Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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The Rahad at Howata, 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/211
Scope and Contents
115 x 125 mm. Showing groups of women and children at the waters edge. The level of the river is very low. Huts can be seen in the distance, very near to the bank of the river.
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 Railway workshops, Secondee, Gold Coast, 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/63
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of photographs in an album, plus loose photographs and postcards. The photographs have been arranged in four groups; the album, loose prints, miscellaneous postcards, and British Empire Exhibition postcards. Unless otherwise indicated, the captions not in brackets were supplied by Miss Grace Smyly. The captions may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.Plates 1-33...
Dates:
1924
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 rain forest, Victoria Falls, N Rhodesia, winter, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195/9
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company. The numbering used in the catalogue reflects Stephenson's own numbering. The scenes cover: Northern Rhodesia [i.e. Zambia], including Victoria Falls and the Tanganyika Plateau; Southern Rhodesia [i.e....
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).
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The Rainbow Fall, Victoria Falls, 1924 - 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/94
Scope and Contents
83 x 133 mm. Original print postcard.
Dates:
1924 - 1931
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 Rand, 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/45
Scope and Contents
189 x 135 mm.
Dates:
1930
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 Rand, 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/34
Scope and Contents
76 x 54 mm.
Dates:
1930
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 Rand], 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/51
Scope and Contents
85 x 63 mm.
Dates:
1930
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 Ravine encampment, British flag flying, CMS encampment below, 1900-03-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/51
Scope and Contents
'Quite lovely scenery, but so little time to draw.'
Dates:
1900-03-11
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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Mombasa to Mengo
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The reading room at Njala Training College, Sierra Leone, is popular among the students, 1950 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/132
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Papers and magazines are supplied by the British Council, the Public Relations Officer and the Education Department'.
Dates:
1950 - 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).
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The reception after the wedding, 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/29
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
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Dulcie Barron Collection
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The Reception at Government House, 1860
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305V/4
Scope and Contents
170 x 110 mm. Photograph of the painting by T.W. Bowler.
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 Reception in Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1860
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305V/3
Scope and Contents
155 x 120 mm. Photograph of the painting by T.W. Bowler.
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 Reception of the Prince by a Burgher Escort near Queen’s Town, 1860
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305V/8
Scope and Contents
Copy A: 153 x 105 mm, all corners trimmed square. Copy B: 151 x 105 mm, top left and top right corners oval trimmed; the slightly narrower print results in the deletion of the two burghers, one at each end.
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 red hartebeast (Natal), 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/78
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 repaired station road block on the Wolchefit pass, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/5/21
Scope and Contents
105 x 95 mm. Showing the repair work done on a road cut into the mountain.
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 Residence, Tunis, 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304H/264
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Measuring 220 x 285 mm, this album contains postcards, some of which are coloured. The majority portray Algiers (including 12 of the museum), Algerian people, Biskra, and the ruins of Timgad, Constantine, Tunis and Carthage.
Dates:
1922
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 Residency, 1936-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/13
Scope and Contents
54 x 80 mm. View of the drive and building.
Dates:
1936-10
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 Residency, Entebbe, Uganda, 1908, 1906-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/14
Scope and Contents
136 x 77 mm. A postcard reproduction showing the corrugated-iron roofed building which served as Government House until Bell's new building was completed in 1908. His first impressions of the Residency were not enthusiastic: '6th May ... I cannot say much, however, for Government House. It is a very large bungalow of wood and iron, raised high on piles, and is as ugly and prosaic a building as one would not wish to see. I hope, before I leave Uganda, to have something much better than...
Dates:
1906-05
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 Residency grounds, Mbabane, 1910 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/35
Scope and Contents
208 x 155 mm. A view looking across the Mbabane River (on the banks of which can be seen excavations from alluvial tin mining) towards the Residency grounds. The house is situated on a small rise overlooking the river and is largely obscured by a plantation of trees.
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 Residency, Mbabane, 1910 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/34
Scope and Contents
209 x 155 mm. Showing the front façade of the British Residency at Mbabane, a stone bungalow with a corrugated iron roof and a wooden trellis work veranda. A woman and child stands on the steps leading to the veranda. Robert Thorne Coryndon (Resident Commissioner 1907-1916) would have been in occupation at this date.
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 Rest and Courthouse - On the Rahad (Kassala Province) [i.e. Kassala], 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/204
Scope and Contents
55 x60 mm. A view of two circular huts, made of dried vegetation.
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 rest house at Sunni, 1942-06-23 - 1942-06-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/59
Scope and Contents
125 x 95 mm. Showing Mrs Hebbert sat outside two stone huts with conical thatched roofs.
Dates:
1942-06-23 - 1942-06-28
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).
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The result, 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/94
Scope and Contents
135 x 77 mm. 'Exide battery on Buick box body car after being swept off the car and mostly demolished in passing over a broken down culvert in Tanganyika. One cell was completely destroyed, the other two damaged, and the whole of the acid spilled. The remaining two cells were filled with ditch water, wiring improvised and the car driven 40 miles to the railway' (taken from a note on the back of RCMS 20/2/8/1/34).
Dates:
1928
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 result of manuring a fine crop of maize, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/334
Scope and Contents
Showing a farmer standing beside his field of maize, the size of the plants indicating the difference made by manuring.
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).
File
The return East and Cochin, Sept 7 - December 1928, 1928-09-07 - 1928-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022PPP
Scope and Contents
An album with the following annotation by McKay: 'Containing my photographic record of my return to the East and a miscellany of snaps of my new station - Cochin. September 7th to December 1928'.
Dates:
1928-09-07 - 1928-12
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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Cochin