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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:

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Tea man, 1944 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/2/5
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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Tea man, 1944 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/2/12
Scope and Contents

85 x 53 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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Tea party for local children, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/2/9
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. glossy print with duplicate

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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Tea-picking on the Tanganda Estate, S.R. , 1938-05-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052L/11
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...
Dates: 1938-05-29
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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Tea Plantation. Mlanje [Mulanje], Nyasaland [Malawi]. ("Contoured" to prevent Erosion), 1938-06-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052L/10
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...
Dates: 1938-06-26
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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Teacher Training Department: instruction in human anatomy, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/15
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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Teachers, etc. at Itumba with their new communion service, 1900s, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/199
Scope and Contents

158 x 114 mm. Group portrait of teachers and communicants, with the communion service on a table in the centre.

Dates: 1900 - 1917
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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Teacher’s house, [Bugiri? 1908?], 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/198
Scope and Contents

154 x 112 mm. View of a house similar to the preceding prints.

Dates: 1908
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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Teacher's house, Kepamangoma Central School, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/492
Scope and Contents

General view of a teacher's house, a two-bedroomed, single storeyed thatched building. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads '2 bedrooms - a sitting-dining room - pantry - outside kitchen [?]'Basoton' thatched roof. Cost about £45'.

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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Teachers in Training arriving on the College lorry at one of the primary schools in Accra, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/203
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse continues 'seven miles from the college, where they do their teaching practice'.

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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Teachers in training arriving on the College lorry at one of the primary schools in Accra for teaching practice, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/12
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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Teaching (learning) team Students, Akim Oda, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/184
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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Teaching team, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/188
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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Teaching team, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/196
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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Teaching with flannel graphs. Students had to make their own and use them, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/221
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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Team members at work, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/11/2/21
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1962
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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Team of oxen ploughing, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304I/15
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).
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Tebeldi trees on Tessanai to Barentu Strada, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/4
Scope and Contents

140 x 95 mm. Showing a man and Mrs Hebbert at the side of the road.

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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Tecasse bridge - Block house from where Colonel Ward was ambushed, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/28
Scope and Contents

125 x 100 mm. Showing an automobile about to cross a small bridge, just along from a low stone building.

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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Technical School, Loka, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/1/48
Scope and Contents

156 x 110 mm. glossy print with 86 x 57 mm. negative.

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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Technical School, Loka: learning to thatch, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/1/49
Scope and Contents

110 x 156 mm. glossy print with 58 x 86 mm. negative.

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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[Telecommunications Branch, Kumasi College, Ghana], 1940 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/36
Scope and Contents

153 x 116 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'Students watch a demonstration of the working of the Automatic Telephone system at the Tele-communications Branch of the Kumasi College of Technology'.

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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Telegram to Sir Gordon Guggisberg received in London 10 June 1927, 1927-06-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448P/7
Scope and Contents 'Ever unfading gratitude to Your Excellency and all you have done for me and my country. Ofori Atta’. Guggisberg left the Gold Coast for the last time in April 1927. Nana Sir Ofori Atta (1881-1943) became Omanhene of Akyem Abuakwa in 1912, and was the most influential traditional ruler in the Gold Coast, a member of the Legislative Council 1916-1943, and of the Executive Council shortly before his death. He led the group of African leaders from the Gold Coast which visited...
Dates: 1927-06-10
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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Telegraph and Post Office, Palapye, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/146
Scope and Contents

Showing a group of six Europeans gathered in front of the small corrugated-iron Telegraph and Post Office at Palapye with an enclosure of thatched huts in the background. The group of men, all unidentified, are probably in BSA Co. service.

Dates: 1890
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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Telegraph Road, Jos, 1928 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/85
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).