Africa (continent)
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Subject Source: Local sources
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Photographs of the Koramas, Northern Nigeria
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043L
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs measuring approximately 160 x 115 mm. with pencilled captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The collection consists of clearly photographed views of Korama people and activities, with a few prints of Hausa and other ethnic groups. The RCS typescript catalogue contains the following...
Dates:
1900
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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[Photographs of the peoples of southern Africa]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted prints, the majority sepia toned, with typescript captions and explanatory notes depicting the peoples of southern Africa. The captions and notes have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The prints are of various sizes but the majority measure approximately...
Dates:
1930 - 1950
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Uganda
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045F
Scope and Contents
Collection of seven prints of various sizes, showing people and scenes in Uganda. Photographs by Alfred Lobo and others, captions by H.B. Thomas.
Dates:
1908 - 1910
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of West African plantations, circa 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043M
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs measuring approximately 95 x 125 mm, with hand-written or typed captions on the reverse. The photographs, which are of poor technical quality, mainly show rubber plantation scenes near Avrebbo. Prints 1-24 are stamped 'The African Plantations Limited'.
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Zanzibar by James Augustus Grant, 1860
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047C
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints copied from stereoscopic views.
Dates:
1860-08-17 - 1860-09-25
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs taken in French West Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043S
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose photographs, mostly measuring 175 x 125 mm, probably taken by Henry Rudland and others. They have captions in Rudlands hand on the reverse.
Dates:
1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Photographs taken in the Bechuanaland Protectorate [i.e. Botswana]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A
Scope and Contents
A small album containing snapshots measuring approximately 65 x 40 mm., with handwritten captions beneath the prints. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Most of the photographs in the album, which show life on the trek, in the ‘Melon Country,’ Damara refugees and hunting scenes,...
Dates:
1904 - 1910
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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'Policies towards white labour on the South African railways, 1910 to 1935': BA thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 194
Scope and Contents
A B.A. thesis for the Honours School of Modern History with Economics, University of Manchester, 68 pages. There is a covering letter from Ben Harrison to Terry Barringer, R.C.S. Librarian.
Dates:
1999
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'Political dilemma'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 202
Scope and Contents
'A study of a world-wide problem: representative government in a plural society: in this instance for the period 1652-1962 in Africa', 706 pages with maps.
Dates:
1998
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'Polygamy'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 203
Scope and Contents
A comparative study of the ranking of wives in polygamous households among the Southern Bantu, with diagrams and maps, 212 pages.
Dates:
1996
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Portfolio of Victoria Falls
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052J
Scope and Contents
Portfolio of collotype prints of views of the Victorian Falls, each marked 'Copyright G.B. & Co. P.O. Box 1018 Cape Town,' and each has a printed caption.
Dates:
1904
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Portrait of Andries van den Heever
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3056A
Scope and Contents
136 x 194 mm. A loose print with a contemporary caption on a separate piece of paper reading 'Andries van den Heever. Member of the Pétrusburg Congregation. Aged 66. Height 6ft. 3ins. Round waist 7ft 3ins. Weight 635 Lbs.' The full-length portrait shows van den Heever seated on a chair and holding a carved walking stick. A modern copy of the print (which is in itself a copy of an older photograph) is included with this item.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Portraits, circa 1900s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011W
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints with captions on the reverse, which have been recorded as found. The photographs, which are of various sizes, are portraits of people from Africa, the West Indies and Australia.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Portraits of African celebrities, circa 1870 - 1923
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304C
Scope and Contents
A collection of oval portraits mainly measuring approximately 90 x 140 mm and mounted as plates in Weinthal (1923-25). The plates are inserted in the volumes thus:Volume I: 1-17Volume II: 18-25Volume III: 26-30Volume IV: 31-41The process used for the production of these plates has not been identified but to all intents and purposes they have the look of original prints. Plates 31-32, 35, 38 and 40-41 are photogravure reproductions. The portraits show explorers,...
Dates:
1870 - 1923
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Portraits of Bishop John Colenso and Cetshwayo ka Mpande
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058F
Scope and Contents
Two prints tipped in as frontispiece portraits to Francis Ellen Colenso 'The ruin of Zululand'.
Dates:
1882
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Portraits of James Martin
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468Z
Scope and Contents
James Martin (aka Antonio Martini) (1857-1924), of Maltese origin, was a sail maker by tradition, who joined an American ship sailing from India to Zanzibar where it was wrecked. He worked as a handyman at the Church Missionary Society mission at Freetown, and then in 1883-4, accompanied Joseph Thomson through Masailand before becoming second in command of the Sultan of Zanzibar's troops. Martin next entered the service of the Imperial British East Africa Company, accompanying Gedge and...
Dates:
1900 - 1910
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Postcard views of Sierra Leone, circa 1903
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446G
Scope and Contents
A small album (photographs now housed in a box file) containing monochrome postcards of Sierra Leone scenery and people. An inscription on the inside cover of the album reads 'For the use of the Royal Colonial Institute, Northumberland Avenue, London WC from J.W. Paris for Paris and Co., Photographers, 50 Kissy Road, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 28/9/03'.
Dates:
1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Presentation to Randall Ellison 1961
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043JJ
Scope and Contents
Photograph, measuring 200 x 150 mm, inserted in volume of papers (RCMS 149) presented to Randall Ellison by the Kaduna-Zaria branch of the Historical Society of Nigeria.The photograph shows Alhaji Umaru Gwandu presenting the volume to Randall Ellison at the AGM of the Branch on 19 February 1961. Randall Erskine Ellison, C.M.G. (1904-1984) served in various educational posts in British Somaliland, Tanganyika and Nigeria. He was Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Northern...
Dates:
1961-02-19
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
[President] Kruger photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055I
Scope and Contents
Collection of modern copies (circa 1932) of original prints circa 1896, which are uncaptioned. The whereabouts of the originals of these copies has not been traced.
Dates:
1932
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Pretoria Proclamation, May 29 1900
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055D
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints showing the three pages of the Proclamation issued by S.J. Burger and L.J. Meyer to the Burgomaster of Pretoria on May 29 1900, placing the city under his authority as the Boer Government quitted Pretoria in the face of the British advance. The document, in Afrikaans but accompanied by a letterpress English translation, instructed the Burgomaster to 'call up inhabitants for special services to preserve peace and order,' 'to remove all undesirables out of the...
Dates:
1900
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
[Prince of Wales visit to Swaziland]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30548A
Scope and Contents
Photograph of the then Prince of Wales visit to Swaziland. It is mounted in a folder with 'To dear Uncle and Auntie with best Xmas greetings from all at Mbabane Swaziland.' There is a key in pencil: Back row: Mr A.V. OCKENDEN, Prison Warder; ?; ?, H.R.H.s Staff; ?, H.R.Hs Staff; Mr H. OFARRELL, Gaoler; Medical Officer to H.R.H.; Capt. J.H. GARDINER, Govt. Engineer; Lt. GREENACRE, H.R.Hs Staff; A. Willoughby WATERS Esq, Clerk Treasury. Middle row: Dr. R. JAMESON, P.M.O. Swaziland; J....
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Principals of Fourah Bay College
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446I
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs of members of staff of the college. 1-5 are modern copies of old photographs of various sizes, in mounts, 100 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1985
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Prints and watercolours of St Helena
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 190
Scope and Contents
Engravings and watercolours dating mainly from the early nineteenth century, many of which relate to the period of Napoleon's detention on St Helena (1815-1821). There are a number of pieces by George Hutchins Bellasis (1778-1822), who spent eight months on St Helena, 1804-1805, and revisited the island in 1812. The collection includes five coloured engravings and a watercolour sketch of Ascension Island, which was a dependency of St Helena from 1922.
Dates:
1670 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Progress in the Colonies, 1940s-1950s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints produced by the Central Office of Information. The prints measure approximately 165 x 115 mm and have typewritten captions pasted onto the reverse. A sheet of paper with the prints gives the title: 'Progress in the Colonies. Rejected photographs'. This selection appears to be part of a larger series of prints -the captions are often numbered and frequently make references to 'Feature Sets'. The photographs illustrate post-war developments in agriculture,...
Dates:
1940 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Proof copy of the Selborne memorandum
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 205
Scope and Contents
'A review of the present mutual relations of the British South African colonies', with corrections and notes, 183 pages. This copy is a proof dated 19-21 December 1906, and was amended by Lord Selborne, according to a manuscript note by Lionel Curtis of 14 January 1925. This proof is not the final revision, since there are some portions, such as p. 5, where the proof version and the amendment differ from the eventual publication. In addition to Lord Selborne's amendments, some portions...
Dates:
1906
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library