Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Sisal after crushing emerges as fibre, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/315
Scope and Contents
Showing a row of African workers unpacking sisal after the crushing process from which it emerges as fibre.
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).
Item
Sisal drying, 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3/16
Scope and Contents
110 x 110 mm. Showing young boys hanging sisal out to dry. The caption continues: 'After the fibres have been separated from the sisal leaves, young workers lay it over wires to dry in the sun.'
Dates:
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).
Item
Sisal entering the crushing mill, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/316
Scope and Contents
Showing harvested sisal being fed into the crushing mill.
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).
Item
Sisal ernte in Deutsch-Ostafrika [Sisal harvest in German East Africa i.e. Tanzania], 1920
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/3
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A booklet containing monochrome photogravure postcards of agricultural and industrial scenes in German East Africa. Published by Walther Dobbertin of Harburg.Each card has the following exhortation in German printed on the reverse: 'Our own colonies, our own overseas provinces are essential to Germany. Germans, remember your colonies!'.The captions to the prints are in a form of cursive gothic script which is difficult to decipher: in some cases, therefore, an approximate...
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
Sisal estate Government Plantations, Kampala, 1906 - 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/56
Scope and Contents
153 x 104 mm. Showing a Ugandan worker digging an irrigation ditch in a field of young sisal plants in Kampala. Introduced into German East Africa around 1893, the plant thrived in Kenya but little successful commercial exploitation was achieved in 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).
Item
Sisal fibre on the drying lines, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/314
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:
'Today about 10,620 acres are devoted to sisal growing including one big European estate of 7,200 acres in Bunyro. Sisal rope almost entirely replaced manila rope during the Japanese occupation of so many Far East territories and much of the sisal needs were supplied by East Africa'.
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).
Item
Sisal fibre plant. Showing fibre extracted from leaves, 1925
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/65
Scope and Contents
203 x 152 mm. Showing an European farmer standing in a field of regularly spaced sisal plants and holding long strands of sisal fibre above his 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).
Item
Sisal fibre ready for packing or manufacturing, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/313
Scope and Contents
Showing coils of sisal fibre laid out in the factory yard ready for packing or further manufacture.
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).
Item
Sisal group : Letsiteles of Tzaneen, 1967
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham U/6
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The majority of these were taken in the north of the province; at Magoebaskoof (two visits); Tzaneen (including a sequence showing sisal growing and processing); Vendaland in the extreme north and a few coming south to Orhigstad and Graskop. A group taken at Mala Mala camp is assumed to be in the Transvaal, though the precise location has not been found. The section concludes with a visit to a fishing lodge at Dulstroom in December 1969.
Dates:
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).
File
Sisal growing, 1948
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3
Scope and Contents
Photographs showing the cultivation, treatment and export of sisal.
Dates:
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).
Item
Sisal growing in Africa, 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3/1
Scope and Contents
220 x 165 mm. View of sisal growing beside a road. The caption continues: 'Full grown sisal after the first cutting has been taken. The pole is the ultimate function of the plant and after it has grown no more leaves are available.' A further explanatory note reads: 'Sisal growing in Africa. Sisal fibre from Kenya, used before the war for binder twine, shop twine and hessian and gunny baga has become an important war priority since the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. ...
Dates:
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).
Item
Sisal growing in Africa, 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3/19
Scope and Contents
165 x 210 mm. Showing full-grown sisal after the first cutting has been taken.
Dates:
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).
Item
Sisal in East Africa - Typical plantation, 1933 - 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/1/17
Scope and Contents
From the File:
35 mm slides. Images of Owen Falls Dam in Uganda, hill farming, tea picking and general landscape views.
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).
Item
Sisal in East Africa - well grown plants, 1933 - 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/1/15
Scope and Contents
From the File:
35 mm slides. Images of Owen Falls Dam in Uganda, hill farming, tea picking and general landscape views.
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).
Item
Sisal in Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania], 1940 - 1959
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/56
Scope and Contents
166 x 114 mm. Showing the fibre being hung out on drying lines. The caption on the reverse reads 'After decortification the fibre is laid out in the sun to dry and be bleached. Providing conditions are favourable during the dry season the fibres are dried in twelve hours'.
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).
Item
[Sisal plantation beside a road], 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3/20
Scope and Contents
215 x 165 mm. General view, with mountains in the distance.
Dates:
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).
Item
[Sisal plantation beside a road], 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3/20A
Scope and Contents
215 x 165 mm. General view, with mountains in the distance.
Dates:
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).
Item
Sisal plantation - Showing flowering poles, 1933 - 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/1/16
Scope and Contents
From the File:
35 mm slides. Images of Owen Falls Dam in Uganda, hill farming, tea picking and general landscape views.
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).
Item
Sisal poles, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/419
Scope and Contents
Showing growing sisal silhouetted against the sky. The annotation on the reverse reads 'At the end of the life of a plant from five to nine years; depending on the spacing in the fields, the plant poles and dies'.
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).
Item
Sisal, Tanganyika's [i.e. Tanzania's] main industry, 1930 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/65
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
Sisal train arrives at the estate factory. The estate engineer talks to the train driver, 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/429
Scope and Contents
Showing a small narrow gauge locomotive and trucks loaded with sisal outside the estate factory.
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).
Item
Sisal working S. of Tzaneen, 1967-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham U/7
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The majority of these were taken in the north of the province; at Magoebaskoof (two visits); Tzaneen (including a sequence showing sisal growing and processing); Vendaland in the extreme north and a few coming south to Orhigstad and Graskop. A group taken at Mala Mala camp is assumed to be in the Transvaal, though the precise location has not been found. The section concludes with a visit to a fishing lodge at Dulstroom in December 1969.
Dates:
1967-10
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
Sishen : ISCOR plant, 1968
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham X/94
Scope and Contents
[From the air].
Dates:
1968
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
Sishen : ISCOR plant, 1968
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham X/95
Scope and Contents
[From the air].
Dates:
1968
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
Sister Dora Candlin in the Dispensary at the Kapeka Outstation Maternity Hospital, 1960
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/166
Scope and Contents
163 x 110 mm. glossy print. Nurse Florence Mukasa stands to the right of Candlin.
Dates:
1960
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).