Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Eldoma Ravine, 1900-03-12
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/54
Scope and Contents
'Native hut (Masai); the family creep in on all fours.'
Dates:
1900-03-12
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
/
Mombasa to Mengo
Item
Eldoma River encampment, 1900-03-12
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/53
Scope and Contents
'The boma where Mr and Mrs [James] Martin entertained us so hospitably. Masai huts in foreground. Kites in sky.'
Dates:
1900-03-12
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
/
Mombasa to Mengo
Item
Eldoret: Mrs. Greery’s, 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/82-85
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
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).
Item
Eldoret: Nandi Hills, 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/142-49
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
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).
Item
Eldoret: River Sosiana, Main Street, Indian shop, 1942 - 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/103-10
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
Dates:
1942 - 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).
Item
Eldoret: Selby Falls; Bob Edwards, 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/134-41
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
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).
Item
Eldoret: Selby Rocks; looking through falls from cave behind, 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/130-33
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
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).
Item
Eldoret: services rest home, Festus and brother, road to Kakamega, red bananas, gold mine at Kakamega, road in Nandi Hills, Tracey Falls, 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/111-21
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
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).
Item
Eldoret: Sewells Buildings, Selby Rocks and Falls, 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/122-29
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
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).
Item
Eldoret: station, East African Railways, 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/86-93
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
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).
Item
Electric light at Macloutsie Camp, 1890
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/30
Scope and Contents
Showing the steam engine and mounted searchlight set up near a row of wagons at Macloutsie Camp. ‘An additional precaution which undoubtedly helped to ensure the safety of the Column was the use of a 10,000 candle-power searchlight which Johnson had the foresight to include in his equipment. Served by a dynamo which in turn was worked by a six horse-power engine destined for a saw-mill in Mashonaland, the searchlight was mounted on a pile of boxes on a wagon, and commanded an extensive...
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).
Item
Electric light, Fort Tuli, 1890
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/48
Scope and Contents
Showing the searchlight steam engine laagered on cleared land at Fort Tuli. See Y3052A/30. Photograph taken during 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).
Item
Electric tramcar, Cape Town, 1902
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305I/10
Scope and Contents
100 x 71 mm. A good view of a Plein Street tramcar of the Cape Town Tramway Company, on an unidentified street. Cape Town's tram service was powered by electricity from 1896 onwards.
Dates:
1902
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
[Electric welder, Socotole factory, Léopoldville (now known as Kinshasa), 1947], 1947
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/511
Scope and Contents
Showing electric welding of oil drums in the factory of La Société Coloniale de la Tôle (Socotole) in Leopoldville. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'La Société Coloniale de la Tôle (Socotole), filiale de la Société Anonyme des Pétroles au Congo (Petrocongo), produit dans son usine de Léopoldville les fûts métalliques nécesssaires pour le transport des carburants dans la colonie.Voici une soudeuse électrique; cette machine assemble les deux bords de la tôle, découpée et...
Dates:
1947
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
Electrical Laboratory: cathode-ray oscillograph, 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/63
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of photographs taken by the Ministry of Information West African Photographic Service, giving a comprehensive record of the varied aspects of the College's work. These pictures have been extensively reproduced in books and articles. As Dr. R.W. Stopford is shown as Principal, a post he held from 1941 to 1945, they must date from this period. The Library has three different groups of photographs drawn from this series, two of which form this collection:(A) 55, 260 x...
Dates:
1945
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
Electrical trainees, Railway Training School, Nairobi, 1950 - 1967
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/20
Scope and Contents
246 x 189 mm. Showing trainees using demonstration equipment in the electrical workshop.
Dates:
1950 - 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).
Item
'Elend's River in the Swartungen division of Rustenburg, Transvaal, is infested with Pythons or Boa during the summer months and in the winter return to the Limpopo', 1869
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/16
Scope and Contents
The caption reads, 'I have seen as many as five together, large and small. This view was taken in 1889 [1869] when prospecting for gold. The country is of slate formation. Many of these snakes measure 16 to 18 feet in length and they make for the water as soon as they are disturbed.'
Dates:
1869
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
Elephant, 1967-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Y/36
Scope and Contents
From the File:
John Ewart Marnham had admirable opportunities for photographing flora and fauna during his stay in South Africa and in this section his own arrangement under species has been largely followed; the divisions are: lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos [rhinocesaurus] and hippos [hippopotamus], zebras, giraffes, buffalos, kudu, other deer and miscellaneous. Most of these animals were photographed in national parks and game reserves, though not all slides have specific locations. The main parks...
Dates:
1967-08
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
Elephant, 1967-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Y/37
Scope and Contents
From the File:
John Ewart Marnham had admirable opportunities for photographing flora and fauna during his stay in South Africa and in this section his own arrangement under species has been largely followed; the divisions are: lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos [rhinocesaurus] and hippos [hippopotamus], zebras, giraffes, buffalos, kudu, other deer and miscellaneous. Most of these animals were photographed in national parks and game reserves, though not all slides have specific locations. The main parks...
Dates:
1967-08
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
[Elephant], 1939 - 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/216
Scope and Contents
55 x 50 mm. A view of an elephant in the long grass.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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
Elephant, 1906 - 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/71
Scope and Contents
99 x 72 mm. One of several prints. Showing the body of animals lying where they were shot
Dates:
1906 - 1911
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
Elephant [aerial view], 1965
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham R/9
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains Kodachromes originally arranged in two sequences, which have been listed by processing number: 1-37 (numbers 11, 19 and 31 mare missing).
Dates:
1965
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
Elephant [aerial view], 1965
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham R/13
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains Kodachromes originally arranged in two sequences, which have been listed by processing number: 1-37 (numbers 11, 19 and 31 mare missing).
Dates:
1965
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
Elephant at water’s edge, 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 27/41
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions from K.H. Buxton, who is probably Kathleen Hannah Buxton (1905-1999), daughter of Reverend Leonard Buxton, the Vicar of North Mimms, Hertfordshire.
Dates:
1937
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
Elephant : Christmas Card, 1967-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Y/41
Scope and Contents
From the File:
John Ewart Marnham had admirable opportunities for photographing flora and fauna during his stay in South Africa and in this section his own arrangement under species has been largely followed; the divisions are: lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos [rhinocesaurus] and hippos [hippopotamus], zebras, giraffes, buffalos, kudu, other deer and miscellaneous. Most of these animals were photographed in national parks and game reserves, though not all slides have specific locations. The main parks...
Dates:
1967-08
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).