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Manly (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Manly, Sydney Harbour, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/66
Scope and Contents

A view of the beach at Manly, with swimmers in the background and men and women posing for the camera in front.

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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Manly, Sydney Harbour, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/14
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view of the beach at Manly, with holiday-makers posing for the camera, and swimmers in the sea beyond.

Dates: 1909
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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Surf Bathing at Manly, Near Sydney, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/15
Scope and Contents A view of the beach at Manly, with bathers in the surf in the background, and men and women posing for the camera in front. Laws forbidding public bathing during the hours of daylight had been in force since 1838, and were invoked against would-be surfers who had caught the craze from a certain Tony Tanna, who came from Tanna Island in the New Hebrides. By 1902, however, widespread disregard of this law stopped the police from taking any action and by 1907 Surf Clubs were founded at Manly...
Dates: 1911
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).