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South Africa (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3616 Collections and/or Records:

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[Unidentified African woman], 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/121
Scope and Contents

65 x 105 mm.

Dates: 1901
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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[Unidentified African woman and child], 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/119
Scope and Contents

65 x 105 mm.

Dates: 1901
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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Unidentified bridge, Zwartkops River, 1865 - 1878

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059V/28
Scope and Contents

190 x 114 mm. A view looking along a river towards a wooden bridge and a small settlement of houses. The two sides of the bridge do not meet and it appears to have been destroyed by flooding or storm rather than to be in the process of construction.

Dates: 1865 - 1878
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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[Unidentified building], 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/87
Scope and Contents

115 x 95 mm. view of a military building partially made of stone with a corrugated roof.

Dates: 1901
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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Unidentified building, 1865 - 1878

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059V/16
Scope and Contents

192 x 128 mm. Showing a well-proportioned single storey stone building with a few figures posed near the central entrance.

Dates: 1865 - 1878
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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Unidentified building, Main Street, Port Elizabeth, 1865 - 1878

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059V/9
Scope and Contents

98 x 139 mm. Showing a three storey stone building with cornices and elaborate sculptured pairs of columns between the windows. Judging by the tablet at the top of the building, which shows two figures operating a press, this is presumably the office of one of the Port Elizabeth newspapers.

Dates: 1865 - 1878
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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Unidentified central square in Central Johannesburg, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055G/1
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).
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[Unidentified church and encampment], 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/67
Scope and Contents

Showing a newly built church with large encampment of tents pitched on the surrounding open ground. The location and date are unidentfied but the number of tents points to the possibility of this being an army base dating from the South African War.

Dates: 1900 - 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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Unidentified church, Port Elizabeth, 1865 - 1878

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059V/11
Scope and Contents

192 x 134 mm. Showing a small stone church with a tower on the farther side. Building work can be seen in progress on the houses in the background.

Dates: 1865 - 1878
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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[Unidentified Church, with horse-drawn carriage nearby, and group by the door], 1873 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055B/17
Scope and Contents

148 x 104 mm. Probably by Robert Forbes.

Dates: 1873 - 1879
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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[Unidentified group ?Durban], 1875 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305A/9
Scope and Contents

275 x 224 mm. A portrait of a group of twelve unidentified men seated amongst rustic props and with a painted backdrop of a wooden scene.

Dates: 1875 - 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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[Unidentified group, ?Durban], 1875 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305A/15
Scope and Contents

279 x 218 mm. A portrait of a group of ten unidentified men seated amongst rustic props and with a painted backdrop of a wooden scene.

Dates: 1875 - 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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[Unidentified house], 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/65
Scope and Contents

160 x 114 mm. A view from the garden of an unidetified house looking towards the verandah where a family poses for the photographer.

Dates: 1900 - 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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[Unidentified man holding walrus tusks (?) believed to be the manager of the whaling station], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/1
Scope and Contents

150 x 105 mm. This post at Leith Harbour was held from 1916 to 1937 by Lenganger Hansen (1883-1948). See R. Headland, ‘The island of South Georgia’, (1984), p. 131.

Dates: 1920 - 1929
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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[Unidentified officer], 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/111
Scope and Contents

65 x 105 mm. Perhaps the commander of the gun featuring in Y3058H/110.

Dates: 1901
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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[Unidentified portrait], 1850 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305L/31
Scope and Contents

40 x 53 mm. (Vignetted oval). A carte de visite head and shoulders portrait of an unidentified bearded man. Pencilled on the reverse of the mount is the word 'Bredasdorp', a town 10 miles east-south-east of Cape Town. The backmark reads; 'From the photographic studio of James E. Bruton, photographer, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. Cartes de visite enlarged to life size and finished in colours. Marion, Imp, Paris'.

Dates: 1850 - 1930
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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[Unidentified road ?Durban], 1875 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305A/8
Scope and Contents

199 x 131 mm. A view looking along a tree-lined unsurfaced road with iron gates in the foreground.

Dates: 1875 - 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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[Unidentified scene], 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/70
Scope and Contents

153 x 109 mm. Showing a crowd of spectators listening to a military band outside an unidentified building, possibly a school.

Dates: 1900 - 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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[Unidentified township], 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/69
Scope and Contents

159 x 112 mm. A view looking down on a township situated on the bank of a river.

Dates: 1900 - 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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[Unidentified waterfall, ?KwaZulu-Natal], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/57
Scope and Contents

190 x 139 mm. Showing a series of cascades, with three Europeans figures standing beside the pool at the bottom of the falls.

Dates: 1880 - 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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(Untitled), 12 Apr 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/141/63-64
Scope and Contents Letter from [Sir Abe] Bailey (P O Box 50, Johannesburg) marked "private" about WSC's budget which he is sorry he will not hear. He discusses South African affairs, commenting that they are passing through the "infantile ailments" found in new countries and that the "women are working over time against everything & everyone English"; discusses WSC's finances; and predicts exceptional times in Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] for cotton; and ends by expressing sympathy on the death of CSC's...
Dates: 12 Apr 1925
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Jul 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/142/15
Scope and Contents

Circular letter from Lord Plumer, chairman of the London committee of the 1820 Memorial Settlers' Association (175 Piccadilly, London) describing the work of the Association in promoting settlement in South Africa and inviting WSC to join its newly-formed general council.

Dates: 16 Jul 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 08 Apr 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/141/102
Scope and Contents

Cutting from the "Star" (Johannesburg, [South Africa]): report of speech by Sir Abe Bailey on the situation in South Africa. Sent with CHAR 2/141/63-64.

Dates: 08 Apr 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 18 Nov 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/30/87-90
Scope and Contents

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton (Head Quarters, Southern Command, Tidworth House, Andover, [Hampshire]) to WSC on: WSC's report on the French army manoeuvres; Lloyd George's successful intervention in the railway dispute; the reform of the Territorial Army and the South African constitution as the main achievements of the present government. Signed typescript.

Dates: 18 Nov 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Jan 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/33/4
Scope and Contents Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [later Lord Southborough] (Colonial Office) on: impending changes in the Cabinet; British Indian subjects in Africa; Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's health; the unsatisfactory progress Richard Haldane's [later Lord Haldane] scheme of army reform; the army and naval estimates; the illness of the Attorney-General [Sir John Walton]; the petitioning by the government of New South Wales [Australia] to keep Admiral Sir Harry Rawson as Governor; the ending of the...
Dates: 11 Jan 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open