Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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The Chancellor receives the Representative of the University of Hong Kong, 1961-11-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448F/10
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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The Chancellor’s Procession after his installation, 1961-11-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448F/16
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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The cheerful rogue, 1935 - 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/250
Scope and Contents
The album page is entitled: 'Labwor'.
Dates:
1935 - 1936
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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The Chef de Poste of Boga and escort of Askaris, Semliki River, (n.d.) [i.e. no date]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/159
Scope and Contents
104 x 79 mm. A view showing the Boga Chef de Poste and his askaris standing on the left (Congo) bank of the Semliki River near Lessi. The rows of wooden stakes in the river are fish traps.
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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The Chief and the Ya, Ndu, 1940-11-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/235
Scope and Contents
84 x 56 mm. neg. with 111 x 79 mm. print. The Chief and the Ya together with their leopard teeth necklaces.
Dates:
1940-11-09
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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The chief door into Mahdi's tomb, 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/156
Scope and Contents
78 x 78 mm. A view showing the shell marked wall and doorway to the Mahdi's tomb. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.
Dates:
1898
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
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Khartoum 1898
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The Chief Editor, in his quiet mood, 1880 - 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055A/4
Scope and Contents
55 x 81 mm. (oval print). A head and shoulders carte de visite portrait of Du Val in uniform.
Dates:
1880 - 1881
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
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News of the Camp
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The Chief Editor, in his War Paint, 1880 - 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055A/3
Scope and Contents
56 x 92 mm. A full length carte de visite portrait showing Charles Du Val in uniform, holding a rifle and posed against a studio backdrop of palm trees and hill scenery.
Dates:
1880 - 1881
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
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News of the Camp
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The Chief in Takabu, Laroku, 1940-11-13
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/348
Scope and Contents
62 x 40mm. The walls of the Chief's houses festooned with all sorts of fetishes, baskets, pots, masks, bunches of feathers, etc.
Dates:
1940-11-13
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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The Chief of Navrongo, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/182
Scope and Contents
Head and shoulders profile portrait. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'He has been chief for thirty years and is the elected president of the Federation of Kassena-Nankanni Chiefs'.
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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The Chief of Ndu's bodyguard of spear bearing daughters, Ndu, 1940-12-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/356
Scope and Contents
62 x 40 mm.
Dates:
1940-12-25
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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The Chief with his Councillors precedes the parade, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/469
Scope and Contents
Showing the chief and councillors at the head of the parade of literates.
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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The Childs, 1935 - 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/486
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. Showing Mr and Mrs Child with their son and daughter, and two cats, posing in the garden.
Dates:
1935 - 1936
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
'The chimney', 1932 - 1947
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304W
Scope and Contents
The chimney was one of the largest self supporting chimneys in East Africa at this time. It was built by what was originally known as the Natal Tanning Extract Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of a company of this name in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, which in turn was a subsidiary of the Forestal Land Timber & Railways Co. Ltd. of London. The album also contains cuttings from the Manchester Evening News dated 12th April 1933, printed on paper made from wattle wood pulp. The album...
Dates:
1932 - 1947
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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The church at Axum, seventeenth Century, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/2/1/28
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Numbered and labelled slides from the Hebberts' trip to Ethiopia.
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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The church bell, Saint George's, Lalibela, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/189
Scope and Contents
95 x 120 mm. Showing a long piece of rock suspended by a tree trunk with twine. The caption beneath the print reads 'The village gong.'
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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The 'Church' in Entebbe in 1909, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/40
Scope and Contents
87 x 63 mm. Showing the small mud and thatch hut which served as the church in Entebbe. Bell laid the foundation stone for a new church in April 1908 ('On Tuesday last I laid the foundation stone of the new church for Entebbe. I made rather a long speech, and was presented with a handsome silver trowel with a handle of hippo ivory. The Church will be only a very small one, and intended for officials and other white people. The design is pretty and it is expected that the building will...
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).
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The church in the Heerengracht, Cape Town, 1970
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 342/1/12
Scope and Contents
The caption reads 'The first stone of the church in the Heerengracht (now Adderley Street), Cape Town, was laid in 1699'.
Dates:
1970
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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The Church of Azoza Teckahaimonot, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/60
Scope and Contents
120 x 120 mm. Showing a group stood in front of the church. There is a ruin just behind it, to the right.
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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The church of Monelick, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/121
Scope and Contents
110 x 120 mm. General view of a large stone domed church.
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).
Item
[The Citadel and the Tombs of the Mamelukes, Cairo], 1870 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/5
Scope and Contents
273 x 213 mm. View looking towards the Citadel and the Mosque of Mohammed Ali, with the Mameluke Tombs in the foreground.
Dates:
1870 - 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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The Citadel, Cairo, Feb '20, 1920-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/271
Scope and Contents
100 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1920-02
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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The city of Loango, 1817 - 1866
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 343/14
Scope and Contents
An undated print of an engraving by G. Child from a picture by Olfert Dapper, 'Plate 189, No. 109, Vol. 2, pa. 401'.
Dates:
1817 - 1866
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
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Commonwealth engravings
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The Cliffs, Umkomaas River, Natal [i.e. KwaZulu-Natal], 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305F/7
Scope and Contents
201 x 150 mm. A view looking down onto a curve in the Umkomaas River, with sheer cliffs topped by dense forest on the left hand bank.
Dates:
1899
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
The clove inflorescence (or) a bunch of cloves, 1930 - 1950
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/48
Scope and Contents
215 x 165 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).