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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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Zanzibar Harbour, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/73
Scope and Contents

72 x 43 mm. A view looking out towards the harbour crowded with dhows and other shipping. Photographer unknown. Mr Wigglesworth in pencil on reverse.

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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Zanzibar Harbour from door of British Consulate, 1860-08-17 - 1860-09-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047C/2
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104 x 47 mm (both sections of stereo print). A view looking along the Zanzibar waterfront with dhows moored just off shore.

Dates: 1860-08-17 - 1860-09-25
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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[Zanzibar Harbour from Usagara House], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/20
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102 x 60 mm. A view from Chandler's house, looking over the roof tops towards the harbour. The island on the horizon is probably Bawe Island.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
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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Zanzibar: house building, 1905 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 25/7
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.

Dates: 1905 - 1948
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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Zanzibar Independence Conference opens in London, 1963-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/642
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155 x 203 mm. This picture shows the Zanzibar Government delegates. From left to right: Sheikh Abadhar Juma Khatib, Sheikh Salim Kombo Saleh, Sheikh Maulidi Mshangama Haji, Sheikh Al Muhsin el Barwani, Sheikh Mohamed Shamte Hamadi (the Prime Minister), Sheikh Juma Aley and Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Rahman Edarus Baalawy.

Dates: 1963-09
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).
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Zanzibar Independence Conference opens in London, 1963-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/643
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156 x 204 mm. Mr. Duncan Sandys (left), Secretary of State for the Colonies, talking with Sir Hilton Poynton, Permanent Secretary of the Colonial Office, before opening the Zanzibar Independence Conference in Lancaster House

Dates: 1963-09
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).
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Zanzibar Independence Conference opens in London, 1963-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/641
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158 x 203 mm. This picture shows the Zanzibar Opposition delegates. From left to right: Sheikh Hasnuu Makame Mwita, Sheikh Othman Shariff Musa, Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume, Sheikh Aboud Jumbe Mwinyi and Sheikh Abdulla Kassim Hanga.

Dates: 1963-09
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).
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Zanzibar: main street, 1905 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 25/6
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.

Dates: 1905 - 1948
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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Zanzibar plantation, 1890 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/92
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229 x 202 mm. A view showing Africans at work in a small cultivated patch, with a cottage in the background.

Dates: 1890 - 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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Zanzibar Port, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/35
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143 x 85 mm. A view looking along the waterfront road with labourers pushing a cart loaded with crates in the foreground. Behind them on the road is the metal hull of a ship (origin unidentified) with the Beit-el-Ajeib largely obscured by palm trees beyond.

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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Zanzibar Port, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/37
Scope and Contents

83 x 143 mm. A view showing dhows moored on the beach at Zanzibar.

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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Zanzibar Port, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/31
Scope and Contents

143 x 85 mm. A similar view to the preceding plate.

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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Zanzibar Port, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/32
Scope and Contents

141 x 84 mm. A view looking along the Zanzibar waterfront with the Customs buildings and sheds in the foreground. The print shows the part of the waterfront seen in the left hand section of Y3047A/1.

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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[Zanzibar Street], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/4
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77 x 131 mm. Underexposed. A view looking along a narrow, unidentified Zanzibar street. The building at the right, with a heart-shaped sign over the door, is the Africa Hotel. With a brief letter to his son Michael on the back of the print.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
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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Zanzibar street scene [?], 1890 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/21
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151 x 207 mm. A view looking along an unidentified street, probably in Zanzibar. The large white building at the right of the print flies the Union Jack from its mast and has many other flags draped over its façade. Prominent among those is the white ensign and the occasion is probably the visit of a British warship.

Dates: 1890 - 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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[Zanzibar Street Scene], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/86
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260 x 207 mm. A view looking along an unidentified street in Zanzibar, with more substantial buildings in the foreground leading on to thatched huts beyond.

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).
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Zanzibar Swahili, 1930 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/11/6
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

Dates: 1930 - 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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Zanzibar, the main street and shopping centre, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/1/49
Scope and Contents

55 x 55 mm.

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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Zanzibar Town fruit market, 1890 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/86
Scope and Contents

218 x 151 mm. A fine photograph showing a market scene in Zanzibar with crowds buying and selling wares from baskets laid on the ground.

Dates: 1890 - 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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Zanzibar troops, 1901 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468B/17
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277 x 198 mm. A view showing a company of Zanzibar troops on parade in front of a large white building. Exact location unidentified, possibly outside the Sultan’s stables.

Dates: 1901 - 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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Zanzibar war drums, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468C/47
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206 x 151 mm. A view showing a pair of decorated wooden war drums with leather stretched across top and bottom and a wooden club for beating the implement.

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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Zanzibar waterfront, 1890 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/89
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216 x 152 mm. A view showing a crowded scene at the western end of the Zanzibar waterfront. Crowds of spectators are gathered in front of the godowns while yet more seem to be arriving by boat. They are evidently awaiting the arrival of a dignitary at Old British Agency Pier, but the occasion has not been identified.

Dates: 1890 - 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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[Zanzibar waterfront], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/94
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194 x 144 mm. A view looking along a beach towards a settlement of thatched huts, probably in Zanzibar. With a fisherman standing beside his dugout in the foreground.

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).
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[Zanzibar waterfront], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/95
Scope and Contents

193 x 144 mm. A view from the harbour looking towards a waterfront settlement, with dhows at anchor in the foreground.

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).
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Zanzibari girls at toilet, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/27
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151 x 209 mm. A view showing two Swahili girls, one arranging the other's hair in the distinctive Swahili style : 'Her hair... is 'done' in a number of ways, but the usual coiffure affected is the plaiting of her sparse locks into a series of ridges disposed at regular intervals over her head, which ridges are separated from one another by shallow valleys of bare scalp.' (Pearce 1920). A note on the reverse says 'Note shirt buttons in ears'.

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).