Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Fancy dress group of children at Simon's Town [i.e. Simonstad], 1884-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/17
Scope and Contents
200 x 132 mm. Showing a group of boys and girls in fancy dress posed against a hedge, with a building in the background. With a few adults at the side of the group.
Dates:
1884-05
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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Sydney Tyers album
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Fante New Town, Kumasi, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/37
Scope and Contents
'No. 91' printed on bottom right corner.
Dates:
1930 - 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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Farewell party for Miss Stella Purchas, 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/216
Scope and Contents
104 x 102 mm. glossy print. Purchas stands between the Rev. and Mrs. J.N. Campbell
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).
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Farewell party for Miss Stella Purchas, 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/217
Scope and Contents
104 x 102 mm. glossy print with copy. Purchas stands to the left of Mrs J.N. Campbell
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).
File
Farewell to Ghana, 1964 - 1967
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/4/1/15
Scope and Contents
Letters of thanks and best wishes exchanged between the Smedleys and friends and colleagues upon their departure from Ghana including lists of signatures (as well as some earlier correspondence); and material relating to the organisation of their farewell party, 8 November 1967 (circa 70 sheets).
Dates:
1964 - 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).
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Farewell to the Hughes, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/12
Scope and Contents
125 x 75 mm. Showing a group seated for dinner. Hebbert is third from the right.
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).
File
Faria y Sousa, ‘Asia Portuguesa', 1665, 1950 - 1970
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/11/7
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.
Dates:
1950 - 1970
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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Farm at Etyo [Etjo] , 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/25
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.
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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Farm in the Swakopmund Valley, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/26
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.
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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Farm Rietfontein, P.O. Boschfontein, distr. Lydenburg, 1897
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/144
Scope and Contents
152 x 102 mm. A view looking across a field towards the 'house of the late Mr K Prinsloo' on the left and the 'school and teacher's quarters' on the right) (identifications on reverse of print).
Dates:
1897
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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Farm scene, Penhalonga , 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052G/18
Scope and Contents
Looking across cultivated fields towards wooded hillside.
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
Farmer crossing Mungo River, Bai-Mbonge, 1938-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/118
Scope and Contents
40 x 62 mm. A farmer crosses the Mungo River to Mbonge with his wheelbarrow on his head rather than pay the ferry charge.
Dates:
1938-01
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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'Farmer Peeks' Hotel. Muisenberg, 1857 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/29
Scope and Contents
166 x 128 mm. (oval print). Showing the thatched single storey buildings of Farmer Peek's Hotel at Muisenberg. Additional annotations by C.W. Busk are as follows: 'This well-known Inn has been replaced by a more pretentious modern building (1914) but the sign board (seen near the corner) has been preserved and is displayed in the hall of the modern building. There was a turn-pike gate near here. The situation is just where the Cape Town-Simonstown road reaches the shore of False Bay. ...
Dates:
1857 - 1879
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).
Sub-Series
[Farming], 1930 - 1950
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8
Scope and Contents
Images of clove and coconut farming and more general crop agricultural views.
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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Farming by traditional methods, Naro Moru, 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/168
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
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).
Item
Fassilides [Fasilides] Library, Gondar [i.e. Gonder], 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/46
Scope and Contents
120 x 95 mm. General view.
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
Father Brindle, D.S.O. R.C. Chaplain, 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/231
Scope and Contents
82 x 58 mm. A view showing Father Robert Brindle, a white-bearded figure wearing a large pith helment, standing in the desert. Brindle's DSO was awarded for services in the field during the Egyptian campaign.
Dates:
1898
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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Khartoum 1898
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Father Guiseppe Rognotto, captured at El Obeid, 1898
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/178
Scope and Contents
80 x 80 mm. A view showing Guiseppe Rognotto ('Beppo') in a courtyard in Omdurman after his release. Rognotto was a colleague of Sister Teresa Gregolini at the mission at Dilling. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.
Dates:
1898
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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Khartoum 1898
File
Father Jeronimo Lobo, ‘Relation Historique d’Abissinie', 1728, 1950 - 1970
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/11/4
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.
Dates:
1950 - 1970
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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Father of many [man in a group of children], 1939 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058G/3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A commercially published collection of prints housed in a folder. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Unless otherwise stated the prints measure 95 x 70 mm.
Dates:
1939 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Studies [of Zulus]
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Father of sick child consulting witch doctor, Banso [historic title], 1939-06-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/186
Scope and Contents
62 x 40 mm. The husband, having agreed that there is some grounds for suspicion as to who is causing this illness of his child, goes and arranges with Ngangam the witch doctor who understands the actions of Ngam the Tarantula. They then arrange the price for the work of Ngangam and proceed to the spot where the spider lives.
Dates:
1939-06-09
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
'Father' Terrance, 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/75
Scope and Contents
Showing a man seated at a table smoking with food and drinks laid out on the table.
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).
Item
'Father' Terrance and sweated labour, Luschoto [i.e. Lushoto], 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/111
Scope and Contents
Showing 'Father' Terrance with a young boy who is holding a golf bag.
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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['Father' Terrance and Walter Wilkinson], 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/67
Scope and Contents
Showing two men sitting on a tree root by a stream. The caption reads: 'We found walking down stream, easier than pushing our way through Hells Bush'.
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).
Item
'Father' Terrance and Walter Wilkinson somewhere in 'Hell's Bush', 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/66
Scope and Contents
Showing two men posed with rifles at their side, trees and foliage behind. The caption continues: 'note elephant droppings'.
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).