Ghana (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1714 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Administration Block from steps, 1950 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/70
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of loose prints with duplicates measuring, unless stated, approximately 210 x 160 mm. The collection contains a variety of photographs, some of them taken by the Information Services of the Gold Coast/Ghana, while others are amateur photographs. Nos 1-5, showing Fraser in the Principal's house are clearly pre-1935, when he left Achimota. The majority date from Mr Winlaw's Headship and include a number of views of buildings put up in that period, particularly the Assembly Hall...
Dates:
1950 - 1959
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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Administration Block from steps, 1950 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/71
Scope and Contents
Smaller version of Y30448I/70.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
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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Administration Block; girls sketching, 1950 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/67
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of loose prints with duplicates measuring, unless stated, approximately 210 x 160 mm. The collection contains a variety of photographs, some of them taken by the Information Services of the Gold Coast/Ghana, while others are amateur photographs. Nos 1-5, showing Fraser in the Principal's house are clearly pre-1935, when he left Achimota. The majority date from Mr Winlaw's Headship and include a number of views of buildings put up in that period, particularly the Assembly Hall...
Dates:
1950 - 1959
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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Administration Block with cricketers in the foreground, 1950 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/68
Scope and Contents
Includes the politician and economist Jones Ofori Atta.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
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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Advanced students at work on the 50 ton Testing Machine, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/52
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of photographs taken by the Ministry of Information West African Photographic Service, giving a comprehensive record of the varied aspects of the College's work. These pictures have been extensively reproduced in books and articles. As Dr. R.W. Stopford is shown as Principal, a post he held from 1941 to 1945, they must date from this period. The Library has three different groups of photographs drawn from this series, two of which form this collection:(A) 55, 260 x...
Dates:
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).
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Advanced students at work on the 50 ton Testing Machine, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/53
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of photographs taken by the Ministry of Information West African Photographic Service, giving a comprehensive record of the varied aspects of the College's work. These pictures have been extensively reproduced in books and articles. As Dr. R.W. Stopford is shown as Principal, a post he held from 1941 to 1945, they must date from this period. The Library has three different groups of photographs drawn from this series, two of which form this collection:(A) 55, 260 x...
Dates:
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).
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Aerial view of the University, 1961-11-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448F/20
Scope and Contents
140 x 105 mm.
Dates:
1961-11-25
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
Aerial views of Achimota, 1950 - 1959
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/44-61
Scope and Contents
130 x 120 mm.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
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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Aerial views of Achimota College January 1931: Girls’ School and College Oval, 1931-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/7
Scope and Contents
Modern contact print, 140 x 90 mm.
Dates:
1931-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Aerial views of Achimota College January 1931: Girls’ School and College Oval: Hospital in mid-distance; Model Village in Distance, 1931-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of prints and negatives chiefly taken by Frank E. Joselin while on the staff of Achimota College, Ghana, between Jan. 1930 and Nov. 1947. This material falls into five groups: aerial views of Achimota taken in Jan.1931, later views including some taken from the tower, scenes following the Accra earthquake of 23 June 1939, the visit of the Asantehene in 1946, and portraits of the college’s first principal Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser and Assistant Vice Principal J.E.K. Aggrey. ...
Dates:
1931-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Aerial views of Achimota College January 1931 The College, 1931-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/5
Scope and Contents
Similar view to Y30448G/3, but with the Administration Block nearer. Also contact print 145 x 90 mm.
Dates:
1931-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Aerial views of Achimota College January 1931: The College and Model Village, 1931-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/6
Scope and Contents
Similar view to Y30448G/4, but upright.
Dates:
1931-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Aerial views of Achimota College January 1931: The College and Model Village in the distance, 1931-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/4
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of prints and negatives chiefly taken by Frank E. Joselin while on the staff of Achimota College, Ghana, between Jan. 1930 and Nov. 1947. This material falls into five groups: aerial views of Achimota taken in Jan.1931, later views including some taken from the tower, scenes following the Accra earthquake of 23 June 1939, the visit of the Asantehene in 1946, and portraits of the college’s first principal Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser and Assistant Vice Principal J.E.K. Aggrey. ...
Dates:
1931-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Aerial views of Achimota College January 1931: The College Oval and Model Village in the distance, 1931-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of prints and negatives chiefly taken by Frank E. Joselin while on the staff of Achimota College, Ghana, between Jan. 1930 and Nov. 1947. This material falls into five groups: aerial views of Achimota taken in Jan.1931, later views including some taken from the tower, scenes following the Accra earthquake of 23 June 1939, the visit of the Asantehene in 1946, and portraits of the college’s first principal Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser and Assistant Vice Principal J.E.K. Aggrey. ...
Dates:
1931-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Aerial views of Achimota College January 1931: The College (showing the tower of the Administration Block in the mid-distance on the right), 1931-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of prints and negatives chiefly taken by Frank E. Joselin while on the staff of Achimota College, Ghana, between Jan. 1930 and Nov. 1947. This material falls into five groups: aerial views of Achimota taken in Jan.1931, later views including some taken from the tower, scenes following the Accra earthquake of 23 June 1939, the visit of the Asantehene in 1946, and portraits of the college’s first principal Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser and Assistant Vice Principal J.E.K. Aggrey. ...
Dates:
1931-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
Sub-Series
African Community Centre, Asamankese, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1946 - 1954
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/164-173
Scope and Contents
Part of a collection of 12 British Official photographs (reference numbers DW 4408-4418).In the Gold Coast, the Government has put into effect a long term plan for the erection of Community Centres.An example of co-operation between private industry on the one hand and a Government and people on the other, was witnessed at Asamankese in the Gold Coast recently, when a Community Centre, built by Messrs. Cadbury Brothers, was formally handed over to the Gold Coast...
Dates:
1946 - 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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African farm labourers and headmen reporting for evening roll call at the Department of Animal Health Experimental Livestock Farm near Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/252
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The staff will receive instructions for the next day's work. £366 per month is paid out to staff and labourers. The minimum labourer's pay is 1/10d per day with free quarters. The majority of the labourers and herdsmen on the farm are from the Northern Territories'.
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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[African girl in nurse's uniform, adult European nurse, and African Boy Scout], 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/26
Scope and Contents
180 x 200 mm. Scene from the Red Cross Tableaux, 1917. The two nursing figures reproduced with the title ‘Red Cross, past and future’ facing page 240 of ‘Our Days in the Gold Coast’.
Dates:
1917
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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[African in uniform reading address to Guggisberg on Dais], 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/16
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. As Sir Gordon Guggisberg wears the somewhat unusual combination of military service uniform and a plumed Governor's hat, this may be related to his arrival in the Gold Coast.
Dates:
1919
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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African labourers attacking hay at the Department of Animal Health Experimental Livestock Farm near Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/249
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Many acres of hay are grown and stacked for feeding during the long dry season when there is little or no nutrient in the natural grass. The hay is a mixture of Soya Bean and Cow Pea and a very satisfactory yield is obtained. The mixture grows well on poor soil'.
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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African labourers working a hand driven grain crusher at the Department of Animal Health Experimental Livestock Farm near Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/251
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Apart from hay, supplementary feeding in the form of grain mixtures are fed to both adult and young stock'.
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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African Mothers & children at Accra baby show, 1920 - 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/44
Scope and Contents
195 x 150 mm. General group.
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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[African-owned diamond mine] Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/30
Scope and Contents
160 x 111 mm. Showing African labourers panning for diamonds on surface workings. The caption on the reverse reads 'One of the African-owned diamond workings which today are producing almost half the export diamonds in the Gold Coast'.
Dates:
1940 - 1959
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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Afrormosia elata, Mim District, 1947
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/57
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.
Dates:
1947
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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After inspecting the school the Konor takes tea with the Misses Moir in their sitting room, 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/174
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The Gold Coast Colony is divided up into seventeen Administrative Districts. In the Volta River District in the Eastern Province, it consists of five native states with a total population of about 860,000 and spread over an area of some 1,258 square miles. One of these states is Manya Krobo. Manya Krobo has a population of 84,797 and covers an area...
Dates:
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).