Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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Native handicraft, Kigoma, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/72
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.
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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Native House, Hinterland, Gold Coast, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448U/1
Scope and Contents
205 x 135 mm.
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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Native hut, 1895 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446L/31
Scope and Contents
150 x 110 mm.
Dates:
1895 - 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).
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Native Hut at Mochudi, 1900 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549E/3
Scope and Contents
207 x 133 mm. view of an African woman and children in front of a hatched clay hut. The photograph is numbered 219.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Mochudi
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Native huts at Ambwani [Mbweni], 1920 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/38
Scope and Contents
59 x 101 mm. A blurred print showing a row of thatched houses on the road side. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'I moved the camera'.
Dates:
1920 - 1927
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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Native huts at Burghers-dorp, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/43
Scope and Contents
197 x 122 mm. Showing a settlement of thatched huts and cottages at Burghersdorp with a family group gathered in front of an enclosing stone wall 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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Native huts in Basutoland [i.e. Lesotho] surrounded by windshelters, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/158
Scope and Contents
156 x 114 mm. Showing a group of thatched huts surrounded by circular reed windbreaks. Exact location unidentified.
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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Native Kraal, Zululand, 1939 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058G/1
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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Native life. Hairdressing, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/117
Scope and Contents
139 x 190 mm. Showing a Zulu woman adding the finishing touches to another woman's coiffure: a cylindrical mass of hair rising from the back of the head.
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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Native life in Natal [KwaZulu-Natal]. In the Kraal, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/115
Scope and Contents
190 x 139 mm. Showing a group of Zulu men, women and children sitting in front of a characteristic thatched hut and (?) cattle pens.
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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Native life in Natal [KwaZulu-Natal]. Reeds for thatching, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/114
Scope and Contents
190 x 139 mm. Showing a line of Zulu women carrying bound bundles of reeds.
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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Native life in Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]. Makalanga girls, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/120
Scope and Contents
139 x 184 mm. Showing two Makalanga girls standing with woven baskets balanced on their heads.
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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Native life. Lovedale [Missionary] Institute - a combined choir, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/118
Scope and Contents
204 x 153 mm. Showing the choir of African boys and girls in European dress assembled for an event.
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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Native life. Pondo women, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/119
Scope and Contents
203 x 152 mm. Showing three Pondo women seated on the ground beside bundles of reeds.
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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Native life. The medicine man [historic title], 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/116
Scope and Contents
190 x 138 mm. Showing a Zulu healer treating a patient by blowing through a horn placed on the man's cheek. On the blanket in the foreground are objects used in his work.
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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Native loading bales of cloves onto a cart, 1933 - 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/3/6
Scope and Contents
200 x 160 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse (three times) with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'
Dates:
1933 - 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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Native loading cloves into cart, 1933 - 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/3/36
Scope and Contents
215 x 165 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'
Dates:
1933 - 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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Native loading cloves onto a cart, 1933 - 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/3/22
Scope and Contents
170 x 120 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'
Dates:
1933 - 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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Native made fish hooks used to catch big fish, Pirate Isles, 1938-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/171
Scope and Contents
62 x 40 mm. It was this hook that caught the whale.
Dates:
1938-09
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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Native made swamp-crossing, Mayanja River on Kampala-Hoima Road, 1906 [historic title], 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/122
Scope and Contents
104 x 78 mm. A view looking along the boggy path ( with the swamp held back by wooden posts and horizontal supports) where the Mayanja River crosses the road which runs north-west from Kampala to Hoima in the Kingdom of Bunyoro. A group of Ugandans and Askaris stands in the foreground.
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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Native market, Kabale, Uganda, 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/25
Scope and Contents
'136-3-7' printed in bottom right corner.
Dates:
1955
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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Native mission. Convent Farm, Umtata, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/50
Scope and Contents
149 x 106 mm. Showing a settlement of verandahed European buildings and a row of three circular, thatched mud huts at Umtata.
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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Native musicians. Sierra Leone, 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Sierra Leone/12
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Monochrome postcards showing views in Freetown. Photographer and publisher unknown.
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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Native of Barlimdo [Bailundo] W.C. of Africa, 1884-03-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/70
Scope and Contents
60 x 80 mm. Oval print. A head and sholders profile of an African with braided hair, a short beard, and wearing bead necklaces. Bailundo, renamed Vila Teixeira de Silva in 1930, is situated in Benguela Province forty miles north of Nova Lisboa.
Dates:
1884-03-28
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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Native Police at Kazaniela [Kazungula], 1910 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/62
Scope and Contents
139 x 82 mm. Showing five native policemen standing with shouldered arms in front of a wicker stockade. Beside them stands a European sergeant (possibly Quartermaster Sergeant Fosdyce). Kazungula is a small village in the extreme north-east of the North West District (Chobe).
Dates:
1910 - 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).