Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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Sea Island Cotton - Gossypium barbadense - 4 month growth - Chirunda Exp. St., 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/285
Scope and Contents
80 x 110 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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Sea Point, Cape Town, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/29
Scope and Contents
239 x 181 mm. A view looking across the rocky beach at Sea Point to the west of the city, towards the cluster of seaside houses (among them Queen's Hotel) beside the Beach Road.
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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Sea Promenade, Cape Town, 1900 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/85
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of loose coloured (80-88) and monochrome (89-98) postcards of Cape Province, by J.G.B, Spes Bona Series (80-83), T.D. Ravenscroft (84-87), Valentine and Sons (88-90), W.E. Courteney, East London (91), Stewart and Schaefer, Cape Town (92-94), unknown (95-98). Nos. 89-91 are original photographs.
Dates:
1900 - 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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[Seafront], 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/9
Scope and Contents
77 x 52 mm. Probably at Cape Town.
Dates:
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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Seahurst Hotel, Kalk Bay, C.P., 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/121
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of coloured postcards, publisher unknown.
Dates:
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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[Seascape], 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/3/479
Scope and Contents
145 x 210 mm. View looking past a palm tree on the coast and out to sea. There is text on the reverse of this print headed 'Sent to Mr. Bradley ' which seems to identify eight other photographs (plus a brief list of 'extras') under two headings of 'African children' and 'Women at work in Africa.' This most likely relates to photographs within this collection, although not identified at this time.
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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Seated African in European dress, 1892 - 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 28/44
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).
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[Seated girl], 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/154
Scope and Contents
115 x 125 mm. Showing a young woman or girl seated on the ground. She is wearing a patterned shawl like garment.
Dates:
1930 - 1937
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).
Series
[Seated man], 1948 - 1950
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/1/30-33
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1948 - 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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[Seated woman], 1935 - 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/81
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...
Dates:
1935 - 1936
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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[Seated women with plates of food], 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/108
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.
Dates:
1951
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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Seaward view from Notre-Dame d’Afrique, 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304H/34
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Measuring 220 x 285 mm, this album contains postcards, some of which are coloured. The majority portray Algiers (including 12 of the museum), Algerian people, Biskra, and the ruins of Timgad, Constantine, Tunis and Carthage.
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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Second Bugiri Mission House, 1910-11, 1910 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/40
Scope and Contents
158 x 112 mm. A more distant view of the Mission House.
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).
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Second camp, Eldoret: Bob Edwards, self and group, African boys (staff), our Simiti, 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/18-25
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
Dates:
1942
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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Second C.M.S. Mission Station at Mpwapwa, 1902, 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/120
Scope and Contents
103 x 81 mm. View looking down on the thatched mission buildings. These are probably the buildings nearing completion in print 117. An accompanying note reads ‘Mpwapwa was first tentatively occupied by Shergeld Smith & his party of missionaries, including Alexander Makay on their way to Uganda for the first time in 1876. They used it as an intermediate base. Then Mpwapwa became the first C.M.S. Station of German East Africa. It was permanently occupied after Dr Baxter arrived there in...
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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Second C.M.S. Mission Station at Mpwapwa, 1902, 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/121
Scope and Contents
106 x 82 mm. Similar to preceding print.
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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Second encampment on road to Uganda [Kikuyu Escarpment], 1900-02-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/31
Scope and Contents
'Showing the extremely steep descent over which the line is to pass. The trains are to be let down by wire ropes. The white tents in the distance are those of the Railway employees; they have 500 mules there for use on the works. The two big tents belong to our porters. The height down which the railway is being constructed is all wooded.'
Dates:
1900-02-28
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
/
Mombasa to Mengo
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Second encampment, two miles beyond Railhead, 1900-03-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/32
Scope and Contents
'Showing the 4 CMS green tents surrounded by the small white tents of the porters. Very high wind blowing.'
Dates:
1900-03-01
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
/
Mombasa to Mengo
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Second hand clothing purchased in the Belgian Congo being ironed prior to being taken out by Kasompe hawkers, 1951
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30521C/52
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of black and white photographs arranged under broad headings in approximate chronological order within each heading, the majority of which were captioned by R.S. Thompson at the time of donation. The captions, used as titles and recorded in the notes, may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The photographs...
Dates:
1951
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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Second (Tented) Camp and Unit Members at Eldoret, 1943 - 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/9-17
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
Dates:
1943 - 1944
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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Secretariat, 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/96
Scope and Contents
75 x 52 mm. The front of the Secretariat, probably in Dar es Salaam.
Dates:
1928
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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Secretariat, Dar es Salaam, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/60
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).
Item
Secretary bird, 1967-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Z/7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Slides of South Africa created by John Ewart Marnham, the British Consul-General in Johannesburg from 1967 to 1970. They are arranged in 10 groups (Q-Z). The earlier photographs (Q-S) however, date from a visit to what were then the High Commission Territories of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland towards the close of 1965.The first photographs from Marnham's term of office in South Africa date from April 1967 and show scenes in the garden of his Johannesburg house, which...
Dates:
1967-08
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
Secretary bird, 1967-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Z/8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Slides of South Africa created by John Ewart Marnham, the British Consul-General in Johannesburg from 1967 to 1970. They are arranged in 10 groups (Q-Z). The earlier photographs (Q-S) however, date from a visit to what were then the High Commission Territories of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland towards the close of 1965.The first photographs from Marnham's term of office in South Africa date from April 1967 and show scenes in the garden of his Johannesburg house, which...
Dates:
1967-08
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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Section of Harari Township, Salisbury [Harare], 1966
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052I/4
Scope and Contents
An overall view of part of the township with a football field in the foreground and bungalows beyond.
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).