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South African photograph album
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305X
Scope and Contents
A collection of 175 uncaptioned photographs measuring 110 x 80 mm., inserted into an album mostly four to a page. The photographs seem to record a trip to South Africa at the end of the 19th century, including visits to a number of homesteads and farms in the Cape Colony. Subjects include horses and other livestock (49 Photographs), landscapes (40), family groupings (23), homesteads (16), views from onboard ship (21), indigenous people (4) etc. There are views of Lion’s Head, a distinctive...
Dates:
1895 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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South and East Africa, 1880s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints of various sizes. The album consists of two separate volumes which have been bound together. The two original volumes break down geographically thus: Volume 1: 1-12 Madeira; 13-23 Lisbon; 24-69 South Africa.Volume 2: 70-76 South Africa; 77-103 German East Africa (now Tanzania) and Zanzibar.The prints in volume 1 and some in volume 2 have typewritten captions pasted below the photographs. The captions have been used as titles and may contain...
Dates:
1880 - 1890
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Southern African collection of Wren Robinson
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 220
Scope and Contents
Papers and photographs regarding Lesotho and South Africa.
Dates:
1964 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Southern Nigeria photographs 1908-1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints, each measuring approximately 110 x 55 mm. A number of photographs in the album relate to the Northern Hinterland Expedition and the compiler of the album was clearly connected with the Southern Nigeria Regiment of the West African Frontier Force.
Dates:
1908 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'Souvenir de I'Ile Maurice'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30483D
Scope and Contents
Album of photographs of Mauritius, most measuring 80 x 50 mm. The first page has the stencilled title 'Souvenir de I'Ile Maurice' over an outline map of Mauritius with typed place names. On one side is written 'Madame M. Silberman avec les hommages de. S. Ly-Tio-Fane.' On the left is typed 'IMPORTANT. Les references et extraits qui s'y trouvent sont du livre Port-Luis, Deux Siecles d’Histoire, de A. Toussaint.' Toussaint's book appeared in 1936 and the photographs were probably taken...
Dates:
1936 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Souvenir of the inauguration of the railway bridge over the South Channel of the River Niger by H.E. Sir Frederick Lugard ... January 31st 1916. At Jebba, Nigeria, West Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043Z
Scope and Contents
An album, with printed letterpress captions, containing prints, most measuring approximately 145 x 95 mm.The album contains general views of the bridge at Jebba, photographs taken during the opening and of the wreck of the 'Dayspring' which sank in 1857.The Jebba Bridge.Railway construction started in earnest in Nigeria in 1893 with the building of the Lagos Railway running north from Lagos to Ibadan. In 1907 work was started by the Northern Nigeria Administration on the...
Dates:
1916-01-31
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Spicer Simson photographs of the Gambia River Survey 1911-1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30447D
Scope and Contents
An album of photographs measuring, unless otherwise stated, 80 x 55 mm. Following the photographs are seven neatly handwritten pages containing some facts and figures about the Gambia and the note quoted below. All are captioned and short descriptive notes have been given where appropriate. A few details have been added from the Gambia Blue Books and Who's Who (1943).The Survey of the Gambia River is described in the following extract from the album:'Lieutenant G. Spicer...
Dates:
1911 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Spooner album of Uganda
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045D
Scope and Contents
Album inscribed inside the front cover 'To F. Jackson Esqre C.B. In remembrance of a very nice sojourn in the Uganda Protectorate with the compliments of the author by T.J. Spooner late of the Uganda Rly.' The album was given to H.B. Thomas by Lady Jackson in the 1960s (see Y3046A). The photographs are captioned by Spooner, with further details added in some cases by H.B. Thomas. Most of them show scenes on Lake Victoria, but 11 is of the Mutiny Memorial at Bukaleba, and the proof of an...
Dates:
1901
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'Studies in district administration in the East Africa Protectorate, 1895-1918': PhD thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 174
Scope and Contents
A Ph.D. thesis written at Jesus College, Cambridge, with illustrations and maps, 445 pages. It follows the broad outlines of 'Your obedient servants' (RCMS 173), and has footnotes and source references not included in that work.
Dates:
1965-11
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Studies [of Zulus]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058G
Scope and Contents
A commercially published collection of prints housed in a folder. 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 the collection's creation. Unless otherwise stated the prints measure 95 x 70 mm.
Dates:
1939 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Suakin [i.e. Sawakin] 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042A
Scope and Contents
Album of albumen prints lettered on the cover 'Photographs taken by the Royal Engineers with the Suakin Field Force 1885'. It contains photographs taken by engineer photographers during the campaign of 1885 and shows the coral architecture of the town of Suakin, portraits of the General's staff, Indian troops and lancers, and the ill-fated Suakin-Berber Railway (abandoned on Wolseley's orders, who dubbed it the line 'from nowhere to nowhere'). The photographs are captioned. The captions...
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Sudan medical papers of Robert Kirk
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 122
Scope and Contents
A wide range of papers relating to the medical practice in Sudan, written or collected by Robert Kirk.
Dates:
1950 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Summit of Pieterboth Mountain, Mauritius, c. 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30483C
Scope and Contents
174 x 221 mm. Uncaptioned and mounted on card. The view looks up towards the summit of Pieterboth Mountain (2685 feet), with figures posed on the precipitous path in the foreground.
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Sydney Tyers album
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K
Scope and Contents
A disbound album containing prints of various sizes, with captions beneath the prints. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. Of the prints, 61 relate to the overseas service of Lieutenant Colonel Tyers, the remainder being photographs of English and continental scenes. The photographer for the vast majority of the prints is unknown.The photographs are arranged in haphazard sequence but the movements of the Boadicea have...
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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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Cambridge University Library
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Tanganyika [Tanzania] photographs 1950s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469H
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose photographs of various sizes, some with captions on the reverse. The photographs were given to H.P. Britten in c. 1960 by the Superintendent of the Photograph Division of the Government Public Relations Department. Although only one is stamped 'Official photograph' it is likely that they were all officially taken.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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T.B.R. Westgate Collection on German East Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, lantern slides and glass negatives. The prints mostly relate to Westgate’s earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936. 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. Many of the lantern slides and glass negatives are uncaptioned and...
Dates:
1899 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The Alexander Hepple Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 199
Scope and Contents
Material related to the history of the South African trade union movement and the South African Labour Party
Dates:
1913 - 1983
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The Boer War Memorial, Grahamstown
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059W
Scope and Contents
Two prints, mounted on card stamped 'Hepburn and Jeanes' with captions which have been used as titles and recorded as found.
Dates:
1906
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The Cape Monthly Magazine Vols. 5-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059D-J,X
Scope and Contents
Collection of original prints inserted in issues of the monthly magazine, and one separately mounted (Y3059J). 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. A list of photographs published in the magazine is on pages 259-262 of Marjorie Bull and Joseph Denfield's 'Secure the shadow', though it is not entirely complete.
Dates:
1859 - 1862
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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Cambridge University Library
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The Carrier Corps
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 160
Scope and Contents
A typescript of 'The Carrier Corps: military labour in the East African Campaign of 1914 to 1918, and its place in the history of Kenya', 280 pages.
Dates:
1986
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'The development of African road transport in Western Nigeria, 1919-1939': MA thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 153
Scope and Contents
An M.A. thesis submitted to the Department of History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 119 pages.
Dates:
1977
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'The dispossessed': PhD thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 201
Scope and Contents
'A study of changes in African marriage and family systems under the impact of urbanization (with special reference to Eastern Native Township - and to conditions in and around the city of Johannesburg)', a Ph.D. thesis based on a study made in 1950-1953, and including photographs and maps.
Dates:
1957
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'The face in the mirror': autobiography of John Morley
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 44
Scope and Contents
The autobiography of John Morley, written during the 1970s, 122 pages.
Dates:
1970 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access:
The thesis may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the permission of the author.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'The golden stool': a novel
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 135
Scope and Contents
A novel giving a version of the Ashanti Campaign of 1900, 512 pages. The work was left unfinished at the author's death, but was completed by his widow, Mrs Helen Victoria Montagu Hall. There are inserted illustrations, including some from 'The great drama of Kumasi', and photographs supplied by the Basel Mission, including one of Hall.
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The Holy Land [i.e. Palestine], Egypt, Constantinople [i.e. Istanbul], Athens, etc. etc. 1865
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214D
Scope and Contents
Printed volume with text by W.M. Thomson illustrated with photographs taken by Francis Bedford. The photographs were taken whilst Bedford accompanied the Prince of Wales on his tour of the Middle East in 1862 and were published as an inexpensive alternative to Bedford (1863). The accompanying text in this volume is described as 'designedly of a popular character'.
Dates:
1865
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library