Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Source of the Nile, leaving Lake Victoria at Jinja, 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/118
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
Dates:
1934
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
[Source of the Nile, leaving Lake Victoria at Jinja], 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/122
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
Dates:
1934
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
Source of the Tugela (not Tagela) in the Drakensberg Mountains, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195/378
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company. The numbering used in the catalogue reflects Stephenson's own numbering. The scenes cover: Northern Rhodesia [i.e. Zambia], including Victoria Falls and the Tanganyika Plateau; Southern Rhodesia [i.e....
Dates:
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).
Item
Source Yubo, 1939 - 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/78
Scope and Contents
115 x 85 mm. A tree lined road or avenue.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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
Source Yubo, 1939 - 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/79
Scope and Contents
135 x 85 mm. An automobile parked beneath lines of trees.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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
Source Yubo, 1939 - 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/80
Scope and Contents
85 x 90 mm. A view of two brick buildings, one, largely obscured by trees, to the left and one to the right.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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
South Africa, 1964 - 1970
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Q-Z
Scope and Contents
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:
1964 - 1970
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
/
Marnham collection
File
South Africa, 1935 - 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/4/27/30
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
When the RES Headquarters was rebuilt in 1934-36, gifts of timber for panelling and furnishing were obtained from Empire Governments, companies and individuals. Many were destroyed during the bombing of 1941 and replacement gifts were received. This file coordinates pre and post-war correspondence.
Dates:
1935 - 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).
Series
South Africa, 1900
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa
Scope and Contents
Postcards showing South Africa.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Postcard Collection
Series
South Africa, 1923 - 1939-05
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 334/7
Scope and Contents
Newscuttings on various subjects relating to South Africa, including a large series of miscellaneous cuttings.
Dates:
1923 - 1939-05
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
/
Newscuttings on Africa
Series
South Africa 1927-28, 1927 - 1928
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF/1-2
Scope and Contents
A series of loose postcards relating to the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924, 'Published by the Sole Concessionaires Fleetway Press Ltd, 3-9 Dane St., Holborn, WC1'. They were originally included in a folder published by the Fleetway Press and containing a collection of catalogues and other booklets on the Exhibition, but have been transferred to the Postcard Collection.
Dates:
1927 - 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).
Item
South Africa 1932. Group on the steps of a building below Table Mountain, 1932
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF/12
Scope and Contents
185 x 140 mm.
Dates:
1932
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
South Africa 1936 (Lord Hewart Album)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305P
Scope and Contents
An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...
Dates:
1936-07-24 - 1936-09-18
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
Item
South Africa 1937, 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF/35
Scope and Contents
185 x 150 mm. Group in Cape Town with identifications by A. Carr-Gomm.
Dates:
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).
File
South Africa 1929/30. No. 1, 1929 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/21
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
1929 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Tymms collection on civil aviation
/
Photographs
/
Africa
/
Negatives
File
South Africa 1929/30. No. 2., 1929 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/22
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
1929 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Tymms collection on civil aviation
/
Photographs
/
Africa
/
Negatives
File
South Africa 1929/30. No. 3, 1929 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/23
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
1929 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Tymms collection on civil aviation
/
Photographs
/
Africa
/
Negatives
File
South Africa 1929/30. No. 4, 1929 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/24
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
1929 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Tymms collection on civil aviation
/
Photographs
/
Africa
/
Negatives
File
South Africa 1929/30. No. 5, 1929 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/25
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
1929 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Tymms collection on civil aviation
/
Photographs
/
Africa
/
Negatives
File
South Africa 1929/30. No. 6, 1929 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/26
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
1929 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Tymms collection on civil aviation
/
Photographs
/
Africa
/
Negatives
File
South Africa 1929/30. No. 7, 1929 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/27
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
1929 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Tymms collection on civil aviation
/
Photographs
/
Africa
/
Negatives
File
South Africa 1929/30. No. 8, 1929 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/28
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
1929 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Tymms collection on civil aviation
/
Photographs
/
Africa
/
Negatives
File
South Africa 1929/30. No. 9, 1929 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/29
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
1929 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Tymms collection on civil aviation
/
Photographs
/
Africa
/
Negatives
File
South Africa 1929/30. No. 10, 1929 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/30
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
1929 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Tymms collection on civil aviation
/
Photographs
/
Africa
/
Negatives
File
South Africa 1929/30. No. 11, 1929 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/31
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
1929 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Tymms collection on civil aviation
/
Photographs
/
Africa
/
Negatives