, each measuring 145 x 90 mm, two to a page, together with 22 loose prints of France and North Africa. The album prints have brief captions, and since they relate to Algiers, Biskra and a few of Tunis and Carthage, they may come from the same visit as Y304H.

Dates: 1922
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. H.H. Davies [Davies Indian Album I], 1902 - 1910

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Q
Scope and Contents

An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

Dates: 1902 - 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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Place de la Concorde, Paris, 1868 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/95
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A group of stereoscopic halves each measuring approximately 72 x 72 mm, showing general views of the architecture in the British Isles, Belgium and Paris.

Dates: 1868 - 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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Point of Carbat, Nr. St Pierre, 1879 - 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307G/36
Scope and Contents

265 x 180 mm. A beach scene at Carbet (sic) with a man and a rowing boat in the foreground of the palm-fringed beach. Carbet lies a few miles due south of Saint Pierre on the west coast of Martinique.

Dates: 1879 - 1913
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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[Pont des Invalides], 1907 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/76
Scope and Contents From the File: An album containing 106 collodio-chloride prints, a few outside the dates printed on the cover. Most are professional work of high quality. Not all relate to India. There is one photograph of Cambridge in 1902 (24); ten taken in Ireland during 1902-03, presumably during Douglas's leave, including sporting scenes and a wedding; six photographs of Sri Lanka (65-70); four of Hong Kong (71-74) and four of Paris (75-78) dated 1907.A number of items have been inserted, including amateur...
Dates: 1907 - 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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Portrait photograph of A.G. Fraser by Dorothy Wilding, 1924 - 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/59
Scope and Contents

150 x 200 mm. Signed 9.2.1935, but thought by Joselin to be pre-1930. The Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser (1873-1962) served with the C.M.S. in Uganda (1900-1903) and was Principal of Trinity College Kandy (1904-1924) before becoming first Principal of Achimota, 1924-1935. He was Principal of Friends‘ College, Jamaica from 1940 to 1943.

Dates: 1924 - 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Programme for and notes about visit by Hore-Belisha to France, 1939-11-17 - 1939-11-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HOBE 5/85
Scope and Contents

Includes annotated cover of pack holding papers relating to this visit.

Dates: 1939-11-17 - 1939-11-20
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Quelques souvenirs, 1916 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022MMM
Scope and Contents

This album contains 189 photographs, mostly small snapshots, relating to Mesopotamia in 1916, a visit to Malta on the way to India in 1917, and scenes in India during the First World War and after. Douglas retired to France in 1922 and a number of images relate to this period. Many of the Indian photographs show family and friends.

Dates: 1916 - 1930
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).