Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
Item
[Ship at L. Kioga], 1930
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/106
Scope and Contents
77 x 54 mm.
Dates:
1930
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
[Shipment of copra on Zanzibar beach], 1920 - 1927
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/57
Scope and Contents
103 x 59 mm. A view showing sacks of copra being stacked on Zanzibar beach before loading for shipment. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'MA and Co's shipment being stacked on beach preparatory to loading in lighter'.
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).
Item
Shipping at Wad Hamed [i.e. Wad Hamid], 1898
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/58
Scope and Contents
75 x 77 mm. A view looking along the Nile towards the masts of the Dhows moored at Wad Hamid.
Dates:
1898
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
/
Khartoum 1898
Item
Shipping in the bay, Durban, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal], 1925
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/83
Scope and Contents
203 x 152 mm. A view showing shipping at anchor in the bay with wharves and moored shipping at the right. A view probably taken from Salisbury Island.
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).
Item
Ships alongside Kipevu deep water berths 11 and 12, Mombasa, 1950 - 1967
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/5
Scope and Contents
246 x 190 mm. View across railway freight lines towards ships moored in the deep water berths, with the harbour beyond.
Dates:
1950 - 1967
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
Ships of the desert, 1922
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304H/145-47
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).
Item
"Ship's that pass", 1920
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/2/60
Scope and Contents
125 x 80 mm. Camel train passing.
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).
Item
Shooting pals, 1910 - 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/76
Scope and Contents
87 x 85 mm. Showing a European in camp with his horse and dog.
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).
Item
Shop, quayside, Lagos, 1946-12 - 1947-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK(GS)27
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.
Dates:
1946-12 - 1947-01
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).
Item
Shops in Algiers, 1922
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304I/5
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Measuring 205 x 265 mm, this album contains 48 sepia photographs, each measuring 145 x 90 mm, two to a page, together with 22 loose prints of France and North Africa. The album prints have brief captions, and since they relate to Algiers, Biskra and a few of Tunis and Carthage, they may come from the same visit as Y304H.
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).
Item
Shops in Algiers, 1922
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304I/6
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Measuring 205 x 265 mm, this album contains 48 sepia photographs, each measuring 145 x 90 mm, two to a page, together with 22 loose prints of France and North Africa. The album prints have brief captions, and since they relate to Algiers, Biskra and a few of Tunis and Carthage, they may come from the same visit as Y304H.
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).
Item
[Shoreline], 1925
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/63
Scope and Contents
75 x 55 mm. A view of a building very close to the shoreline. A pier is visible in the distance. Exact location unidentified. Exact location unidentified.
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).
Item
[Shoreline at Merowe], 1930
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/141
Scope and Contents
76 x 56 mm.
Dates:
1930
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
Shoreline scene with figures bearing goods on their heads and canoes behind, 1914 - 1918
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/212
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).
Item
Shoreline scene with figures bearing goods on their heads and canoes behind, 1914 - 1918
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/GN/212
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).
Item
Shores of Victoria Nyanza, S. Kavirondo, 1889-10-28
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/32
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. A view looking along the rock strewn lake shore. Gedge records in his diary: ‘In the afternoon I took a photo of the shores of the lake.’ LS/12.
Dates:
1889-10-28
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
/
Ernest Gedge Collection
Item
Shovel sellers in the market, 1939-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/217
Scope and Contents
62 x 40 mm. Shovel sellers in the market - the shovels or hoes, are made in Oku by native craftsmen and sell at 1/3 ea. Much discussion occurs before purchases on the relative merits of each piece.
Dates:
1939-09
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).
Item
Showing how the women stretch the lobes of their ears by inserting blocks of wood, 1900-03-14
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/55
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
66 watercolours, 150 x 200 mm in size. The captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Notes provided by H.B. Thomas have been incorporated into the description.
Dates:
1900-03-14
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
Item
Showing stump of funtumia rubber tree putting on new growth after being felled by natives, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043M/26
Scope and Contents
92 x 127 mm. As described, with an African in European clothes standing beside the plant.
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).
Item
Showing young cocoa seedling about 2 1/2 ft. high, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043M/35
Scope and Contents
92 x 122 mm. Showing an African labourer standing beside the seedling.
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).
Item
Shows young cocoa tree, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043M/34
Scope and Contents
92 x 121 mm. Showing an African labourer standing beside a young cocoa tree.
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).
Item
Shuli Runners with Letters, Dufile 1898, 1898
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/9
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:
1898
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
Shy girls, 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/147
Scope and Contents
130 x 105 mm. Two girls and a man stood on cultivated land. One of the girls carries a parasol.
Dates:
1943
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
Sick Convoy. Corpl. F. Walters, Queen's Company, 1st Batt. Grenedier Guards. Captain Austin R.A.M.C. Trooper, 21st Lancers., 1898
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/79
Scope and Contents
160 x 114 mm. A view showing a group of soldiers at the quayside at Wad Hamid.
Dates:
1898
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
/
Khartoum 1898
Item
Sick Convoy. Corpl. F. Walters, Queen's Company, 1st Batt. Grenedier Guards. Captain Austin R.A.M.C. Trooper, 21st Lancers., 1898
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/80
Scope and Contents
160 x 114 mm. A close-up view of the three men at the quayside at Wad Hamid.
Dates:
1898
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
/
Khartoum 1898