Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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A Specimen- of No. 7 Coy. Mumias. Jany. 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/72
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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A start from camp, early morning, Aya River, 1908 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/56
Scope and Contents
102 x 59 mm. Showing porters picking up their loads in a woodland clearing near the Aya River.
Dates:
1908 - 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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A steam shovel at Takoradi, Gold Coast, 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/75
Scope and Contents
(PC17).
Dates:
1924
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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A steam shovel at Takoradi, Gold Coast [i.e. Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana], 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/17
Scope and Contents
The caption on the reverse reads: 'A Steam Shovel at Takoradi, Gold Coast. These steam shovels were first used in the Gold Coast in 1922 in connection with the railway approaches to the new Harbour in Takoradi'.
Dates:
1924
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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A store at Lehututu, 1904 - 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A/33
Scope and Contents
65 x 41 mm. Showing two Europeans and an African standing in front of the small thatched trader’s store at Lehututu. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 32 where it is identified as Proctor’s Store (no further information).
Dates:
1904 - 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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A strange helmet, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/566
Scope and Contents
Showing a man wearing an unusual helmet.
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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A strangely marked ox at Kacheliva[?], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/130
Scope and Contents
Showing an ox with zebra stripes.
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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A stream we passed running through the forest during a trek from M'bogo to Iruma, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/232
Scope and Contents
The caption continues: 'Taken near Cachiamagulia'. In Upper Zaire.
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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A stream we passed running through the forest during a trek from M'bogo to Iruma, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/234
Scope and Contents
The caption continues: 'Taken near Cachiamagulia'. In Upper Zaire.
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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A street in Canary, 1870 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/4
Scope and Contents
215 x 162 mm. Good condition.
Dates:
1870 - 1929
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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A street in Lamu, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/25
Scope and Contents
A view looking down a narrow alley showing a woman and small child behind a piece of cloth. The caption reads: 'Women go about under tents. Sometimes as many as six under one cover'.
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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'A street in old Zanzibar', 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/1/42
Scope and Contents
105 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Even the main street in Zanzibar city is so narrow that it is only possible for one car to pass at a time in certain parts.'
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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A street in the Bazaar Quarter, Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/50
Scope and Contents
85 x 144 mm. A view looking along a narrow street in the Bazaar Quarter with women carrying loads on their heads in the foreground. The Bazaar Quarter lies in the maze of alleyways off Main Street.
Dates:
1900 - 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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A street in the Bazaar, Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/54
Scope and Contents
142 x 85 mm. A view looking along a narrow street in the Bazaar Quarter with pedestrians in the foreground.
Dates:
1900 - 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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A street in the Kaffir location, Potchefstroom, South Africa [historic title], 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of loose monochrome gravure postcards of Potchefstroom. Originally part of the Fisher collection. Captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.
Dates:
1900
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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A street in Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/9
Scope and Contents
150 x 211 mm. A view looking along a narrow unidentified commercial street in Zanzibar town with merchants shop signs hanging over the street.
Dates:
1900 - 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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A string bag is worn by the young girls, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/488
Scope and Contents
Showing an Imatong girl wearing the 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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A student painting a mural, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/221
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved) measuring 255 x 210 mm. They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Achimota College, in the Gold Coast seven miles inland from Accra is West Africa's great co-educational boarding school, where 600 West African boys and girls receive as complete an education as European or American children. It is a secondary school, teacher's training college and university rolled into one, and in planning,...
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).
File
A survey of the situation in Ruanda, 1960
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 150/3/2/3
Scope and Contents
An article by Bishop Brazier from 'Ruanda notes'.
Dates:
1960
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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A Swahili Belle, Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/26
Scope and Contents
150 x 202 mm. A studio portrait of a pretty smiling Swahili girl wearing gaily patterned clothes, a headdress and a row of shirt buttons as earrings. 'Her gala costume consists of a head-dress of coloured silk made up into a kind of extravagant turban or mob-cap... Her body is decorously and elaborately clothed in patterned and coloured fabrics of varying qualities... ' (Pearce 1920).
Dates:
1900 - 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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A Swahili boy makes himself a boat, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/10/12
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 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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A Tall Porter & a Dwarf. 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/86
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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A Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania] African school, 1940 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/55
Scope and Contents
152 x 116 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'The General Science Laboratory with a class in progress under Father Prina'.
Dates:
1940 - 1959
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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A Tanzania sisal estate, 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3/5
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing a man Stacking bundles of sisal beside the railway track.
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).
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A Teacher demonstrating book-binding, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/22
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).