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Wren Robinson Collection on South Africa

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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Yass, New South Wales 1949

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086W
Scope and Contents

Collection of professional photographs, each 90 x 70 mm, published for the Yass Newsagency by the Valentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney and Melbourne. Yass is 43 miles north of Canberra. Its population in 1947 was 3254.

Dates: 1949
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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'Yesterday, today, and Toodyay'

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 384
Scope and Contents This is a semi-autobiographical memoir recording how Helen Shaw’s parents travelled to Malaya in September 1940 during the Second World War, where her father, Dr William D. Ainslie, took up the post of Medical Officer of Health, Penang. Shaw was born in May 1941. She recounts how she and her mother Marcia Margaret Ainslie were evacuated from Penang to Singapore, and then Java, after Penang was bombed by the Japanese in December 1941; their travel from Java to Western Australia in January...
Dates: 2008 - 2009
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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Young collection on Gibraltar

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A
Scope and Contents

A number of the images depict Gibraltar, the remainder relate to Young's service in Woolwich, Shoeburyness, and elsewhere in the U.K.

Dates: 1885 - 1888
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'

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)

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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Africa (continent) 438
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Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Central Office of Information 13
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Simpson, Donald Herbert, 1920 - 2002 (Librarian of the Royal Commonwealth Society) 6
British Overseas Airways Corporation 5
Church Missionary Society 5
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Longmore, Laura, fl1948 - 1998 5
Smith, Sir (Walter Buchanan-, 1879-1944, Knight) 5
Thomas, Harold Beken, 1888 - 1971 (colonial administrator and historian) 5
Elizabeth, II, 1926 (Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) 4
Falconer, John, 1951 (Curator of photographs, British Library) 4
MacDonald, Malcolm John, 1901 - 1981 (politician and diplomat) 4
Powell, Wilfred, 1853 - 1942 (explorer and consular official) 4
Smyly, Sir (Philip Crampton, 1866-1953, Knight and colonial administrator) 4
Bosazza, Vere Louis, fl1973 - 1976 3
Cashmore, Thomas Herbert Richard, 1928 3
Christy, Cuthbert, 1863 - 1932 (explorer and zoologist) 3
Elizabeth, 1900 - 2002 (née Bowes-Lyon, Queen Consort of George VI) 3
George, VI, 1895 - 1952 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 3
Great Britain. Colonial Office. Visual Instruction Committee 3
Hartley, Diana, 1894 - 1986 (nursing administrator in India) 3
Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry, 1858 - 1945 (Baron Lugard, colonial administrator, soldier and author) 3
Penn, Albert Thomas Watson, 1849-1924 (photographer) 3
Royal Colonial Institute 3
Rudland, Henry, fl. 1910-1915 3
Stanley, Sir (Henry Morton, 1841-1904, Knight, explorer, administrator, author and journalist) 3
Tench, Mary F A, fl. 1910 - 1929 3
Williams, George Howard, 1893 - 1975 (businessman) 3
Wright, George Parkinson, fl1874 - 1883 (photographer) 3
Alexander, John Abercromby, 1854 (forester) 2
Arthur, Sir (Oswald Raynor, 1905-1973, Knight and colonial administrator) 2
Australian Information Service 2
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
Bermuda News Bureau 2
Best, Margaret Mary, 1872 - 1941 2
Brewster, Adolf Brewster, 1854 - 1937 (anthropologist) 2
British Broadcasting Corporation 2
British South Africa Company 2
British, Association of Malaysia and Singapore 2
Burke, Norah Aileen, 1907 (novelist) 2
Byron-May Company (fl. 1906-1917) (photographers) 2
Caire, Nicholas John, 1837 -1918 (photographer) 2
Campbell, Killie, 1881 - 1965 (collector of Africana) 2
Canadian Pacific Railway 2
Cansdale, George Soper, 1909 2
Copeland, A E, fl1917 - 1918 2
Corner, Edred John Henry, 1906 - 1996 (Botanist) 2
Crombie, John Nicol, 1827 -1878 (photographer) 2
Cust, Robert Needham, 1821 - 1909 (orientalist) 2
Dick, James, 1862 - 1926 (businessman and soldier in South Africa) 2
Drake, Bernard L, fl1955 - 1961 (civil servant) 2
Ellison, Randall Erskine, 1904 - 1984 (colonial administrator) 2
Elsy, R, fl1880 - 1889 2
Fisher, Alfred Hugh, 1867 -1945 (artist and photographer) 2
Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914 (Inspector of Police and photographer) 2
Franklin, Sir (John, 1786-1847, Knight, Rear Admiral, Arctic explorer) 2
Frith, Francis, 1822 -1898 (photographer) 2
Frome, Edward Charles, 1802 - 1890 (General) 2
G R Lambert and Co (fl. 1875-1919) (photographers) 2
Gedge, Ernest, 1862 - 1935 (colonial administrator) 2
George, V, 1865 - 1936 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 2
Goepel, John, 1906 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
Historical Society of Nigeria 2
Hone, Sir (Herbert Ralph, 1896-1992, Knight, Major General, colonial administrator) 2
John Watson and Co (fl. 1855-1875) (photographers) 2
Joselin, Frank E, fl1930 - 1947 2
Jukes, Worthington, 1849 - 1937 (missionary) 2
Kerry, Charles, 1858-1928 (photographer) 2
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874 - 1950 (Canadian statesman) 2
Laing, John William (b c 1846) 2
Livingstone, David, 1813 - 1873 (African missionary and explorer) 2
Lovett, Hubert Richard, 1854 - 1908 (army officer) 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
Morris, Sir (Daniel, 1844-1933, Knight) 2
Mutesa, II, 1924 - 1969 (Kabaka of Buganda) 2
Newton, Lillian Allan, 1894 - 1977 2
Notman, William, 1826-1891 (photographer) 2
O'Kelly, Elizabeth, 1915c (olonial officer) 2
Parker, Frederick Hardyman, fl1890 2
Pedrotti, L, fl. 1902 (photographer) 2
Philip, b, 1921 (Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II) 2
Pickard, Sir (Cyril Stanley, b 1917, Knight, British High Commissioner of Pakistan) 2
Platé and Co 2
Robinson, Wren, fl1928 - 1981 2
Roth, Henry Ling, 1855 - 1925 (ethnologist) 2
S H Parsons and Sons (1871-1933) (photographers) 2
Sedgwick, Thomas E, 1929 2
Smith, James Carmichael, 1852 - 1919 2
Stuart, Sir (Colin Campbell, 1885-1972, Knight and civil servant) 2
Sueur, Robert W Le, fl1921 - 2001 2
Tengely, Philip Louis, 1875 2
Thompson, David, 1770 - 1857 (explorer and geographer) 2
University of Sydney 2
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