Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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The Omukama of Toro, Uganda, 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/22
Scope and Contents
'ACW-20' printed in bottom right corner. On the reverse in pencil is written: '? George Kamrasi Rukidi, d 1965'.
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 open-air fireside, 1905 - 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Sierra Leone II/32
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone, particularly in Free Town. The majority are by the Lisk-Carew Brothers, number 14 is by the Sierra Leone Government, Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, and number 15 is by Ceylon Pictorials. Numbers 20 and 30 give no indication as to the photographer.
Dates:
1905 - 1953
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 opening of the dispensary at Attabubu, 1938 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/129
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1938 - 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 opening of the dispensary at Attabubu, 1938 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/130
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1938 - 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 opening of the dispensary at Attabubu, 1938 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/131
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1938 - 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 opening of the school of agriculture, 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/4/74
Scope and Contents
120 x 90 mm.
Dates:
1958
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 opening of the school of agriculture, 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/4/75
Scope and Contents
90 x 120 mm.
Dates:
1958
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 opening of the school of agriculture, 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/4/76
Scope and Contents
90 x 120 mm.
Dates:
1958
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 Orange River below Kei’s, looking west', 1872
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/27
Scope and Contents
The caption reads, 'The first boat that floated on its waters. The left hand shore is the Cape Colony, the right is the great Southern Desert, 1872. The Islands in front are where Sir Walter Currie shelled out the bushmen about 1870-1'. The term Bushmen is a historic term used to describe a group of Khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherers who lived in the Kalahari Desert.
Dates:
1872
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 orchestra (drums and sort of xylophones) accompanying dancers, De Beers Compound, 1910 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/83
Scope and Contents
73 x 51 mm. Showing a group of musicians with a ring of spectators in the background. These are presumably Chopi tribesmen from Portuguese East Africa come to South Africa to work in the mines.
Dates:
1910 - 1911
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 other end of trench; boys hauling the rock with a rope, 1934-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/4
Scope and Contents
65 x 40 mm.
Dates:
1934-10
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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The out door kitchen, 1905 - 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Sierra Leone II/11
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone, particularly in Free Town. The majority are by the Lisk-Carew Brothers, number 14 is by the Sierra Leone Government, Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, and number 15 is by Ceylon Pictorials. Numbers 20 and 30 give no indication as to the photographer.
Dates:
1905 - 1953
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 'Outspan' Nyeri, 1939 - 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/168
Scope and Contents
125 x 95 mm.
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 Owen Falls, Jinja, 1939 - 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/177
Scope and Contents
135 x 80 mm. General view.
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 P & T Office, Mazoe [Mazowe] ( B.S.A.C. Fort ), 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052C/2
Scope and Contents
Showing an unidentified European standing in front of the small circular thatched hut which served as the Post and Telegraph Office at Mazoe, north of Salisbury.
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 pack donkey is a method of transportation which is slowly gaining favour amongst the progressive Kikuyu, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/341
Scope and Contents
Showing pack donkeys loaded with sacks of manure.
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 pack donkey is a method of transportation which is slowly gaining favour amongst the progressive Kikuyu, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/342
Scope and Contents
Showing pack donkeys loaded with sacks of manure.
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 palace, 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK(GS)35
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.
Dates:
1952
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 Palace and one of Gordon's cannon, 1898-09-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/134
Scope and Contents
152 x 122 mm. A view from the riverbank showing the gutted palace with Gordon's cannon beside the wall of the building. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Khartum, September 4th'.
Dates:
1898-09-04
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
/
Khartoum 1898
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The Palace of Emperor Mentuab (1740), 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/2/1/13
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 pampas bush I slept under, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304O/44
Scope and Contents
In the Arak gorges in Algeria.
Dates:
1930 - 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 Park. Maritzburg, Natal [i.e. KwaZulu-Natal], 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305F/3
Scope and Contents
199 x 146 mm. Showing a roadway beside a river in the park in Pietermaritzburg, with an African rickshaw driver standing in the foreground.
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).
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The participants, 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/5/2
Scope and Contents
110 x 75 mm.
Dates:
1933 - 1964
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 participants, 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/5/3
Scope and Contents
110 x 75 mm.
Dates:
1933 - 1964
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 participants, 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/5/4
Scope and Contents
110 x 75 mm.
Dates:
1933 - 1964
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).