Ghana (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1721 Collections and/or Records:
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View looking south-west, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448A/2
Scope and Contents
290 x 199mm. Good condition. A view looking along the shoreline and beach towards the harbour jetty and the James Town area of Accra, with the point where the Korle Lagoon enters the sea visible beyond. In the right foreground is the small Anglican Cathedral of Holy Trinity with the High Street beyond it running parallel to the shore.
Dates:
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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View looking west, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448A/3
Scope and Contents
280 x 197mm. Good condition. A view looking west over the buildings of Accra towards the Korle Lagoon, with the High Street in the foreground and the Anglican Cathedral at the left of the print. In the foreground a tennis court and what looks like a row of fives courts can be seen. This print would appear to date the panorama to before 1915, since the prominent GPO building (see Y30448B) completed in that year, is not visible beyond and to the right of the cathedral.
Dates:
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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View looking west-north-west, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448A/4
Scope and Contents
287 x 200mm. Good condition. A view looking over rooftops towards the edge of the town with the Korle Lagoon beyond. With the High Street (?and the junction with Horse Road) in the foreground.
Dates:
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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View of Abbrobonku River and bridge near Cape Coast, 1990
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448U/15
Scope and Contents
155 x 105 mm.
Dates:
1990
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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View of Abbrobonku River, Gold Coast, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448U/12
Scope and Contents
195 x 145 mm.
Dates:
1900
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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View of Administration Block and pupils, 1950 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/72
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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View of Administration Block and pupils, 1950 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/73
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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View of Briop Abboobonku River near Cape Coast, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448U/42
Scope and Contents
197 x 157 mm. View showing the river flowing beneath a bridge and through rocks, with an African man seated upon a rock in the middle ground.
Dates:
1900
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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View of Founder's Day Procession, 1949 - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/10
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:
1949 - 1955
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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View of Founder's Day Procession, 1949 - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/11
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:
1949 - 1955
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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View of Kingsley House, 1950 - 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/115
Scope and Contents
165 x 110. mm.
Dates:
1950 - 1957
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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View of the Administration Block, 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/17
Scope and Contents
(Sepia) 170 x 230 mm.
Dates:
1931
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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View of the Administration Block from the front, 1931
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/18
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
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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View of village from Elmina Castle, 1930 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/63
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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View over savannah woodland, Bawku, 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/23
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Digital copies only. Please contact the RCS curator for access (email: rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
View over savannah woodland, Bawku District, 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/82
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Digital copies only. Please contact the RCS curator for access (email: rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
View over savannah woodland, Bawku District, 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/82a
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Digital copies only. Please contact the RCS curator for access (email: rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View over savannah woodland near Ejura, Ashanti, 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/18
Scope and Contents
The caption continues: 'Looking west September 47. With Cussonia sp., Terminalia spp. Daniellia oliveri, Khaya senegalensis, Lophira procera, Butyrospermum parkii esp ar.' Swaine provides the note: 'Butyrospermum now called Vitellaria paradoxa.'
Dates:
1947
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Digital copies only. Please contact the RCS curator for access (email: rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View through carport, Akim Oda, 1966, 1966
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/180
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.
Dates:
1966
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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Views from the Tower, 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/15
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
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Views from the Tower, 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/16
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
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Views from the Tower: College Dining Hall and Model Village, 1931
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/13
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
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Views from the Tower: School, College Houses, and Hospital beyond, 1931
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/12
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
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
Fonds
Views of Achimota College circa 1945
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H
Scope and Contents
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:
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
File
Views of Administration Block, 1950 - 1959
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/77-81
Scope and Contents
135 x 85 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).