Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Item
South Africa and Madagascar, 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 348/2/5/3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Published and unpublished material collected by Sugg relating to Southern Africa.
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).
Fonds
South Africa, Bechuanaland and Basutoland circa 1902
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305U
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...
Dates:
1902
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
File
South Africa Policy, 1961 - 1962
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/16/19
Scope and Contents
Correspondence relating chiefly to the status of South African society members after South Africa left the Commonwealth.
Dates:
1961 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
not found
Fonds
South African Aid to Britain Fund
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of a series of albums relating to the youth tours funded by the South African Aid to Britain Fund, containing photographs, information about the tours and inserted material. In addition, three cine films document the tours of the Gold Coast and Nigeria (November 1955 - January 1956.) The rest of the collection comprises two articles on the tours and a few related papers. The collection is accompanied by three pieces of correspondence between D.H. Simpson, R.C.S....
Dates:
1948 - 1978
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
File
South African Aid to Britain Fund Film 1, Nov. 1955-Jan. 1956
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/3/1
Scope and Contents
‘South African Aid to Britain Fund Overseas travel parties for Youth. West Africa Tour. November 1955 - January 1956.’ Includes a list of the personnel of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister in 1948 to administer the sum allocated from the South African Aid to Britain Fund to encourage youth travel overseas. 'The tour was to give a representative group of British youth experience of conditions of life and work in the Gold Coast and Nigeria, to bring them into contact with the...
Dates:
Nov. 1955-Jan. 1956
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 African Aid to Britain Fund Film 2, Nov. 1955-Jan. 1956
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/3/2
Scope and Contents
Part of 'South African Aid to Britain Fund Overseas travel parties for Youth. West Africa Tour. November 1955 - January 1956.' Intertitles include: 'Nigeria - the largest of Britain's colonial territories - four times the size of the United Kingdom - population thirty-two million equal to that of Canada, Australia and South Africa all put together', 'From village to university', 'Agege Experimental Farm near Lagos', Visit to the Bale of Isheri', 'University College, Ibadan - Trenchard Hall...
Dates:
Nov. 1955-Jan. 1956
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 African Aid to Britain Fund Film 3, Nov. 1955-Jan. 1956
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/3/3
Scope and Contents
Part of ‘South African Aid to Britain Fund Overseas travel parties for Youth. West Africa Tour. November 1955 - January 1956’, and second part of the RCMS 219/3/2 film on Nigeria. Intertitles and shot list include: ‘Itu Leper Colony’, ‘Enugu - Boys’ Band Hilltop’, ‘Jos tin mines - tin and columbite’, ‘Famous hospital - Vom. Plateau - house and patients’, ‘Village crafts - Kudaru’, ‘Mock Police Riot. Police College, Kaduna’, ‘Northern House of Assembly’, ‘Compound of the Emir of Zaria’,...
Dates:
Nov. 1955-Jan. 1956
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 African beauties, 1897 - 1898
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059N/11
Scope and Contents
Showing an African man and woman and two children.
Dates:
1897 - 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
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Views in Port Elizabeth
Item
South African belles, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/159
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of monochrome postcards
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).
File
South African Branches Correspondence, 1923 - 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/8/12/25
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
By the end of the nineteenth century, the society had established a large non-resident membership in the overseas empire and within the United Kingdom among those not living in the London area. At first a network of honorary corresponding secretaries was formed to manage the society's affairs outside London. In 1910 it authorised the establishment of local branches to increase membership and extend the scope of its activities. The first UK branch was formed in Bristol in 1913 and the first...
Dates:
1923 - 1926
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 African cartoons and portraits
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/102
Scope and Contents
A set of seven undated prints relating to South Africa. Titles and captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.
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
Fonds
South African Cricketer in the Western Desert [i.e. As Sahra' al Gharbiyah]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011X
Scope and Contents
British Official Photograph, War Office, showing an unidentified South African corporal batting during an impromptu cricket match with a wicket made of spades. The image measures 209 x 152 mm. The caption on the reverse reads: 'A South African Cricketer in the Western Desert. A well-known African cricketer is now serving with the South African Forces in the Western Desert. He is a Corporal.At the wicket. Despite the very wide wicket and the numerous slips, he still...
Dates:
1942
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
Fonds
South African flowers of the Eastern Province
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 212
Scope and Contents
Twenty-three watercolours mounted on card, 12" x 16½". The paintings have pencilled titles and in some cases places and dates. They include agapanthus, antholyza, bellandonna lily, Cape Town bulbs, Cape honeysuckle (tecona-capensis), common olive, cyrtanthus, gladiolus, grenadilla, hybiscus, hyobanche sanguinea, iris, pelargonium, plumbago, sparaxis pendula and thistle.
Dates:
1866 - 1877
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
Fonds
South African history in pictures
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 342
Scope and Contents
A three-part series of black and white images on card designed to provide teachers with material to illustrate history lessons. The series includes a wide range of pictures, portraits and photographs. Titles and captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The items are undated, but probably originate from between the 1960s and 1980s.
Dates:
1970
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 African lizards full size', 1868 - 1878
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/72
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.
Dates:
1868 - 1878
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 African Museum, front view, Cape Town, 1902
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305I/20
Scope and Contents
102 x 75 mm. A view showing the front façade of the South African Museum in the Botanical Gardens. Inaugurated by proclamation in 1855, the Museum shifted to its present buildings in 1897.
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).
Fonds
South African papers of Killie Campbell
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 333
Scope and Contents
Papers gathered by Killie Campbell relating to the issue of race relations between the two world wars, under the nomenclature of the time referred to as the 'native question' or the 'colour question'. Includes draft and published articles, memoranda, minutes of meetings, newscuttings, notes and reports. The topics covered include government legislation, complaints from the townships, and issues to do with employment, including industry and forced labour, and the place of women. Some material...
Dates:
1919 - 1941
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
Fonds
South African photograph album
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305X
Scope and Contents
A collection of 175 uncaptioned photographs measuring 110 x 80 mm., inserted into an album mostly four to a page. The photographs seem to record a trip to South Africa at the end of the 19th century, including visits to a number of homesteads and farms in the Cape Colony. Subjects include horses and other livestock (49 Photographs), landscapes (40), family groupings (23), homesteads (16), views from onboard ship (21), indigenous people (4) etc. There are views of Lion’s Head, a distinctive...
Dates:
1895 - 1900
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 African plain], 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/15
Scope and Contents
61 x 48 mm.
Dates:
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).
File
South African sub-committee, 1930 - 1934
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 33/5/3/3
Scope and Contents
Minutes, correspondence and secretary notes.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
Series
South African Trade Union History, 1913 - 1983
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 199/2
Scope and Contents
Material collected by Hepple while researching the history of the trade union movement, workers' organisations and industrial relations in South Africa.
Dates:
1913 - 1983
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 African watercolours, 1933
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/59
Scope and Contents
Forty-two prints of watercolours, 8½'' x 6½'', relating mainly to the Zambesi expedition of 1861-1865, including some captions and pencil notes.
Dates:
1933
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
Fonds
South and East Africa, 1880s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints of various sizes. The album consists of two separate volumes which have been bound together. The two original volumes break down geographically thus: Volume 1: 1-12 Madeira; 13-23 Lisbon; 24-69 South Africa.Volume 2: 70-76 South Africa; 77-103 German East Africa (now Tanzania) and Zanzibar.The prints in volume 1 and some in volume 2 have typewritten captions pasted below the photographs. The captions have been used as titles and may contain...
Dates:
1880 - 1890
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 edge of the Island of Philae, 1857
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214B/25
Scope and Contents
235 x 156 mm. A view looking across the Nile towards the riverwall and temples of Philae. Visible behind the wall are part of Pharaoh's Bed and the pylon gateways of the Great Temple.
Dates:
1857
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 end, Pietermaritzburg, 1875 - 1880
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305A/27
Scope and Contents
170 x 107 mm. A view from the market square looking our over the rooftops of South Pietermaritzburg. Two distant buildings have been numbered '1' and '2' on the actual print, they are presumably of some import but are here unidentified.
Dates:
1875 - 1880
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).