Photographs – Page 6 – Cambridge University Library 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

Victorian Celebrities

Posted on 14 July 2015 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection has published an on-line catalogue for a fascinating series of photographic portraits which were issued between 1888 and 1896 […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Cambridge Digital Library – July update

Posted on 3 July 2015 by Special Collections

This release sees the launch of our new Royal Commonwealth Society collection. The Royal Commonwealth Society Library collections are a treasure-trove of information, pictorial and […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

British Malaya in the 1930s

Posted on 20 May 2015 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society collections have created an on-line catalogue for a recent acquisition, the archives of the railway engineer Hugh Murton Le Fleming. A […]

Archives, New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Tea and coffee in India and Ceylon

Posted on 22 January 2015 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have uploaded an on-line catalogue for a visually rich recent acquisition, donated by the former planter John Weatherstone. Weatherstone was […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian

Ghana: Health and Nursing

Posted on 10 November 2014 by Francesca

In her third post highlighting pictorial records of Ghana in the Library’s Royal Commonwealth Society’s collections, RCS volunteer Francesca Issatt focusses on the Weston collection […]

Archives, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Ghana: Our Days on the Gold Coast

Posted on 5 November 2014 by Francesca

The following post is the second in a series promoting the Library’s superb historic photographic collections of Ghana, which form part of the Royal Commonwealth […]

Archives, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Archives of John Seymour Benson

Posted on 31 October 2014 by John C.

The RCS has just created an on-line catalogue for a fascinating recent acquisition, the papers and photographs of the geologist and mining engineer John Seymour […]

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

Ghana, a photographic history: images of Achimota College

Posted on 13 October 2014 by Rachel Rowe

Michael John Fuller worked at the front desk in the main Reading Room of Cambridge University Library from June 1992 until his sudden death in […]

Archives, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

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