Ghana (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1719 Collections and/or Records:
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Opening session of a new Legislative Council: Sir Alan Burns advancing towards the Council Chamber after the inspection of the Guard of Honour mounted by the 9th Battalion, the Gold Coast Regiment, 1946-07-23
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/39
Scope and Contents
195 x 120 mm.
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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Orange seller. Accra market, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/141
Scope and Contents
The negative envelope is numbered '9'.
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).
File
Order Book for Volta Expedition, 1873-09 - 1874-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/126
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:
1873-09 - 1874-03
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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[Organisation of the Volta Expedition], 1873 - 1874
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/125
Scope and Contents
Incomplete draft account by Glover.
Dates:
1873 - 1874
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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Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, President of the Republic of Ghana and Chancellor of the University, 1961-11-25
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448F/1
Scope and Contents
140 x 105 mm.
Dates:
1961-11-25
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).
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Osei (Mason), Pullan (D.C.), Nsiah (Carpenter), 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/115
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. These are the central figures of Y30448O/115 posed in front of the completed rest house at Attabubu.
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
Other scenes, 1950 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/44
Scope and Contents
165 x 110 mm. University of Ghana, Legon.
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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Other scenes, 1950 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/45
Scope and Contents
165 x 220 mm. HQ of Asafo Company (in the form of a warship), Anomaboe village. Asafo Companies were traditional social groupings within villages.
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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Other scenes, 1950 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/46
Scope and Contents
165 x 220 mm. HQ of Asafo Company No 3 (decorated with fish and animals) Anomaboe village.
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
Item
Other scenes, 1950 - 1969
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/47
Scope and Contents
80 x 110 mm. Man from Northern Ghana.
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
Item
Other scenes, 1950 - 1969
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/48
Scope and Contents
80 x 110 mm. Northern village scene.
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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Otumfuo Nana Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, Asantehene, 1892-1970., 1970
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448R/22
Scope and Contents
113x160mm. Postcard reproducing a head and shoulders sketch by Diane Robertson, 1970.
Dates:
1970
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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Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, K.B.E., Paramount Chief of Ashanti, 1946-07-23
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/38
Scope and Contents
195 x 120 mm. 'On the observation platform of a train that brought him and a thousand followers to Accra for 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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Our semi-detached bungalows, 1938
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/18
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm.
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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Out of surf-boat, 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/13
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. Canham being carried ashore.
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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Out of surf-boat, Accra, 1938 - 1950
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448P/8
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. duplicate of Y30448O/13.
Dates:
1938 - 1950
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
Outside class room block, W.H.O., Ghana, 1965
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/209
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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Outside the C.H.N. School, Small black hut is a "Public latrine" (deep hole with squat rail), 1966
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/198
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.
File
"Outside the Right": draft chapters, c 1961-63
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 7/4
Scope and Contents
Hand-written drafts of chapters from the second volume of AFB's memoirs, covering the years from 1939 to the early 1960s, and written as a sequel to "Inside the left; thirty years of platform, press, prison and Parliament" (1942). Subjects include: the Second World War; politics during the war; rejoining the Labour Party and AFB's re-election to Parliament, 1950; AFB's first visit to East Africa (Sudan, Uganda and Kenya), 1950; Jomo Kenyatta, President of the Kenya African Union; the 1950...
Dates:
c 1961-63
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
Owabi Lake, 1938
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/32
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm.
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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Ox cart. Kpong, Tamale, 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/67
Scope and Contents
Stored in negative album envelope number '9'.
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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Painting a mural, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/86
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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Painting a mural at Achimota, 1900 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 24/8
Scope and Contents
See Y30448H/86
Dates:
1900 - 1947
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
[Painting a mural, Tamale School, Northern Territories, c.1945], 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/227
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The Gold Coast Government believes in rooting its education in the life of the people. Key institutions in the education system of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are at Tamale and include a senior boarding school for boys and a training college for teachers. The people of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are first and foremost...
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).
Fonds
Panorama of Accra, circa 1910
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448A
Scope and Contents
A collection of uncaptioned loose prints, each measuring approximately 290 x 200 mm. Joined together the prints form a panoramic view of about 180 degrees. The viewpoint of the photographer is from an unidentified building between the High Street and the sea a few hundred yards east of Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral. Photographer unknown, but see print 5.
Dates:
1910
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