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Africa (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20096 Collections and/or Records:

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Wa Suk natives, Turquell, 1889-12-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/47
Scope and Contents

156 x 113 mm. Showing a group of Suk natives crouching in front of one of the expedition’s tents. Jackson and Gedge camped close to a Suk village from December 24th 1889 to January 3rd 1890; on December 29th Gedge writes ‘took some photos of natives in the morning’, which he developed the following day.

Dates: 1889-12-29
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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Wadi El Gindi, 1942-06-17

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/49
Scope and Contents

125 x 125 mm. Showing Mrs Hebbert sitting beside a stream, surrounded by Maidenhair ferns.

Dates: 1942-06-17
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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Wadi El Grindi, 1942-06-17

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/47
Scope and Contents

125 x 130 mm. Showing Mrs Hebbert stood amongst vegetation at the foot on a waterfall.

Dates: 1942-06-17
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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Wadi Halfa, 1920-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/189
Scope and Contents

70 x 44 mm. A group of people carrying a Rolls Royce engine.

Dates: 1920-03
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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Wadi Halfa Hotel, 1930 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/506
Scope and Contents

130 x 140 mm. View of the hotel through a group of palm trees.

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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Wadi Halfa, Mar 1920, 1920-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/352
Scope and Contents

70 x 45 mm. Showing men carrying above their heads what appears to be the engine of an aeroplane.

Dates: 1920-03
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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Wadi Halfa, Mar 1920, 1920-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/355
Scope and Contents

70 x 45 mm. Showing men carrying above their heads what appears to be the engine of an aeroplane.

Dates: 1920-03
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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Wadi Halfa, Mar 1920, 1920-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/358
Scope and Contents

70 x 45 mm. Showing men carrying above their heads what appears to be the engine of an aeroplane.

Dates: 1920-03
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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Wadi Halfa, Mar 1920, 1920-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/2/62
Scope and Contents

125 x 85 mm. Showing men carrying an engine from a crashed aeroplane.

Dates: 1920-03
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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Wady Kardassy, Nubia, 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214B/5
Scope and Contents

229 x 167 mm. A view showing a four pillared ruin on the banks of the Nile. Sir G. Wilkinson named the site 'Gertasse', which Frith expounds on in the commentary which accompanies this print.

Dates: 1857
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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Wafipa belles, Subawanga, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/75
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1930 - 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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Waganda Caravan dancing 1898, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/27
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).
 Sub-sub-class

Waganda Recruits for No. VII Coy. Mumias 1899, 1899

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/26-27
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: 1899
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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Wagga Mountain from near Ariali, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1062
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). (Negative of this is numbered 1068 by mistake). (Fisher).

Dates: 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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Wagga mountain in distance from Sukh Sarreh plateau, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1042
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [No print]. Missing.

Dates: 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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Wagogo children, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/336
Scope and Contents

Group portrait of some 25 children.

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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Wagogo children, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/337
Scope and Contents

Group portrait of children gathered around and inside a large wickerwork grain basket.

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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Wagogo children playing ‘buffalo horns’, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/341
Scope and Contents

Showing a group of children gathered in a circle on their knees beneath a tree. See ‘Mission World’, Mar. 1919, p. 119.

Dates: 1919
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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Wagogo children playing ‘chameleon’, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/342
Scope and Contents

Showing two pairs of boys playing the game, with one boy lying back to back with the other, who crawls on his hands and knees. See 'Mission World', Mar. 1919, p. 118.

Dates: 1919
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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Wagogo children playing the game of ‘little goat’, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/339
Scope and Contents

Showing two rows of children lining up to play the game.

Dates: 1919
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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Wagogo children playing the game of ‘little goat’, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/340
Scope and Contents

Showing children lined up in a row during the game, with a group of three to one side. A note refers to ‘Mission World’, Mar. 1919, p. 118.

Dates: 1919
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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Wagogo Christian women, Ugogo, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/221
Scope and Contents

Open air portrait of three women, one seated.

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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Wagogo Christian women, Ugogo, c 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/221
Scope and Contents

62 x 103 mm. Open air portrait of three women, one seated.

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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Wagogo elders, Bugiri, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/334
Scope and Contents

Showing two elders seated in the open air. The figure on the left, Chief Magunga, smokes a calabash pipe.

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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Wagogo elders, Bugiri, 1910-11, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/333
Scope and Contents

102 x 77 mm. Showing two elders seated in the open air. The figure on the left, Chief Magunga, smokes a calabash pipe. Four copies.

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).