Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20051 Collections and/or Records:
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[Mass literacy campaign, Mumbwa District, Zambia, 1940s], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/474
Scope and Contents
Showing musicians at the literary parade.
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).
Sub-Series
Mass Literacy experiment in Southern Nigeria, 1944
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/63-67
Scope and Contents
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Each has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Africans have a great desire to learn; in Southern Nigeria, with a population of about 9 millions, only some 276,000, children attend infant and primary schools and only a fraction of these can ever become really literate. Most of the population are entirely illiterate in both English and their own languages. In the Udi Division of South Eastern Nigeria,...
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).
Sub-Series
Mass Literacy in Northern Rhodesia [i.e. Zambia], 1940 - 1949
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/440-462
Scope and Contents
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'This series of photographs show how illiterate natives of Northern Rhodesia are being taught to read and write in a short course lasting 3 or 4 weeks with the aid of a book called 'Shibukeni' using pictures in relation to words of common usage. The adult student for which the course is devised need not go to school; all that is needed is the wish to...
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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Mat maker with native loom B'da, 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/161
Scope and Contents
40 x 62 mm.
Dates:
1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Missing.
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Matabele cattle, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195/49
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company. The numbering used in the catalogue reflects Stephenson's own numbering. The scenes cover: Northern Rhodesia [i.e. Zambia], including Victoria Falls and the Tanganyika Plateau; Southern Rhodesia [i.e....
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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Matabele, Fort Tuli, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/45
Scope and Contents
Showing a group of Matabele warriors, some wearing traditional clothing with shields of hide, others with European accoutrements. Photograph taken during the first week of July 1890.
Dates:
1890
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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Matabele, Fort Tuli, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/46
Scope and Contents
Showing Matabele warriors armed with shields and rifles standing among a group of pioneers.
Dates:
1890
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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Matabele, Fort Tuli, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/47
Scope and Contents
Showing the Matabele warriors seated on the ground at Fort Tuli with a group of pioneers gathered round them in a semi-circle.
Dates:
1890
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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Matabele warrior, 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305R11
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A printed book illustrated by photographic prints. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The book resulted from a journey from Cape Town via Kimberley and the Transvaal to the Victoria Falls and back to Port Elizabeth.
Dates:
1880
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).
File
Material regarding the seizure by the Collector of Customs, Lagos, of gin from the French brig 'Conception', 1867 - 1868
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.
Dates:
1867 - 1868
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).
File
Material relating to Glover's comments upon Hennessy's recent despatch to Kimberley, 1872-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/159
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.
Dates:
1872-11
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).
Sub-Series
Maternity and child welfare in Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1946 - 1954
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/127-138
Scope and Contents
British Official photographs (reference numbers DW 2450-2551).
For the past 50 years African doctors have been directing the Maternity Hospital and centre at Freetown, Sierra Leone. All the doctors and African nursing staff have been trained in England. The Centre includes an Ante-Natal clinic, Labour wards, Lying-in-wards, Post Natal and Infant Welfare Clinics.
Dates:
1946 - 1954
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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Maternity apron, Camperdown, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal], 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211/3
Scope and Contents
'The Zulu mother-to-be wears an apron of buckskin prepared by the mother-in-law from the hide of a buck killed by the husband. A section of the hair is scraped off and decorated with brass studs. This apron is worn with considerable pride and is said to impart to the infant the strength, grace and beauty of an antelope. The apron when old and the studs removed, is used to carry the child on its mother's back. Use of this apron is fast disappearing. The black leather skirt and built up...
Dates:
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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Maternity Block, African Hospital, Highfield Village, Salisbury [Harare], 1966
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052I/10
Scope and Contents
Showing the front entrance and facade of the Maternity Block.
Dates:
1966
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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Maternity Home at Ogwofia, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/16
Scope and Contents
A long single storey brick building with corrugated-iron roof. The typescript caption on the reverse reads 'Built by voluntary labour. Village subscribed about £160 and Co-operative shop £65. N.A. [Native Administration] gave £100 for roof, £30 for roof, and wages of carpenters and bricklayers'. The pencilled annotation on the reverse reads 'See earlier note'.
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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[Maternity hospital nurse and child], 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 19/37
Scope and Contents
The caption is illegible.
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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Maternity Training School, Mengo, 1897 - 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 26/32
Scope and Contents
Colour.
Dates:
1897 - 1958
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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'Mathai Thai', Mamathes, Basutoland [Lesotho], 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211/21
Scope and Contents
'The Basuto sun hat is of open weave, providing plenty of air space, and a moving pattern of shade on the head. It is a favourite with both ·men and women and assumes many shapes. Facial markings were common to Basuto women formerly, but are now seldom seen. A woman wears her blanket pinned in front, a man's· blanket being pinned on the right shoulder. Aprons and many-tucked long skirts are typical wear among Basuto women, and reflect the missionary influence of Victorian days.'
Dates:
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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Matopo Hills, Rhodes' grave, 1902 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII/19
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.
Dates:
1902 - 1930
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
Matopos Hills, 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/65
Scope and Contents
73 x 118 mm. A group of people on the top of a hill.
Dates:
1929
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
[Matopos Hills], 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/68
Scope and Contents
77 x 51 mm. A woman seated on rocks next to a river, probably at the Matopos Hills.
Dates:
1929
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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Matron supervising injection, 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/6/1
Scope and Contents
80 x 80 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1967
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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Matroosberg - Hex River Valley, Cape, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/31
Scope and Contents
285 x 228 mm. A view looking across the valley towards the highest peak in the Hex Rivierberge mountains. Matroosberg (7386 feet) is situated twenty miles east of Ceres.
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).
Item
Mau Forest, 1889-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/16
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. A view looking across thickly wooded hills in the Mau Forest. No precise reference to the taking of this photograph has been found in Gedge’s diary.
Dates:
1889-09
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Ernest Gedge Collection
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Mau Forest scene, 1889-10-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)1/8
Scope and Contents
A view looking across a river and makeshift bridge with Jackson standing on the farther side at the edge of thick forest holding a butterfly net. Gedge’s diary for the day records: ‘Went down in the morning with J to the river. Took my butterfly net and camera. Caught some new butterflies and took a photo’. Duplicate of Y30468K/22, F.J. J[ackson] ‘collecting’, Mau Forest.
Dates:
1889-10-01
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).