Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
Item
European doctor sounding chest of young African, 1900 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 24/20
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions. The slides appear to have been gathered for lecture purposes and are not necessarily on the work of the CMS. They relate to various parts of the continent.
Dates:
1900 - 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).
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European group, 1900 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/113
Scope and Contents
106 x 78 mm. Showing an unidentified group of Europeans seated round a table on a verandah. Location unknown.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
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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European group on board ship, 1900 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/122
Scope and Contents
110 x 81 mm. Showing three Europeans (Carl Unger at left of group) seated on wicker work furniture in the cabin of a ship.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
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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European group outside hut, 1900 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/124
Scope and Contents
51 x 75 mm. Showing four Europeans standing outside a small shack on a wooded hillside, with a river in the distance.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
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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European Group, Zanzibar, 1890 - 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/85
Scope and Contents
212 x 150 mm. Showing a group of five Europeans, probably at the British Residency in Zanzibar. Standing at the left is Basil Cave with Mrs Mary Cave (nee McClellan) seated in a wicker chair in front of him. At the left of the group is John Houston Sinclair (1871-1961) at this period Vice Consul at Zanzibar and later Consul (1906). The remaining two figures are unidentified.
Dates:
1890 - 1905
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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[European house], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/28
Scope and Contents
158 x 110 mm. Similar house to Y3043PP/27, perhaps the same, with barrels and other goods piled outside. Possibly the lower floor was used as a warehouse.
Dates:
1890 - 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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[European House], 1895 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446L/70
Scope and Contents
148 x 200 mm. Large raised building, with palm tree in the foreground.
Dates:
1895 - 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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[European house under construction], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/27
Scope and Contents
165 x 120 mm. Two storey house.
Dates:
1890 - 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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[European man], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/41
Scope and Contents
65 x 100 mm. He has sticking up hair, a small beard and moustache, and a frowning expression.
Dates:
1890 - 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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[European man], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/42
Scope and Contents
65 x 100 mm. Curly hair and moustache, arms folded.
Dates:
1890 - 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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European man in shirtsleeves and cloth cap, 1929 - 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 25/19
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.
Dates:
1929 - 1948
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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European Quarters - The Village of Kenilworth, 1891
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059C/30
Scope and Contents
206 x 150 mm. A view looking across a field planted out with fruit trees towards lines of wooden houses.
Dates:
1891
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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European woman standing by tent, 1905 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 26/52
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
Dates:
1905 - 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).
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European woman standing outside grass hut, 1892 - 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 28/22
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions documenting Arthur Fisher's service as a missionary in Uganda.
Dates:
1892 - 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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Europeans photographing Arabs, 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304K/32
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Measuring 195 x 255 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 145 x 90 mm in size, two to a page, followed by 26 blank spaces. They are mainly of rural and urban scenes in North Africa. The only one captioned shows Timgad.
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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Evangelism with modern aids, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/11/2/32
Scope and Contents
105 x 101 mm. glossy print; five copies, plus 155 x 157 mm. enlargement.
Dates:
1962
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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Evangelism with modern aids, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/11/2/33
Scope and Contents
105 x 101 mm. glossy print; five copies.
Dates:
1962
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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Evans, 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305U/38
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...
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).
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Even donkies [sic.] find Faza a little dull, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/27
Scope and Contents
A view showing two donkey's tethered to a post on the beach with a sailing boat in the background. The donkey's are both laying down.
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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Every potato is inspected and blemishes removed before being passed for dehydration, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/356
Scope and Contents
Showing two rows of workers in a vegetable drying plant peeling and inspecting potatoes for dehydration. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The cleaned potatoes are kept under water to prevent discolouration before processing'.
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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EvG 8-12 A Talense compound in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/242
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'In the foreground a grain store and in the background the huts'. Photograph by Margot Lubinski.
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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EvG 13-16 Children's art in Africa. Models made by Talense children from the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/241
Scope and Contents
Photograh by Margot Lubinski.
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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EvG 24-24 At the museum of Achimota College, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/244
Scope and Contents
View of the interior of the museum, with students looking at the display cases. Photograph by Margot Lubinski.
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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EvG 53-2 Wood carvings by art and craft students in training at Achimota College, Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/237
Scope and Contents
Showing carvings of elephants and musicians. Photograph by Margot Lubinski.
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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EvG 53-8 Puppett [sic] show made entirely by students of Achimota College, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/240
Scope and Contents
Showing a female student watching a puppet show in progress at Achimota.
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).