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Africa (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20097 Collections and/or Records:

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101. Alexandria. - Kait Bey stronghold [i.e. Fortress] - LL, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Egypt/51
Scope and Contents From the File:

Booklet containing detachable monochrome postcards. Published by Lévy et Neurdein Réuins, 44 Rue Letellier, Paris.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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102. Alexandria. - Ras-el-Tin New Quay. - LL, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Egypt/52
Scope and Contents From the File:

Booklet containing detachable monochrome postcards. Published by Lévy et Neurdein Réuins, 44 Rue Letellier, Paris.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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104. Alexandria. - Ras-el-Tin Palace. - LL, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Egypt/56
Scope and Contents From the File:

Booklet containing detachable monochrome postcards. Published by Lévy et Neurdein Réuins, 44 Rue Letellier, Paris.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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109. Alexandria. - Cherif-Pacha Street and the Exchange - LL, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Egypt/50
Scope and Contents From the File:

Booklet containing detachable monochrome postcards. Published by Lévy et Neurdein Réuins, 44 Rue Letellier, Paris.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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157 Puppets and pupils, the school bus, World Health Day, 1965, 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/157
Scope and Contents

Akim Oda?

Dates: 1965
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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200 yards short of this. The real crater, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/317
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page reads: 'Nyamlagira, an active volcano in the Parc National Albert. Belgian Congo [i.e. Congo]'. An active volcano to the north of Lake Kivu, Zaire.

Dates: 1934
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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1900-1 Kopje - Salisbury, Rhodesia - Taken from the Civil Service Club, 1900 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052C/5
Scope and Contents

A view looking across fields towards the buildings of Salisbury clustered around the wooded kopje on the horizon. Duplicate at Y3052D/2.

Dates: 1900 - 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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1900 Its last days - Railway thro' to Bulawayo 1901. Bulawayo - Salisbury coach discharging mails at Salisbury P.O., 1900 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052C/9
Scope and Contents

Showing three Europeans (Alexander Russell at left of group) standing in front of the Salisbury-Bulawayo stage coach. With the 'Mikado Tearooms' in the background.

Dates: 1900 - 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Baganda woman carrying her bundle on her head, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/61
Scope and Contents

55 x 50 mm.

Dates: 1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Baggara girl, 1924 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/6/38
Scope and Contents

175 x 235 mm. Three quarter length portrait of a girl. She wears a patterned garment, has her hair in plaits and wears beaded necklaces.

Dates: 1924 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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[A Banana man], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/507
Scope and Contents

Full-length portrait. The caption on the album page reads: 'Bananas are all over 6 feet. Taken at Yagua'.

Dates: 1934
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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[A Banana man], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/508
Scope and Contents

Full-length portrait. The caption on the album page reads: 'Bananas are all over 6 feet. Taken at Yagua'.

Dates: 1934
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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[A Banana man], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/509
Scope and Contents

Full-length portrait. The caption on the album page reads: 'Bananas are all over 6 feet. Taken at Yagua'.

Dates: 1934
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa baby at Ekibondo is not at all unhappy at having his head bound up, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/26
Scope and Contents

Informal head and shoulders portrait.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa dance at Ekibondo in which young and old take an active part, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/88
Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...
Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa dance at Ekibondo in which young and old take an active part, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/89
Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...
Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa dance at Ekibondo in which young and old take an active part, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/91
Scope and Contents

The caption below the photograph reads: 'They have a variety of dances, but every one suggestive of sexual abandon'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa dance at Ekibondo in which young and old take an active part, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/90
Scope and Contents

The caption above the photograph reads: 'Madamu is on the extreme left'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa girl, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/123
Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...
Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa mother and daughter, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/17
Scope and Contents

The caption below the photograph continues: 'Note the long heads and negbes - a fibrous mat worn by the female sex of all ages'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa sewing strips of bark cloth together, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/79
Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...
Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa woman, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/55
Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...
Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa woman at Ekibondo, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/13
Scope and Contents

Informal head and shoulders portrait. The caption at the bottom right of the album page continues: 'The Bangwa favour this style of hairdressing, and never wear the tamburu. The Sultani of Ekibondo had his hair dressed like this. The Bangwa too have more facial tatoos [sic] than the Mangbetu'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa woman at Ekibondo, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/14
Scope and Contents

Side on view of a sitting woman. The caption at the bottom right of the album page continues: 'The Bangwa favour this style of hairdressing, and never wear the tamburu. The Sultani of Ekibondo had his hair dressed like this. The Bangwa too have more facial tatoos [sic] than the Mangbetu'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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A Bangwa woman at Ekibondo, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/15
Scope and Contents

Informal head and shoulders portrait. The caption at the bottom right of the album page continues: 'The Bangwa favour this style of hairdressing, and never wear the tamburu. The Sultani of Ekibondo had his hair dressed like this. The Bangwa too have more facial tatoos [sic] than the Mangbetu'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).