Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
Item
The construction of the Dam - Gebel Aulia, 1930 - 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/404
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. Showing machinery, cranes and many men constructing the dam.
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).
Item
The construction of the Dam - Gebel Aulia, 1930 - 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/405
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. Showing machinery, cranes and many men constructing the dam.
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).
Item
The construction of the Dam - Gebel Aulia, 1930 - 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/406
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. Showing the walls of the dam being constructed.
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).
Item
The construction of the Dam - Gebel Aulia, 1930 - 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/407
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. Showing the walls of the dam being constructed.
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).
Item
The Convent of Sinai and Plain of Er-Raha, 1860
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214C/4
Scope and Contents
225 x 159 mm. A view looking over a harsh and rocky valley landscape. Frith comments: 'In the view we look down the valley in which the convent stands towards the Plain of Er-Raha. The scene is strangely desolate. In the immediate foreground, up to the convent walls, stretches an arid tract strewn with broken fragments of rock, some of which are of vast size, as we see by comparing them with the little encampment in front. The fortress-like convent rises finely in the distance, and...
Dates:
1860
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 Convent Redoubt and Jail Laager from Mr. Van der Veen’s House, 1880 - 1881
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055A/13
Scope and Contents
190 x 143 mm. A view looking across cleared ground (with a few cattle and an unidentified figure standing beside a camera and tripod in the foreground) towards the main concentration of defensive forces in Pretoria. Various locations keyed and identified in the photograph are: A. The Military Camp (background, right of centre); B. Fort Commeline (at the summit of the distant hills); C. Loretto Nuns, Convent (sandbagged building at right); D. The Tronk (Jail) Laager (at left).
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
/
News of the Camp
Item
The convoy cooling down en route to Lodwar, 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/138
Scope and Contents
Showing two stationary trucks.
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
[The cook], 1920
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/2/61
Scope and Contents
125 x 80 mm.
Dates:
1920
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 cook, 28.2.20, 1920-02-28
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/326
Scope and Contents
70 x 45 mm. Showing a man crouched over a fire built beside a crashed aeroplane. Five other men are stood watching.
Dates:
1920-02-28
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 cook. Shereik, 1920
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/177
Scope and Contents
68 x 43 mm. A group of Africans in front of a plane.
Dates:
1920
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 Corner House, Johannesburg, 1925
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/189
Scope and Contents
202 x 151 mm. Showing the exterior of the Corner House from the Commissioner Street side. This building was the third Corner House, the centre of the South African mining industry, and was constructed between 1903-1905.
Dates:
1925
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 corner shop', 1950 - 1970
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 199/2/1/3/12
Scope and Contents
152 x 205 mm. ‘The corner shop in which the first artillery shell landed on the day of the bombardment'.
Dates:
1950 - 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).
Item
The cottage where I live with Roma, 1955
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/2
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
Item
The cotton market, Tolodi, 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/76
Scope and Contents
125 x 95 mm. Showing women and children sat on the ground with sacks of cotton for sale.
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 Council Chamber, Serowe, 1963-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549B/2
Scope and Contents
202 x 156 mm. Showing the small single storey council chamber at Serowe.
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
The court of Shishak, Karnac, 1857
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214B/9
Scope and Contents
159 x 223 mm. A view showing the remains of part of the temple of Amon at Karnac with painted hieroglyphs on the standing walls and fallen pillars and debris littering the foreground.
Dates:
1857
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 crash. Brackley and mechanics, 1920-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/171
Scope and Contents
68 x 43 mm. Brackley and others inspecting a crashed plane at Shereik.
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).
Item
The crash. Feb 25th 1920, 1920-02-25
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/173
Scope and Contents
69 x 44 mm. A crashed plane at Shereik.
Dates:
1920-02-25
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).
Item
The crash. Natives of Artul Isd, 1920-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/172
Scope and Contents
68 x 43 mm. A group of people at Shereik, with the end of a plane visible to the right.
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).
Item
The crash, Shereik, 25.2.20, 1920-02-25
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/279
Scope and Contents
70 x 45 mm. A view of people stood beside what presumably is the crashed aeroplane (rotor blades only are visible in this photograph).
Dates:
1920-02-25
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).
Item
The crater, 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/316
Scope and Contents
The caption continues: 'The edge of the crater can first be seen on extreme right of photograph. The smoke is usually bad like this during the rains'. A caption on the album page reads: 'Nyamlagira, an active volcano in the Parc National Albert. Belgian Congo [i.e. Congo]'. An active volcano to the north of Lake Kivu, Zaire.
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
The crater, 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/318
Scope and Contents
The caption continues: 'The edge of the crater can first be seen on extreme right of photograph. The smoke is usually bad like this during the rains'. A caption on the album page reads: 'Nyamlagira, an active volcano in the Parc National Albert. Belgian Congo [i.e. Congo]'. An active volcano to the north of Lake Kivu, Zaire.
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
The Creek, Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/43
Scope and Contents
108 x 85 mm. A view looking across the Creek, situated at the north of the town between Funguni Spit and Hollis Road, towards African houses on the far shore.
Dates:
1900 - 1910
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 crowd around the Asantehene’s coffin during funeral, June 2nd 1970, 1970-06-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448R/27
Scope and Contents
90x137mm. Otumfuo Sir Osei Agymen Prempeh II died on May 27th 1970.
Dates:
1970-06-02
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).
Item
The crowd who gathered to watch us eat our picnic tea, 1955
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/72
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