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Ghana (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1719 Collections and/or Records:

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Manganese mine, Insuta, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1924

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/8
Scope and Contents

The caption on the reverse reads: 'Manganese Mine, Gold Coast. This mine was discovered in 1915 at a time when the allies were in dire need of the Manganese ore. Some 20,000 tons a month are now exported from Insuta. During the Great War 5 million Steel Helmets were made for the British and Allied Forces from this Manganese'.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Postcard Collection / Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] / Selected postcards of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] / Selected postcards of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], West Africa 1924 : series II
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Mangrove firewood on sale at river mouth, 1939 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/68
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1939 - 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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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Manso Nkwanta, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/26
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. View from hillside.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Peter Canham albums of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] / Canham album of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-39
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Map of the route from Accra to the Asante frontier drawn by Richard Fry, 1873-09-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/8/2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Material relating to Glover's role as Special Commissioner during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1873-09-16
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 / Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover / Papers
 File

Maps, 1965

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/4/1/13
Scope and Contents

One street map of Accra and one 1:500,000 road map of Southern Ghana 1965 (produced by Survey of Ghana).

Dates: 1965
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 / Sir Harold Smedley Collection / Ghana / Ghana High Commission papers
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[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/162
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 '21'.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/162A
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/163
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 '21'.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/164
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 '21'.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/165
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 '21'.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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Marionette show in the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/37
Scope and Contents

125 x 116 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'The show is on. Pupils of Kumasi Presbyterian Senior School in the Gold Coast rehearse ther play 'Blood Money' before the rest of the school'.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Progress in the Colonies, 1940s-1950s
 Fonds

Marjorie Barnard Collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363
Scope and Contents

Papers and photographs related to Barnard's life and work in Nigeria and subsequent travels in Africa.

Dates: 1930 - 1979
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
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Market, Obuasi, 1938 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/64
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Peter Canham albums of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] / Canham album of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-39
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Market woman, Tamale, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/64
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '5'.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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Market woman, Tamale, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/65
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '6'.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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Marking out a small log for cutting into flitches and levelling a flitch for resawing, 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/27
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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Marking out a small log for cutting into flitches and levelling a flitch for resawing, 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/27a
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
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Marquis of Lansdowne to Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, 1873-12-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/96
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter from Glover dated 2 Dec.

Dates: 1873-12-06
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover / Correspondence
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Meade to Glover, 1874-09-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/7/61
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: 1874-09-04
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 / Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover / Correspondence
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Meade to Glover, 1874-09-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/7/64
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: 1874-09-18
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 / Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover / Correspondence
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Meade to Glover, 1875-07-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/7/70
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: 1875-07-19
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 / Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover / Correspondence
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Meade to Glover, 1875-08-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/7/71
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: 1875-08-30
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 / Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover / Correspondence
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Meade to Glover, 1876-01-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/9/3
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: 1876-01-25
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover / Correspondence
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Meade to Glover, 1875-07-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/9/8
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: 1875-07-16
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 / Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover / Correspondence
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Meade to Secretary of the Admiralty, 1873-12-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/94
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: 1873-12-02
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 / Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover / Correspondence

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