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Kamloops (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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Kamloops, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062Q/92
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A limp-bound book, number 36 of a numbered edition of 100, containing photogravure plates and coloured illustrations by various artists. Each page is preceded by a sheet containing the title and description; in most cases only the title is given in the typescript catalogue. Unless otherwise stated, the illustrations are full-page sepia photogravure, approximately 225 x 175 mm; the half-page coloured illustrations are c.125 x 85 mm.The title page reads 'His Royal Highness the Prince...
Dates: 1919
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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Kamloops looking east, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069B/8
Scope and Contents 245 x 191 mm. A view looking along the banks of the South Thompson River and showing the town of Kamloops in its infancy. The town itself consists merely of one street of wooden houses along the riverbank, with the railway line itself passing through the main street. Kamloops, which started life as a small trading-post, had a brief boom during the gold-rushes of the 1860s. The arrival of the railway and the decision to make Kamloops a divisional headquarters, assured the town of further...
Dates: 1885
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).