Ghana (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1719 Collections and/or Records:
Item
District Commissioner's Office, 1938 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/73
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1938 - 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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District Commissioner's office, Obuasi, 1938 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/55
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. On hill, railway train in front.
Dates:
1938 - 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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Dixcove Castle, 1930 - 1947
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/61
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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Dixcove Castle, Cape Three Points, 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448N/10
Scope and Contents
244 x 190 mm. Built by the British in 1691.
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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Dixcove Fort, 1950 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/2
Scope and Contents
View of cannon on the ramparts of the Spur, built about 1750. An English Fort was begun on this spot in the 1690s; it has endured many sieges and has undergone a great deal of rebuilding.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Alan Rudwick collection
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Dixcove near Seccondee, Gold Coast, 1924
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/74
Scope and Contents
(PC16).
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).
Item
Dixcove near Seccondee, Gold Coast [i.e. Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana], 1924
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/16
Scope and Contents
The caption on the reverse reads: 'Dixcove, near Seccondee, Gold Coast. One of the most picturesque of the old forts built on the Coast of the Gulf of Guinea in the early eighteenth century'.
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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Dodowah, Gold Coast W.A. Market Place, 1911 - 1929
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/55
Scope and Contents
Postcard. Copyright Basel Mission Book Depot, Accra. No. 14.
Dates:
1911 - 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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Donkey train, Wenchi, N. Ashanti, 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/196
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of 197 negatives and 6 modern prints. The negatives measure 60 x 60 mm, save for 160-163 which are 35 mm. Apart from nos. 60-112 which are in a negative album, they are all in small envelopes with the subject written on by Mr Cansdale, some have also been numbered by Cansdale. 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. Captions...
Dates:
1948
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).
Fonds
Dorothy Grace Wilkinson Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 350
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a thesis submitted to the Teacher Training Department of Kumasi College of Technology, recollections of Wilkinson's resisidence in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, and an autobiographical audio recording.
Dates:
1957 - 1989
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
Item
Down the drain, Obuasi, 1938 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/61
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. Cat in drain.
Dates:
1938 - 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).
Item
Dr F.V Nanka-Bruce, O.B.E., 1946-07-23
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/41
Scope and Contents
125 x 175 mm. 'First elected member for the municipality of Accra. In court dress. In 1900, as a dispenser, he was one of the small garrison including Governor Hodgson beleaguered in Kumasi Fort.’ Frederick Victor Nanka-Bruce was a physician, politician and planter (1878-1953). Taken at the opening session of a new Legislative Council.
Dates:
1946-07-23
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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Dr. J.B. Danquah, 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/44
Scope and Contents
120 x 180 mm. Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah (1895-1965), lawyer and nationalist, was one of the founders of the United Gold Coast Convention in 1947, but later opposed Nkrumah. He died in prison.
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).
Item
Dr. J.E. Aggrey (1875-1927), Vice-Principal of Achimota College, Ghana, with Rev. Alexander Gordon Fraser (1873-1962), Principal from 1924 to 1935, 1910 - 1927
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/16
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.
Dates:
1910 - 1927
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
Dr Kwame Nkrumah speaking at the inauguration of the Law Faculty of the University of Legon, Ghana, 1962, 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304G/14
Scope and Contents
Taken on the same occasion as Y304G/13.
Dates:
1962
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
Draft narrative of the Volta Expedition, 1875
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/10/2
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:
1875
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
Drawings, 1962 - 1998
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 360/13
Scope and Contents
A volume containing 36 architectural and landscape drawings in pencil and related media.
Subjects are:
The Commonwealth Institute, London, 1961-1962 (4 drawings)
West Africa Tour 1968 (8 drawings)
Canada 1969 (19 drawings)
Jamaica 1969 (2 drawings)
Gibraltar 1985 and 1988 (3 drawings)
Dates:
1962 - 1998
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
/
Donald Bowen Collection
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Dressed over all, 1966, 1966
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/162
Scope and Contents
School bus, World Health Day, Akim Oda
Dates:
1966
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Y3043UU/134 is missing.
Item
Dressmaking and Housecraft Department: selection of food, 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/17
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).
Item
Drum Major, Gold Coast Regiment, 1939, 1940-06
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/166
Scope and Contents
A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'. The negative envelope is numbered '22A'. The negative itself is numbered '27'.
Dates:
1940-06
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
[Drummer with sticks raised], 1940-06
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/169
Scope and Contents
A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'. The negative envelope is numbered '22'. The negative itself is numbered '30'.
Dates:
1940-06
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
[Drummer with sticks raised], 1940-06
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/169A
Scope and Contents
A print measuring 180 x 130 mm. A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'.
Dates:
1940-06
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
Drummers, 1946
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/35
Scope and Contents
160 x 105 mm.
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).
Item
Drying cocao, 1930 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/35
Scope and Contents
'No. 69' printed on bottom left 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).
Item
Duke of Cambridge to Glover, 1874-10-20
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/7/66
Scope and Contents
Encloses draft of letter from Glover recommending Lieutenant Barnard for promotion.
Dates:
1874-10-20
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).