Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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Somali warriors, 1890 - 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/65
Scope and Contents
120 x 125 mm. A view showing a group of warriors standing in front of a palm-thatched hut. These men have the features of Somali tribesmen and the spears and shields they carry are similar to Somali types.
Dates:
1890 - 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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(?) Somali woman travelling by ox, 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/14
Scope and Contents
158 x 114 mm. A view showing a woman, probably Somali, seated on an ox with her belongings. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.
Dates:
1916
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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Somali women, 1890 - 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/10
Scope and Contents
121 x 165 mm. A rather dark print showing three African women, possibly Somalis.
Dates:
1890 - 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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Somali women, 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/33
Scope and Contents
279 x 216 mm Half length portrait of two Somali women seated outside a hut.
Dates:
1870 - 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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Somali women, 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/34
Scope and Contents
189 x 237 mm Enlarged section of right hand portion of Y3042B/33.
Dates:
1870 - 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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Somalis digging a trench to run off rain, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1041
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). The natives sang while at work Aurti Eilku Ken, i.e. Bring the camel to the well - singing rhythmically to the spade work.
Dates:
1908
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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Somalis making fire, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1080
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). In the old time way with two pieces of stick : making one revolve swifty in a hole in the other.
Dates:
1908
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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Some Cadbury Form 2, 1957 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/197
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. Undated but same setting as Y30448I/196.
Dates:
1957 - 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).
Sub-Fonds
Some great men of the 19th century, 1971
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/105
Scope and Contents
A pamphlet from the African Archives series published by Oxford University Press and Neczam and printed by Associated Printers Ltd, Lusaka, Zambia. The pamphlet is comprised of an image and short biography of Kivoi of the Kamba (d. 1851), Mkwawa of the Hehe (d. 1898), Mbatian of the Masai (c. 1820-1890), Muteesa of Buganda (c. 1838-1884), Mirambo of the Nyamwezi (c. 1840-1884) and Seyyid Barghash of Zanzibar (c. 1837-1888).
Dates:
1971
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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Africa miscellanea
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Some horns, 1904 - 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A/38
Scope and Contents
65 x 41 mm. Showing a collection of animal skulls, placed on the ground against a white background.
Dates:
1904 - 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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Some Leaders of Southern Rhodesia at the Salisbury [Harare] Show. (The Prime Minister and H.E. The Governor on left)., 1938-08-17
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052L/56
Scope and Contents
Th Prime Minister was Godfrey Martin Huggins, later 1st Viscount Malvern (1883-1971). The Governor was Sir Herbert Stanley (1872-1955).
Dates:
1938-08-17
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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Some members of T.B.R. Westgate's Sunday School group at Bugiri, about 1909, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/41
Scope and Contents
160 x 110 mm. Showing a group of African children gathered in front of the first Bugiri Mission House.
Dates:
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).
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Some of Emin Pasha’s troops taken at Bukoba, Victoria Nyanza, 1890-12-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/83
Scope and Contents
156 x 112 mm. Showing a contingent of Emin’s African troops posed with rifles at the ready. Sergeant Küne (1893), who had served under Stühlmann in the march round the lake to meet Emin at Bukoba, kneels behind a machine gun at the left of the print; Lieutenant (Dr) Franz Stühlmann (1863-1928) in command of the force himself stands at the right of the print.
Dates:
1890-12-09
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Ernest Gedge Collection
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Some of the audience on this occasion (1523-70), 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045R/2
Scope and Contents
220 x 165 mm. Showing members of the audience on the occasion of Her Majesty The Queen Mother's visit to the University of Makerere.
Dates:
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).
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Some of the cows in the kraals at the Department of Animal Health Experimental Livestock Farm near Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] receiving the additional rations of crushed concentrates and hay, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/256
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'A uniform maintenance ration is given to all cows as they are of a uniform size and weight'.
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).
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Some of the dancers [in the compound of the City Deep Gold Mine, Johannesburg], 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/201
Scope and Contents
203 x 151 mm. Showing a group of dancers in the compound with spectators in the background.
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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Some of the girls amusing themselves in their spare time outside one of their boarding houses, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/215
Scope and Contents
Showing a group of girls in conversation at the entrance to the Girls' Boarding House.
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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Some of the girls amusing themselves in their spare time outside one of their boarding houses, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/216
Scope and Contents
Showing a small group of girls in conversation.
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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Some of the last patients to leave Omdurman Hospital, in the hospital compound, 1975
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/5/9
Scope and Contents
118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm negative.
Dates:
1975
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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Some of the Liria inhabitants, 1935 - 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/140
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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Some of the spectators at the dance, Laroku, 1940-11-13
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/352
Scope and Contents
62 x 40 mm.
Dates:
1940-11-13
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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Some officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Swaziland Police, 1910 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/48
Scope and Contents
139 x 89 mm. A formal group portrait showing officers and men of the Swaziland Police, the Africans standing at the back, the Europeans seated and standing in front. None of the figures is identified, but the officer seated in the centre of the front row is presumably Charles Hugh Gibson DSO, who, after service in the BSA Co Police, the Natal Civil Service and the Matabele Rebellion of 1896 was District Commissioner SAC Swaziland 1902-1907 and Assistant Commissioner in charge of Police...
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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Some patients house-building, 1975
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/5/15
Scope and Contents
118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm negative.
Dates:
1975
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
‘Some recent discoveries at Uroa on the east coast of Zanzibar’, 1957
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/4/2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.
Dates:
1957
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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Some Reduit servants, 1916 - 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/30
Scope and Contents
93 x 71 mm. Showing a group of uniformed servants standing at the entrance to Le Reduit.
Dates:
1916 - 1921
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).