Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
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Wusasa Hospital: Dr Tom West performing a Caesarean delivery, 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/99
Scope and Contents
154 x 108 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1963
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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Wusasa Hospital: eye examination, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/95
Scope and Contents
102 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
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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Wusasa Hospital: Infant Welfare Clinic, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/94
Scope and Contents
100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
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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Wusasa Hospital: practical instruction for nurses in the wards, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/92
Scope and Contents
100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
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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Wusasa Hospital: practical instruction for nurses in the wards, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/93
Scope and Contents
100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
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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Wusasa Hospital: Sister June Fenn checking applications for nurse training, 1962, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/90
Scope and Contents
100 x 103 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
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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Wusasa Hospital: Sister June Fenn instructing nurses in the classroom, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/91
Scope and Contents
100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 205 x 205 mm. enlargement and 56 mm. negative.
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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Wusasa Hospital staff, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/32
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
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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Wusasa Hospital staff, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/33
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
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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Wylie's Poort on the main road to Messina, N. Transvaal, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/126
Scope and Contents
203 x 152 mm. A view looking along the road towards the vertical rock gorge through which it runs. Two motorcars stand parked on the wooden bridge in the foreground.
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).
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Xhosa woman, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/131
Scope and Contents
148 x 196 mm. The caption continues: 'smoking a pipe made from one piece of wood with separate mouthpiece. Note copper armbands.'
Dates:
1930 - 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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Xhosa woman, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/134
Scope and Contents
102 x 153 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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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Xhosa woman, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/135
Scope and Contents
102 x 154 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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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Xhosa woman, near Bashee [Mbhashe] River, 1942, 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/133
Scope and Contents
145 x 204 mm.
Dates:
1942
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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Xhosa women, 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/132
Scope and Contents
147 x 202 mm. The caption continues: 'Faces covered with light clay. The women all smoke these long pipes and invariably carry bags. 1942'.
Dates:
1942
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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Xmas 1923, 1923-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/101
Scope and Contents
105 x 75 mm. HHB seated in Le Reduit garden.
Dates:
1923-12
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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[Xmas at Zaria, 1911], 1911-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/60
Scope and Contents
74 x 99 mm. Showing two figures standing on the steps of the Government Residence, Zaria. The men are unidentified.
Dates:
1911-12
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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[Xmas at Zaris, 1911], 1911-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/61
Scope and Contents
69 x 80 mm. Showing two figures standing on the steps of the Government Residence, Zaria. The men are unidentified.
Dates:
1911-12
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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Xmas Card prepared by myself for the staff, Bulawayo-Rhodesia's largest centre, 1904
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052D/12
Scope and Contents
A photograph of a Christmas card composed of a montage of 6 photographs showing the Alan Wilson Memorial ( Shangani Patrol Memorial, see Y3052E/6); the Victoria Falls; Cecil Rhodes' grave in the Matopos; Rhodes Statue, Bulawayo; the Telegraph Office, Bulawayo; and the Telegraph Staff, Bulawayo.
Dates:
1904
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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Xosa girl, Gonubie, E. Province [Eastern Cape], 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211/41
Scope and Contents
'Among the Xosa tribes the use of ochres, red, orange or yellow, on blankets and dress, varies from one district to another, brilliant orange being favoured by the peoples of the East London and Kingwilliamstown areas. The young girl, not yet of marriageable age, wears her skirts short, and custom further insists that she must conceal herself in a light blanket. Her draperies are decorated with braid and a few pearl buttons. The braiding, if not obtainable, is made from strips of black...
Dates:
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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Xosa man, Gonubie, Ciskei [Eastern Cape], 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211/40
Scope and Contents
'A great feature of Xosa accessories is the bag which is large, and functions both as shopping and pipe bag. When goats are plentiful the regular bag is made from an entire goatskin. The skin is slit down trunk centre and back legs and thence peeled off the carcass via forelegs and neck. These latter when tied at the ends form ingenious seamless bags. Fore and back legs are joined, fringed, beaded, and the whole bag fits snugly over the shoulder. The blanket worn by mature men has one large...
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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Xosa motherhood, Grahamstown, Eastern Province [Makhanda, Eastern Cape], 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211/38
Scope and Contents
'The sign of recent marriage amongst women of Xosa tribes, is the black head swathing or ‘elya’ worn low over the eyes. Until the child is weaned its face is decorated with white, the mother's face, shoulders and upper arms being treated in similar fashion. The wide bead collar is a common Xosa form of adornment, the necklace of large wooden beads being a health charm for the child. These health charm necklaces assume many forms and are worn from Port St. John to Port Elizabeth by all...
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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Xosa witch doctor, Kingwilliamstown, E. Province [Qonce, Eastern Cape] [historic title], 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211/39
Scope and Contents
'The tall hat of baboon skin is typical of the most highly skilled of Xosa witch doctors. Male and female witches dress alike, but the former wears a shorter skirt. Black braid decorates the white skirts over which are worn a kilt of strips of animal skin. White beads are copiously worn over forehead and chest. Small beaded calabashes contain medicine, and the series of metal bracelets are typical of the Xosa peoples, said to be worn for medicinal purposes. Pipe smoking is also typical, the...
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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Ya-o-Fa, Banso, 1939-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/173
Scope and Contents
40 x 62 mm. The senior Ya is the Fon's actual mother, once selected she retains the title all her life. She may only marry a Fai or Tante and she must not work on a farm. All her social inferiors must clap hands in front of her (men and women alike). She can only marry one man in her life and does not pass on her title to her children. When the Fon dies the mother of his successor if alive becomes the senior Ya, otherwise Fai Ndzendzen must choose a girl from among the Eon's daughters. The...
Dates:
1939-04
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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Ya-o-Fa, Banso, 1939-04-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/174
Scope and Contents
40 x 62 mm. Dressed in her official dress, a raffia hat which she wears in front of the Fon. A porcupine quill in her nose the septum of which has been pierced. A red Teh or strip of cloth suspended from her waist girdles. Beads crossed over her chest.
Dates:
1939-04-29
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).