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Africa (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:

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Stephen Johannes Paulus Kruger (1824-1904), 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055I/1
Scope and Contents

207 x 295 mm. A studio portrait showing President Kruger seated and holding a scroll of paper in his right hand. The original print is autographed by Kruger in the top left hand corner.

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).
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Steps down from Saint Danagel, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/179
Scope and Contents

90 x 120 mm. Showing people descending the steps at the entrance to the church.

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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Steps of the Secretariat, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/6
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm showing a similar scene to Y30448L/5, but with Sir Gordon Guggisberg as the central figure in the centre of the top corridor. He arrived in the Gold Coast in October 1919.

Dates: 1919
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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Steps of the Secretariat, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/7
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. With Sir Gordon Guggisberg as the central figure at the top of the stairs. He arrived in the Gold Coast in October 1919.

Dates: 1919
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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Steps of the Secretariat. Sir Hugh and Lady Clifford, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/5
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. The Cliffords are by the parapet of a corridor at the top of the steps, and there are numerous officials and others grouped about the staircase. The setting and style of the photograph is so similar to Y30448L/6 that it seems probable that it represents part of the farewell ceremonies on Sir Hugh's departure to become Governor of Nigeria in 1919.

Dates: 1919
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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Sternwheelers at Assouan [i.e. Aswan], 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/3
Scope and Contents

163 x 114 mm. A view showing one of the boats used to transport troops to Wadi Halfa, moored at Aswan.

Dates: 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).
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Steve-O, 1938 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/87
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm.Cat.

Dates: 1938 - 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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Steve-O, Obuasi, 1938 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/62
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. Cat.

Dates: 1938 - 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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Stewards handicap, Xmas meeting 1898, Johannesburg, S.A.R, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305F/2
Scope and Contents

201 x 147 mm. Showing spectators at the finishing post watching the closing stages of the race. Crossing the line is 'Miss Impudence' followed by 'Undine' and 'Flippant'. The caption on the front of the print reads 'Summer Meeting'.

Dates: 1899
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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Stinkwood armoire, 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/133
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of loose monochrome postcards of the Koopmans de Wet House in Cape Town. The house, originally lived in by Mrs Marie Koopmans de Wet, is a museum of South African national antiques.

Dates: 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).
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Stinkwood armoire with original silver fittings, 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/134
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of loose monochrome postcards of the Koopmans de Wet House in Cape Town. The house, originally lived in by Mrs Marie Koopmans de Wet, is a museum of South African national antiques.

Dates: 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).
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Stock Exchange, Johannesburg, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/187
Scope and Contents

A view showing the third building occupied by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Built in Hollard Street, with a foundation stone laid by Lord Milner in 1903, the building was opened for use in January 1904.

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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Stock farm in Natal [KwaZulu-Natal], 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/158
Scope and Contents

203 x 152 mm. Showing cattle grazing in a field with a house on the hill 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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Stockade, Fort Gerry, 1895 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/13
Scope and Contents

216 x 166 mm. External view.

Dates: 1895 - 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).
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Stocks and Ranunculus, 1967-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham T/16
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides including a group of seven interiors of Marnham's house taken in August 1968, three showing servants in February 1968 and one of the visit of the Mayor for the celebration of the Queen's birthday on 20 April 1968. The majority show the garden, from scenes in April 1967 to seven transparencies making up a panorama taken on the eve of departure in March 1970. In between these are extensive views both of individual clumps of flowers and more general scenes.

Dates: 1967-09
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).
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Stoking the kiln in the yard of the Artisanat at Bamoko, French Sudan [i.e. Mali], 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/507
Scope and Contents

Photograph by Margot Lubinski.

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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Stone Arch, Montagu Pass, George, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/81
Scope and Contents

159 x 115 mm. Showing a stone bridge on the Montagu Pass which connects George and Oudtshoorn across the Outeniqua Mountains. The Pass, opened in 1848, was named after Sir John Montagu, the Colonial Secretary responsible for the construction which opened up the area.

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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Stone archway over river (?), 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304L/34
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 175 x 215 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 170 x 115 mm in size. Album spaces 65 and 74 are blank. There are no captions, but some photographs can be identified as Tunis by comparison with postcards in Y304H. Others may be mentioned in the 1922 North Africa Diary (see Introduction), e.g. the Cathedral (p.7/plate 57), Carthage (pp.12ff/plate 59ff), camels (p.66/plates 83, 84), and Porte de France (p.78/plates 49-50), but no detailed research has been attempted.

Dates: 1922
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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Stone cross at Carthage, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304L/64
Scope and Contents

See Y304I/48.

Dates: 1922
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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Stone house built for a Christian Mugogo teacher, Bugiri, circa 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/50A
Scope and Contents

103 x 78 mm. Side-on view of an African teacher's living quarters, a small single storey hut with a flat roof.

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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Stone house built for a Christian Mugogo teacher, Bugiri, circa 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/50B
Scope and Contents

103 x 78 mm. Side-on view of an African teacher's living quarters, a small single storey hut with a flat roof.

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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Stone house built for a Christian Mugogo teacher, Bugiri, circa 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/51
Scope and Contents

102 x 78 mm. Head-on view of an African teacher's living quarters, a small single storey hut with a flat roof.

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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[Stone ruins], 1930 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/164
Scope and Contents

115 x 120 mm. View of small piles of stones, perhaps an entranceway.

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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[Stone ruins], 1930 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/166
Scope and Contents

105 x 85 mm. View of broken stones. There is a 'P' written in ink in the top right corner of the photograph.

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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[Stone ruins], 1930 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/167
Scope and Contents

115 x 120 mm. Showing a man involved in some labour amongst the disturbed earth and stones of some ruins. The photographers shadow is clearly visible in the image, and there is an 'N'' written in ink in the bottom right corner of the photograph.

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).