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W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M-O
Scope and Contents A collection of photographs on 125 brown loose album sheets, many with hand-written captions. The captions have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. There are two 'Title pages' which have been transcribed at Y304M and Y304N, dated 1934 and 1935-36. The album sheets which appear to...
Dates: 1930 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Zanzibar (Chandler Collection)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B
Scope and Contents

A collection of separate photographs and a panorama. The photographs date from Chandler's residence in east Africa, and are chiefly of Zanzibar Island, but 60-73 and 83-87 are of Dar es Salaam, 75 is probably of England, 88-89 are of South Africa and 90-96 are of the Victoria Falls.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Alexander, Samuel, fl1878 - 1880 (publisher) 1
Barttelot, Edmund Musgrave, 1859 - 1888 (Major) 1
British Association 1
British Overseas Airways Corporation 1
Chandler, Francis Philip, fl1920 - 1927 1
Coote, John Methuen, fl1903 - 1962 1
Dickson, William L, fl1950 - 2000 (surveyor) 1
East African Railways and Harbours Corporation 1
Falconer, John, 1951 (Curator of photographs, British Library) 1
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 1
Gedge, Ernest, 1862 - 1935 (colonial administrator) 1
Gilmour, Thomas Lennox, 1859 - 1936 (journalist) 1
Grant, James Augustus, 1827 - 1892 1
Gray, Sir (John Milner, 1889-1970, Knight and colonial administrator) 1
Hartley, Diana, 1894 - 1986 (nursing administrator in India) 1
Hinde, Hildegarde Beatrice, 1959 (née Ginsburg) 1
Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas 1
Makerere University College 1
Maxwell, Ian, 1991 1
Pasha, Emin, 1840 - 1892 (governor of Equatoria) 1
Powell, W, fl1930 - 1939 1
Redwood, Ivor Charles, 1891 - 1964 (engineer) 1
Rogers, Alexander Stuart, 1862 - 1930 1
Royal Colonial Institute 1
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Simpson, Donald Herbert, 1920 - 2002 (Librarian of the Royal Commonwealth Society) 1
Sinclair, John Houston, 1871 - 1961 1
Smith, Sir (Walter Buchanan-, 1879-1944, Knight) 1
Stanley, Sir (Henry Morton, 1841-1904, Knight, explorer, administrator, author and journalist) 1
Stokes, Charles Henry, 1895 1
Sueur, Robert W Le, fl1921 - 2001 1
Tanganyika. Public Relations Department 1
Tanganyikan Information Services 1
Thomas, Harold Beken, 1888 - 1971 (colonial administrator and historian) 1
Wilson, Fergus Brunswick, 1908 - 1999 1
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