Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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Snake Park, Port Elizabeth, 1928-06-21
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/3
Scope and Contents
The boy has been bitten 14 times (8 times seriously). The snakes are rather sleepy being mid-winter. There is only one other Snake Park like this in the world in Brazil. Print at RCMS 353/2/30.
Dates:
1928-06-21
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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Snake Park, Port Elizabeth, 1928-06-21
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/30
Scope and Contents
The boy has been bitten 14 times (8 times seriously). The snakes are rather sleepy being mid-winter. There is only one other Snake Park like this in the world in Brazil.
Dates:
1928-06-21
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
'Snakes, burrs and birds', 1912
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/9/6
Scope and Contents
Article published in the journal Knowledge, Jan. 1912, 13.
Dates:
1912
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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[Snapshot of Europeans playing tennis], 1911 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/45
Scope and Contents
73 x 110 mm.
Dates:
1911 - 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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Snow-capped peak, 1892 - 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 28/26
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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Snow-clad peaks, 1892 - 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 28/19
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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Snow-covered mountains, 1892 - 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 28/30
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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Snow-covered mountains, 1892 - 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 28/31
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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Snow in Algeria, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304O/55
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 7 album sheets. Plate 58 is of Morocco, 11-20, 23-24, 29-51, 54-57, 59-61 are of Algeria, 25-28, 52-53 of unspecified scenes in the Sahara, and 1-10, 21-22 of Niger.
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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Snow on the Katberg Moutains seen from the village of Balfour, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/143
Scope and Contents
194 x 146 mm. A view from Balfour in the eastern Cape looking across a wooded valley towards the snow covered peaks of the mountains (partially obscured by clouds).
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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So what?, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/110
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. Monkey on basin, Attabubu.
Dates:
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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Soapstone birds on pedestals from Zimbabwe ruins, South Africa. Emblems of phallic worship, 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305I/23
Scope and Contents
44 x 74 mm. Showing four carved soapstone birds from Zimbabwe in a glass case in the South African Museum.
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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Sociable Weavers' Communal next : Langeberg, N. Cape, 1968
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham X/86
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The early photographs in this section were taken during two visits to Kokstad in the east of the province; the first at the end of 1965 followed John Ewart Marnham's visit to Lesotho; the remainder dated August 1967. A number of purely family photographs have been removed. Following these are a number of scenes in the vicinity of Cape Town and along the southern coast - Somerset West, George, Knysa, Hermanus, the ostrich farm at Oudstchoorn, the mouth of the Storms River and nearby...
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).
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Social worker Maureen Olphin visiting in Port Harcourt with her co-worker Miss Kalio and the Leader of the St. Cyprian's Youth Fellowship, 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/10
Scope and Contents
Glossy 56 mm. contact print with negative and three enlargements.
Dates:
1961
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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[Societe Utexléo, Léopoldville (now known as Kinshasa), c. 1945], 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/509
Scope and Contents
Showing a worker standing at a spinning machine in the textile factory. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Les importantes usines textiles de la Société Utexléo, à Léopoldville, ont produit en 1945 plus de 14.000 Km.de tissus. La photo montre une carde'.
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).
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Society Birds' nests, Malokganyane - Nov 8th 1911, 1911-11-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/78
Scope and Contents
141 x 85 mm. Showing a large group of Society Birds' nests in a tree growing in lightly wooded scrubland, with a figure on horseback at the base of the tree.
Dates:
1911-11-08
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).
Fonds
Society women of Johannesburg
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055C
Scope and Contents
A collection of studio portraits of society hostesses and personalities; prints of various sizes and by various photographers. Y3055C/2-4 and 11 are by Duffus Bros.
Dates:
1890 - 1910
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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Sofi, Kassala Province [i.e. Kassala], 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/344
Scope and Contents
110 x 120 mm. Showing a woman stood at the edge of a lake or river.
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).
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Soft part of road in the Butana [i.e. El Butana], Khartoum to Kassala, 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/2/1/48
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Numbered and labelled slides from the Hebberts' trip to Ethiopia.
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).
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[Soil erosion], 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/11
Scope and Contents
215 x 165 mm. View of a hillside. The caption continues: 'Contour 'hedges' and live wash stops as an aid to controlling soil erosion in the Usambara mountains. Many slopes as steep as these should not, in fact, be under arable cultivation at all but under the natural forest cover. Resettlement of the people, however, raises many problems.'
Dates:
1930 - 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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[Soil erosion], 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/12
Scope and Contents
215 x 165 mm. View of a hillside. The caption continues: 'Steeply sloping land in the Usumbara mountains which once was covered with forest. It has been denuded by clearing, burning, cultivation whilst much of its soil has been lost by erosion.'
Dates:
1930 - 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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[Soil erosion], 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/14
Scope and Contents
155 x 195 mm. Showing a large pile of small rocks on a hillside. Stops, to control soil erosion.
Dates:
1930 - 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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[Soil erosion], 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/14A
Scope and Contents
155 x 195 mm. Showing a large pile of small rocks on a hillside. Stops, to control soil erosion.
Dates:
1930 - 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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Soil erosion, 1933 - 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/3/45
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm.
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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Soil erosion prevention, 1963 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30547A/15
Scope and Contents
150 x 109 mm. Showing trenches being dug and strengthened at an unidentified location.
Dates:
1963 - 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).