Ghana (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1719 Collections and/or Records:
Item
New Assembly Hall, 1950 - 1957
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/85
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).
Item
New Assembly Hall, 1950 - 1957
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/87
Scope and Contents
With duplicate.
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).
Item
New Assembly Hall, 1950 - 1957
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/88
Scope and Contents
140 x 85 mm.
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).
Item
New Assembly Hall and Chapel, 1950 - 1957
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/86
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).
Item
New farms for old. Development company plays Aladdin to help Gold Coast's [i.e. Ghana] land problem, 1940 - 1959
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/40
Scope and Contents
167 x 117 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'Abdulla Chokosi is a tractor driver on the Gonja scheme. He comes from near Yende and hopes to become a settler'. It continues, at length, by summarising the work of the Gonja Development Company.
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).
Sub-Series
New town planning schemes for Kumasi, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1946 - 1954
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/174-184
Scope and Contents
British Official photographs (reference numbers DW 2552-2562).The first project of the Town Planning Scheme is the building of an experimental township at Kumasi for African labourers. At Asawasi, two miles out of the town, adjoining a 20 year-old Zongo village, building is going ahead, and when completed there will be 24 houses, with communal laundries. If this experiment is a success, work will go ahead on a self contained town, with its own shopping centre of 28 stores, its own...
Dates:
1946 - 1954
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
Newscuttings on Africa and South East Asia
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 323
Scope and Contents
The principal part of the collection is a set of thirteen scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to East Africa, particularly Kenya and Tanganyika. The rest of the collection consists of a volume of cuttings relating to post-war trading opportunities in Nigeria and three scrapbooks concerning rubber and mining in South East Asia.
Dates:
1914 - 1953
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
Series
Nigeria, 1933 - 1964
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4
Scope and Contents
Photographs of buildings, land cultivation, the market place and also gravestones. Originally these images were housed in an envelope marked 'Nigeria and Ghana', although all those captioned (and probably most of the rest) are in Nigeria.
Dates:
1933 - 1964
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
No. 218 Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Bomber Squadron
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448M
Scope and Contents
This photograph shows a visit paid to the Squadron at R.A.F. Chedburgh by Sir Alan Burns, Governor of the Gold Coast, and Lady Burns.Sir John Shuckburgh writes:'Mention should be made to this place of the number of Bomber or Fighter Squadrons of the R.A.F. which bore Colonial names. These included Ceylon, Gold Coast and Hong Kong Squadrons, as well as others named after Malta, Jamaica, Uganda and Kenya. All such Squadrons were regular units in the R.A.F. which had either been...
Dates:
1945-07
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
File
Notes for magazine articles, 1885 - 1948
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/10
Scope and Contents
This file contains source material that Bell collected for writing articles. The notes include material on superstition and folklore, tropical sanitation, the encouragement of native arts and crafts, fish, insects and animal behaviour. Among the notes are the published minutes of a joint meeting of the Royal Empire Society and the Royal African Society, held to discuss an address by Elspeth Huxley on the future of East Africa, a brief article on divination from ‘Notes Africaines’, July...
Dates:
1885 - 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).
File
Notes for reminiscences, 1922 - 1946
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/8
Scope and Contents
This file contains source material that Bell collected for the composition of his memoirs, drawn from his official career or travels during his retirement. It includes notes on memorable people, places and experiences, or subjects of particular interest. The file also preserves two poems by Bell, the text of a speech that he gave at a West Indian Club dinner in 1909, correspondence regarding his tour of the Far East during 1925-26, the text of a lecture ‘Some aspects of colonial...
Dates:
1922 - 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).
File
Notes on Ghanaian women, 1966 - 1975
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/4/3/3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with publishers and agents regarding attempts to publish Lady Smedley’s book ‘Women of Ghana’, 1965; copy of article by Christine Fry, ‘Women in Traditional West Africa: A Study of Their Economic Position and Role’, SAIS Review, vol.19 (1975); newspaper cuttings from The Times: ‘Women in Africa’ (1966), ‘Why sex war seems absurd to liberated women in Ghana’ (1976), ‘African women fight against ritual mutilations’ (no date); letter from E.O. Dodoo (Senior Medical Officer, Ghana...
Dates:
1966 - 1975
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
Notes on Ghanaian Women and their status, 1965 - 1976
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/4/3/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with publishers and agents regarding attempts to publish of Lady Smedley’s book ‘Women of Ghana’, 1965; copy of article by Christine Fry, ‘Women in Traditional West Africa: A Study of Their Economic Position and Role’, SAIS Review, vol.19 (1975); newspaper cuttings from The Times: ‘Women in Africa’ (1966), ‘Why sex war seems absurd to liberated women in Ghana’ (1976), ‘African women fight against ritual mutilations’ (no date); letter from E.O. Dodoo (Senior Medical Officer,...
Dates:
1965 - 1976
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
Notes to accompany itinerary from Cape Coast Castle to Coomasie, 1873
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/3
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:
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).
Item
Novitiate, Bassa, 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/123
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).
Item
Nsuta Akwasidae Ceremony: An Elder goes to greet his Chief, 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/154
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).
Item
Nsuta Akwasidae Ceremony: Dancing, 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/155
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).
Item
Nsuta Akwasidae Ceremony: Everybody wears Sunday-best, 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/156
Scope and Contents
160x 90 mm. Sepia.
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).
Sub-Series
Nursing and Health Education, Northern Nigeria and Ghana, 1956 - 1966
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043TT/119-294
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose photographs, black and white (some matt, some gloss), of various sizes, taken by Elsie May Weston or Gladys M. Pearce Simmonds. Some photographs have been annotated on the verso and, where this is the case, the details have been noted. Many of the annotations suggest educational use.
Dates:
1956 - 1966
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
Oath sworn by King Amooarkoo of Eastern Akim, 1873
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/10/6
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).
Item
Obuobi, Adu, and Anane watch Agyeman and Odame play [tennis], 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/163
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).
Item
Obuobi, Adu, and Anane watch Agyeman and Odame play [tennis], 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/164
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).
Item
Old Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1924
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/24
Scope and Contents
The caption on the reverse reads: 'Old Accra, Gold Coast. One of the squalid streets in old Accra which latter is steadily disappearing and giving way to broad highways and well-built dwelling-houses'.
Guggisberg stated: '...one of the congested quarters of Accra with its tumble-down hovels, its naked babies, its drainless street, a delightful scene... ' (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).
Item
Old Achimotans Dance 29 October 1955, 1955
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/180
Scope and Contents
215 x 165 mm.
Dates:
1955
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
Old Achimotans' Reunion, Western Compound Dining Hall, 1950 - 1957
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/103
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).