Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20097 Collections and/or Records:
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Weaving in North Nyanza district, 1933 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/43
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing a woman sat at a loom. The caption continues: 'Much attention is being devoted to the development of spinning and weaving as a home industry.'
Dates:
1933 - 1950
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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[Weaving, location unknown, 1940s], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/243
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse has been torn leving only the word 'Coast'. Photograph by Margot Lubinski.
Dates:
1940 - 1949
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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Weaving native cloth, 1905 - 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Sierra Leone II/9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone, particularly in Free Town. The majority are by the Lisk-Carew Brothers, number 14 is by the Sierra Leone Government, Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, and number 15 is by Ceylon Pictorials. Numbers 20 and 30 give no indication as to the photographer.
Dates:
1905 - 1953
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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Wedding of Dr. Reford - April 1909. Group taken in the grounds of Judge Ennis's house, 1909-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/42
Scope and Contents
198 x 144 mm. Showing Bell and Dr. Reford standing in the centre of a large group of wedding guests. His wife Grace, nee Parker, is seated at the front of the group. Dr. John Hope Reford C.M.G. (1873-1957) was a Medical Officer in Uganda from 1907 until his retirement as Director of Medical Services in 1928. Judge George Francis Macdaniel Ennis (1868-1933) who practised as a judge in East Africa between 1899-1912 and in Ceylon between 1912-1925 is probably the figure standing behind...
Dates:
1909-04
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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Wedding of Mary and Zekaria [Kongwa?] 1905, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/218
Scope and Contents
104 x 73 mm. View outside the church with T.B.R. Westgate visible in the background.
Dates:
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).
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Wedding of Mr and Mrs Laight, Mombasa 1902, 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/3
Scope and Contents
160 x 113 mm. Mounted on card. Group portrait of missionaries and their wives, posed on the steps leading up to the verandah of an unidentified house. Brandon Laight and his bride Margaret (nee Critchley), who were married on 8 April 1902, are seated in the front row. Other figures identified on the reverse are: Mr Burt, Miss Higginbotham, T.B.R. Westgate, Miss Brewer, Mr Burns, Mrs Burt, Bishop Peel, Mrs Peel, Mr Bailey, Miss Locket, Henrietta Westgate, Mr and Mrs Laight, Eddie...
Dates:
1902
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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Wedding of Mr Briggs and Berthe Attlee, at the Cathedral, Mombasa, 30 September 1904, 1904-09-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/7
Scope and Contents
141 x 96 mm. Group portrait of the wedding couple and other Europeans. Identified on the reverse are: Revd. K. Binns, Mr Wright, Bishop Peel, Mr Hamshere.
Dates:
1904-09-30
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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Wedding of the Chief Mholole at Henley near Pietermaritzburg, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/106
Scope and Contents
297 x 86 mm. Showing a large crowd of European spectators watching Zulu warriors and dancers awaiting a train (centre of print) which is presumably carrying Chief Mholoe.
Dates:
1900 - 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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Weekly Arsenic Dip (to prevent tick-borne disease), N.R., 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052L/27
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...
Dates:
1938
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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Weekly child welfare clinic at P.C.M.H. "Our record number attending between 1929-31 was 401 on a Thursday morning", 1929 - 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043KK/23
Scope and Contents
205 x 165 mm on mount.
Dates:
1929 - 1931
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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/160
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. A view showing the busy market scene at Niangara with goods laid out on the ground in front of the traders.
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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/161
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. A view showing the busy market scene at Niangara with goods laid out on the ground in front of the traders.
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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/162
Scope and Contents
86 x 60 mm. A view showing traders at Niangara seated under the shade of umbrellas in the market square.
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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/163
Scope and Contents
85 x 61 mm. A view showing market traders at Niangara. Photograph probably by Christy.
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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/164
Scope and Contents
85 x 61 mm. A view showing market traders at Niangara. Photograph probably by Christy.
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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/165
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. A view showing a general view of the crowded market place at Niangara. Photograph probably by Christy.
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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/166
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. A view showing a general view of the crowded market place at Niangara. Photograph probably by Christy.
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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Weighing the produce of experimental plots, 1952 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/1/13
Scope and Contents
205 x 160 mm. Showing two men weighing produce in a field. The caption continues: 'in research into sweet potato breeding.'
Dates:
1952 - 1964
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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[Weighing tobacco], 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/74
Scope and Contents
206 x 156 mm. Showing a group of farmers of the Magaliesburg Farmers Association watching an African labourer place bundles of tobacco on a pair of scales.
Dates:
1900 - 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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Weihnachten an Deutschostafrikas Küste [Christmas on the Tanzanian Coast - Dar es Salaam], 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/115
Scope and Contents
81 x 128 mm. A postcard showing a boat at anchor at dusk in Dar es Salaam harbour. Sent by Carl Unger in 1909 to the Boeder family in Berlin. The title appears on the front of the image.
Dates:
1909
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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Weird and exciting rock formations, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304O/29
Scope and Contents
In the Arak gorges in Algeria.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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Weird and exciting rock formations, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304O/30
Scope and Contents
In the Arak gorges in Algeria.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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Weird architecture The Chiefs compound at Mona, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/429
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
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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Welcom Munticalo Clob, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/9/14
Scope and Contents
Newspaper cutting. The photograph is accompanied by the text: 'A rival to Monte Carlo Sporting Club this inscription appears on a palm-thatcher's roadside native coffee-shop in the island of Pemba, Zanzibar Protectorate. Photo by Mr. Fergus Wilson. This photograph has been awarded a prize of one guinea.'
Dates:
1930 - 1950
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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Welcoming ceremony at the railway station, 1900 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/107
Scope and Contents
111 x 81 mm. Showing a crowd of Swahilis standing beside the railway line. In the foreground two dancers in feathered costumes stand on the platform. The location and occasion are unidentified.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
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).