Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Sub-Fonds
Views of St Helena, 1849
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/57
Scope and Contents
Two pen and wash pictures, 'From the present Church-yard St. Helena Apl. 1849', 9½'' x 5¾'', and 'From the proposed Glebe St. Helena Apl. 1849', 9½'' x 7¼''.
Dates:
1849
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Africa miscellanea
Item
Views of the Nile, 1939 - 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/256
Scope and Contents
175 x 75 mm. General view.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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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Views of the post office, cathedrals, market and street scenes, King George V Memorial Gardens, the Imperial Hotel, 1950-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3/33-52
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Various sizes.
Dates:
1950-01
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).
Fonds
Views of the Victoria Falls
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052E
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints, most measuring approximately 275 x 205 mm., with brief pencilled captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Numbers 1-5 are platinum prints, distinguishable from silver prints by the delicacy and softness of tonal gradation. This fine process, substituting platinum for silver compounds as the light reactive substance in the paper, died out at around the time of the Great War due to the increase in the price...
Dates:
1903 - 1904
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Views of Tunis, 1922
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304H/211-34
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Measuring 220 x 285 mm, this album contains postcards, some of which are coloured. The majority portray Algiers (including 12 of the museum), Algerian people, Biskra, and the ruins of Timgad, Constantine, Tunis and Carthage.
Dates:
1922
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).
Item
Views on the Nile, 1939 - 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/257
Scope and Contents
80 x 55 mm. Showing three men on a boat on the river.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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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Views on the Nile, 1939 - 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/259
Scope and Contents
175 x 75 mm. Showing a village beyond a body of water. There are perhaps fourteen huts in total.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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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Views on the Nile, 1939 - 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/260
Scope and Contents
145 x 115 mm. Showing two huts or shelters, with people stood around them, on the bank of the river.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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).
Item
Views on the Nile, 1939 - 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/261
Scope and Contents
90 x 75 mm. Showing a group of men dressed in robes and carrying spears.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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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Views on the Nile, 1939 - 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/262
Scope and Contents
70 x 75 mm. Showing four women all wearing animal skins (cattle hide?). They are stood before a tall fence or partition made of sticks and woven dried grasses.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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).
Item
Views on the Nile, 1939 - 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/263
Scope and Contents
115 x 85 mm. A view of four boys or youths stood on the river bank. They each appear to have spears, or sticks.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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).
Item
VII Coy having daily Wash. Mumias March 1899, 1899-03
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/45-46
Scope and Contents
Duplicates of Y3045A/75-76.
Dates:
1899-03
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).
Item
[Village], 1925
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/42
Scope and Contents
75 x 50 mm. Showing a man walking along a path towards and running alongside closely built thatched huts made of indigenous materials. Exact location unidentified.
Dates:
1925
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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[Village], 1951
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/106
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.
Dates:
1951
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Y3043UU/134 is missing.
Item
[Village], 1955
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/88
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.
Dates:
1955
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Y3043UU/134 is missing.
Item
Village, 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/21
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...
Dates:
1928 - 1939
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).
Item
[Village and camp, East Africa], 1902 - 1905
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/98
Scope and Contents
153 x 107 mm. Showing a group of thatched huts with tents pitched at the left of the print. Two askaris stand at attention in the central open space and two unidentified Europeans are visible at the right and left sides of the photograph.
Dates:
1902 - 1905
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Ernest Gedge Collection
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Village and cultivation, Kasiabona, 1916 - 1918
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/34
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection comprises black and white photographs, mostly 125 x 75 mm or 75 x 125 mm in size, film negatives and glass negatives. Some of the prints from glass plates are smaller, approximately 85 x 65 mm. The prints are good compositions, though some are rather dark, and were listed by Erica Ryan of the National Library of Australia, using, among other sources, the captioned envelopes in which the original negatives had been stored. The provenance of the collection is unclear,...
Dates:
1916 - 1918
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).
Item
[Village and river], 1895 - 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446L/39
Scope and Contents
210 x 152 mm. A narrow river with three canoes is in the foreground; behind are several huts.
Dates:
1895 - 1911
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).
Item
Village Arabe et pyramide, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/8
Scope and Contents
278 x 216 mm. A view looking across part of the Nile towards an Arab settlement with a pyramid in the left background. Photograph by Georgiladakis.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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).
Item
[Village at foot of hill], 1965-12
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham S/32
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Kodachromes and Kodak Ready mounts arranged by processing number relating to the visit described above.
Dates:
1965-12
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).
Item
Village between Lagos & Ibadan (photo from car), 1946-12 - 1947-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK(GS)29
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.
Dates:
1946-12 - 1947-01
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).
Item
Village Centre, Wusasa: Room of Fellowship, 1951, 1951
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/50
Scope and Contents
157 x 111 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1951
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).
Item
Village chief of Wusasa with his wife, 1956
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/53
Scope and Contents
109 x 154 mm. glossy print with copy.
Dates:
1956
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).
Item
Village children climbing the ramparts from the village street, Pirate Isles, 1938-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/170
Scope and Contents
62 x 40 mm.
Dates:
1938-09
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).