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Ghana (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1719 Collections and/or Records:

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Members of staff at Labadi Beach, 1957 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/174-75
Scope and Contents

90 x 65 mm.

Dates: 1957 - 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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Members of the College Athletic Team waiting their turn for practice, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/218
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Every year s big Athletic Meeting is held [sic], at which all the leading Schools and Colleges compete for the coveted 'Aggrey trophy''.

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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Members of the Junior Red Cross, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/87
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).
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Members of the staff live in bungalows arranged around the outer edge of the compound, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/225
Scope and Contents

Showing the entrance and verandah of a staff bungalow.

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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Memorial Plaques to Sir Gordon Guggisberg and Dr Aggrey, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/2
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).
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Messengers from the Kings of Cape Coast to the Kings of Elmina, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448U/7
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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Michael Banson, son of my Deputy, Ghana, 1965, 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/201
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: 1965
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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Miniature of Queen Victoria, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.4.08
Scope and Contents Miniature of Queen Victoria presented on navy velvet inside wooden box. An inscription on the reverse reads, 'This original miniature which was painted by Ernest Rinzi in 1898 as a design for portraits of Her Majesty to be enclosed in Lockets for presentation to native chiefs in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, was presented to the Royal Colonial Institute by the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain M.P. Secretary of State for the Colonies on behalf of the Gold Coast Government in Mar....
Dates: 1898
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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Mining town, Obuasi, 1938 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/52
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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Miscellaneous glass plates, 1880 - 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII
Scope and Contents

Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

Dates: 1880 - 1980
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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Miscellaneous photographs, 1964-01-25 - 1964-12

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043VV
Scope and Contents

A collection of sheets of card and paper, measuring 320 x 520 mm, the front marked 'Ghana 25 Jan - Dec 1964'. Mounted on these are photographs, some of them cut-outs. Some are captioned, and there may be some duplication with Y3043TT: a detailed comparison might assist the identification of some of the items listed there. All these photographs relate to nursing training.

Dates: 1964-01-25 - 1964-12
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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Miscellaneous slides, 1950 - 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU
Scope and Contents

Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

Dates: 1950 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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Miss Mensah goes to vote, 1951-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/29
Scope and Contents

111 x 160 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'The last stage in Miss Mensah's voting. She drops her marked and folded paper in the sealed ballot box'. It continues, at length, to give details about the elections.

Dates: 1951-02
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).
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Miss Teresa Sumney is the state mid-wife paid by the Native Treasury, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/164
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait.

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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Mission educated Francis Archirobe is the Tax Clerk, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/180
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'To him falls the job of travelling around to the villages and compounds, checking up the nominal roll of all the taxable able-bodied males. When the nominal roll is finished he works out the number of metal discs that will have to be ordered from England for the forthcoming financial year'.

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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M.K. Olympic, Veterinary Assistant in charge of the Farm, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/268
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'He has been in the service of the Department of Animal Health for over fifteen years. In addition to organising and supervising the growing of the crops, he carries out all routine Veterinary duties such as innoculations, post-mortems, blood examinations, etc'.

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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Modern Commonwealth photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC
Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...
Dates: 1936 - 1980
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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Modern midwife teaches "old midwife" correct and safe way to give spoon feed, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/173
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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Modern West African (identified in a contemporary hand as Mr Vidal Buckle, Barrister at Law)., 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/2
Scope and Contents

150 x 200 mm. One of the Red Cross Tableaux, 1917. Reproduced following page 36 of 'Our Days on the Gold Coast’.

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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More visual aids. Home made to teach nutrition, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/219
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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Mother and child, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/99
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '48'.

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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Mother at clinic watching a puppet play-and learning!, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/224
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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Mounted Native Chief, Northern Territories, Gold Coast, 1911 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/56
Scope and Contents

Postcard. Coloured reproduction of painting.

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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Moving logs into position for rail loading, Oda, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/32
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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Mr. G.A. Kofi and the Konor, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/166
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Mr. Kofi is the Native Administration Inspector of Accounts and carries out a monthly inspection of the Treasury accounts'.

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).