Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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Transvaal: Church Square, Pretoria, 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/14
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of 12 monochrome postcards of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Dates:
1920
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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Transvaal gold fields - waterfall 'Mac Mac', 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/93
Scope and Contents
This photograph appears to be mirrored. The negative from which this print has been made had the signature of W. Roe etched on the bottom left hand corner; now it appears in reverse.
Dates:
1880
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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Transvaal: Government House, Pretoria, 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/13
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of 12 monochrome postcards of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Dates:
1920
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).
Sub-Fonds
Transvaal native land holding judgement, 1905-04-04
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/79
Scope and Contents
The judgement of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal in favour of Edward Tsewu versus the Registrar of Deeds who had refused Tsewu's purchase of land.
Dates:
1905-04-04
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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Africa miscellanea
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Transvaal: residential Johannesburg, 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of 12 monochrome postcards of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Dates:
1920
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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Transvaal: the Falls, Waterval Boven, 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/18
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of 12 monochrome postcards of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Dates:
1920
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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Transvaal: Town Hall, Johannesburg, 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/15
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of 12 monochrome postcards of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Dates:
1920
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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Transvaal: Union buildings, Pretoria, 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/12
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of 12 monochrome postcards of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Dates:
1920
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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Trap set in dam, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/31
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of numbered prints, unless otherwise stated measuring circa 210 x 160 mm, in a 19 page typescript volume entitled 'Barotseland', written and illustrated by Max Gluckman. His typescript is undated but the illustrations closely resemble, and in some cases are identical with, those used in Gluckman (1945) of which a photocopy is filed with this collection. It is not known how these photographs were used - perhaps projected by epidiascope. Numbers 1-54 are captioned on the back,...
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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Traps laid across river, 1914 - 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/160
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection comprises black and white photographs, mostly 125 x 75 mm or 75 x 125 mm in size, film negatives and glass negatives. Some of the prints from glass plates are smaller, approximately 85 x 65 mm. The prints are good compositions, though some are rather dark, and were listed by Erica Ryan of the National Library of Australia, using, among other sources, the captioned envelopes in which the original negatives had been stored. The provenance of the collection is unclear,...
Dates:
1914 - 1918
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
Travel Notes, 1937 - 1957
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 362/5
Scope and Contents
Letters and notes describing travels in Uganda, along the Nile, India, the Alps, an account of military service in North Africa during the Second World War, Lichtenstein, and climbing Mounts Muhavura and Sabyinyo (circa 150 sheets).
Dates:
1937 - 1957
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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Travellers in B.C.A. A mid-day Halt, 1899 - 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468S/29
Scope and Contents
199 x 146 mm. Showing a group of African travellers resting beside a road in British Central Africa. Signed ‘J. & M. Lazarus, Lourenço Marques and Beira’. The cardboard mount is stamped ‘J. & M. Lazarus, Lourenço Marques and Beira’.
Dates:
1899 - 1908
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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Travellers on a mountain road, 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304L/22
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Measuring 175 x 215 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 170 x 115 mm in size. Album spaces 65 and 74 are blank. There are no captions, but some photographs can be identified as Tunis by comparison with postcards in Y304H. Others may be mentioned in the 1922 North Africa Diary (see Introduction), e.g. the Cathedral (p.7/plate 57), Carthage (pp.12ff/plate 59ff), camels (p.66/plates 83, 84), and Porte de France (p.78/plates 49-50), but no detailed research has been attempted.
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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Travelling by dugout, 1900 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/123
Scope and Contents
110 x 75 mm. A view from a riverbank showing three Europeans being paddled up a river by Africans in a long wooden dugout.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
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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Travelling wagon, 1904 - 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549A/41
Scope and Contents
65 x 41 mm. Showing Hodson’s scotchcart and another wagon
Dates:
1904 - 1905
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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Travels in Europe, 1874-07-11 - 1875-01-23
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011BBB
Scope and Contents
Vellum bound illustrated diary that describes Laing's journey through Great Britain (chiefly Scotland), July-September 1874 (pp. 1-32); France, Switzerland and Italy, September-December (pp. 33-144); Greece and Asia Minor, December (pp. 144-186); Egypt, December 1874-January 1875 (pp. 188-216); the Suez Canal and Palestine, January (pp. 218-270); and Egypt, 17-25 January; ending at Keneh with the note 'Continued in Vol. II' (pp. 272-286). The journey was apparently made in the company of an...
Dates:
1874-07-11 - 1875-01-23
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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Travels in Europe, 1874-07-11 - 1875-01-23
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2
Scope and Contents
The diary describes Laing's journey through Great Britain (chiefly Scotland), July-September 1874 (pp. 1-32); France, Switzerland and Italy, September-December (pp. 33-144); Greece and Asia Minor, December (pp. 144-186); Egypt, December 1874-January 1875 (pp. 188-216); the Suez Canal and Palestine, January (pp. 218-270); and Egypt, 17-25 January; ending at Keneh with the note 'Continued in Vol. II' (pp. 272-286). The journey was apparently made in the company of an American, T.E. Screven...
Dates:
1874-07-11 - 1875-01-23
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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Treating a small patient, 1950 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/8/9
Scope and Contents
247 x 196 mm. Location unidentified.
Dates:
1950 - 1969
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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[Treating sleeping sickness, Takalafiya, c.1940], 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/55
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'At the Takalafiya dispensary this woman victim of sleeping sickness is given intravenous injections of tryparsimide by the sleeping sickness service attendant'.
Dates:
1940
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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Treaty of Ulundi pen, 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.4.15
Scope and Contents
This pen was used by Zulu leaders at their capital Ulundi on 1 September 1879 to sign the treaty which concluded the Anglo-Zulu War. The ceremony began with an address by Sir Garnet Wolseley, Governor and High Commissioner in South Africa, setting out the terms. An original caption accompanying the pen reads, ‘The wooden holder was sharpened, dipped in ink and each chief’s hand was guided by Mr. John Shepstone [who acted as translator].’
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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[Tree], 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/33
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing a large tree in the middle of a barren plain.
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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Tree bridge, 1895 - 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/24
Scope and Contents
216 x 166 mm. View showing porters crossing a tree spanning a river.
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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Tree bridge, 1895 - 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/25
Scope and Contents
215 x 166 mm. A similar view to RCMS 172/3/24 showing porters crossing a river via a fallen tree.
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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Tree clinic, 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/71
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:
1955
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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Tree covered with Birds' Nests on bank of Nile 1898, 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/26
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...
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).