South Africa (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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South African cartoons and portraits
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/102
Scope and Contents
A set of seven undated prints relating to South Africa. Titles and captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.
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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Cambridge University Library
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Africa miscellanea
Fonds
South African flowers of the Eastern Province
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 212
Scope and Contents
Twenty-three watercolours mounted on card, 12" x 16½". The paintings have pencilled titles and in some cases places and dates. They include agapanthus, antholyza, bellandonna lily, Cape Town bulbs, Cape honeysuckle (tecona-capensis), common olive, cyrtanthus, gladiolus, grenadilla, hybiscus, hyobanche sanguinea, iris, pelargonium, plumbago, sparaxis pendula and thistle.
Dates:
1866 - 1877
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
South African history in pictures
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 342
Scope and Contents
A three-part series of black and white images on card designed to provide teachers with material to illustrate history lessons. The series includes a wide range of pictures, portraits and photographs. Titles and captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The items are undated, but probably originate from between the 1960s and 1980s.
Dates:
1970
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Item
South African Museum, front view, Cape Town, 1902
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305I/20
Scope and Contents
102 x 75 mm. A view showing the front façade of the South African Museum in the Botanical Gardens. Inaugurated by proclamation in 1855, the Museum shifted to its present buildings in 1897.
Dates:
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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South African papers of Killie Campbell
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 333
Scope and Contents
Papers gathered by Killie Campbell relating to the issue of race relations between the two world wars, under the nomenclature of the time referred to as the 'native question' or the 'colour question'. Includes draft and published articles, memoranda, minutes of meetings, newscuttings, notes and reports. The topics covered include government legislation, complaints from the townships, and issues to do with employment, including industry and forced labour, and the place of women. Some material...
Dates:
1919 - 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
South African photograph album
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305X
Scope and Contents
A collection of 175 uncaptioned photographs measuring 110 x 80 mm., inserted into an album mostly four to a page. The photographs seem to record a trip to South Africa at the end of the 19th century, including visits to a number of homesteads and farms in the Cape Colony. Subjects include horses and other livestock (49 Photographs), landscapes (40), family groupings (23), homesteads (16), views from onboard ship (21), indigenous people (4) etc. There are views of Lion’s Head, a distinctive...
Dates:
1895 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Item
[South African plain], 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/15
Scope and Contents
61 x 48 mm.
Dates:
1929
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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File
South African sub-committee, 1930 - 1934
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 33/5/3/3
Scope and Contents
Minutes, correspondence and secretary notes.
Dates:
1930 - 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Series
South African Trade Union History, 1913 - 1983
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 199/2
Scope and Contents
Material collected by Hepple while researching the history of the trade union movement, workers' organisations and industrial relations in South Africa.
Dates:
1913 - 1983
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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South African watercolours, 1933
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/59
Scope and Contents
Forty-two prints of watercolours, 8½'' x 6½'', relating mainly to the Zambesi expedition of 1861-1865, including some captions and pencil notes.
Dates:
1933
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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Cambridge University Library
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Africa miscellanea
Fonds
South and East Africa, 1880s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints of various sizes. The album consists of two separate volumes which have been bound together. The two original volumes break down geographically thus: Volume 1: 1-12 Madeira; 13-23 Lisbon; 24-69 South Africa.Volume 2: 70-76 South Africa; 77-103 German East Africa (now Tanzania) and Zanzibar.The prints in volume 1 and some in volume 2 have typewritten captions pasted below the photographs. The captions have been used as titles and may contain...
Dates:
1880 - 1890
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Item
South end, Pietermaritzburg, 1875 - 1880
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305A/27
Scope and Contents
170 x 107 mm. A view from the market square looking our over the rooftops of South Pietermaritzburg. Two distant buildings have been numbered '1' and '2' on the actual print, they are presumably of some import but are here unidentified.
Dates:
1875 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Item
South gun firing, Khambi looking on, 1901
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/105
Scope and Contents
115 x 95 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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Cambridge University Library
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Vryheid, South Africa
Item
South gun, Vryheid, 1901
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/64
Scope and Contents
115 x 95 mm. Shows artillery piece and soldier looking through a telescope.
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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Cambridge University Library
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Vryheid, South Africa
Item
South gun, Vryheid, 1901
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/112
Scope and Contents
115 x 95 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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Vryheid, South Africa
Item
South gun, Vryheid Hill, 1901
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/62
Scope and Contents
115 x 95 mm. Shows Colonel Frederick Adam, mounted, in front of the gun.
Dates:
1901
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Cambridge University Library
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Vryheid, South Africa
Fonds
Southern African collection of Wren Robinson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 220
Scope and Contents
Papers and photographs regarding Lesotho and South Africa.
Dates:
1964 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Southern African tour, 1948 - 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/1/1
Scope and Contents
Forty-five black and white photographs relating to the Aid tour of 1950. There are 27 captioned portrait photographs of the members of the tour party taken c. 1948-1950. The remaining images comprise group pictures and scenes from the schoolboys' time in Africa, some labelled and dated, including two mounted on card. There is an accompanying manuscript list of names.
Dates:
1948 - 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).
Item
Spandenkopf [Spandau Kop] seen from above the clouds, Division Graaff-Reinet, 1900 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/52
Scope and Contents
219 x 154 mm. Showing the summit of Spandua Kop in the Sneeuberg range appearing through a bank of cloud. An older print than the others in this collection and photographed from a neighbouring mountain.
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).
Item
Spare wagons, 1901
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/61
Scope and Contents
115 x 95 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Vryheid, South Africa
Item
Spectators at Tshonque Show, Umbombo [Ubombo] District, 1930 - 1950
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/69
Scope and Contents
151 x 102 mm. Showing men and women from various racial groups seated on the grass.
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).
File
Speeches:., 1906
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/19
Scope and Contents
Cutting from Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury, report of speech by WSC to Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, 5 May, on the Government's Colonial policy, railway and river development, the cotton trade and the needs of Lancashire. Published Complete Speeches I, pp.618-624, under the title, "The Development of the Crown Colonies".Printed pamphlet, speech by WSC "Liberalism and Socialism", St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow. Published Complete Speeches I, pp.671-677...
Dates:
1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Speeches: House of Commons., c 1901
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/5
Scope and Contents
Notes and drafts for speech by WSC on The South African War Manuscript and typescript.
Dates:
c 1901
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Speeches: House of Commons., 1906
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/18
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notes and source material for speech on Lord Milner and South Africa, including quotations from Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Selborne Unpublished. Manuscript notes for speech on the Natal Rebellion, 27 Feb Unpublished. Notes and source material for speech on Native Races in South Africa, 28 Feb Published in Complete Speeches I, pp.573-581. Manuscript notes for speech on The Conciliation of South Africa [responsible government for the Boer colonies], 5 Apr 1906 Published Complete...
Dates:
1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Speeches: House of Commons., Feb 1908 - Jul 1908
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/29
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notes for speech on retrenched Transvaal [South Africa] Civil Servants, 6 Feb 1908. Published Complete Speeches I, pp.894-901.Manuscript notes for speech on the Coal Mines (Eight Hours) Bill, 6 Jul 1908 Complete Speeches II, pp.1063-1068.
Dates:
Feb 1908 - Jul 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open