Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
Sub-Series
Tanzania, 1946 - 1991
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/279-287
Scope and Contents
A series of photographs of the University of Dar es Salaam, which was established in 1970 replacing University College Dar es Salaam.
Dates:
1946 - 1991
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).
Series
Tanzania, 1933 - 1964
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6
Scope and Contents
Most of these photographs depict daily life in Zanzibar, but there are also images of Bull fighting and Arab Sword dancing in Pemba Island, and Sisal growing, soil erosion and general landscape scenes in Tanzania.
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).
Item
Tanzania - Miombo Woodland, 1933 - 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/3/42
Scope and Contents
110 x 110 mm. The caption continues: 'Dominated by Brachystegia spp and Julbernadia spp.'
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).
Item
Tape suspended in the trench, 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/121
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).
Item
Tapping groovers and pickers
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/106
Scope and Contents
73 x 92 mm. A studio photograph showing the 'Funtumia knife' and pricker, and a double instrument which performs both functions.
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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Tapping in Uganda
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/107
Scope and Contents
72 x 99 mm. A view showing a Swahili on climbing slings using a Funtumia knife to score tapping lines in a rubber tree using the D.H.S. system (the Double Half Spiral) with alternate spiral lines running into a central vertical line which leads down to the collection cup.
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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Tapping in Uganda
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/108
Scope and Contents
74 x 95 mm. A view showing a Swahili on climbing slings using a Funtumia knife to score tapping lines in a rubber tree using the D.H.S. system (the Double Half Spiral) with alternate spiral lines running into a central vertical line which leads down to the collection cup.
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).
Item
Tapping of wild tree, Benin City District, Southern Nigeria
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/128
Scope and Contents
81 x 106 mm. A partially fogged print showing the scarring results from deep tapping on indigenous principles.
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).
Item
Tapping palm for palm wine, Nigeria, 1946-12 - 1947-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK(GS)34
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.
Dates:
1946-12 - 1947-01
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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Tapping telephone line on the road to Hoima [1909], 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/75
Scope and Contents
Showing figures grouped round a pruned tree which is acting as a telegraph pole.
Dates:
1909
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).
Item
Tapping the wires, 1909-01 - 1909-03
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/53
Scope and Contents
88 x 87 mm. Showing four unidentified figures standing at the base of a telegraph pole.
Dates:
1909-01 - 1909-03
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).
Item
Taquah & Abosso Mines from Bush Bungalows, 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/53
Scope and Contents
Coloured postcard.
Dates:
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).
Item
Tarkwa - Gold City of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1959
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/31
Scope and Contents
116 x 137 mm. The caption on the reverse reads '(See Feature Set Intro. No. 506). (2). Ore from the five shafts of the A.B.A. company comes to the central mills by rope railways winding up the wooded valleys around Tarkwa. Main Reef is about 2,000 ft. down'.
Dates:
1940 - 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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Tarquah [Tarkwa] Bay: J.J. Hunter, Mr and Mrs Hardy, and Barnard, 1936 - 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/20
Scope and Contents
110 x 60 mm. View of the four sitting and standing in front of a hut.
Dates:
1936 - 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).
Item
Tarquah [Tarkwa] Bay: J.J. Hunter, Mrs Hardy and Barnard, 1936 - 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/19
Scope and Contents
110 x 62 mm. View of the three swimming.
Dates:
1936 - 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).
Item
Tarquah [Tarkwa] Bay: Mrs Hardy, 1936 - 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/18
Scope and Contents
62 x 110 mm.
Dates:
1936 - 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).
Item
Tati River, 1910 - 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/60
Scope and Contents
126 x 101 mm. Showing a herd of long horned cattle on the sandy bank of the Tati River.
Dates:
1910 - 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).
Item
Tatitown [?Old Tati]: two children, with huts built by inhabitants in background, 1963-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549B/23
Scope and Contents
203 x 156 mm. Showing two children standing in the gateway of a brushwood stockade at Tati with circular thatched huts in the background.
Dates:
1963-08
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).
Item
[Tatooed girl], 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/477
Scope and Contents
At Gabrai. Ubangui Shari [i.e. Central African Republic].
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).
Item
[Tattooed girl], 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/478
Scope and Contents
At Gabrai. Ubangui Shari [i.e. Central African Republic].
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).
Item
[Tattooed girl], 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/479
Scope and Contents
At Gabrai. Ubangui Shari [i.e. Central African Republic].
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).
Item
[Tattooed girl], 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/480
Scope and Contents
At Gabrai. Ubangui Shari [i.e. Central African Republic].
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).
Item
Taulbé[?], 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/295
Scope and Contents
Head and shoulders portrait of a woman of Central Africa.
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).
Item
Taureg stick [?] dance, 1930 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304O/19
Scope and Contents
In Tamenghest, Algeria. A view showing a number of people by a fortified building, some of whom are holding sticks aloft. Taureg is most likely an alternative spelling of 'Tuareg', nomadic people of western and central Sahara.
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).
Item
Tavener & Kuenen. ABA – OMEGA R.H. (William Abraham Kuenen, Surveyor), 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/80
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).