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Views in the Transvaal

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055B
Scope and Contents A collection of prints mounted on thin card, most measuring approximately 190 x 140 mm., with printed captions beneath the photographs, apart from 17-23 which have no captions. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The prints are divided into two sections, each with a card stating ‘Exposé [exhibited] par Mr Le Chevalier O. W. Forssman,’ thus:1-10 Vues rises dans le...
Dates: 1874 - 1879
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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Views of Port Elizabeth and Cradock

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059Q
Scope and Contents

A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 210 x 155 mm or 150 x 105 mm, with handwritten captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Photographs probably by Revd. Alfred Hall.

Dates: 1906
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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Vryheid, South Africa

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H
Scope and Contents This album is associated with the 1st Battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment, which departed from Fulwood Barracks, Preston, on 30 November 1899 to join Sir Redvers Buller’s army in Natal in January 1900. It documents the regiment’s service at Vryheid in the eastern Transvaal between 1900 and 1901, and includes images of its officers and men, encampment, defences, patrols, logistics and recreational activities, and the arrival of allied Zulu warriors. There are also images of the town...
Dates: 1901 - 1902
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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Water colours and sketches of southern Africa

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191
Scope and Contents

Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.

Dates: 1868 - 1890
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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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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Names
British South Africa Company 2
Campbell, Killie, 1881 - 1965 (collector of Africana) 2
Elizabeth, 1900 - 2002 (née Bowes-Lyon, Queen Consort of George VI) 2
Elizabeth, II, 1926-2022 (Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) 2
George, VI, 1895 - 1952 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 2
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Longmore, Laura, fl1948 - 1998 2
Mann, A R H, fl. 1935 2
Margaret, Rose, 1930 - 2002 (Princess, daughter of George VI) 2
Robinson, Wren, fl1928 - 1981 2
Simpson, Donald Herbert, 1920 - 2002 (Librarian of the Royal Commonwealth Society) 2
Wilson, Agnes Maria, 1867 - 1957 2
Alexander, Samuel, fl1878 - 1880 (publisher) 1
Barttelot, Edmund Musgrave, 1859 - 1888 (Major) 1
Beale, E, fl. 1930-1939 (colonial administrator) 1
Best, Margaret Mary, 1872 - 1941 1
Boosé, James Rufus, 1859 - 1936 1
Botha, Louis, 1862 - 1919 (South African General and Statesman) 1
British Association 1
Bromley, W P, fl1936 1
Bruton, James Edward, 1838 -1918 (photographer) 1
Busk, Charles James, fl. 1857 -1879 (merchant) 1
Chandler, Francis Philip, fl1920 - 1927 1
Cotterill, J Rose, fl1866 - 1920 (née Bell) 1
Datta, Rena, fl1951 - 1978 1
Dick, James, 1862 - 1926 (businessman and soldier in South Africa) 1
Dunn, Edward John, 1844 - 1937 (geologist) 1
Edwards, John, fl1786 - 1788 (Royal Naval Captain) 1
Franklin, Sir (John, 1786-1847, Knight, Rear Admiral, Arctic explorer) 1
Fraser, T O, fl1900 1
Gilmour, Thomas Lennox, 1859 - 1936 (journalist) 1
Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Central Office of Information 1
Green, Morton, fl1900 1
Gros, H Ferdinand, fl. 1860 - 1909 (photographer) 1
Hall, Alfred, fl. 1906 (clergyman) 1
Hansmeyer, Susanna, 1849 1
Harding, Sir (Edward John, 1880-1954, Knight, colonial administrator) 1
Harrison, Ben, fl1999 1
Hartley, Diana, 1894 - 1986 (nursing administrator in India) 1
Hepple, Alexander, 1904 - 1983 (South African politician) 1
Hewart, Gordon, 1870 - 1943 (1st Viscount Hewart, Lord Chief Justice) 1
Hinde, Hildegarde Beatrice, 1959 (née Ginsburg) 1
Hodgson (fl 1783-1785) 1
Huxley, Elspeth Josceline, 1907 (author) 1
Jones, Theodora Eyton (c 1890-1975) 1
Kimble, Charles F, fl. 1950 (photographer) 1
Lamb, Albert Ernest, fl1901 1
Lazarus brothers (fl. 1899-1909) (photographers) 1
Liberal Party of South Africa 1
Manheimer, Emile, 1848 1
Manners, C, fl. 1905 (photographer) 1
Matson, Albert Thomas, 1915 - 1987 1
Maxwell, Winifred Alice, fl1956 - 1976 (historian) 1
Melvill, Edward H V, fl. 1879-1899 (government surveyor) 1
Napier, William Craig Emilius, 1818 - 1903 (Major General) 1
Noble, Roderick, fl1860 - 1861 1
Northern Natal African Landowners' Association 1
Paice, Arnold, 1879 - 1963 (tea trader and farmer in Africa) 1
Pasha, Emin, 1840 - 1892 (governor of Equatoria) 1
Redwood, Charles Lewis, fl1879 1
Robinson, E Rokeby, fl. 1902 1
Royal Colonial Institute 1
Royal Commonwealth Society 1
Royal Geographical Society 1
Rudland, Henry, fl. 1910-1915 1
Scott, P G, fl. 1905 1
Selborne, William Waldegrave Palmer, 1859 - 1942 (2nd Earl of Selborne) 1
Shell South Africa (Pty) Limited 1
Siggins, Arthur James, 1880 - 1970 1
South African Labour Party 1
Stanley, Sir (Henry Morton, 1841-1904, Knight, explorer, administrator, author and journalist) 1
Sueur, Robert W Le, fl1921 - 2001 1
Tyers, Sydney, fl1863 - 1896 (Lieutenant Colonel) 1
Tylden, Geoffrey, 1883 - 1970 (Major) 1
Tyrrell, Barbara Eleanor Harcourt, 1912 (artist) 1
Val, Charles Henry Du, 1854 - 1889 (Entertainer) 1
Westgate, Thomas Buchanan Reginald, fl1899 - 1936 (missionary) 1
Wet, Christiaan Rudolf (de, 1854-1922, General) 1
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