Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Effects of tapping, ? Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/127
Scope and Contents
76 x 96 mm. A view showing scarring on a rubber tree resulting from deep tapping on African principles.
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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Effects of tapping on Funtumia elastica, Ashanti, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/102
Scope and Contents
76 x 93 mm. A view showing deep scarring caused by overtapping with African gouges ('a very common sight').
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
Effects of tapping on Funtumia elastica, Ashanti, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/103
Scope and Contents
77 x 94 mm. A view showing a rubber tree with raised scars along the tapping lines of a tree 'an occasional result of deep excision tapping with native gouge'.
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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Effects of tapping, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/105
Scope and Contents
76 x 94 mm. A view showing the scars (fourteen months old) caused by deep vertical incision with a pruning knife.
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
Effects of the cyclone, Port Louis, Mauritius, 1892
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30483A/1
Scope and Contents
236 x 171 mm. View looking across a section of Port Louis, showing ruined houses, trees stripped bare of leaves and debris littering the ground. This devastating cyclone took place on 29 April 1892.
Dates:
1892
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
Effie & Penny [at the governor's weekend-lodge at Makindye], 1955
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/56
Scope and Contents
55 x 50 mm.
Dates:
1955
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
/
Dulcie Barron Collection
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E.G. and Buffalo, 1890-01-20
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)1/23
Scope and Contents
Showing Ernest Gedge beside a dead buffalo in a pose similar to Jackson’s in the preceding slide. A print of this was not included in the original RCS collection, although the RGS possesses the negative. A negative and modern print have been made from the slide.
Dates:
1890-01-20
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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E.G. and tent, 1890-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)1/19
Scope and Contents
Showing Ernest Gedge reclining in a camp chair in front of his tent with various pieces of equipment lying around him and laundry drying on lines in the background. Duplicate of Y30468K/59.
Dates:
1890-01
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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E.G. and tent, Gulu Gulu Camp, 1888
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/1
Scope and Contents
90 x 112 mm Showing Gedge seated in a deckchair in front of his tent with a rifle leaning against his knee. The dating of this photograph is uncertain: Gedge was at Gulu Gulu from November 6th to December 11th 1888, December 15th to 20th 1888, February 1st to 2nd 1889 and May 24th 1889, but his diary makes no mention of photographic activities. The two middle dates can be discarded since Jackson was not then at Gulu Gulu and Y30468K LS3 shows a photograph of him evidently taken on the same...
Dates:
1888
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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Ernest Gedge Collection
Item
E.G. and tent in camp on R. Angolul, Turquell, 1890-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/59
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. Showing Ernest Gedge reclining in a camp chair in front of his tent with various pieces of equipment lying around him and laundry drying on lines in the background.
Dates:
1890-01
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Ernest Gedge Collection
Item
E.G’s camp at Muanza, Victoria Nyanza, 1890-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/79
Scope and Contents
155 x 112 mm. Showing Gedge’s tent pitched in a clearing beneath tall euphorbias, with an African servant standing at the entrance. Gedge does not specifically mention the taking of this photograph, but in his diary for the 24th records ‘went up a hill here and took a couple of photos’.
Dates:
1890-10
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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Ernest Gedge Collection
Item
E.G.’s house, Mengo, 1890-12-29
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/84
Scope and Contents
157 x 111 mm. This is probably the photograph mentioned by Gedge in his diary. The picture is certainly not up to Gedge’s usual standard. Gedge had arrived in Mengo on December 22nd 1890 and stayed until January 14th 1891.
Dates:
1890-12-29
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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Ernest Gedge Collection
Item
E.G.’s tent Gulu Gulu Camp, 1888
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/2
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. Showing Gedge’s tent (stamped ‘IBEAC’ on the side) with a chair saucepans, bedding and other equipment in front of it.
Dates:
1888
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
Series
Egypt, 1900 - 1910
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Egypt
Scope and Contents
Postcards showing mostly views in Egypt.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Postcard Collection
File
Egypt, 1921 - 1928
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5
Scope and Contents
Photographs taken mainly in Egypt, with some from Europe. A note accompanying the photographs reads:
Pembrokeshire: c 1921-1922
Nuneaton: c 1924-1925
Spitsbergen: 1924. The end
Kings Cup Race - ?Stemming - 1923 or 1925
England: 1925-1926
Cairo: 1927-1928
Dates:
1921 - 1928
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
Egypt, 1950 - 1969
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/8
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The prints listed were chiefly from the files of the Photo Bureau, the majority being mounted on sheets of paper with substantial descriptions, and in many cases the negative attached. Titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1950 - 1969
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).
Series
Egypt and Palestine diaries, 1925-01-20 - 1925-04-15
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 53/3
Scope and Contents
Two diaries describing Williams' visit. Many of the entries appear to be paraphrases or copies of guide book entries.
Dates:
1925-01-20 - 1925-04-15
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
Egypt and Palestine - Frith - Volume I, 1857
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A
Scope and Contents
An album of photographs of scenes within Egypt and Palestine.
Dates:
1857
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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Albums by Francis Frith
File
Egypt and Palestine - Frith - Volume II, 1857
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214B
Scope and Contents
An album of photographs of scenes within Egypt and Palestine.
Dates:
1857
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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Albums by Francis Frith
Fonds
Egypt, Burma [i.e. Myanmar] and Borneo
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B
Scope and Contents
An album containing albumen prints (with three others loose). The prints are of various sizes and by various photographers. A number of the images are captioned, although some of these are hard to read. Captions enclosed in square brackets have been composed by the cataloguer.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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
Item
Egypt: El Gedida camp, Heliopolis section 2A8 staff, Joyce, Bod Edwards and self, 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/272-79
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
Dates:
1942
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
Egypt: Helwan, gardens, baths, RAF billet, Ron Dabbs, Doug Marley, Paddy Rocke, 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/265-71
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
Dates:
1942
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
Egypt: Helwan, policeman, Egyptians, the road to mosque, 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/258-64
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
Dates:
1942
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
Egypt: Italian Fleet entering Alexandria, 1944
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/289-92
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
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).
Item
Egypt: Italian Fleet entering Alexandria, Luigi Cadorna, Vittorio Veneto, Eugenio di Savoia, 1944
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/293-96
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
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).