Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20097 Collections and/or Records:
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[African group], 1910-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/56
Scope and Contents
105 x 77 mm. Showing a seated group of African men.
Dates:
1910-02
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).
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[African group], 1875 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305A/19
Scope and Contents
191 x 127 mm. Showing a large group of Africans posed in a courtyard. Several of the men hold agricultural implements and are posed to demonstrate their manner of use.
Dates:
1875 - 1880
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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African group, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A/54
Scope and Contents
278 x 222 mm. Portraits of three African women, probably from the Sudan area. The photograph has evidently been pasted in the wrong album by mistake. It should probably belong in Y302B.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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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[African group], 1891
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/9
Scope and Contents
140 x 110 mm. Group of 12 men and women, some in partly European dress.
Dates:
1891
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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[African group], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/67
Scope and Contents
102 x 62 mm. Twelve men and boys, some carrying basket-work items [fish traps?]
Dates:
1890 - 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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African group, 1890 - 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/99
Scope and Contents
101 x 72 mm. A view showing a group of African women wearing European skirts and blouses and standing in front of corrugated-iron sheds. Location unidentified.
Dates:
1890 - 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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African group, 1890 - 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/107
Scope and Contents
165 x 120 mm. A view showing a formally arranged group of men and women, the women seated at the front, the men standing behind and armed with bows.
Dates:
1890 - 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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[African group, ? Congo 1903], 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/52
Scope and Contents
156 x 109 mm. A view showing a posed group of Africans, the men (possibly with sleeping sickness) seated in front of a row of women with decorative scarring.
Dates:
1903
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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African Handicraft School at M'Sonneddi, 1966
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052I/13
Scope and Contents
A view looking down on the school premises from an adjoining building showing a cluster of thatched cottages with the main school in the foreground. See Y5052G/27 for a view of women making baskets at the school.
Dates:
1966
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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[African hut, ? Buvuma Island], 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/61
Scope and Contents
152 x 110 mm. A view showing a large grass hut set among banana plants, probably on Buvuma Island. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.
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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African hut, Nyasoso, 1938-02-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/134
Scope and Contents
42 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1938-02-09
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).
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[African in formal European clothes, head and shoulders], 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/36
Scope and Contents
65 x 100 mm.
Dates:
1890 - 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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[African in robe with school-children in background], 1938 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448P/10
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1938 - 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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[African in uniform reading address to Guggisberg on Dais], 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/16
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. As Sir Gordon Guggisberg wears the somewhat unusual combination of military service uniform and a plumed Governor's hat, this may be related to his arrival in the Gold Coast.
Dates:
1919
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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African Kraal, south side of hill, 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/101
Scope and Contents
115 x 95 mm.
Dates:
1901
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
/
Vryheid, South Africa
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African labourers, 1900 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/4
Scope and Contents
116 x 88 mm. An indistinct print showing a row of Africans standing with their shovels on recently cleared ground with two European overseers standing on a small rise in the background.
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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African labourers at work, 1900 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/5
Scope and Contents
113 x 88 mm. Showing Africans digging out the path of a railway with a row of skips in the background.
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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African labourers attacking hay at the Department of Animal Health Experimental Livestock Farm near Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/249
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Many acres of hay are grown and stacked for feeding during the long dry season when there is little or no nutrient in the natural grass. The hay is a mixture of Soya Bean and Cow Pea and a very satisfactory yield is obtained. The mixture grows well on poor soil'.
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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African labourers working a hand driven grain crusher at the Department of Animal Health Experimental Livestock Farm near Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/251
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Apart from hay, supplementary feeding in the form of grain mixtures are fed to both adult and young stock'.
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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African labourers working on brick construction, 1914 - 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/116
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).
Fonds
African land utilisation and settlement, Kenya
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046D
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints (originally 80 but lacking No. 75) measuring approximately 155 x 105 mm., with typewritten explanatory captions on the reverse. The collection, which illustrates the progress of land utilisation and betterment schemes in various districts of Kenya is identical, apart from minor variations, with the illustrations in the 'African Land Utilisation and Settlement Report 1962.'Photographs by the Aircraft Operating Company of Africa Limited, Johannesburg (Nos....
Dates:
1955
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'African Life' by students of Mzilikasi Art Centre, Bulawayo, 1980
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 22/53/5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
An undated series of postcards depicting artwork and scenes from Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, India and Malaysia. The postcards are undated but probably originate from the 1970s or 1980s.
Dates:
1980
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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'African Life' by students of Mzilikasi Art Centre, Bulawayo, 1980
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 22/53/6
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
An undated series of postcards depicting artwork and scenes from Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, India and Malaysia. The postcards are undated but probably originate from the 1970s or 1980s.
Dates:
1980
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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African lion and lioness (North Rhodesia) [Zambia], 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/60
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of monochrome postcards printed in collotype showing stuffed animals in the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg. Accompanying the postcards is a four page printed leaflet by the Director of the Natal Museum, Ernest Warren, dated April 1924 and entitled 'The need for the International protection of the African fauna.'
Dates:
1920 - 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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African man and European boy holding spears, 1892 - 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 28/1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions documenting Arthur Fisher's service as a missionary in Uganda.
Dates:
1892 - 1914
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).