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Africa (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:

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[The house - exterior view], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/11
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A view showing trellis attached to the side of a building. The album page upon which this photograph appears is captioned 'The house in and out'. It is assumed that this is the house in which Powell stayed during his time on the island.

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 house - exterior view], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/13
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A view showing part of a house and garden. The album page upon which this photograph appears is captioned 'The house in and out'. It is assumed that this is the house in which Powell stayed during his time on the island.

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 house - interior view], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/10
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A view showing a vase with flowers on a table with some pictures and ornaments by the wall behind. The album page upon which this photograph appears is captioned 'The house in and out'. It is assumed that this is the house in which Powell stayed during his time on the island.

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 house - interior view], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/14
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A view showing part of a room, with a desk, chair and other furniture. The album page upon which this photograph appears is captioned 'The house in and out'. It is assumed that this is the house in which Powell stayed during his time on the island.

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 House of Paul at Fort Portal, Uganda, where I spent three weeks, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/174
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A panoramic view, consisting of two photographs, showing a house and various outbuildings, with mountains in the background.

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 house that Jack built; my house at Esikongo, 1935-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/24
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65 x 40 mm.

Dates: 1935-01
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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The Housecraft Department, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/210
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Showing an African assistant demonstrating food selection to two pupils. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The selection of food is as important as preparing it'.

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 Hunt at Hartebeeste Hoek, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305V/12
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197 x 135 mm. Photograph of the painting by T. Baines.

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).
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The hut at Kiboriani where offending prisoners were confined. When not thus used it served as a donkey stable, 1915 - 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/233
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98 x 73 mm.

Dates: 1915 - 1916
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 hut I spent two days in at Pambirie, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/69
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The caption below the photograph continues: 'The Mangbetu youths are very skilled at archery, and here are some eager competitors for a five franc note I pinned to a palm tree'.

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 idea is put to the Kipsigis tribesmen at a village gathering - 'baraza', 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/386
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Showing a village meeting, with European officers of the Kenya Agricultural Department explaining through an interpreter to the Kipsigis the benefits of planting quick-growing wattle trees for fuel, protection from the wind and for building. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads ''Trees will shelter you, yours crops and cattle[sic], give you building poles and firewood', the interpreter explains'.

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 Imperial Hotel, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/26
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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).
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The inimitable Popoff, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/12
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54 x 80 mm. View of a young African man standing beside the motor car featured in RCMS 363/4/11.

Dates: 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 innumerable stone figures of Esie, Nigeria, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/101
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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'They were discovered in a clearing amidst a grove of oil palms and other trees, the clearing itself bordered by peregun trees, a kind of aloes planted round holy places. The grove is today an important centre of the fertility cult. Natives of Esie found the figures about 1773. The grove was kept secret until 1933, when an English missionary was told about it by one of his African mission teachers'. Photograph by Margot Lubinski.

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 Inquisitive Karamando Gets Work in London , 1944 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 405/1
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Originally written in 1944 and revised in 1970.

Dates: 1944 - 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 Inspector of Produce testing the feel of a sample of cloves for statutory dryness, 1936 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/3/39
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215 x 160 mm. The image has been bordered with liquid paper.

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).
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The instructor finds his first pupil, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/465
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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'An old peasant, called Mwasya, on the edge of his mealie patch'.

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 Interior of the Public Library - Cape Town, 1861

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059I/1
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A view looking along the porticoed reading of the Public Library, with readers sitting at tables, staff beyond and a portrait of Queen Victoria hanging on the far wall. The library was opened by Prince Alfred on September 18 1860.

Dates: 1861
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 Island, below Klip Drift, South Africa. Digging for diamonds in 1870 with 6 Zulu [offensive word not transcribed]', 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/17
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.

Dates: 1870
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 Island from the sea - looking in from west, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30482B/1
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205 x 144 mm. View looking along the rocky coastline of Saint Helena.

Dates: 1900
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 Island of Ascension, 1800 - 1850

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 190/40
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An undated, framed, coloured engraving depicting Georgetown and Cross Hill, 280 x 253 mm.

Dates: 1800 - 1850
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 Isle of St Brandon, Sept. 1916, 1916-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/53
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137 x 79 mm. View from the sea of St Brandon, main island of the Cargados Carajos group 250 miles NE of Mauritius.

Dates: 1916-09
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 Italian Commandant's house, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/5
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110 x 85 mm. General view of a series of steps leading up to a large house.

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 Jagas, a people of Africa, 1817 - 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 343/47
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An undated print of an engraving by Conder from a picture by Moore.

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).
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The Jagdish Temple, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022II/5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of silver prints, originally in an album. No date or other details are known of the origin of the album. The photographs, of high quality, were taken by K.L. Syed, State Photographer, Palanpur, and show scenes in Udaipur, but there are no captions. Each print has a number preceded by 'V' on the back. Collections of photographs and published works have been used to caption these views of the complex of magnificent palaces and other buildings of and adjoining the Pichola lake,...
Dates: 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).