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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20097 Collections and/or Records:

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Winston Churchill addressing Chiefs, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/17
Scope and Contents 88 x 70 mm. Showing Churchill seated at the right while a European interpreter addresses a group of chiefs. Sir Apolo Kagwa can be seen in the right foreground. This is presumably the occasion described by Bell: 'About five miles from Kampala we found the little Kabaka, the Regents and all the big Uganda chiefs. They had built a very pretty banda on a hillock overlooking the road and, when they all advanced towards us in the bright sunlight, they made a very imposing spectacle in their...
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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Winston Churchill and myself addressing the Regents and Chiefs at Kampala, 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/23
Scope and Contents 88 x 86 mm. Showing Churchill seated at the right while a European interpreter addresses a group of chiefs. Sir Apolo Kagwa can be seen in the right foreground. This is presumably the occasion described by Bell: 'About five miles from Kampala we found the little Kabaka, the Regents and all the big Uganda chiefs. They had built a very pretty banda on a hillock overlooking the road and, when they all advanced towards us in the bright sunlight, they made a very imposing spectacle in their...
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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[Winston Churchill and myself addressing the Regents and Chiefs at Kampala, 1908], 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/24
Scope and Contents Showing Churchill seated at the right while a European interpreter addresses a group of chiefs. Sir Apolo Kagwa can be seen in the right foreground. This is presumably the occasion described by Bell: 'About five miles from Kampala we found the little Kabaka, the Regents and all the big Uganda chiefs. They had built a very pretty banda on a hillock overlooking the road and, when they all advanced towards us in the bright sunlight, they made a very imposing spectacle in their handsome gala...
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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[Winston Churchill at the Ripon Falls], 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/21
Scope and Contents

87 x 86 mm.

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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Winston Churchill in Kampala. 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/22
Scope and Contents 84 x 78 mm. Showing Winston Churchill and Bell addressing the Regents and Chiefs at Kampala. Churchill is seated at the right while a European interpreter addresses a group of chiefs. Sir Apolo Kagwa can be seen in the right foreground. This is presumably the occasion described by Bell: 'About five miles from Kampala we found the little Kabaka, the Regents and all the big Uganda chiefs. They had built a very pretty banda on a hillock overlooking the road and, when they all advanced...
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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[Winston Churchill in Kampala 1908], 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/25
Scope and Contents

88 x 86 mm. Showing Churchill, Daudi Chwa and Hesketh Bell seated among a European group, with Uganda dignitaries, including Sir Apolo Kagwa, standing at the left. The group appear to be spectators at an unidentified event.

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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Winter ploughing at Chatukuta, 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052G/24
Scope and Contents

Good condition apart from slight tears in two corners. Showing an African farmer operating an ox-drawn plough in the Wedza Native Reserve.

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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Wira, a typical Moru outstation near Lui, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/1/78
Scope and Contents

155 x 112 mm. glossy print with copy and 81 x 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1954
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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Wireless and hotel at In Guezzam, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304O/13
Scope and Contents

In Algeria, on the border with Nigeria, where Powell camped. A view of a motor vehicle in the courtyard of a building. A sign next to the entrance reads 'SATT Ligne du Hoggar'

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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Wireless and hotel at In Guezzam, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304O/14
Scope and Contents

A view of a building in the desert. In Algeria, on the border with Nigeria, where Powell camped.

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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Witch Doctress [historic title], 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/98
Scope and Contents

The print is initialled 'SA'.

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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With captured Egyptian flag, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/69
Scope and Contents 151 x 88 mm. A view showing a row of Jaalin warriors, one waving an Egyptian flag. Presumably this photograph and the following images were taken after they had rebelled against the Mahdi. Centred around the town of Metemma, the Jaalins, under the dominance of the Baggareh, had fought for the Mahdist cause but in June 1897 they revolted against Dervish authority and Mahmoud (later captured at the battle of Atbara) was sent by the Khalifa to quell the rebellion. This resulted in a...
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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With compliments from Frimpong to the Institute of Social Anthropology Oxford, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/3/431
Scope and Contents

65 x 85 mm. A man kneeling beside a child.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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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With Lindsay Britton, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/42
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. Banko.

Dates: 1938
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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With Rollo Crabb and John Duncan, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/9
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. On board.

Dates: 1938
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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With Sir Arnold Hodson, perhaps 1941, 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448P/13
Scope and Contents

105 x 90 mm. Hodson, with Canham on his left, stands with a small group outside a building.

Dates: 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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Within 600 yards of zeriba [fence constructed of thorn-bushes], 1898-09-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/114
Scope and Contents

166 x 117 mm. A view showing dead and wounded dervishes on the Omdurman battlefield after the first phase of the battle. With the hill of Jebel Surkab in the background.

Dates: 1898-09-02
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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Within the open air mosque enclosure, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/126
Scope and Contents

161 x 114 mm. A view showing dervish prisoners being marched through the muddy mirhab enclosure with a Sudanese soldier guarding them (right of print).

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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Within the open air mosque enclosure, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/127
Scope and Contents

164 x 115 mm. A view showing dervish prisoners seated under crude awnings in the mirhab at Omdurman.

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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Witu, 1890 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/30
Scope and Contents

204 x 141 mm. A view looking across an open square towards a flagpole and long thatched buildings. The building at the right (in front of which stands an armed soldier) is probably a barracks.

Dates: 1890 - 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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Witu, 1890 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/31
Scope and Contents

201 x 140 mm. A view looking along an unsurfaced street towards a well, with thatched houses at the left of the print.

Dates: 1890 - 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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Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company, Knight's Battery, 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C/84
Scope and Contents

193 x 124 mm. Showing the stamp battery buildings in the course of erection. William Knight came to the Witwatersrand in July 1886 and formed Knight's Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company which was registered on 8th January 1887. This was the first Rand Gold Mining Company to be registered in the Transvaal.

Dates: 1888
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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Witwatersrand main reef workings, showing banket formation, 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C/85
Scope and Contents

190 x 125 mm. Showing neatly excavated trenches on the Witwatersrand, with groups of miners digging in the background. Banket is rock containing pebbles and is associated with the presence of gold.

Dates: 1888
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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Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055G/7
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A collection of small postcards measuring 83 x 58 mm., captioned in letterpress on the reverse. Photographs by Art Co. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.

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).
 Fonds

W.M. Bristow Nigerian photographs

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043D-E
Scope and Contents

A collection of small photographs in albums. These albums cover aspects of Bristow's work between the early 1930s and 1960.

Y3043D has virtually no captions - there are some in Y3043E, but many of these relate to groups of photographs and the listing is therefore a summary, not an individual record.

Dates: 1930 - 1960
Conditions Governing Access: 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).