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Ghana (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1719 Collections and/or Records:

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Ewe mother and child, Keta, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/33
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: 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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Excessively buttressed Entandrophragma utile 30 metres north of Kumasi, Ashanti, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/10
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

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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Expedition to Kumasi

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 146
Scope and Contents

Duplicated copies of a complete set of military routine orders issued by Willcocks when commanding the Ashanti Field Force, 27 May 1900 - 1 January 1901.

Dates: 1900 - 1901
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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Exterior of the gold mine, Abontiakoon, Gold Coast, 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/65
Scope and Contents

(PC9).

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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Exterior of the gold mine, Abontiakoon, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/9
Scope and Contents

The caption on the reverse reads: 'Gold Mine, Gold Coast. This is one of the Mines on the Banquet Reef, near Tarquah, in the Gold Coast Colony'.

Guggisberg stated: 'The open-air painting of Abbontiakoon, with its variety of greens, the winding track of the Government Railway to Coomassie in the foreground and the distant blue hills, give a characteristic scene in the mining district' (Guggisberg, Gold Coast News, no. 25).

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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Exterior view of Assembly Hall and Chapel, 1950 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/89
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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Fan palm country near Vuto, Keta, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/41
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: 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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Fante New Town, Kumasi, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/37
Scope and Contents

'No. 91' 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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Farewell to Ghana, 1964 - 1967

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/4/1/15
Scope and Contents

Letters of thanks and best wishes exchanged between the Smedleys and friends and colleagues upon their departure from Ghana including lists of signatures (as well as some earlier correspondence); and material relating to the organisation of their farewell party, 8 November 1967 (circa 70 sheets).

Dates: 1964 - 1967
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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Fetish Priest, Bassa, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/120
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm.

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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Firewood market. This is all mangrove material, Keta, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/70
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: 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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Firewood train loaded into station, 1938 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/4
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

Dates: 1938 - 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).
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First aid, 1950 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/127-28
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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Fish trap, Keta, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/5
Scope and Contents

The annotation on the back of the negative envelope reads 'In a shallow lagoon a pile of brushwood is put in and fish take refuge from crocodiles. Fishermen then surround brushwood with a fence, throw out the brushwood and catch the fish'.

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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Fish trap, Keta, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/6
Scope and Contents

The annotation on the back of the negative envelope reads 'In a shallow lagoon a pile of brushwood is put in and fish take refuge from crocodiles. Fishermen then surround brushwood with a fence, throw out the brushwood and catch the fish'.

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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Fish trap, Keta, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/7
Scope and Contents

The annotation on the back of the negative envelope reads 'In a shallow lagoon a pile of brushwood is put in and fish take refuge from crocodiles. Fishermen then surround brushwood with a fence, throw out the brushwood and catch the fish'.

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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Fish trap, Keta, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/8
Scope and Contents

The annotation on the back of the negative envelope reads 'In a shallow lagoon a pile of brushwood is put in and fish take refuge from crocodiles. Fishermen then surround brushwood with a fence, throw out the brushwood and catch the fish'.

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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Fisherman spearing water pig, Gold Coast, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448U/4
Scope and Contents

205 x 135 mm. View of the fisherman about to hurl his harpoon or spear from the bow of a boat.

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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Fishermen, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/29
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. Lake Bosumtwi.

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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Fishing by baling, Ashanti, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/38
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

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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Fishing by baling, Ashanti, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/38a
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

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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[Fishing in the River Volta, c.1945], 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/145
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The revenue of the State Treasury is collected from various sources, one of these being the fishing tax. Five shillings per year is paid for a fishing permit. This Krobo fisherman casts his net in the River Volta which passes through part of Manya Krobo'.

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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Fishing near Keta, 1930 - 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/121-22
Scope and Contents

Negative.

Dates: 1930 - 1931
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Fitters pressing a bearing onto a 'worm shaft', 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/245
Scope and Contents The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'All types of major repair work are done in these workshops'. A British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved) which has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT WORKSHOPS, ACCRA, GOLD COASTThe Transport Department Workshops at Accra and Kumasi are staffed almost entirely by African artisans. In Accra they work under the supervision of a European foreman whilst in Kumasi an African chargehand is...
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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Fongo-North, 1938 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/77
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).