Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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Falls near Sunni, 1942-06-23 - 1942-06-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/61
Scope and Contents
125 x 125 mm. A view of a woman (probably Mrs Hebbert) stood beneath a waterfall.
Dates:
1942-06-23 - 1942-06-28
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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Falls on the Congo border [1907], 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/63
Scope and Contents
A general view of a waterfall, possibly the Kirk Falls visited by Bell at the end of February 1907.
Dates:
1907
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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Falls on the Creole River, Riche en Eau Estate, 1856
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/3/19
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...
Dates:
1856
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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False Bay looking SSW, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195/236
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company. The numbering used in the catalogue reflects Stephenson's own numbering. The scenes cover: Northern Rhodesia [i.e. Zambia], including Victoria Falls and the Tanganyika Plateau; Southern Rhodesia [i.e....
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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Family affections, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/154
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of monochrome postcards
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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---- family, Amani, 1900 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/59
Scope and Contents
114 x 88 mm. Showing Herr and Frau ---- and an African servant standing over the elaborate cradle on which the baby is lying.
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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[Family group], 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/433
Scope and Contents
70 x 110 mm. Showing a family group resting with donkeys.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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[Family group], 1939 - 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/100
Scope and Contents
105 x 75 mm. Showing a group of six stood amongst the foliage.
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).
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[Family group], 1939 - 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/101
Scope and Contents
110 x 110 mm. Showing a group of six stood amongst the foliage. A circular hut can be seen in the background.
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).
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Family group, 1914 - 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/194
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection comprises black and white photographs, mostly 125 x 75 mm or 75 x 125 mm in size, film negatives and glass negatives. Some of the prints from glass plates are smaller, approximately 85 x 65 mm. The prints are good compositions, though some are rather dark, and were listed by Erica Ryan of the National Library of Australia, using, among other sources, the captioned envelopes in which the original negatives had been stored. The provenance of the collection is unclear,...
Dates:
1914 - 1918
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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Family group, 1914 - 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/GN/194
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection comprises black and white photographs, mostly 125 x 75 mm or 75 x 125 mm in size, film negatives and glass negatives. Some of the prints from glass plates are smaller, approximately 85 x 65 mm. The prints are good compositions, though some are rather dark, and were listed by Erica Ryan of the National Library of Australia, using, among other sources, the captioned envelopes in which the original negatives had been stored. The provenance of the collection is unclear,...
Dates:
1914 - 1918
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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---- Family Group, Amani, 1900 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/60
Scope and Contents
115 x 88 mm.
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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---- family group, Amani, November 1908, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/61
Scope and Contents
87 x 117 mm. Showing the ---- family and Hellmut grouped in the open air, with thick forest in the background. The reverse of the print is stamped ' 'Sägewerk' Sigi bei Amani D.O. Africa [Sawmill at Amani on the Sigi River, German East Africa]'.
Dates:
1908-11
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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---- family group, Amani November 1908, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/62
Scope and Contents
86 x 117 mm. An underexposed postcard print of the family and Hellmut grouped in the open air, with thick forest in the background.
Dates:
1908-11
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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Family group on the verandah, 1900 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/104
Scope and Contents
114 x 89 mm. Showing Herr and Frau ----- and another European couple grouped at the entrance porch of an unidentified house.
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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Family group outside a modern type of hut, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/112
Scope and Contents
152 x 104 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 1950
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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[Family group outside hut], 1946-12 - 1947-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK(GS)57
Scope and Contents
Possibly taken during the visit to West Africa.
Dates:
1946-12 - 1947-01
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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Family group outside hut, 1914 - 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/161
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection comprises black and white photographs, mostly 125 x 75 mm or 75 x 125 mm in size, film negatives and glass negatives. Some of the prints from glass plates are smaller, approximately 85 x 65 mm. The prints are good compositions, though some are rather dark, and were listed by Erica Ryan of the National Library of Australia, using, among other sources, the captioned envelopes in which the original negatives had been stored. The provenance of the collection is unclear,...
Dates:
1914 - 1918
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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[Family tree], 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043YY/2
Scope and Contents
450 x 585 mm. Showing a family tree headed by Annabi Muhammadu, then Fadimatu, then Hassan and from there two columns of names, twenty seven on the left and nineteen on the right, as follows:Left: Muhammadu, Isa, Muhammadu, Taminu, Ahmadu, Baddalu, Wardi, Yusha’u, Kusaiyu, Khatimu, Hurmuzu, Abdul Jabbari, Abdullahi, Abi Hassan Shazali, Ahmadu, Mubaraku, Salihu, Abdul Razzaki, Alu Yanbu’u, Muh. Dan Sharif, Muhammadu, Hawa’u, Shehu Usman, Muh. Bello, Abukar Mai Rabah, Ibrahim,...
Dates:
1963
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
/
Sir Ahmadu Bello
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Famine stricken natives wait for food [historic title], 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3057A/12
Scope and Contents
194 x 101 mm. Showing a large group of starving Ovambos with bowls in front of them. Probably one of the photographs used by Pritchard in his lecture. 'The pictures he showed of famine-stricken natives were truly appalling.' (Journal of the African Society, 1916-17 p. 5)
Dates:
1915
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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Fan palm country near Vuto, Keta, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/41
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.
Dates:
1939
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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Fan-shaped coral got from South African waters: is of a deep scarlet colour - the photograph was taken from a specimen in the South African Museum, 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305I/28
Scope and Contents
99 x 72 mm. Showing the coral described displayed among other varieties in a glass case in the South African Museum in Cape Town.
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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Fancy dress, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/490
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. Showing Hebbert dressed up in white robes and black wig. He has blackened his skin. Location not identified but probably in Sudan.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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[Fancy dress], 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/508
Scope and Contents
55 x 55 mm. Showing a group posed in fancy dress.
Dates:
1936
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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Fancy dress dance, Khartoum, 1937 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/2/8
Scope and Contents
150 x 95 mm. Six women and five men seated together, posing for the camera. The women all wear pinny's which feature an RAF Roundal, or 'bullseye', on the chest.
Dates:
1937 - 1939
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).