Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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Typical Nuba country at Kafina, three miles from Katcha, 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/1/19
Scope and Contents
158 x 111 mm. glossy print with duplicate and 108 x 63 mm. negative.
Dates:
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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Typical rest house. Banda, N. Ashanti, 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/197
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of 197 negatives and 6 modern prints. The negatives measure 60 x 60 mm, save for 160-163 which are 35 mm. Apart from nos. 60-112 which are in a negative album, they are all in small envelopes with the subject written on by Mr Cansdale, some have also been numbered by Cansdale. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions...
Dates:
1948
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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Typical savannah woodland, Bawku, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/24
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.
Dates:
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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Typical scenery in the shambas, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/72
Scope and Contents
145 x 83 mm. Showing a group of African workers standing on a plantation path with luxuriant vegetation on either side.
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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Typical sisal estate in Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania], 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/424
Scope and Contents
General view from a hillside looking down onto a sisal estate, with fields of growing sisal in the foreground. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'To the left may be seen the decorticated sisal drying on wires, the white houses on the right are the houses of the labour'.
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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Typical Street in Zanzibar, 1920 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/23
Scope and Contents
62 x 40 mm.
Dates:
1920 - 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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Typical threshing scene in Ugogo, 1900 - 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/350
Scope and Contents
Showing a pile of harvested pods in the foreground (crop unidentified) with two women working a large pestle and mortar in the background.
Dates:
1900 - 1917
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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Typical threshing scene in Ugogo, 1900s, 1900 - 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/350
Scope and Contents
98 x 71 mm. Showing a pile of harvested pods in the foreground (crop unidentified) with two women working a large pestle and mortar in the background. Two copies.
Dates:
1900 - 1917
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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Typical Ugandan homestead, 1950 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/63
Scope and Contents
156 x 114 mm. glossy print.
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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Typical valley scene with bush, Tombel-Nyasoso, 1938-02-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/138
Scope and Contents
62 x 40 mm.
Dates:
1938-02-11
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).
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Typical view showing forest scenery on route to the Victoria Falls, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/151
Scope and Contents
194 x 122mm. Showing lightly wooded bushland.
Dates:
1900 - 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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Typical village between Lubero and Butembo, 1939 - 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/217
Scope and Contents
185 x 90 mm. A view of huts on top of a hill.
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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Typical village in 'forest' country of N. Province. N. Rhodesia [i.e Northern Province, Zambia], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/494
Scope and Contents
Showing a settlement of circular thatched huts set among light forest.
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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Typical village near Kampala, 1906 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/37
Scope and Contents
147 x 104 mm. Showing thatched huts grouped around a central open space, with a few goats tethered beaneath a shelter in the foregorund.
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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Typical village visited by Port Loko team, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/11/2/17
Scope and Contents
102 x 101 mm. glossy print; three copies.
Dates:
1962
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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Typical Zande village in the forest lands, 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/1/86
Scope and Contents
113 x 110 mm. glossy print with two copies.
Dates:
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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[Typing class, Northern Rhodesia, 1952], 1952-03-21
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/61
Scope and Contents
153 x 117 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'Typing is done to music. Special instructional records are played. Such good progress is being made with typing and shorthand that the course has been extended by two months'.
Dates:
1952-03-21
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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Tyrell, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/67
Scope and Contents
128 x 84 mm. Showing Captain C.H. Tyrell and two African bearers seated on the corpse of a recently shot elephant.
Dates:
1907
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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U of Khartoum hostels [during construction], 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK(GS)40
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.
Dates:
1952
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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U of Khartoum Vet. [Veterinary] Lines?, 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK(GS)41
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.
Dates:
1952
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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U of Khartoum, Veterinary Dept. Lines?, 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK(GS)42
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.
Dates:
1952
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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Ubangi River types, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/525
Scope and Contents
Head and shoulders portrait.
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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Ubangi River types, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/526
Scope and Contents
Head and shoulders portrait.
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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Ubangi River types, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/527
Scope and Contents
Profile from the waist up.
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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Ubo, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/37
Scope and Contents
50 x 75 mm. Showing two men each wearing a fez stood before a bush posing for the camera. One is more formerly dressed than the other. Exact location unidentified.
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).