Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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“The gang” (African workmen), 1928 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/18
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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The Gardeners cottage, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/59
Scope and Contents
110 x 65. General view.
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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The gardens Sennar, 1939 - 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/27
Scope and Contents
115 x 85 mm. A view of the cultivated gardens at Sennar.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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 Garrison Office and Staff, 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055A/19
Scope and Contents
190 x 141 mm. Showing a group of officers, a Sergeant Major of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, an African scout and an African prisoner posed outside the Garrison Office. Identified members of the group are: Mr. Melville, Mr. Lys, Lieut. Col. Gildea, Spencer F. Chichester, Garrison Adjutant, and Charles De Val. A photograph used as the basis for an illustration in Du Val, vol. II, facing p. 22.
Dates:
1880
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 Garrison Office, The Camp, Pretoria, 1880 - 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055A/20
Scope and Contents
191 x 136 mm. Showing the group seen in Y3055A/19, but taken from a greater distance and showing more of the Garrison office. ‘The Garrison office was situated almost in the centre of the camp, and the business was carried on under a temporary erection of boards with strips of galvanized iron laid over for roofing purposes, with a large canvas sail attached, which at night or during inclement weather was dropped in front as a protection to books and papers’. Du Val, ‘With a show through...
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 Gash area, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/350
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. View of the river Gash. There are people sat at a table on the far right.
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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The Gash area, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/351
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. Showing people wading in the river Gash.
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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The Gash area, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/352
Scope and Contents
110 x 120 mm. Showing a hut raised on stilts. Perhaps a Dinka house? There are two 'platforms' at different levels beneath the actual domed construction.
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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The Gash area, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/353
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. General view of the river Gash.
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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The Gash area, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/354
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. General view of the river Gash.
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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The Gash area, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/355
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. View of the interior of a building.
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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The Gash area, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/356
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. Showing machinery and pipes, perhaps waterworks of some kind?
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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The Gash area, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/357
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. Showing brick buildings being built.
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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The Gash area, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/358
Scope and Contents
60 x 60 mm. Showing an automobile parked beside the beginnings of a brick building.
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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The gemsbuck antelope (Kalahari), 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/75
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of monochrome postcards printed in collotype showing stuffed animals in the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg. Accompanying the postcards is a four page printed leaflet by the Director of the Natal Museum, Ernest Warren, dated April 1924 and entitled 'The need for the International protection of the African fauna.' All photographs by C Akerman except no. 73, which is by 'F. Teschner'.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
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 Giri was like the Norfolk Broads here, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/228
Scope and Contents
Showing the Giri River. Between the Ubangi and Congo (Zaire) rivers (formerly the Belgian Congo).
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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The girl at Megrindra who always made zombi for me, 1935 - 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/120
Scope and Contents
The caption below the photograph continues: 'Zombi is a delicious dish made from zaratta - a kind of spinach, and palm oil. She was always singing this little ditty which went like 'Three blind mice'. 'Ya, ho, hay / pa, po. hay / ya, oh, hay / endela pa pa gaunzi bo / cato yo yo genyi bo / ya, oh, hay'.
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 girl in the wind, Amara tribe near Port Sudan, 1924 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/6/28
Scope and Contents
130 x 175 mm. Showing a young woman wearing a long dark robe.
Dates:
1924 - 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 girl with the Tatooed tummy at Gabrai. Ubangui Shari [i.e. Central African Republic], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/475
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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The girl with the Tatooed tummy at Gabrai. Ubangui Shari [i.e. Central African Republic], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/476
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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The girls have a craving for tobacco, 1935 - 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/100
Scope and Contents
Showing Powell giving tobacco to Bangwa girls.
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 girls of St. Monica's march past, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/138
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. Empire Day.
Dates:
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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'The Glade' - Manubie Forest, Kenlain Wishiel, Transkei, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/99
Scope and Contents
205 x 151 mm. Showing a woodland road with figures and a cart loaded with wood in the middleground. The Manubi Forest is situated in the extreme north east corner of the Kentani District of the Transkei, just inland from Mazeppa Bay.
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).
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The Gold Butte and Pendant. ‘Pithirius Pubis’. Liberated from Kumasi in 1884, 1938 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448P/1
Scope and Contents
100 x 122 mm. The writing on the reverse of the photograph is not in Canham’s handwriting. The object has not been identified.
Dates:
1938 - 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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The Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Volta River Project, 1940 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/33
Scope and Contents
150 x 115 mm. Aerial view of the Volta River. The caption on the reverse reads 'The Volta River project in the Gold Coast is an ambitious scheme for the joint development of resources of water power and bauxite and the production of aluminium by the United Kingdom and the Gold Coast Government'.
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).