Africa (continent)
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Subject Source: Local sources
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Sunshine sketches: a memoir, 1996
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/21/9
Scope and Contents
This is a personal memoir by John Kelley describing his early childhood in Malaya, and his work and travels abroad during the era of decolonisation.
Dates:
1996
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Superintendent of Marine, laying keel plate of S.W.S. 'Speke', at Kakindu, 19th Octr 1910, 1910-10-19
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/136
Scope and Contents
105 x 81 mm. Showing the keel plate being laid by Commander H. Hutchinson ( - 1920), Captain of the S.S. 'William Mackinnon' and in charge of the Uganda Marine Department.
Dates:
1910-10-19
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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Suppose They Did Not Crucify Jesus , 1955 - 1985
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 405/7
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Nine unpublished manuscripts written by the Kenyan journalist Henry Muoria.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
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'Surprise' ashore and Back Beach, Durban, 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058A/5
Scope and Contents
195 x 136 mm. Showing the sailing ship 'Surprise' beached on Back Beach on in 1880, with spectators on the sands in the foreground standing beside salvaged cargo.
Dates:
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).
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Surroundings of Asmara railway and Asmar to Massawa road between Mai Henzì and Dorfù Volles, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/12
Scope and Contents
235 x 175 mm. Showing a road cut into the mountain and a railway line running parallel below it. The image also carries the caption 'Fotocelere Coloniale - Asmara.'
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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Surroundings of Asmara Railway and Asmara to Massawa road towards Arbaroba, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/11
Scope and Contents
240 x 180 mm. Showing a bus on the road cut into the mountain and a railway line running parallel below it. The image also carries the caption 'Fotocelere Coloniale - Asmara.'
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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Survey bungalow, Jos, 1928 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/35
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...
Dates:
1928 - 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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Survey bungalow, Jos, 1928 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/36
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...
Dates:
1928 - 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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Survey Caravan, 1906 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/16
Scope and Contents
148 x 104 mm. Showing a survey caravan about to set off. Two Europeans stand in the foreground followed by drum beaters, porters loaded with supplies and an armed guard. The European on the left is J.H.W.S. MCGREGOR ( -1918) who worked in the Uganda Survey Department from 1903-1917. His companion remains unidentified but is possible Harry BOAZMAN ( -1958) who was employed in the Uganda Survey Department from 1903-1913. On his resignation he set up a private surveying practice in Uganda...
Dates:
1906 - 1911
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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Survey House Jos, 1928 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/38
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...
Dates:
1928 - 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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Surveying, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/34
Scope and Contents
Showing a European surveyor with Nigerian assistants in the bush investigating the quality of land suitable for settlement. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Every inch of the Anchau corridor had to be surveyed by the Sleeping Sickness Service before the Anchau resettlement scheme could start. Over large areas vegetation surveys were carried out to determine the quality and amount of land suitable for resettlement. The distribution of tsetse fly, sleeping sickness and...
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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Surveying, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/35
Scope and Contents
Showing survey staff at work in the bush. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Every inch of the Anchau corridor had to be surveyed by the Sleeping Sickness Service before the Anchau resettlement scheme could start. Over large areas vegetation surveys were carried out to determine the quality and amount of land suitable for resettlement. The distribution of tsetse fly, sleeping sickness and population had to be plotted and trial shafts sunk for water'.
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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Surveying, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/67
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of photographs taken by the Ministry of Information West African Photographic Service, giving a comprehensive record of the varied aspects of the College's work. These pictures have been extensively reproduced in books and articles. As Dr. R.W. Stopford is shown as Principal, a post he held from 1941 to 1945, they must date from this period. The Library has three different groups of photographs drawn from this series, two of which form this collection:(A) 55, 260 x...
Dates:
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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Surveying in Buddu, near Bukakata 1907, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/120
Scope and Contents
101 x 70 mm. Showing a group of porters wading through swamp and long grass on a survey expedition. Bukakata lies on the north west shore of Lake Victoria.
Dates:
1907
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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Surveying practice by plane table, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/64
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of photographs taken by the Ministry of Information West African Photographic Service, giving a comprehensive record of the varied aspects of the College's work. These pictures have been extensively reproduced in books and articles. As Dr. R.W. Stopford is shown as Principal, a post he held from 1941 to 1945, they must date from this period. The Library has three different groups of photographs drawn from this series, two of which form this collection:(A) 55, 260 x...
Dates:
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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[Surveying the land], 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/5/41
Scope and Contents
110 x 75 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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Susan in the pool, 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/18
Scope and Contents
55 x 50 mm.
Dates:
1955
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
/
Dulcie Barron Collection
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Susan Marnham and Klipbokkie, Swellendam, 1968-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Y/135
Scope and Contents
[In car].
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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Susan Marnham and marigolds, 1968-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham T/39
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:
1968-03
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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Susan’s Bay, Freetown, 1895 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446L/81
Scope and Contents
137 x 88 mm. postcard.
Dates:
1895 - 1911
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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Suspension bridge building on the Rahad, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/191
Scope and Contents
115 x 125 mm. Showing men handling a tree which has just been felled.
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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Suspension bridge building on the Rahad, 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/192
Scope and Contents
115 x 125 mm. Showing men handling a felled tree.
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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Suspension bridge building on the Rahad, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/193
Scope and Contents
105 x 85 mm. Showing men on the bank either side of the Rahad, Nahr ar- River. There are piles of dirt and timber on both sides.
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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Suspension bridge building on the Rahad, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/194
Scope and Contents
105 x 85 mm. Showing a group raising the first timbers of the footbridge.
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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Suspension bridge building on the Rahad, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/196
Scope and Contents
105 x 85 mm. Showing a suspension footbridge spanning the Rahad, Nahr ar- River, which was dry when this photograph was taken. There are people stood at one end of the bridge.
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).