Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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Watts’ Beach, Old Calabar, 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043NN/19
Scope and Contents
139 x 113 mm. Buildings by waterside.
Dates:
1870 - 1889
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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Watts’ factory, Cameroons, 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043NN/15
Scope and Contents
200 x 125 mm. The same as Y3043NN/10 ‘Herschell Factory’ written below.
Dates:
1870 - 1889
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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Watussi (the aristocrats of Ruanda [i.e. Rwanda]), 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/296
Scope and Contents
Head and shoulders portrait of a young man smoking a pipe.
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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Watussi (the aristocrats of Ruanda [i.e. Rwanda]), 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/298
Scope and Contents
Profile of the head of a young man.
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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Waum girl, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/558
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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[Waum girls], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/561
Scope and Contents
Head and shoulders portrait of two young women.
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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Waum wives, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/559
Scope and Contents
Full-length portraits.
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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Wayne's Duiker (Cephalophus waynesi), Ituri Forest, ?c1913, 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/229
Scope and Contents
101 x 75 mm. A view showing a Wayne's Duiker (antelope) shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.
Dates:
1913
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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Wayne's Duiker (Cephalophus waynesi), Ituri Forest, ?c1913, 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/230
Scope and Contents
101 x 75 mm. A view showing a Wayne's Duiker (antelope) shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.
Dates:
1913
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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Wayne's Duiker (Cephalophus waynesi), Ituri Forest, ?c1913, 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/231
Scope and Contents
101 x 75 mm. A view showing a Wayne's Duiker (antelope) shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.
Dates:
1913
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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Wayne's Duiker (Cephalophus waynesi), Ituri Forest, ?c1913, 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/232
Scope and Contents
101 x 75 mm. A view showing a Wayne's Duiker (antelope) shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.
Dates:
1913
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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Wayside Store and Hotel, Forbes Reef, 1910 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/44
Scope and Contents
208 x 156 mm. Showing the Forbes Reef Hotel ('Walter Bros. Proprietors'), a long single storied building with a wooden trelliswork veranda and corrugated iron roof. Beside it stands the stores, a small circular hut with thatched roof. The town (now abandoned) was named after Alex Forbes, who discovered gold in the region in the late 1870s. It is situated about 15 miles west of Mbabane.
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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We built the Rest House, Attabubu, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/114
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. Group outside the Rest House including seated in the front: Osei (Mason), Pullan (D.C.) and Nsiah (Carpenter).
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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We lost our way in the long grass, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/227
Scope and Contents
Showing several the canoes in the long grass of the swamps. One of the guides appears to be scratching his head. Between the Ubangi and Congo (Zaire) rivers (formerly the Belgian Congo).
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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We were the first white people these folk had ever seen, 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045S/3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of 18 glass slides and 38 photographs. The slides were used by Hogbin to illustrate talks on her work when on furlough (leave of absence), and their captions were provided by her niece. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1931
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Hogbin collection
File
Weapons, 1898
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.4.03
Scope and Contents
Two small blades, presumably hand held, said to have been collected from the battlefield of Omdurman, 1898.
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).
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Weaver in Kono country, 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/11/6/7
Scope and Contents
216 x 193 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1961
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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Weaver, woman at loom, 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/63
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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Weavers and nests, 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham X/8
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The early photographs in this section were taken during two visits to Kokstad in the east of the province; the first at the end of 1965 followed John Ewart Marnham's visit to Lesotho; the remainder dated August 1967. A number of purely family photographs have been removed. Following these are a number of scenes in the vicinity of Cape Town and along the southern coast - Somerset West, George, Knysa, Hermanus, the ostrich farm at Oudstchoorn, the mouth of the Storms River and nearby...
Dates:
1965
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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Weavers and nests, 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham X/9
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The early photographs in this section were taken during two visits to Kokstad in the east of the province; the first at the end of 1965 followed John Ewart Marnham's visit to Lesotho; the remainder dated August 1967. A number of purely family photographs have been removed. Following these are a number of scenes in the vicinity of Cape Town and along the southern coast - Somerset West, George, Knysa, Hermanus, the ostrich farm at Oudstchoorn, the mouth of the Storms River and nearby...
Dates:
1965
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).
Item
Weavers and nests, 1965
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham X/10
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The early photographs in this section were taken during two visits to Kokstad in the east of the province; the first at the end of 1965 followed John Ewart Marnham's visit to Lesotho; the remainder dated August 1967. A number of purely family photographs have been removed. Following these are a number of scenes in the vicinity of Cape Town and along the southern coast - Somerset West, George, Knysa, Hermanus, the ostrich farm at Oudstchoorn, the mouth of the Storms River and nearby...
Dates:
1965
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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[Weaving class, ? Muslim School, Share], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/110
Scope and Contents
Photograph by Margot Lubinski.
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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Weaving cocao baskets, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/33
Scope and Contents
'No. 48' printed on bottom right corner.
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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Weaving in North Nyanza district, 1933 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/43
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing a woman sat at a loom. The caption continues: 'Much attention is being devoted to the development of spinning and weaving as a home industry.'
Dates:
1933 - 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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[Weaving, location unknown, 1940s], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/243
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse has been torn leving only the word 'Coast'. Photograph by Margot Lubinski.
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).