Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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Enamel badges and kind words are dispensed by the D of I to those who have not only learned but have also taught others, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/472
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, including the names of institutions, 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. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...
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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Encampment for Night in deserted Kavirondo Village during Punitive Expedition 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/104
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...
Dates:
1899
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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Encampment in a glade of mimosa trees, c 1910, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/191
Scope and Contents
151 x 109 mm. Similar to the preceding but without Dorothy Westgate.
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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End of horse-drawn tram-line, Vieux Biskra, 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304I/17
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Measuring 205 x 265 mm, this album contains 48 sepia photographs, each measuring 145 x 90 mm, two to a page, together with 22 loose prints of France and North Africa. The album prints have brief captions, and since they relate to Algiers, Biskra and a few of Tunis and Carthage, they may come from the same visit as Y304H.
Dates:
1922
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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End of Madani Allum, Lalibela, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/185
Scope and Contents
90 x 120 mm. A view of a building carved out of living rock. The caption continues: 'Externally 33,50 x 23.50 metres.'
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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Enda Selassie, Adowa [i.e. Adwa], 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/27
Scope and Contents
130 x 90 mm. Showing a road with a few buildings either side. There is a bus and an automobile parked here.
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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Engineering School (Exterior), 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/44
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).
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English and Dutch forts at Akkra, 1817 - 1866
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 343/22
Scope and Contents
An undated print of an engraving by J. Basire in two parts, 'Plate 180, No. 103, Vol. 2, p. 388'. The top section shows the 'North prospect of the English and Dutch forts at Akkra, 1727'. Below this are nine drawings of different animals.
Dates:
1817 - 1866
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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Commonwealth engravings
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[English battleship], 1905 - 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/52
Scope and Contents
133 x 82 mm. A view showing an unidentified battleship in the Suez Canal, possibly a naval escort for the ‘Medina’s’ voyage to India. Photographer unknown, probably Henry Williamson.
Dates:
1905 - 1906
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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[English gunboat], 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/65
Scope and Contents
138 x 80 mm. A view showing an unidentified naval gunboat moored at Port Said. Photographer unknown, probably Henry Williamson.
Dates:
1914
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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[English submarine], 1905 - 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/54
Scope and Contents
144 x 84 mm. A view showing a Royal Naval submarine (number 68) steaming along the Suez Canal, with sandhills in the background. Photographer unknown, probably Henry Williamson.
Dates:
1905 - 1914
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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Enslaved Nubian woman and child, 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/31
Scope and Contents
188 x 238 mm. Half length studio portrait of a Nubian woman holding a baby.
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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Enslaved Nubian woman and child, 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/32
Scope and Contents
215 x 277 mm Duplicate of Y3042B/31.
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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Entebbe, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/23
Scope and Contents
70 x 100 mm. Aerial view of Entebbe.
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).
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Entebbe, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/24
Scope and Contents
70 x 100 mm. Aerial view of Entebbe.
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).
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Entebbe, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/25
Scope and Contents
80 x 50 mm. Showing a marching band.
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).
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Entebbe, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3/60-65
Scope and Contents
Groups of family and friends.
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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Entebbe Church, 1908, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/83
Scope and Contents
A view showing the mud and thatch church (the first in Entebbe) before its replacement was completed: '30th November ... Another milestone in the growth of Entebbe is the building of an Anglican church. I laid the foundation stone of it some time ago and the walls are rising rapidly. It is rather surprising that we should have waited so long for this and, when looking at the imposing proportions of the Government House that I am building, I confess that I have felt rather ashamed when I...
Dates:
1908
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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Entebbe Club, 1906 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/3
Scope and Contents
198 x 141 mm. A view from the garden looking towards the entrnce of the single storey brick building, opened in August 1905.
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).
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Entebbe, general view of, 1906 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/1
Scope and Contents
204 x 142 mm. A view from Nasamuze Hill looking over the township of Entebbe, with Lake Victoria, Bendigere and Tende Bay in the background. The town, laid out by Sir Harry Johnson, fits Sir Henry Hesketh Bell's description (Bell 1946 pp. 110-111) of the spot on his arrival as Commissioner in 1906.
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).
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Entebbe Hockey team starting for Kampala, 1906 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/148
Scope and Contents
140 x 82 mm. Showing the members of the hockey team seated in, or standing beside a Government of Uganda lorry. Members of the team have not been identified.
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).
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Entebbe - landing ground site, 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/152
Scope and Contents
101 x 78 mm.
Dates:
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).
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Entebbe - landing ground site, 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/153
Scope and Contents
111 x 78 mm.
Dates:
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).
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[Entebbe - landing ground site], 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/40
Scope and Contents
83 x 56 mm.
Dates:
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).
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[Entebbe - landing ground site], 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/41
Scope and Contents
82 x 56 mm.
Dates:
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).