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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20097 Collections and/or Records:

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

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/335
Scope and Contents

101 x 75 mm. Similar to preceding print.

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

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

101 x 75 mm. Similar to the preceding print, but a closer view.

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 gossip, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/329
Scope and Contents

Showing a group of women gathered outside a hut.

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 prisoner chained by the Germans, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/256B
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints, lantern slides and glass negatives. The prints mostly relate to Westgate’s earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Many of the lantern slides and glass negatives are uncaptioned and...
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).
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Wagogo prisoner chained by the Germans, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/257
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints, lantern slides and glass negatives. The prints mostly relate to Westgate’s earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Many of the lantern slides and glass negatives are uncaptioned and...
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).
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Wagogo prisoner chained by the Germans, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/256B
Scope and Contents

115 x 165 mm.

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).
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Wagogo prisoner chained by the Germans, 1914-18, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/257
Scope and Contents

120 x 160 mm. Full length study of a chained man.

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).
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Wagogo prisoners chained by the Germans, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/256A
Scope and Contents

Full length study of four men in chains.

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).
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Wagogo prisoners chained by the Germans, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/256A
Scope and Contents

150 x 115 mm. Full length study of three men in chains.

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).
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Wagogo prisoners chained by the Germans, 1914-18, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/256
Scope and Contents

120 x 158 mm. Full length study of three men in chains. Two copies.

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).
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Wagogo warriors, 1900s, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/300
Scope and Contents

112 x 156 mm. Group portrait of eight warriors armed with spears and shields. 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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Wagogo warriors on their way to attend a trial for witchcraft, 1909-10, 1909 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/286
Scope and Contents

157 x 113 mm. Group of warriors posed in scrubland.

Dates: 1909 - 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 warriors on their way to attend a trial for witchcraft, 1909-10, 1909 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/291
Scope and Contents

164 x 120 mm. Duplicate of print 286. An accompanying note reads ‘Wagogo Warriors - such as would execute a witch at a witchcraft trial. These have beautifully made assegais (spears), shields made from either rhinocerous [sic], elephant or bull-hide, feathers of ostrich or eagle, jingling bells at ankles and knees.' Photo by T.B.R. Westgate about 1907 in Ugogo.

Dates: 1909 - 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 warriors with spears and shields, 1900s, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/296
Scope and Contents

119 x 164 mm. Full length portrait of two warriors.

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 warriors with spears and shields, 1900s, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/299
Scope and Contents

114 x 152 mm. Similar to print 296. 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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Wagogo workmen, Kiboriani, (?)circa 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/107
Scope and Contents

160 x 115 mm. Group portrait of Wagogo youths and young girls armed with spades. A note accompanying the print reads: 'A group of young Wagogo men and women who had come to the mission to work. This particular group helped to build the mission's sanatorium on the top of Chibolyani Mountain, at an altitude of 6300 feet. It was at this sanatorium that Wilfred and Maureen Westgate were born'.

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 youth in European attire, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/298
Scope and Contents

Full length portrait of a young boy in European clothes.

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 youth in European attire, 1900s, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/298
Scope and Contents

82 x 107 mm. Full length portrait of a young boy in European clothes.

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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Wagon ferry the m.v. ‘Uhuru’ at Kisumu, 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/18
Scope and Contents

246 x 192 mm. Showing a locomotive and freight trucks leaving the rail ferry at Kisumu on Lake Victoria.

Dates: 1950 - 1967
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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Wagon ferry ‘Uhuru’ during trials, 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/33
Scope and Contents

247 x 191 mm. Showing the loaded wagon ferry on Lake Victoria. See also Y30468M/19 and Y30468M/29.

Dates: 1950 - 1967
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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Wagon ferry ‘Uhuru’ off-loading at Mwanza South Port, 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/29
Scope and Contents

246 x 191 mm. View similar to Y30468M/18.

Dates: 1950 - 1967
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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Wagons at Lundi River, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/99
Scope and Contents

Showing part of the laager near the Lundi River with woodland in the background. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

Dates: 1890
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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Waha children, Kigoma, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/71
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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Wahwavi, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/90
Scope and Contents

A profile of a Wahwavi warrior 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).