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Ghana (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1714 Collections and/or Records:

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Ancient Briton, 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/4
Scope and Contents

150 x 200 mm. One of the Red Cross Tableaux 1917. Identified in a contemporary hand as Mr Bettington. Digby Rowland Albemarle Bettington (b. 1879) served in the South African and Great Wars. After police posts in Cyprus and Sierra Leone, he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police, Gold Coast, in 1910 and promoted to Inspector-General in 1917. See also Y30448L/66.

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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Ancient West African, 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/1
Scope and Contents 150 x 200 mm. One of the items in the Tableaux arranged in aid of the Red Cross by Lady Clifford in 1917. Her efforts for the Red Cross in 1917 also included a procession of over 3,000 costumed children, and a gymkhana meeting. In 1918 she edited a book ‘Our Days on the Gold Coast’ containing essays on the events of one day submitted by a wide variety of the Colony's inhabitants, and published in aid of the Red Cross. She was appointed C.B.E. in 1918. This plate is reproduced after page 36...
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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Ancorra ferry, Enchi Road, 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/183
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '65'.

Dates: 1941
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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Anfo game trap (Oda?), 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/1
Scope and Contents

Showing a man stood beside a trap holding a dead rodent.

Dates: 1946
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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Anfo game trap (Oda?), 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/1a
Scope and Contents

A view of the trap.

Dates: 1946
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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Anomaboe : Fort William, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/18
Scope and Contents

General view.

Dates: 1950 - 1969
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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Anomaboe : Fort William, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/19
Scope and Contents

Courtyard showing the Post Office.

Dates: 1950 - 1969
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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Anomaboe : Fort William, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/20
Scope and Contents

Staircase in the courtyard.

Dates: 1950 - 1969
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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Anomaboe : Fort William, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/21
Scope and Contents

Party of Achimota scholars in the courtyard (staying in the Rest House).

Dates: 1950 - 1969
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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Another view of the fallen monarch, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448U/18
Scope and Contents

195 x 145 mm. This is another photograph of the beached dead whale seen in Y30448U/19.

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).
 Series

Appendix, 1946 - 1986

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/4
Scope and Contents

A series of glass slides and transparencies of various universities, chiefly in Africa.

Dates: 1946 - 1986
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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Art appreciation class, 1950 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/137
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 - 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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Asafo-Tu festival of the Ada people, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/33
Scope and Contents

200 x 140 mm. Men and women with old-fashioned ‘Dane’ guns with which they fire salutes.

Dates: 1946
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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Asantehene and leading Africans, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/50
Scope and Contents

85 x 140 mm.

Dates: 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Ashanti children, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/27
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm.

Dates: 1938
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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Ashanti drummer with talking drums, Gold Coast, 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/73
Scope and Contents

(PC14).

Dates: 1924
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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Ashanti drummer with talking drums, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/14
Scope and Contents

The caption on the reverse reads: 'Ashanti Drummer with Talking Drums, Gold Coast. With these drums the people of Ashanti, through the medium of a tonic language, are able to transmit messages over long distances through the forests'.

Dates: 1924
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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Ashanti Goldfields: Obuasi, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/46
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. Distant view.

Dates: 1938
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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Ashanti jewels, 1980 - 1989

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 350/2
Scope and Contents

Audio cassette of a recoding made by Wilkinson.

Dates: 1980 - 1989
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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Ashanti legendary figure, Sasabonsam, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/43
Scope and Contents

'No. 147' printed on bottom right corner.

Dates: 1930 - 1939
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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Ashanti potters, Gold Coast, 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/77
Scope and Contents

(PC19).

Dates: 1924
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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Ashanti potters, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/19
Scope and Contents

The caption on the reverse reads: 'Ashanti Potters, Gold Coast. All the pottery used for domestic purposes is made by the women and without the aid of the Potter's wheel. Specimens of Ashanti pottery can be seen and purchased in the Gold Coast Building at Wembley'.

Dates: 1924
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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Ashanti schoolchildren, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/56
Scope and Contents

The annotation on the negative envelope reads 'Slate shows future tense of verb to go'. The negative envelope is numbered '44'.

Dates: 1939
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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Ashanti. Very popular girls game, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/55
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '34'.

Dates: 1939
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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'Ashanti War', 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/33
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1873
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).