Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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Taiwo to Glover, 1872-09-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/107
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:
1872-09-03
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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Taiwo to Glover, 1875-06-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/9/11
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:
1875-06-14
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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Taken from Kipia, looking towards Kinete. The morning mists are still lying in the folds of the hills, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/468
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
Dates:
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).
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Taken three days before death, Leopoldville [i.e. Kinshasa] 1903, 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/38
Scope and Contents
74 x 97 mm (mounted on card). A view showing an emaciated young African suffering from sleeping sickness. Such is his weakness and lethargy that his head has to be supported. The boys name is Oparanga and is case CI in Christy's expedition report.
Dates:
1903
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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[Taking a photo], 1922 - 1923
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/146
Scope and Contents
105 x 80 mm. Showing a man and woman with a tripod camera and another group of people posing for a photograph all in a wooded area.
Dates:
1922 - 1923
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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Taking an x-ray, 1950 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/8/11
Scope and Contents
241 x 190 mm. Location unidentified.
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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Taking gourds to market, 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/41
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing two women walking along a road with many large gourds held by netting balanced on their heads.
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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[Taking gourds to market], 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/42
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing a women walking along a road with many large gourds held by netting balanced on her head.
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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[Taking meteorological readings, Takalafiya, c.1940], 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/53
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Meanwhile, there must be constant research at the headquarters of the Sleeping Sickness Service at Takalafiya. A local official is seen taking the daily temperature and rainfall records for checking fly distribution and tsetse movement'.
Dates:
1940
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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[Taking the salute], 1940-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/160
Scope and Contents
A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'. The negative envelope is numbered '8'.
Dates:
1940-06
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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[Taking the salute], 1940-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/160A
Scope and Contents
A print measuring 180 x 130 mm. A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'.
Dates:
1940-06
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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Takoradi, 1928 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/5
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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Takoradi, 1928 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/6
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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Talking Drums heralding the Processions, 1961-11-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448F/2
Scope and Contents
140 x 105 mm.
Dates:
1961-11-25
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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Talking to teachers about the value of visual aids to "Learn by doing and teach by showing", 1966
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/220
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.
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Talks on New Constitution of Seychelles Islands, 1970-03-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/510
Scope and Contents
188 x 236 mm. Photo shows at the conference table at Marlborough House: Lord Shepherd (left, fore) Mr. A. Sauzier (Attorney General, second right), and Mr Albert Rene (right, nearest camera).
Dates:
1970-03-09
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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Talks on progress of Basutoland begin in London, 1958-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/49
Scope and Contents
151 x 205 mm. Three members of the delegation from Basutoland which came to London for talks with Britain’s Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Lord Home, on Basutoland’s constitutional progress are seen here at the conference table during the opening meeting at the Commonwealth Relations Office. They are (left to right): Chief Kelebone Nkuebe, Professor D.V. Cowen (Basutoland Council’s Constitutional Advisor) and Chief Leabua Jonathan. Seated behind them is the Paramount Chief...
Dates:
1958-11
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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[Tall clove trees], 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/10
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm. Roadside clove trees.
Dates:
1930 - 1950
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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[Tall clove trees], 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/20
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 1950
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-sub-class
Tall oriental building [historic caption], 1922
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304K/55-56
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Measuring 195 x 255 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 145 x 90 mm in size, two to a page, followed by 26 blank spaces. They are mainly of rural and urban scenes in North Africa. The only one captioned shows Timgad.
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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[Tall stone building], 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/337
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. There are two automobiles parked outside.
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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Tamai, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/29
Scope and Contents
65 x 110 mm. Showing a stone monument.
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).
File
Tamale market, 1957 - 1961
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/86-89
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of prints and negatives chiefly taken by Frank E. Joselin while on the staff of Achimota College, Ghana, between Jan. 1930 and Nov. 1947. This material falls into five groups: aerial views of Achimota taken in Jan.1931, later views including some taken from the tower, scenes following the Accra earthquake of 23 June 1939, the visit of the Asantehene in 1946, and portraits of the college’s first principal Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser and Assistant Vice Principal J.E.K. Aggrey. ...
Dates:
1957 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
Missing.
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Tamanrasset [i.e. Tamenghest] in the Hoggar [i.e. Ahaggar] Mountains when it froze at night, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304O/15
Scope and Contents
A view showing a road and some buildings.
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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Tamarin Falls, 1853
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/3/37
Scope and Contents
pencil sketch
Dates:
1853
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).