Photographs – Page 5 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Egypt on a tourist’s mind

Posted on 7 March 2017 by Special Collections

A guest post by Jasmin Daam, University of Kassel The emergence of tourism, i.e. an organised way of travelling, in the second half of the […]

Archives, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Letters from Civil War America

Posted on 18 August 2016 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society collections have just added an on-line catalogue entry for a fascinating series of letters written from Civil War America by Edward […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Training of Electrical Engineers – how it was done in 1894

Posted on 29 July 2016 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

A very interesting process called electrification occurred in Britain and other countries from mid-1880 until around 1950. This process included the changeover from line shafts […]

Library history, Photographs, Rare Books, Special Collections

Surgeons at war: the Fairbank papers

Posted on 5 July 2016 by Special Collections

Sir (Harold Arthur) Thomas Fairbank (1876-1961) and his son Thomas John Fairbank (1912-1998) were orthopaedic surgeons and each saw service with the Royal Army Medical […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Recent acquisitions

Manuscripts Image of the Month – The Maxim Airplane

Posted on 4 May 2016 by Frank

In 1894, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American born engineer and inventor of, amongst other things, the first machine gun, completed the construction of a ‘flying […]

Archives, Manuscripts Image of the Month, Photographs

Glimpses of early Siam and Burma [Thailand and Myanmar]

Posted on 6 April 2016 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just created an electronic catalogue for one of its largest and most significant manuscript collections: the papers of the […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

‘These tremendous years’

Posted on 18 January 2016 by John C.

This is the evocative title of a photograph collection, Y3062S, recently added by The Royal Commonwealth Society Library to our online catalogue Janus. Its creator […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Skipping on Parker's Piece (MS Add. 7515)

Cambridgeshire customs on camera

Posted on 7 October 2015 by Special Collections

Guest post by Stephen Roberts. The Eastern Counties Folklore Society was established at a meeting held in Cambridge on 18 November 1932, to investigate, collect […]

Archives, Manuscripts, New on Janus, Photographs, Special Collections

‘World’s loneliest white man’

Posted on 28 August 2015 by John C.

This was the headline of an American newspaper describing the British planter William French (1897-1960), who had greeted an American Museum of Natural History South […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

Y30448U: 19 - Whale shot by a man-of-war at Cape Coast

Cambridge Digital Library – latest update

Posted on 24 July 2015 by Special Collections

This release sees the launch of our new Lewis-Gibson collection with an initial selection of the 1700 medieval Jewish manuscripts jointly purchased by Cambridge University […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Digitisation, Lewis-Gibson Collection, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

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