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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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[Students in doorway of Makerere main building], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/19
Scope and Contents

110 x 165 mm. Three men and a woman talking on the steps.

Dates: 1952 - 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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[Students in doorway of Makerere main building], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/20
Scope and Contents

110 x 165 mm. Three men and a woman talking on the steps.

Dates: 1952 - 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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[Students in doorway of Makerere main building], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/21
Scope and Contents

110 x 165 mm. Four men and a woman on the steps.

Dates: 1952 - 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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[Students in doorway of Makerere main building], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/22
Scope and Contents

110 x 165 mm. Four men and a woman talking on the steps.

Dates: 1952 - 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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Students in the agricultural botany laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/57
Scope and Contents

240 x 180 mm.

Dates: 1952 - 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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Students in the biological laboratory of Njala Training College, Sierra Leone, preparing ten varieties of upland rice for examination, 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/124
Scope and Contents From the Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Numbers 117-127 all have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Young Sierra Leoneans train for battle against ignorance. The Njala Training College.A college where young Sierra Leoneans can learn to become agricultural instructors, primary teachers, and forest rangers is run by the Sierra Leone Government at Njala, a day's journey from Freetown, the capital. On successful completion of their...
Dates: 1950 - 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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Students of anatomy in the Medical School, 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/64
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm.

Dates: 1952 - 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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Students of Njala Training College, Sierra Leone, seen at work weeding tomatoes, 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/121
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'These students are learning to be agricultural instructors'.

Dates: 1950 - 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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Students of the Faculty of Agriculture visiting the nearby Namulonce Cotton Research Station, 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/55
Scope and Contents

235 x 180 mm.

Dates: 1952 - 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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Students of the Faculty of Agriculture visiting the nearby Namulonce Cotton Research Station, 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/56
Scope and Contents

235 x 180 mm.

Dates: 1952 - 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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Students of the first course, Mount Kenya Village Polytechnic, 1969-70, 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/170
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1969
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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Students outside the Chapel of St Francis after the early morning Eucharist service, 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/4/27A
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm.

Dates: 1952 - 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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Students studying Proto-zoology at the Higher College, 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/85
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Each has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Nigeria has in hand development plans involving the expenditure of £40,000,000 during the next 11 years. It is essential that the government should have at its disposal first class doctors, engineers, surveyors, agriculture, forestry and voluntary officers and teachers - and, that so many as possible should be Africans. The work of the 13-year-old Higher...
Dates: 1947
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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Students use blackboards to practice writing and drawing at the Government Teacher Training College, at Lobatsi, 1960 - 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549B/18
Scope and Contents

204 x 156 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'This, the only teacher training college in the Protectorate, accomodates a maximum of 100 students, fifty boys and fifty girls. A Colonial Development and Welfare Grant of £40,000 was made towards the establishment of the college'. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

Dates: 1960 - 1965
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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[Students wearing masks], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/74
Scope and Contents

165 x 215 mm. Showing a professor and three students, two of whom are wearing painted masks, ascending some steps.

Dates: 1952 - 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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[Students with puppet play], 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/164
Scope and Contents From the File:

Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

Dates: 1965
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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[Students with puppet show], 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/214
Scope and Contents From the File:

Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

Dates: 1966
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Y3043UU/134 is missing.
 Fonds

'Studies in district administration in the East Africa Protectorate, 1895-1918': PhD thesis

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 174
Scope and Contents

A Ph.D. thesis written at Jesus College, Cambridge, with illustrations and maps, 445 pages. It follows the broad outlines of 'Your obedient servants' (RCMS 173), and has footnotes and source references not included in that work.

Dates: 1965-11
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).
 Fonds

Studies [of Zulus]

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058G
Scope and Contents

A commercially published collection of prints housed in a folder. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Unless otherwise stated the prints measure 95 x 70 mm.

Dates: 1939 - 1945
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).
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Study, 1968-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham T/51
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: 1968-08
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).
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Study, 1968-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham T/52
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: 1968-08
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).
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Study in Kuku legs [handwritten caption], 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/151
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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Study of girl, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/157
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).
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Stump of funtumia tree growing after being felled by natives, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043M/27
Scope and Contents

93 x 127 mm. As described.

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).
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Suahili-Frau, Mbaruks-Stamm, Deutsch-Ost-Afrika [i.e. Tanzania], 1910 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/88
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of miscellaneous monochrome postcards of scenes in German East Africa (now Tanzania). The cards are issued by Walther Dobbertin, Dar es Salaam and Tanga (76-79, 81-87), C. Vicenti, Dar es Salaam (88, 90), The Standard P. and P. Works, Nairobi and Mombasa (91), the remainder unknown.

Dates: 1910 - 1920
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).