South Africa (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3621 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Mine dancing Durban Deep, 1965-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham V/6
Scope and Contents
From the File:
This group of Kodachromes shows Africans dancing in what is clearly the same spot. No 6 is marked 'Mine dancing Durban Deep' and no 13 'Tribal dancing at Johannesburg gold mine.' Presumably, despite its name, Durban Deep is in Johannesburg. Nos 11 and 12 are captioned 'Gumboot dance' but the other slides are merely marked 'MD' without further details.
Dates:
1965-10
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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[Mineshaft], 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/47a
Scope and Contents
63 x 84 mm. A man standing in a mineshaft, probably at The Rand.
Dates:
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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[Mineshaft], 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/47b
Scope and Contents
64 x 84 mm. A man standing in a mineshaft, probably at The Rand.
Dates:
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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[Mineshaft], 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/35
Scope and Contents
73 x 52 mm. A man standing in a mineshaft, probably at The Rand.
Dates:
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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[Mining operations, ?Johannesburg], 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/71
Scope and Contents
207 x 139 mm. A view looking along an excavated trench, the sides supported by props made from tree trunks placed horizontally between the walls. A group of African and European miners pose for the photographer beside the trench.
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).
File
Miscellaneous glass plates, 1880 - 1980
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII
Scope and Contents
Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.
Dates:
1880 - 1980
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).
File
Miscellaneous sketches, 1840 - 1860
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/2/15
Scope and Contents
A list on the inside of the front cover indicates that the now empty album contained botanical drawings. It is filed with two loose sketches. The sketches may originally have been housed in the missing albums 4 and 5 which held work on Africa.
Dates:
1840 - 1860
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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Miss Florrie Thornton, 1890 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055C/17
Scope and Contents
A half length portrait of Florrie Thornton, daughter of Lieut. Col. Thornton of Pietermaritzburg.
Dates:
1890 - 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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Miss Wilson's little knitting girl, Bloemfontein Refugee Camp, 1901 - 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305Q/32
Scope and Contents
93 x 66 mm. Showing a small girl wearing a bonnet and knitting. H. Austin has not been identified.
Dates:
1901 - 1902
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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Mission Chapel at Cross Roads at Rondebosch [C.W.B.], 1857 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/19
Scope and Contents
204 x 146 mm. Another view of the chapel seen in Y3059A/18.
Dates:
1857 - 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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Mission Chapel at Rondebosch ..., 1857 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/18
Scope and Contents
198 x 147 mm. Showing the small stone chapel standing in a clearing. The remainder of the caption reads '... Built by Archdeacon Thomas, near the Diocesan College. Chancel screen carved and made by Kaffirs at Zonnebloom (removed/1910) [C.W.B.]'.
Dates:
1857 - 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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Mitchell's Pass and Breede [i.e. Breë ] River, 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/69
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A printed book containing tipped-in reproductions from photographs, all measuring 140 x 100 mm, with brief letterpress captions beneath the prints. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The prints are grainy with high contrast. Consequently, the images are listed rather than described in detail, although occasional notes and cross-references on points of interest have been added. The process used in the reproductions has not...
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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Mitchel's Pass [also spelt Mitchell's Pass] - from summit of northern entrance. Road winding up on right hand of river at bottom. Mountain in distance between 5 and 600 ft. high above the sea. January 1867, 1867-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/44
Scope and Contents
289 x 244 mm. A view looking along the course of the river with steeply sloping rocky hillside on either side, the road just visible to the right and mountains in the distance.
Dates:
1867-01
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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Mixed bathing, Ocean Beach, Durban, 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/47
Scope and Contents
Photograph by Sapsco Real Photo.
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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Mixed expressions, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/152
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Collection of monochrome postcards
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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Mixed expressions [3 children], 1939 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058G/7
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A commercially published collection of prints housed in a folder. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Unless otherwise stated the prints measure 95 x 70 mm.
Dates:
1939 - 1945
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
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Studies [of Zulus]
Fonds
Modern Commonwealth photograph collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC
Scope and Contents
This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...
Dates:
1936 - 1980
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Mohlesi : showing barrier fences, Basutoland-Natal border, 1910 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/21
Scope and Contents
121 x 96 mm. Showing a group of trek horses grazing on a slope in the pass, with the barrier fence visible at the right of the 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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Molteno. Early morning at the coal mines, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/20
Scope and Contents
193 x 142 mm. Showing African labourers gathered around a cooking pot outside stone huts. Coal mining activity which was started in the area in 1859: the better quality coal from the Transvaal and Natal [KwaZulu-Natal] soon destroyed the foundations of the industry.
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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Molteno. Entrance to a coal mine, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/21
Scope and Contents
163 x 144 mm. Showing African workers pushing trolleys of excavated material up a railway track leading from the mines.
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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'Mongpapa Kraal where Sechele fought the Boers and drove them out of his country many years back. It is a large Kraal and the Chief is under Sechele and under a German Missionary.', 1867 - 1869
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/39
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.
Dates:
1867 - 1869
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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Mont-Aux-Sources,The Sentinel, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/111
Scope and Contents
203 x 139 mm. A view looking along a grassy valley towards Mont-Aux-Sources, the second highest peak in the Drakensberg Mountains.
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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Montagu Pass, looking down, George, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/84
Scope and Contents
158 x 115 mm. A view looking along the mountain road as it curls downhill along the mountainside, with a gorge at the right and steep mountain slopes on the far side.
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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Montagu Pass - over Outeniqua Mountains, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/38
Scope and Contents
201 x 138 mm. Showing a motor car climbing the road through the Montagu Pass, with a railway line running along beside the road.
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).
Item
[Monument], 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/25
Scope and Contents
51 x 76 mm. Probably at Kimberley.
Dates:
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).