Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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They built a clinic, 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/23
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.
Dates:
1953
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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They taught meTwi. Five little boys from the Presbyterian Senior School are we. Slippe, Owusu, Bekoe, Asirifi, Adu, 1938 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/89
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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They went to sea in a sieve Pinane[?], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/370
Scope and Contents
Showing two men by the shore who appear to be sewing together large pieces of material to make a boat.
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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Thika, 1950-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3/156-164
Scope and Contents
Views of the falls, gardens, market, bus station and Blue Post's Hotel.
Dates:
1950-07
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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Thika, 1951-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3/311-13
Scope and Contents
Views of Fourteen Falls.
Dates:
1951-04
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).
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Thika Falls, 1939 - 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/165
Scope and Contents
80 x 135 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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Third Camp, Eldoret: BAO football team and native team, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/48-54
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
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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Third Camp, Eldoret: cheetah on the sports field, RAF sports ground, Christmas celebrations on the sports field, 1942 - 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/39-47
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
Dates:
1942 - 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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Third Camp, Eldoret: Christmas celebrations and pantomime, 1942-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/55-59
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
Dates:
1942-12
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).
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Third Camp, Eldoret: Hut 20, a spot of carpentry, resting on charpoys, cricket team, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/35-38
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
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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Third camp, Eldoret: views from the new camp, the long road from the camp, group with Leo Absee, Hut 20 and boys, unit transport, 1942 - 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/26-34
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
Dates:
1942 - 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).
File
Thirty-seven unidentified 35 mm. and 56 mm. negatives., 1940 - 1970
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/8/1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The prints listed were chiefly from the files of the Photo Bureau, the majority being mounted on sheets of paper with substantial descriptions, and in many cases the negative attached. Titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1940 - 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).
Fonds
Thirty years ago by Philip Tengely
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043LL
Scope and Contents
Unpublished reminiscences of Tengely's service in West Africa, 134 pages, illustrated with original photographs, presumably by the author.
Dates:
1939
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
Fonds
'Thirty years ago': reminiscences by Philip Tengely
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 143
Scope and Contents
Unpublished typescript and manuscript reminiscences of Tengely's service in West Africa, 134 pages, with 12 inserted photographs. The account describes Accra, Elmina, Abbeokuta, Ibadan, Sierra Leone and Benin, with particular reference to African traditions, ceremonies and beliefs. There is an accompanying letter from the author to the Royal African Society, 22 June 1939, and the Society's acknowledgement, 26 June 1939.
Dates:
1939
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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This concrete compost pit has been built from the Native Treasury funds, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/190
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'it stands outside the septic tank latrines also built by the Native Administration, and provides manure for the experimental Native Administration Farm'.
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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This girl at Keru is wearing a chain sporran called - Owele, 1935 - 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/254
Scope and Contents
The caption below the photograph continues: 'This kind is worn by all the older unmarried women. The small boy on the right is wearing a - Kicholchol made from sections of dry coarse grass and seeds from trees.
The Labwor are most skilled blacksmiths. This sporran has been made locally with locally mined iron.'
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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This is Clan land, terraced and irrigated by the Government Agricultural Department, worked by the Kikuyu clansmen and women, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/346
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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This is taken from a point nearer the water, 1928-07-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/14
Scope and Contents
The Devils Cataract is on the left of the picture and you can just see the gorge into which it falls. A portion of the main Falls can be seen in the background. Print at RCMS 353/2/74.
Dates:
1928-07-08
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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This is taken from a point nearer the water, 1928-07-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/74
Scope and Contents
The Devils Cataract is on the left of the picture and you can just see the gorge into which it falls. A portion of the main Falls can be seen in the background.
Dates:
1928-07-08
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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This is taken from the railway bridge looking towards the Falls, 1928-07-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/77
Scope and Contents
It shows the great depth of the gorge. The bridge is about 380 ft above the water at this time of the year. The sides of the gorge are very thickly wooded.
Dates:
1928-07-08
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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This is the bulbil which is planted, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/421
Scope and Contents
Showing a hand holding up an individual bulbil. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Bulbils grow at the end of the poles produced when a sisal plant is finished'.
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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This is the characteristic headdress of the Shilluk men, 1935 - 1936
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/207
Scope and Contents
The caption on the album page continues: 'Mostly ancestral hair and a little mud. These three portraits are of the same man'.
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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This is the characteristic headdress of the Shilluk men, 1935 - 1936
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/208
Scope and Contents
The caption on the album page continues: 'Mostly ancestral hair and a little mud. These three portraits are of the same man'.
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).
Item
This is the characteristic headdress of the Shilluk men, 1935 - 1936
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/209
Scope and Contents
The caption on the album page continues: 'Mostly ancestral hair and a little mud. These three portraits are of the same man'.
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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This is the cover of the book Shibukeni, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/444
Scope and Contents
The book teaches reading through the use of pictures related to words of common usage.
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).