Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20051 Collections and/or Records:
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Message delivered by Odubi, messenger of Ogudipe, and Osho, messenger of Alake of Abeokuta, 1871-12-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/4/56
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:
1871-12-01
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).
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Message delivered by Shoneye and Alla Seriki, messangers of Alake, Iaguno of Igbeiro and Balogun of Abeokuta, 1871-12-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/4/59
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:
1871-12-09
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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Message from Abeokuta, 1872-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/4/68
Scope and Contents
The first part of the text is missing.
Dates:
1872-02
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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Message from Igowun, 1871-08-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/4/34
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:
1871-08-03
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).
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Message girls, Akwato, 1940-03-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/340
Scope and Contents
64 x 108 mm. Two little Message girls sit and gossip at market, they have all got long crooked walking sticks.
Dates:
1940-03-04
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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Message women, Akwato, 1940-03-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/339
Scope and Contents
62 x 40mm. Three message women with their necklaces of iron chatter at the market.
Dates:
1940-03-04
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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Messengers from the Kings of Cape Coast to the Kings of Elmina, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448U/7
Scope and Contents
195 x 145 mm.
Dates:
1900
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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Messrs. Gleghorn, Harris and Stephen's Drapery Estabmnt, 1897 - 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059N/3
Scope and Contents
'A poor photo of Messr Gleghorn, Harris and Stephen's Drapery Establishment situated in the Market Square. It was taken during the Jubilee, which accounts for the decorations. It was here that Em used to be Head Book-keeper for the Retail Dept. The church on the left, a little way up the hill, is that of St. Augustine's, Roman Catholic.'
Dates:
1897 - 1898
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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Views in Port Elizabeth
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Metemmeh [i.e. Metemma], 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/55
Scope and Contents
76 x 76 mm. A distant and uninformative view of the riverbank at Metemma.
Dates:
1898
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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Khartoum 1898
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Meteorological records are carefully kept by students of Njala Training College, Sierra Leone, 1950 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/127
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The Principal, Mr. T.D. Evans, discusses the day's reading with Student Lappia'.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
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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Mfumte girls, Lus, 1940-02-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/309
Scope and Contents
84 x 56 mm. neg. and 114 x 84 mm. print. Two cheery little Mfumte ladies with their masses of nose sticks.
Dates:
1940-02-14
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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Mfumte girls, Lus, 1940-02-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/310
Scope and Contents
56 x 84 mm. A pretty little Mfumte girl with her ring earrings, iron lip ornaments and necklaces.
Dates:
1940-02-14
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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Miango weaver nests. Weavers' birds nests, 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/68
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.
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Michael Banson, son of my Deputy, Ghana, 1965, 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/201
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:
1965
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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Michaelis Gallery, Old Townhouse, Cape Town, 1900 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/90
Scope and Contents
Image by Valentine and Sons.
Dates:
1900 - 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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Michelli’s Store, Suakin, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042A/6
Scope and Contents
206 x 157 mm. A view looking across an open courtyard towards the store, a fine example of the coral architecture of Suakin with particularly large and impressive ‘roshans’, the characteristic casement windows made of Java teak openings, carvings and other embellishments. A group of Arabs and a few Europeans stand in the courtyard facing the photographer.
Dates:
1885
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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Michell's Pass, near Ceres, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195/296
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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[Mid-section of male], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/366
Scope and Contents
The caption on the album page reads: 'Although they wear no clothes except a fongor (skin behind) they are very shy, and the men always hide their private parts between their legs'.
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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Midday halt during second day in Semiam [Simen Mountains National Park?], 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/70
Scope and Contents
125 x 130 mm. A view of mules or donkeys grazing in the foreground and people gathered under trees in the distance.
Dates:
1943
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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Midday halt in the Semiam [Simen Mountains National Park?], 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/77
Scope and Contents
120 x 70 mm. A group with mules, resting.
Dates:
1943
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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Midday halt in the Semiam [Simen Mountains National Park?], 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/85
Scope and Contents
125 x 80 mm. A group with mules, resting.
Dates:
1943
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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Midday lunch, 2nd day, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/73
Scope and Contents
90 x 100 mm. A view of Hebbert sat beside a river.
Dates:
1943
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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Middle Eastern woman, 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/11
Scope and Contents
220 x 274 mm. Half length studio portrait of a light skinned woman of unidentified race wearing a hooded dress or cloak.
Dates:
1870 - 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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[Midwives?], 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/103
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.
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(Mikeno), 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/123
Scope and Contents
Showing a mountain summit surrounded by low cloud.
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).