Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Ficus indica, Mambone, E. Africa, 1905
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/187
Scope and Contents
80 x 187 mm. Showing a row of trees.
Dates:
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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Ficus spp, Northern Nigeria, 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/19
Scope and Contents
165 x 210 mm. View of a large tree.
Dates:
1933 - 1964
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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[Field], 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/28
Scope and Contents
150 x 110 mm. A view of cultivated land.
Dates:
1933 - 1964
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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[Field], 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/55
Scope and Contents
165 x 120 mm. A view of cultivated land.
Dates:
1933 - 1964
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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Field Day, Grenadier Guards. Col. Hatton on donkey. Lieut E.F.O. Gascoigne, D.S.O., Adjutant, 1898-08-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/47
Scope and Contents
165 x 108 mm. A view showing Hatton and Gascoigne seated on donkeys with soldiers of the Grenadier Guards in front of them. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Atbara Camp, August 15th'.
Dates:
1898-08-15
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
/
Khartoum 1898
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Field of Boehmeria nivea ‘Ramie’ and Agava rigida, 1905
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/272
Scope and Contents
140 x 105 mm.
Dates:
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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Field of Flowers,Port Victoria 1899, 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/17
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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Field of hybrid sea island cotton, Gossypium barbadense?, 1900 - 1920
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/209
Scope and Contents
201 x 151 mm. With African labourers picking cotton and a European overseer standing in the foreground.
Dates:
1900 - 1920
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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Field of Kafir Corn, Sorghum vulgare, Pers, 1905
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/278
Scope and Contents
100 x 50 mm.
Dates:
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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Field of Lucerne, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/64
Scope and Contents
197 x 151 mm. Showing an European farmer and an African youth standing in a field of Lucerne (Alfalfa).
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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Field of Ramie, Boehmeria nivea. 2 years growth. Mambone, East Africa, 1905
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/271
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
Dates:
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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Field of Wild Flowers near Port Victoria 1899, 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/19
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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Fig Tree Bend, Kibiri railway, 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/45
Scope and Contents
65 x 40 mm.
Dates:
1935
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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Figure in high relief, 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304L/66
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Measuring 175 x 215 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 170 x 115 mm in size. Album spaces 65 and 74 are blank. There are no captions, but some photographs can be identified as Tunis by comparison with postcards in Y304H. Others may be mentioned in the 1922 North Africa Diary (see Introduction), e.g. the Cathedral (p.7/plate 57), Carthage (pp.12ff/plate 59ff), camels (p.66/plates 83, 84), and Porte de France (p.78/plates 49-50), but no detailed research has been attempted.
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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[Filling up], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/117
Scope and Contents
Showing the car being topped up with petrol. The caption reads: 'On the way to Lushoto. Note the size of the funnel'.
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).
File
Film 1, 31 Jan. 1947-17 Feb. 1947
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 358/1
Scope and Contents
This film (part one of a two-part film) records the Royal party leaving Buckingham Palace on January 31st 1947 to cheering crowds and boarding a train at Waterloo Station for Portsmouth. It records the Royal party boarding HMS Vanguard, entertainment on deck during the voyage, and their arrival at Cape Town on February 17th 1947.
Dates:
31 Jan. 1947-17 Feb. 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Copyright: British Film Institute. Permission has been obtained from the British Film Institute for the films to be made available for research and teaching within the University of Cambridge.
Please contact the RCS curator (rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk) for further details. For copyright reasons, the films can be viewed upon request only and in person at Cambridge University Library. All other requests to use any part of the films must be addressed to the British Film Institute.
File
Film 2, Feb. 1947
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 358/2
Scope and Contents
This film (second part of a two-part film) records the Royal Party's visit to Kenilworth Racecourse, near Cape Town, the opening by the King of the Ninth Union Parliament, and the Royal Party's visit to Port Elizabeth. It closes with a brief African dancing scene.
Dates:
Feb. 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Copyright: British Film Institute. Permission has been obtained from the British Film Institute for the films to be made available for research and teaching within the University of Cambridge.
Please contact the RCS curator (rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk) for further details. For copyright reasons, the films can be viewed upon request only and in person at Cambridge University Library. All other requests to use any part of the films must be addressed to the British Film Institute.
Fonds
Film footage of the visit of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to the Union of South Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 358
Scope and Contents
Two 8 mm cine films (without sound) entitled Royal Tour of South Africa, part 1 no.82005 and Royal Tour of South Africa, part 2 no. 82006. Film type: Cine Kodagraph Eight.
Dates:
February-April 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Copyright: British Film Institute. Permission has been obtained from the British Film Institute for the films to be made available for research and teaching within the University of Cambridge.
Please contact the RCS curator (rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk) for further details. For copyright reasons, the films can be viewed upon request only and in person at Cambridge University Library. All other requests to use any part of the films must be addressed to the British Film Institute.
For a longer version of the film, including sound and additional material, please see the British Film Institute’s Colonial Film website:
http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/1064
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Final Day of Kenya Conference, 1960-02-21
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/267
Scope and Contents
150 x 205 mm. Mr. Ngala, Chairman of the African Nationalist Group speaking on the final day of the Kenya Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House, London.
Dates:
1960-02-21
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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Final garden panorama L to R, 1970-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham T/73
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains slides including a group of seven interiors of Marnham's house taken in August 1968, three showing servants in February 1968 and one of the visit of the Mayor for the celebration of the Queen's birthday on 20 April 1968. The majority show the garden, from scenes in April 1967 to seven transparencies making up a panorama taken on the eve of departure in March 1970. In between these are extensive views both of individual clumps of flowers and more general scenes.
Dates:
1970-03
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
Final stages, 2.3.20, 1920-03-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/345
Scope and Contents
110 x 65 mm. Showing a crashed aeroplane, with men carrying out repairs.
Dates:
1920-03-02
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
Fingo girl, Peddie, Ciskei [Eastern Cape], 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211/46
Scope and Contents
'A Fingo girl when in the presence of men, must keep her torso covered. Girls of the Peddie area, where a large location of Fingos is situated, wear white for blankets, shoulder drapings and skirts. These give place to red ochred dress when marriageable age is reached. White skirts are short, being decorated with the usual braid, buttons, white beads and fur. Turbans are cleverly wound together in spectacular manner, with beads and bells to brighten the effect.'
Dates:
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).
Item
Fingo mother, Peddie, Ciskei [Eastern Cape], 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211/45
Scope and Contents
Dates:
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).
Item
Fingo witch doctor, Peddie, Ciskei [Eastern Cape] [historic title], 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211/43
Scope and Contents
'The Fingo and Xosa diviners are similar in their dress, wearing a tall hat of animal skin, white beads over the eyes, and at the throat a white shirt surmounted by a kilt of animal skin strips. On one wrist is worn a long string of white beads coiled in a neat band. This is first assumed after the diviner had the dream which marked him or her off as a future diviner. This white band of beads is the first indication to the community that the wearer has been selected by the spirits to become...
Dates:
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).
Item
Fingo woman, 1930 - 1950
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/143
Scope and Contents
203 x 150 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).