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Society women of Johannesburg
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055C
Scope and Contents
A collection of studio portraits of society hostesses and personalities; prints of various sizes and by various photographers. Y3055C/2-4 and 11 are by Duffus Bros.
Dates:
1890 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sorell causeway
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3088B
Scope and Contents
180 x 103 mm. A mounted print, with a handwritten caption beneath which reads: 'Sorell causeway over the Pittwater (?) River, from the Bluff, Cambridge, Tasmania.' A view looking across the small causeway, along which runs a railway line, towards the Sorell side of the bay. The causeway, which crosses Pitt Water, thus allowing a straight route from Hobart to Sorell and thence on to the east coast of Tasmania, was started at the instigation of Governor Sir William Denison in 1854. It was...
Dates:
1875
Conditions Governing Access:
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South Africa 1936 (Lord Hewart Album)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305P
Scope and Contents
An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...
Dates:
1936-07-24 - 1936-09-18
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South Africa, Bechuanaland and Basutoland circa 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305U
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...
Dates:
1902
Conditions Governing Access:
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'South Africa Illustrated by a series of one hundred and four permanent photographs', Port Elizabeth : R Harris, 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C
Scope and Contents
Originally a printed book containing carbon prints tipped onto the leaves above brief letterpress captions. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The photographs have been removed and are housed in inert archival sleeves. Most of the photographs, with the exception of a few large format...
Dates:
1888
Conditions Governing Access:
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South African Aid to Britain Fund
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of a series of albums relating to the youth tours funded by the South African Aid to Britain Fund, containing photographs, information about the tours and inserted material. In addition, three cine films document the tours of the Gold Coast and Nigeria (November 1955 - January 1956.) The rest of the collection comprises two articles on the tours and a few related papers. The collection is accompanied by three pieces of correspondence between D.H. Simpson, R.C.S....
Dates:
1948 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access:
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South African Cricketer in the Western Desert [i.e. As Sahra' al Gharbiyah]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011X
Scope and Contents
British Official Photograph, War Office, showing an unidentified South African corporal batting during an impromptu cricket match with a wicket made of spades. The image measures 209 x 152 mm. The caption on the reverse reads: 'A South African Cricketer in the Western Desert. A well-known African cricketer is now serving with the South African Forces in the Western Desert. He is a Corporal.At the wicket. Despite the very wide wicket and the numerous slips, he still...
Dates:
1942
Conditions Governing Access:
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South African flowers of the Eastern Province
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 212
Scope and Contents
Twenty-three watercolours mounted on card, 12" x 16½". The paintings have pencilled titles and in some cases places and dates. They include agapanthus, antholyza, bellandonna lily, Cape Town bulbs, Cape honeysuckle (tecona-capensis), common olive, cyrtanthus, gladiolus, grenadilla, hybiscus, hyobanche sanguinea, iris, pelargonium, plumbago, sparaxis pendula and thistle.
Dates:
1866 - 1877
Conditions Governing Access:
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South African history in pictures
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 342
Scope and Contents
A three-part series of black and white images on card designed to provide teachers with material to illustrate history lessons. The series includes a wide range of pictures, portraits and photographs. Titles and captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The items are undated, but probably originate from between the 1960s and 1980s.
Dates:
1970
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South African papers of Killie Campbell
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 333
Scope and Contents
Papers gathered by Killie Campbell relating to the issue of race relations between the two world wars, under the nomenclature of the time referred to as the 'native question' or the 'colour question'. Includes draft and published articles, memoranda, minutes of meetings, newscuttings, notes and reports. The topics covered include government legislation, complaints from the townships, and issues to do with employment, including industry and forced labour, and the place of women. Some material...
Dates:
1919 - 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
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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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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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South Australia. Views in Adelaide, Suburbs and Country Districts
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A
Scope and Contents
A commercially produced album containing 42 mounted prints, mostly 260 x 200 mm., of scenes in Adelaide and the surrounding countryside, with printed captions. 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. Photographer unknown, printed by 'E. Spiller, Govt. Printer, Adelaide.'
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
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South Sea Islanders
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309D
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs mounted on card with handwritten captions on the reverse of the mounts. No record has been found of the firm W. and E. Dufty (their stamp on the reverse of the print mounts gives the firm’s location no more explicitly than ‘South Sea Islands’), but it would seem almost certain that it was connected with the work of Francis H. Dufty, a photographer in Levuka in 1871.
Dates:
1875
Conditions Governing Access:
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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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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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'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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Souvenir of India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022ZZZZ
Scope and Contents
An accordion fold album containing 12 albumen prints showing domestic scenes, 143 x 100 mm in size, with pencil captions beneath each image (written over fainter pencil captions). The photographer is unknown, but a similarly titled album of the same size has been credited to the French photographer Jean Baptiste Oscar Mallitte (1829-1905).
Dates:
1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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Souvenir of New South Wales Court, Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087J
Scope and Contents
An album containing nineteen mounted prints measuring approximately 290 x 225 mm., photographed by Johnston and O'Shannessy, and showing scenes in, and exhibits from, the New South Wales Court. Prints are uncaptioned apart from 'Johnstone and O'Shannessy, 55 and 57 Collins Street, Melbourne,' written beneath each print.
Dates:
1888 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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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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Sparke family papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 261
Scope and Contents
All documents relate to the Sparke family and are chiefly bonds, receipts and accounts. 42 have been briefly calendared on slips of paper. 41 of these date from 1638-79 and the other from 1754. There are also 12 uncalendared papers, chiefly accounts and lists of debts, of which five are dated between 1669 and 1672; the remainder are undated, but from their appearance can be assigned to the same period. Of especial interest are the first eleven items relating to the West Indies, eight of...
Dates:
1638 - 1754
Conditions Governing Access:
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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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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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Sports, Pastimes and Pursuits of Canada: Cariboo Hunting
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062A
Scope and Contents
A slip-case containing prints taken in Montreal, mounted on card with brief letterpress captions. Most prints measure approximately 120 x 90 mm. These pictures, which to the modern eye have a rather comical air of strained posing, were evidently much sought after at the time as being marvellously realistic (this particular collection is one of a series).
Dates:
1866
Conditions Governing Access:
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State schools and orphanages, Queensland
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085F
Scope and Contents
Album measuring 400 x 260 mm, containing watercolour plans and elevations, and three more mounted photographs of architectural designs for schools and orphanages. The title on the front cover is blocked in gold and reads: 'Queensland Court/Colonial and Indian Exhibition, sketch plans and photographs of state schools and orphanages, Queensland.' Plates 15, 16 and 18 photographed by IDC. An Act of 1875 laid an obligation on the administration to provide 'free, secular, and...
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library