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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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Tongas of Chief Albert of the Mhila Tribe, Reserve 14, dancing the Ingonga dance, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/66
Scope and Contents

150 x 101 mm.

Dates: 1930 - 1950
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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Tonia [Tonya] Bay, Lake Albert, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/79
Scope and Contents

107 x 70 mm. A view looking across grassland towards Tonya Bay on the eastern shore of Lake Albert.

Dates: 1906 - 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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Tony and Henry Morcom, 1922 - 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/149
Scope and Contents

65 x 110 mm. Showing two small children. In July 1922, HHB agreed 'to be God Father to Sylvia Morcom's baby Henry'.

Dates: 1922 - 1923
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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Tony Gladstone, Kisimu, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/20
Scope and Contents

100 x 70 mm. A view of a seaplane in the water. With three men stood on the floats.

Dates: 1925
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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Tony Gladstone, Kisimu, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/21
Scope and Contents

100 x 75 mm. A view of a seaplane in the water.

Dates: 1925
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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Tony Gladstone, Kisimu, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/22
Scope and Contents

100 x 75 mm. A view of a seaplane in the water. Written beneath the photograph is 'Fairey III'.

Dates: 1925
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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Tony Gladstone's DH5OJ at Kisumu, 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/24/17
Scope and Contents

98 x 73 mm. A plane on a lake, photographed in the summer.

Dates: 1927
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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Top end of Lagoon shows part of my compound: the landing wharf is right up at far end; the garage is where you see the hedge part; it splits compound in two, 1936 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/42
Scope and Contents

84 x 54 mm.

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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Top of an Inselberg used for storing thatch against termites - Ukara, Tanzania, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/1/19
Scope and Contents From the File:

35 mm slides. Images of Owen Falls Dam in Uganda, hill farming, tea picking and general landscape views.

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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Top of Ras Buohit 14850 feet in the Semiam mountains [i.e. Simen mountains], 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/2/1/25
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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[Top of waterfall ? Reduit Cascade], 1919 - 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/111
Scope and Contents

80 x 110 mm.

Dates: 1919 - 1923
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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Toro Church interior, 1903 - 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 26/22
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1903 - 1947
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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Toro group, 1895 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/36
Scope and Contents

130 x 100 mm. Posed group of African men, women and children.

Dates: 1895 - 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).
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Tororo, 1939 - 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/154
Scope and Contents

60 x 60 mm. Unidentified building.

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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Torotonga village with crater in background, 1942-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/32
Scope and Contents

125 x 95 mm. Showing a number of huts with stepped conical roofs with the crater beyond.

Dates: 1942-06
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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Totos carrying water pots, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/16
Scope and Contents

40 x 65 mm.

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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Touching land as ballast, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/16
Scope and Contents

A view showing a small sailing boat in shallow water, with two people on board and two others standing beside the boat in the water.

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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Tour 1935-36, 1935-09 - 1936-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WWW
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...
Dates: 1935-09 - 1936-01
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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Tour de Jeppe: Mines D’ Or, 1873 - 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055B/1
Scope and Contents

191 x 142 mm. Showing the vertical tower of rock protruding above trees with a valley beyond. Exact location unidentified, possibly at the northern head of the Blyde Canyon.

Dates: 1873 - 1874
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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Tour diary, 1954 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/1/4/1
Scope and Contents

Rena Datta's diary of the tour to the Gold Coast and Nigeria. At the front is an account on loose pages of a visit to Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and Nigeria in 1954 to research and prepare the Aid tour, including notes on these countries.

Dates: 1954 - 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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Tour I. Northern Nigeria 1910-11, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043C/1-86
Scope and Contents

An album of views on the Niger and at Baro, Minna, Kaduna, Bida; Sleeping sickness campaign tours and work.

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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Tour II. Northern Nigeria 1911-12, 1911 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043C/87-218
Scope and Contents

An album of views at Zungeru and Ilorin; Nigerian people and crafts: tattooing, blacksmiths and silversmiths at work, manufacture of red and black pottery at Ilorin, performing hyaena with trainer; specimens of diseased animals.

Dates: 1911 - 1912
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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Tour III. Southern Nigeria 1913-14, 1913-03-12 - 1914-04-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043C/219-332
Scope and Contents An album of views at Yaba (Medical Research Institute), Bonny; specimens of diseased fowls; prints used to illustrate Macfie, J. and Gallagher, G. (1914). This album also contains a number of postcards by Edmond Fortier from the CGF II series (Collection Générale Fortier) relating to Nigeria: - 980. West Africa - Nigeria - Lagos. From the Lagoon. (Y3043C/221); - 989. West Africa - Nigeria - Lagos. The Marina - The Bank of British West Africa. (Y3043C/222); - 987. West...
Dates: 1913-03-12 - 1914-04-07
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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Tour IV. Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1914-15, 1914-07-29 - 1915-08-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043C/333-400
Scope and Contents

An album of views at Accra, Dodowah; Kroo game 'like draughts'; mosquito breeding places; specimens of diseased animals.

This tour sailed from Liverpool on R.M.S. 'Falaba' on July 29 1914 and landed at Accra on August 13 1914. The return journey, on R.M.S. 'Apapa', sailed from Accra on August 14 1915 and landed at Liverpool on August 29 1915.

Dates: 1914-07-29 - 1915-08-29
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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Tour of Tanga Locomotive Shed, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469L/1/1
Scope and Contents

175 x 120 mm. The print features W.E. Bulman, Chief Mechanical Engineer, with R.A. Wadham, District Mechanical Engineer on his right, and the Shed Master, F. Delle-Fogile, on the left, posed in front of rolling stock.

Dates: 1963
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).