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Watercolours and drawings of Edward Frome

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40
Scope and Contents This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...
Dates: 1827 - 1975
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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West African photographs. 1950-60s

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043R
Scope and Contents

A collection of prints, by various photographers, of various sizes and the majority with captions on the reverse. The prints break down geographically thus:

1-60 Nigeria
61-79 Sierra Leone
80-83 The Gambia
84-109 Ghana
110-116 Miscellaneous.





Dates: 1950 - 1969
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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West African Railways

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448W
Scope and Contents A collection of photographs created by the railway engineer Charles Bell Swan. The discovery of gold at Tarkwa during the 1890s provided the stimulus for the establishment of the Gold Coast Government Railway. Sekondi was chosen as the terminal port to support mining operations and construction began there in 1898, reaching Tarkwa in 1901. The line was extended to Kumasi in 1903. Items 1-18 and 44 document the building of the harbour facilities and station at Sekondi, and the European and...
Dates: 1902 - 1912
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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West African trading activities

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043NN
Scope and Contents

An album containing photographs showing aspects of European trade in the West African coast.

The photographs occupy 28 pages of an album; plates 21-27, 30-31 and 32-34 each occupy one page. There are a number of blank pages at the back. Most of the prints have brief captions, which have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. They are not always reliable: see, e.g., plates 10 and 15.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Whitting Collection on Nigeria

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043Q
Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints, mostly taken by Mrs. C.E.J. Whitting. Captions are chiefly derived from information written on the backs of the prints. There is some duplication of prints, particularly towards the end of the list.Charles Edward Jewel Whitting was born on 10 June 1900, and educated at Haileybury, which he left in 1918 for Sandhurst, followed by service in the Northumberland Fusiliers. He entered St. John's College, Oxford in 1920 (B.A. 1922, M.A. 1928) and went to...
Dates: 1930 - 1952
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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Wimberley Collection on Nigeria, c.1903-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043OO
Scope and Contents

Collection of 91 glass negatives, 106 x 80 mm; 3 negatives on film, 90 x 60 mm; and 3 modern prints, 150 x 120 mm. Many of the negatives lack descriptive captions. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

Dates: 1903 - 1918
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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W.M. Bristow Nigerian photographs

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043D-E
Scope and Contents

A collection of small photographs in albums. These albums cover aspects of Bristow's work between the early 1930s and 1960.

Y3043D has virtually no captions - there are some in Y3043E, but many of these relate to groups of photographs and the listing is therefore a summary, not an individual record.

Dates: 1930 - 1960
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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Women in Uganda today

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045P
Scope and Contents Collection of thirty-nine (from an original set of forty-nine) loose prints, mounted on card and measuring approximately 375 x 300 mm. The series, which was produced for display at a conference held in Kampala in 1961 on the role of women in Uganda, is accompanied by a typed checklist of captions together with some identification on the reverse of some of the prints. The photographs are split into seven groups:Group A: In the homeGroup B: Women in the makingGroup C: Women...
Dates: 1961
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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Wren Robinson Collection on South Africa

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305S
Scope and Contents

A collection of photographs of Basutoland (now Lesotho) and Zululand, some loose, some in albums, taken or collected by Mrs Wren Robinson while engaged in educational and welfare work. Most have handwritten captions either underneath or on the back by Mrs Robinson. The prints are kept with her papers at RCMS 220.

Dates: 1964 - 1980
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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'Your obedient servants, 1895-1918'

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 173
Scope and Contents

An unpublished account of the role of the early district officer in Kenya and the problems inherent in implementing policy, with illustrations and maps, 501 pages. There is a five-page survey of sources, but only limited source references. The book was written with the financial support of the Department of Technical Cooperation, which enabled Cashmore to spend two years on research and writing, one of which was spent in Kenya. The volume is dated at the front October 1964.

Dates: 1964
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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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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Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Central Office of Information 8
Church Missionary Society 5
Thomas, Harold Beken, 1888 - 1971 (colonial administrator and historian) 5
Elizabeth, II, 1926-2022 (Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) 4
Longmore, Laura, fl1948 - 1998 4
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Smith, Sir (Walter Buchanan-, 1879-1944, Knight) 4
Bosazza, Vere Louis, fl1973 - 1976 3
British Overseas Airways Corporation 3
Cashmore, Thomas Herbert Richard, 1928 3
Christy, Cuthbert, 1863 - 1932 (explorer and zoologist) 3
Rudland, Henry, fl. 1910-1915 3
Simpson, Donald Herbert, 1920 - 2002 (Librarian of the Royal Commonwealth Society) 3
Smyly, Sir (Philip Crampton, 1866-1953, Knight and colonial administrator) 3
Banks, Frederick Grant, 1875 - 1954 (trader and planter) 2
Barlow, Christopher Matthew, 1898 - 1930 2
Bell, Sir (Henry Hesketh Joudou, 1864-1952, Knight, colonial governor) 2
Best, Margaret Mary, 1872 - 1941 2
British South Africa Company 2
Campbell, Killie, 1881 - 1965 (collector of Africana) 2
Cansdale, George Soper, 1909 2
Elizabeth, 1900 - 2002 (née Bowes-Lyon, Queen Consort of George VI) 2
Ellison, Randall Erskine, 1904 - 1984 (colonial administrator) 2
Falconer, John, 1951 (Curator of photographs, British Library) 2
Frome, Edward Charles, 1802 - 1890 (General) 2
Gedge, Ernest, 1862 - 1935 (colonial administrator) 2
George, VI, 1895 - 1952 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 2
Gray, Sir (John Milner, 1889-1970, Knight and colonial administrator) 2
Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Ministry of Information. West African Photographic Service 2
Hartley, Diana, 1894 - 1986 (nursing administrator in India) 2
Historical Society of Nigeria 2
Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry, 1858 - 1945 (Baron Lugard, colonial administrator, soldier and author) 2
Macfie, John William Scott, 1879 - 1948 (doctor) 2
Mann, A R H, fl. 1935 2
Margaret, Rose, 1930 - 2002 (Princess, daughter of George VI) 2
Matson, Albert Thomas, 1915 - 1987 2
Millar, Ernest, 1868 - 1917 (missionary) 2
Mutesa, II, 1924 - 1969 (Kabaka of Buganda) 2
Pedrotti, L, fl. 1902 (photographer) 2
Philip, b, 1921 (Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II) 2
Robinson, Wren, fl1928 - 1981 2
Royal Commonwealth Society 2
Smith, James Carmichael, 1852 - 1919 2
Stanley, Sir (Henry Morton, 1841-1904, Knight, explorer, administrator, author and journalist) 2
Tengely, Philip Louis, 1875 2
Walker, Robert Henry, 1857 - 1939 (Archdeacon of Uganda) 2
Ward, Mary Alexandria, 1866 - 1965 (nurse) 2
Westgate, Thomas Buchanan Reginald, fl1899 - 1936 (missionary) 2
Wilson, Agnes Maria, 1867 - 1957 2
A C Gomes and Sons (1869-1917) (photographers) 1
Alexander, Samuel, fl1878 - 1880 (publisher) 1
Alldridge, Thomas Joshua, 1847 - 1916 (photographer) 1
Atem, Yaak Atem, fl1984 (broadcaster) 1
Azikiwe, Benjamin Nnamdi, 1904 - 1996 (President of Nigeria) 1
Baines, Thomas, 1822 - 1875 (artist and African explorer) 1
Barttelot, Edmund Musgrave, 1859 - 1888 (Major) 1
Baskerville, George Knyfton, 1867 - 1941 (Archdeacon of Uganda, missionary) 1
Beale, E, fl. 1930-1939 (colonial administrator) 1
Bedford, Francis, 1816 -1894 (photographer) 1
Bell, Christopher Richard Vincent, 1911 1
Bell, Jane, fl1952 - 1981 1
Bere, Rennie Montague, 1907 - 1991 (colonial administrator and naturalist) 1
Bieneman, Gustavus Adolphus John, 1889 - 1956 (colonial administrator) 1
Boosé, James Rufus, 1859 - 1936 1
Botha, Louis, 1862 - 1919 (South African General and Statesman) 1
Bridges, William Maclaren, 1898 - 1971 1
Bristow, W M, fl1930 - 1960 (missionary) 1
British Association 1
British Broadcasting Corporation 1
Bromhead, Walter Sidney, 1944 (author) 1
Bromley, W P, fl1936 1
Bruton, James Edward, 1838 -1918 (photographer) 1
Busk, Charles James, fl. 1857 -1879 (merchant) 1
Canham, Peter Holmes, 1914 - 1984 (colonial administrator) 1
Carver, Harry Drinkwater, 1943 1
Chandler, Francis Philip, fl1920 - 1927 1
Churchill, Sir (Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965, Knight, statesman and historian) 1
Clifford, Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle, 1945 1
Clifford, Sir (Hugh, 1866-1941, Knight, colonial governor) 1
Cockburn, James Hutchison, 1882 - 1973 (clergyman) 1
Collard, Charles Edwin, 1868 - 1942 (Captain Royal Marine Light Infantry) 1
Coote, John Methuen, fl1903 - 1962 1
Cotterill, J Rose, fl1866 - 1920 (née Bell) 1
Cowan, Lilnas A, fl1889 - 1892 1
Crosby, Oscar Terry, 1861 -1947 (traveller and writer) 1
Dalrymple, Thomas Hardie, b. 1900 (physician) 1
Datta, Rena, fl1951 - 1978 1
Davies, Herbert Howel, 1872 - 1910 1
Dick, James, 1862 - 1926 (businessman and soldier in South Africa) 1
Dickson, William L, fl1950 - 2000 (surveyor) 1
Dunn, Edward John, 1844 - 1937 (geologist) 1
East African Railways and Harbours Corporation 1
Edgar, Florence Ann, 1941 - 2013 (née Clitheroe) 1
Edgar, Thomas Leslie, 1919 - 1998 1
Edward, VIII, 1894 - 1972 (King of Great Britain and Ireland, afterwards Duke of Windsor) 1
Edwards, John, fl1786 - 1788 (Royal Naval Captain) 1
Entebbe Club 1
Entebbe Golf Club 1
Entebbe Lawn Tennis Club 1
Entebbe Literary and Dramatic Society 1
Entebbe Sports Club 1
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