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Papers on W.A.I.T.R (West African Institute For Trypanosomiasis Research) service
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 349
Scope and Contents
Two accounts of Moffat's term of service in Nigeria, describing his complaints about how he was treated, and a letter to the Foreign Secretary concerning his grievances. Together with a copy of an account relating to the purchase and use of a VW pick-up truck and photographs of Moffat's time in Nigeria.
Dates:
2005 - 2010
Conditions Governing Access:
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Papers on West Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 125
Scope and Contents
Typescript and manuscript documents relating to West Africa, 127 pages. The papers were probably assembled by Gray for his proposed edition of Frances Moore's 'Travels into the inland parts of Africa' for the Hakluyt Society, which he was unable to complete due to illness. It is not known when they were compiled. There is an accompanying letter from A.T. Matson to D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, 17 June 1975, and Simpson's reply of 18 June.1. Biographical note regarding Francis...
Dates:
1970
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on women in Uganda
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 166
Scope and Contents
Three papers regarding Ugandan women and correspondence regarding the Bell photographs presented to the R.C.S.
Dates:
1961 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Past Governors of The Gambia at Government House, Bathurst
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30447C
Scope and Contents
One print, measuring 157 x 204 mm, with identifications on the reverse. A group portrait taken on the steps of Government House, Bathurst on the occasion of Gambian Independence in 1965. Included in the photograph of five past Governors and the Governor-General are:Sir John Warburton Paul (b. 1916); ADC and Private Secretary to Governor of Sierra Leone 1945; Colonial Administrative Service, Sierra Leone 1947-1962; Governor of The Gambia 1962-5; Governor-General 1965-6; Governor and...
Dates:
1965
Conditions Governing Access:
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Penelope 'Pepe' Roberts: papers on Ghana
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 383
Content Description
Field notebooks, notes, draft and published articles, and audio-visual material relating for the most part to Roberts's research on education in Ghana. Together with a series of photographs and slides documenting aspects of life in Sefwi Wiawso and Roberts's time in Ghana and Nigeria.
Dates:
1961 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
Researchers wishing to consult this collection will be required to complete a data release form. Part of one file (RCMS 383/2/5) is closed to researchers under data protection legislation. For further information, please contact rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk.
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Cambridge University Library
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Peter Canham albums of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O-R
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums relating to Canham's career in the Gold Coast. Like his papers, it is a partial collection.Y30448O is an album of snapshots of his early days in the Colony.Y30448P includes some photographs relating to his career and also some cuttings and other historical items.Y30448Q is chiefly of official photographs of the period of Sir Alan Burns' Governorship, 1941-47.Y30448R is of the last stages to Independence and of Governors Creasy (1948-49) and...
Dates:
1938 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographic Scenery of South Africa, [S.l.]: S. Alexander, 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B
Scope and Contents
A printed book containing tipped-in reproductions from photographs, all measuring 140 x 100 mm, with brief letterpress captions beneath the prints. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The prints are grainy with high contrast. Consequently, the images are listed rather than described in detail, although occasional notes and cross-references on points of interest have been added. The process used in the reproductions has not...
Dates:
1880
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Bushmen, Herero and Ovambo
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3057C
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, mostly measuring approximately 55 x 85 mm, with handwritten captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation.
The term Bushmen was used to describe a group of Khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherers who lived in the Kalahari Desert.
Dates:
1927
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Cape Province
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059Y
Scope and Contents
A collection of high quality photographs, measuring 210 x 160 mm, mounted on black album sheets. They are uncaptioned but most have been identified from books on the Cape and on South African architecture; 25-31 are almost certainly photographs of Zulu peoples; the remainder are less clearly identified. Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1920 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Egypt and the Sudan, 1870s-80s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B
Scope and Contents
A collection of albumen prints measuring approximately 210 x 280 mm, captioned either in the negative or in pencil on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The collection contains several duplicates and appears to contain photographs from several sources. Prints 1-10 show architectural and landscape views in Egypt (Cairo, the Pyramids and the Suez Canal), the remainder are...
Dates:
1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Entebbe
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045H
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 200 x 145 mm, with handwritten captions on the reverse. Photographs are by Alfred Lobo of Entebbe (only one print is stamped with Lobo's name but it is likely that the rest of the prints are also by him.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of German South-West Africa [i.e. Namibia]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3057B
Scope and Contents
A collection of two loose prints (with modern enlargements) with pencilled captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Photographs by Henry Rudland.
Dates:
1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Ghana and Nigeria
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints and negatives chiefly taken by Frank E. Joselin while on the staff of Achimota College, Ghana, between Jan. 1930 and Nov. 1947. This material falls into five groups: aerial views of Achimota taken in Jan.1931, later views including some taken from the tower, scenes following the Accra earthquake of 23 June 1939, the visit of the Asantehene in 1946, and portraits of the college’s first principal Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser and Assistant Vice Principal J.E.K. Aggrey. ...
Dates:
1930 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of India and Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe], 1890s-1930s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints of various sizes. A number of the earlier prints have evidently been removed from the pages of an album. The collection is divided up as follows:1-19 Views in India (Mussoorie, Muttra and Hurdwar), 1890s-1900s, mainly commercial work but with some amateur snapshots20-26 Postcards of India, early 1900s27-37 Snapshots of Southern Rhodesia, 1920s-1930sMost of the prints have contemporary captions, and many in addition have titles written at a...
Dates:
1890 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Kenya
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468W
Scope and Contents
A collection consisting of one cibachrome print, one 130 x 100 mm colour transparency, one 130 x 100 mm colour negative and twelve 130 x 100 mm monochrome copy negatives. The originals of these photographs were part of the collection of Sir Edward William Macleay Grigg (1879-1955), 1st Baron Altrincham and Governor of Kenya 1925-31. They were loaned by John Grigg in August 1985, when these copies were made by John Falconer.
Dates:
1985
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Kenya, c 1905-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046B
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose snapshots of various sizes with pencilled captions on the reverse. The photographs show scenes in a settler's life in the young colony. Bromhead joined in 1912 and died in Australia in 1944.
Dates:
1905 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Mashonaland and Matabeleland
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052B
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted prints measuring approximately 240 x 180 mm, with captions beneath the prints written in a fine copperplate hand. The photographs show scenes taken between June and September 1890 during the Pioneer trek in what was later to be Southern Rhodesia (currently Zimbabwe). On July 9 1891, soon after his return to England, Surridge delivered a lecture to the Royal Colonial Institute, entitled 'Matabeleland and Mashonaland'. This talk was illustrated with lantern...
Dates:
1890-06 - 1890-09
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Mauritius, 1890s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30483A
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose uncaptioned albumen prints.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Mochudi
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549E
Scope and Contents
Three photographs of the town, now part of Botswana, and one perhaps taken in its environs, by the South African photographer Thomas Daniel (T.D.) Ravenscroft. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation.Ravenscroft began working as a photographer in the late 1880s and established a studio at Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa. All four photographs are...
Dates:
1900 - 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of North Africa and Asia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A
Scope and Contents
A large album of albumen prints. The prints are of various sizes and by various photographers. The compiler of the album is not known. Captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1860 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of Nyasaland [i.e. Malawi], c. 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3051B
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 205 x 150 mm. The views shown, all uncaptioned, have not been identified.
Dates:
1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of South Africa, circa 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305H
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose photographs. The prints measure approximately 120 x 95 mm and are probably by the donor Morton Green. All the photographs have brief pencilled captions and are numbered on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Pacific Islands, the United States and Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K
Dates:
1949 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of the East African Campaign 1915-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468V
Scope and Contents
Collection of twenty-nine 60 x 60 mm modern copy negatives (no prints) selected from an album compiled by J.H. Furniss R.A.F (also the photographer). The material relates to air and naval activity against the German battleship ‘Konigsberg’ in Zanzibar and German East Africa during 1915-16, with other general scenes from the German East Africa Campaign. Copy negatives made by John Falconer, May 1985.
Dates:
1985
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photographs of the German South-West Africa [i.e. Namibia] Campaign, 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3057A
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose photographs (modern prints from original glass negatives probably taken by Stanley Archibald Markham Pritchard), most measuring approximately 190 x 140 mm and showing scenes connected with the occupation of Windhoek and a trip to Ovamboland undertaken by Pritchard later in the same year. Originals of these photographs (3-4 and 7-9) were used to illustrate a talk given by Pritchard to the African Society on May 11 1916 and the same captions are used here. The captions...
Dates:
1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library