Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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'Sultan', July 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058A/11
Scope and Contents
137 x 104 mm. Showing Mrs. Olivia Redwood seated side-saddle on the horse 'Sultan' in the garden of the bungalow 'Fairleigh'.
Dates:
July 1879
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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Sultan and A.S. Rogers at the Zanzibar Exhibition, August 6th 1905, 1905-08-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468D/27
Scope and Contents
68 x 52 mm. A view showing A.S. Rogers and the Sultan standing along a uniformed group at the Exhibition.
Dates:
1905-08-06
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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Sultan arriving at the Athletic Sports, Cooper’s Institute Ground, Monday June 26th 1905, 1905-06-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468C/42
Scope and Contents
221 x 177 mm. A view showing the Sultan’s carriage and mounted escort arriving at the Sports Ground for the two-day event which marked the end of the coming of age celebrations. The order of events and the results can be found in the ‘Zanzibar Gazette’ for June 28th 1905.
Dates:
1905-06-26
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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Sultan driving along the Creek Road (to the opening of the Zanzibar Exhibition), 1905-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468D/25
Scope and Contents
77 x 103 mm. An indistinct view showing the Sultan’s carriage on the Creek Road with crowds lining the pavement and the Creek in the background.
Dates:
1905-08
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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Sultan of Zanzibar, 1930 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/11/13
Scope and Contents
165 x 215 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'
Dates:
1930 - 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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Sultan returning from visit to HMS ‘Terpsichore’, Friday June 16th 1905, 1905-06-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468C/41
Scope and Contents
230 x 170 mm. A view from above the Palace Square looking towards the harbour where a longboat flying the red flag of Zanzibar is returning towards the Palace Pier. Crowds line the waterfront while smoke issues from guns firing a 21 gun salute in answer to that of ‘Terpsichore’. The visit is described in the ‘Zanzibar Gazette’ for June 21st 1905.
Dates:
1905-06-16
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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Sultan Seyyid Ali, 1901 - 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468E/1
Scope and Contents
107 x 82 mm A seated studio portrait of the young Sultan of Zanzibar, wearing ceremonial robes and a turban and with a sword held across his lap. Seyyid Ali was sultan from 1902-1911 (under the regency of A.S. Rogers from 1902-05). He abdicated in 1911 and lived in Paris until his death in 1918.
Dates:
1901 - 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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Sultan Sultana, 1952 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/75
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Wilson is in the centre.
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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Sultan’s coach at the Zanzibar Exhibition, August 1905, 1905-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468D/39
Scope and Contents
211 x 154 mm. A view showing the Sultan’s empty coach in the Exhibition grounds, with a group of European officials in the background.
Dates:
1905-08
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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Sultan's Harem with Tower [Zanzibar], 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/87
Scope and Contents
243 x 198 mm. A view looking west along the waterfront road towards the Sultan's palace, the Beit-el-Ajeib (not visible), with the hull of a ship (history unknown) mounted beside the road. The lighthouse seen here in front of the Beit-el-Ajeib was damaged in the bombardment of 1896. The Sultan's living quarters the Beit-el-Ajeib being primarily ceremonial rather than residential, were to the rear of the house seen beyond the prow of the ship.
Dates:
1880 - 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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Sultan's palace by night, 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/2/7
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1933 - 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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Summer house in the Bardo gardens, 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304I/40
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Measuring 205 x 265 mm, this album contains 48 sepia photographs, each measuring 145 x 90 mm, two to a page, together with 22 loose prints of France and North Africa. The album prints have brief captions, and since they relate to Algiers, Biskra and a few of Tunis and Carthage, they may come from the same visit as Y304H.
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).
Fonds
Summit of Pieterboth Mountain, Mauritius, c. 1900
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30483C
Scope and Contents
174 x 221 mm. Uncaptioned and mounted on card. The view looks up towards the summit of Pieterboth Mountain (2685 feet), with figures posed on the precipitous path in the foreground.
Dates:
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
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Summons for Ex King Docemo to appear at Government House, 1863-09-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/1/52
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.
Dates:
1863-09-12
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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Sunday School Children, 1950 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/11/11/3
Scope and Contents
117 x 80 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1950 - 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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Sunday School Children, 1950 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/11/11/4
Scope and Contents
117 x 80 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1950 - 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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Sunday School class at Bugiri, about 1910, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/31A
Scope and Contents
158 x 108 mm. Showing Miss Thwaites seated in the centre of a large group of African children.
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).
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Sunday School class at Bugiri, about 1910, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/31B
Scope and Contents
158 x 108 mm. Showing Miss Thwaites seated in the centre of a large group of African children.
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).
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Sunday School class at Bugiri, about 1910, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/31C
Scope and Contents
158 x 108 mm. Showing Miss Thwaites seated in the centre of a large group of African children.
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).
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Sundu Town, Kavirondo, 1889-11 - 1889-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)1/13
Scope and Contents
A view looking across an open clearing criss-crossed with paths towards the thatched huts of Chief Mumia’s village. Jackson and Gedge were at Mumia’s from November 7th to December 10th but these photographs are not specifically mentioned. Jackson (in ‘Early Days in East Africa’, p. 252) describes the month at Mumia’s as ‘distinctly monotonous. There was little or nothing to do, and nowhere to walk except down to the river to shoot hippos. There were no trees, and even our firewood had to be...
Dates:
1889-11 - 1889-12
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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Sunni, 1942-06-09 - 1942-06-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/17
Scope and Contents
125 x 130 mm. A view of the hills at Sunni.
Dates:
1942-06-09 - 1942-06-12
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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Sunset at In Gall [i.e. Ingal, Niger], 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304O/10
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 7 album sheets. Plate 58 is of Morocco, 11-20, 23-24, 29-51, 54-57, 59-61 are of Algeria, 25-28, 52-53 of unspecified scenes in the Sahara, and 1-10, 21-22 of Niger.
Dates:
1930 - 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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Sunset, Dar es Salaam, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/55
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.
Dates:
1930 - 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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Sunset over Mount Carmel, 1944 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/2/40
Scope and Contents
53 x 80 mm
Dates:
1944 - 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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Sunshine On Creative and Humanizing Beliefs , 1955 - 1985
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 405/5
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Nine unpublished manuscripts written by the Kenyan journalist Henry Muoria.
Dates:
1955 - 1985
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
/
Henry Muoria Collection