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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20097 Collections and/or Records:

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Achimota, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/38
Scope and Contents

160 x 110 mm. Performance of the 'Merchant of Venice', circa 1956.

Dates: 1956
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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Achimota, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/39
Scope and Contents

160 x 110 mm. Performance of the 'Merchant of Venice', circa 1956.

Dates: 1956
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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Achimota, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/40
Scope and Contents

160 x 110 mm. Performance of the 'Merchant of Venice', circa 1956.

Dates: 1956
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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Achimota, 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/41
Scope and Contents

165 x 110 mm. Performance of 'The Mikado', circa 1964.

Dates: 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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Achimota, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/42
Scope and Contents

165 x 110 mm. Performance of 'The Mikado', circa 1964.

Dates: 1950 - 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).
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Achimota, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/43
Scope and Contents

110 x 150 mm. Alan Rudwick with J.H. Cobbinah, Inspector-General of Police (at Achimota 1928-1939).

Dates: 1950 - 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).
 Fonds

Achimota College (A.W.E. Winlaw collection)

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I
Scope and Contents Collection of loose prints with duplicates measuring, unless stated, approximately 210 x 160 mm. The collection contains a variety of photographs, some of them taken by the Information Services of the Gold Coast/Ghana, while others are amateur photographs. Nos 1-5, showing Fraser in the Principal's house are clearly pre-1935, when he left Achimota. The majority date from Mr Winlaw's Headship and include a number of views of buildings put up in that period, particularly the Assembly Hall...
Dates: 1924 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access: 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

Achimota College, West Africa, 1945

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/194-225
Scope and Contents 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).
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Achimota College, West Africa, 1940 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/35
Scope and Contents

159 x 117 mm. Showing a European teacher giving a lesson to African students. The caption on the reverse reads 'In the Zoology Laboratory, a lesson in human anatomy'. It continues, at length, to give a history of the college.

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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Acholi country, Gulu: Bishop Balya, the Rural Dean of Hoima and Archdeacon L.G. Mey by the tree under which the first Acholi Christians were confirmed by Bishop Willis, 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/56
Scope and Contents

135 x 79 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 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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Acholi country, Upper Nile Diocese, 1959: Bishop Balya from Toro with the Rural Dean of Hoima by the tree under which the first Acholi Christians were confirmed, 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/82
Scope and Contents

136 x 79 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 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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[Acholi girl], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/180
Scope and Contents

A close-up of the body of an Acholi woman. The caption on the album page reads: 'The Acholi girls wear just one single length of chain about 3 inches long in front. Taken at or near Lamarita, Sudan. (Acholi Mts)'.

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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[Acholi girl], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/181
Scope and Contents

A full-length portrait of an Acholi woman. The caption on the album page reads: 'The Acholi girls wear just one single length of chain about 3 inches long in front. Taken at or near Lamarita, Sudan. (Acholi Mts)'.

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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[Acholi girl], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/182
Scope and Contents

A close-up of the body of an Acholi woman. The caption on the album page reads: 'The Acholi girls wear just one single length of chain about 3 inches long in front. Taken at or near Lamarita, Sudan. (Acholi Mts)'.

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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Acholi girl near Lamarita, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/210
Scope and Contents

Showing a woman standing in very shallow water.

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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Acholi girls, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/245A
Scope and Contents

A full-length portrait of two women.

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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Acholi trumpeters [1906?], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/30
Scope and Contents

Showing two Acholi men playing long (?wooden) trumpets.

Dates: 1906
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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Acholi war-dance [1906?], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/28
Scope and Contents

Blurred view showing two Acholi warriors dancing with brandished spears.

Dates: 1906
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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Acholi warriors [1906?], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/29
Scope and Contents

Showing two Acholi warriors in mock battle.

Dates: 1906
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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[Acholi water girls], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/239
Scope and Contents

he caption reads: 'A water girl and her little sister went for an evening walk with us at Rom'.

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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Acholi water girls at Rom, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/240
Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
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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[Acholi water girls at Rom], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/241
Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
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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Acholi women making music by rubbing calabashes up and down a pole, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/177
Scope and Contents

The caption continues: 'At Agoro. (Uganda) - Southern Imatong mts'.

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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Acholi women making music by rubbing calabashes up and down a pole, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/178
Scope and Contents

The caption continues: 'At Agoro. (Uganda) - Southern Imatong mts'. Another caption reads: 'Note the checked design on the leather skirt and the leather [illegible word]'.

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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Acholi youth, N. Province, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/97
Scope and Contents

77 x 102 mm. A full length profile study of an Acholi wearing metal armbands and a distinctive headdress. The Acholi are a Nilotic people inhabiting northern Uganda.

Dates: 1906 - 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).