Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20090 Collections and/or Records:
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Woven beadwork (calabashes), 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/581
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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W.R. Buxton and family, 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 27/17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions from K.H. Buxton, who is probably Kathleen Hannah Buxton (1905-1999), daughter of Reverend Leonard Buxton, the Vicar of North Mimms, Hertfordshire.
Dates:
1937
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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Wrapt attention from the pupils, 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/63
Scope and Contents
Showing a group of adults at an open-air literacy class.
Dates:
1944
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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Wreck of the 'Kurfürst', 1903, 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/102
Scope and Contents
99 x 68 mm. Showing the German East African line steamer 'Kurfürst', broken in half at the foot of high cliffs. Location unknown. Caption taken from reverse of print.
Dates:
1903
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
Wren Robinson Collection on South Africa
Fonds
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Wrestlers, 1933 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/19
Scope and Contents
150 x 205 mm. Showing two men wrestling. There is a very large crowd of spectators some distance away.
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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[Wrestlers], 1933 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/20
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm. Showing two men wrestling. There is a very large crowd of spectators some distance away.
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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[Wrestlers], 1933 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/21
Scope and Contents
160 x 120 mm. Showing two men wrestling. There is a very large crowd of spectators some distance away.
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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Writing and reading lessons for villagers, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/11/2/36
Scope and Contents
104 x 102 mm. glossy print; three copies.
Dates:
1962
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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Writing and reading lessons for villagers, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/11/2/37
Scope and Contents
104 x 102 mm. glossy print; three copies.
Dates:
1962
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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Writing and reading lessons for villagers, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/11/2/34
Scope and Contents
104 x 102 mm. glossy print; three copies.
Dates:
1962
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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Writing and reading lessons for villagers, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/11/2/35
Scope and Contents
104 x 102 mm. glossy print; three copies.
Dates:
1962
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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Writing painted [?] on wall of a cave in the Gorge d'Arak, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304O/32
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 7 album sheets. Plate 58 is of Morocco, 11-20, 23-24, 29-51, 54-57, 59-61 are of Algeria, 25-28, 52-53 of unspecified scenes in the Sahara, and 1-10, 21-22 of Niger.
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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[Wrongly captioned] Mwanga, King of Uganda and some of his chiefs, 1891-01-13
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/90
Scope and Contents
157 x 111 mm. This print in fact shows the Katikiro, Apolo Kagwa, seated in the centre of a group of young Ugandan boys (probably pages) at court in front of a thatched house.
Dates:
1891-01-13
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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Wumbei Bimbila, son of the chief of Bimbila, is already a skilled mason, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/231
Scope and Contents
Showing Wumbei Bimbila constructing a masonry house wall.
Dates:
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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Wusasa Hospital: after a Caesarean delivery, 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/100
Scope and Contents
154 x 108 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1963
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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Wusasa Hospital: Dr Tom West and others at entrance to Out-Patients’ Dept., 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/101
Scope and Contents
204 x 130 mm. matt print.
Dates:
1963
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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Wusasa Hospital: Dr Tom West performing a Caesarean delivery, 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/96
Scope and Contents
154 x 108 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1963
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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Wusasa Hospital: Dr Tom West performing a Caesarean delivery, 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/97
Scope and Contents
154 x 108 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1963
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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Wusasa Hospital: Dr Tom West performing a Caesarean delivery, 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/98
Scope and Contents
154 x 108 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1963
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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Wusasa Hospital: Dr Tom West performing a Caesarean delivery, 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/99
Scope and Contents
154 x 108 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1963
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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Wusasa Hospital: eye examination, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/95
Scope and Contents
102 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1962
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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Wusasa Hospital: Infant Welfare Clinic, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/94
Scope and Contents
100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1962
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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Wusasa Hospital: practical instruction for nurses in the wards, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/92
Scope and Contents
100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1962
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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Wusasa Hospital: practical instruction for nurses in the wards, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/93
Scope and Contents
100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1962
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).