Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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The Senior Chemistry laboratory (male and female students), 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/37
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of photographs taken by the Ministry of Information West African Photographic Service, giving a comprehensive record of the varied aspects of the College's work. These pictures have been extensively reproduced in books and articles. As Dr. R.W. Stopford is shown as Principal, a post he held from 1941 to 1945, they must date from this period. The Library has three different groups of photographs drawn from this series, two of which form this collection:(A) 55, 260 x...
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 Sennar Dam, 1939 - 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/22
Scope and Contents
130 x 85 mm. General view from the riverbank.
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 Sentinel, Table Mountain, 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/2/64
Scope and Contents
85 x 53 mm
Dates:
1942
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 settlement farmer and his family, 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/5/30
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 settlement farmer and his family, 1933 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/5/31
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 Shipping, Algoa Bay [i.e. Algoabaai], 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C/14
Scope and Contents
191 x 126 mm. Showing shipping moored off Port Elizabeth being tossed about in rough seas. It seems probable that this photograph has been inadvertently reversed.
Dates:
1888
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 sick, 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/96
Scope and Contents
77 x 77 mm. Showing soldiers in the sick convoy waiting to board boats at Wad Hamid.
Dates:
1898
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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Khartoum 1898
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The Silver Jubilee of H. H. the Sultan, Zanzibar, 1936-12-28 - 1936-12-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/3/443
Scope and Contents
180 x 165 mm. The caption continues: 'The state drive. H.H. Sir Khalifa Bin Harub G.C.M.G., G.B.E., with the British Resident Sir Richard Rankine K.C.M.G.'
Dates:
1936-12-28 - 1936-12-30
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 Sir William Mackinnon Station, Mombasa, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/8
Scope and Contents
153 x 201 mm. A view showing the statue of Sir William Mackinnon (1823-1893), President of the Imperial British East Africa Company, which formerly stood in Treasury Square.
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 Sirdar leaving the battlefield with his own flag, and the Khalifa's black banner carried in rear, 1898-09-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/123
Scope and Contents
151 x 123 mm. A view showing Kitchener and his staff leaving the battlefield on horseback on the march to occupy the town of Omdurman (also known as Umm Durman).
Dates:
1898-09-02
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Khartoum 1898
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The Sirdar, Maj-Gen. Gatacre, Lieut R. Brooke, 7th Hussars, Capt. Watson, K.R.R, A.D.C, 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/1
Scope and Contents
163 x 113 mm. A view showing the group at the start of the campaign. Exact location unknown. The Sirdar, General Kitchener, faced the camera. The other figures have their backs to the viewer. Major General Sir William F. Gatacre was in command of the British Brigade on the Nile. Lieutenant (later Colonel) Ronald George Brooke was Gatacre's orderly during the Atbara and Khartoum campaigns. Captain (later Lieut. Colonel) James Kiero Watson was one of Kitchener's ADCs. He served in the...
Dates:
1898
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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Khartoum 1898
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The sisal is unloaded from the trollies and is placed on a revolving belt which takes it up to the decorticator, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/430
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Numbers 419, 428, 434 and 439 all have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Sisal in Tanganyika.At the outbreak of World War II the important continental market of the Tanganyika sisal growers fell away and the industry found itself a 'surplus producer'. To preserve the industry and the only source of sisal in the Empire the British government decided at the end of 1942 to purchase a stockpile of...
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 sitatunga antelope (North Rhodesia), 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/67
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.'
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 sitting room, Port Sudan [i.e. Bur Sudan], 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/51
Scope and Contents
180 x 105 mm. 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 slave market place [historic title], 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/166
Scope and Contents
149 x 95 mm. A view showing the open market place, surrounded by mud walls and entrance gateway. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.
Dates:
1898
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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Khartoum 1898
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The sliced carrots come down the chute and pass under cover through a steam table before being put on trays for dehydration, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/351
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A series of Official photographs (Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'One doesn't associate the middle of Africa with green peas, asparagus and new potatoes, but in the highlands of Kenya most English vegetables grow as well as they do at home. This was a useful factor in wartime when vegetables were urgently needed for thousands of troops in both the East Africa Command and the Middle East. Previously, potatoes had been the only...
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 slopes of Jebel Nandure, 1918-06-13 - 1918-06-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/45
Scope and Contents
125 x 100 mm. Showing the rock formations and slopes of Jebel Nandure.
Dates:
1918-06-13 - 1918-06-18
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 slopes of Jebel Nandure, 1942-06-13 - 1942-06-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/44
Scope and Contents
125 x 130 mm. Showing the rock formations and slopes of Jebel Nandure.
Dates:
1942-06-13 - 1942-06-18
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 snows on Ruwenzori seen from the garden of Bugirasagama[?], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/175
Scope and Contents
From the house.
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 solar eclipse in Ankole, Uganda, in 1492’, 1492
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/3/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.
Dates:
1492
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 son of Sylvanus Olympio, first President of Togo, with unnamed female pupil, 1957 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/157-61
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of loose prints with duplicates measuring, unless stated, approximately 210 x 160 mm. The collection contains a variety of photographs, some of them taken by the Information Services of the Gold Coast/Ghana, while others are amateur photographs. Nos 1-5, showing Fraser in the Principal's house are clearly pre-1935, when he left Achimota. The majority date from Mr Winlaw's Headship and include a number of views of buildings put up in that period, particularly the Assembly Hall...
Dates:
1957 - 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).
Fonds
The South Africa Campaign, 1879
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058B
Scope and Contents
A memorial volume, compiled by J.P. MacKinnon and Sydney Shadbolt, containing sixty-one Woodbury types of head and shoulders portraits (mainly in uniform) of officers killed during the Zulu War. The oval prints, taken by a variety of photographers, measure 91 x 113 mm.
Dates:
1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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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The South Africa Medal (Anglo-Zulu War), 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.4.12.01
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Three medals.
Dates:
1879
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 South African Labour Party, 1908-1958: a memoir, 1983
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 199/1
Scope and Contents
Hepple had intended to revise the memoir and expand the last section, which deals with his years as leader of the South African Labour Party, but it remained uncompleted at his death, and has received only minor editing. The volume includes an appendix providing a full list of Hepple's parliamentary speeches, books, pamphlets and articles.
Dates:
1983
Conditions Governing Access:
The typescript may not be reproduced without the prior permission of Professor B.A. Hepple.
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The South African Public Library and Museum, 1860
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305V/16
Scope and Contents
Copy A: 122 x 80 mm. contains virtually all the details in Copy B, 131 x 85 mm. It is therefore either a reduced print or a different photograph of the original. 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).