Ghana (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1719 Collections and/or Records:
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Pit sawing, Ashanti (This method is still used in many parts of the Gold Coast), 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/33
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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[Ploughing lessons, Tamale School, Northern Territories, c.1945], 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/232
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Farming is the main object of the school. The special farm manager instructing Akamjambudai, son of the chief of Kanjarga, to plough with a bullock team'.
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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[Ploughing with a mule, ?Ghana], 1940 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/41
Scope and Contents
166 x 115 mm. Showing a farmer ploughing in a field by mule.
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).
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Pole-vaulting, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/81
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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Police Inspector J.B. Sackitey runs the Native Administration Police; this is also paid for by the Treasury, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/165
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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Police Station, 1938 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/72
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. Sepia. Marked ‘Allotey's.’
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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[Portrait of three unknown women students] Akim Oda?, 1966
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/175
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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Portrait photograph of A.G. Fraser by Dorothy Wilding, 1924 - 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/59
Scope and Contents
150 x 200 mm. Signed 9.2.1935, but thought by Joselin to be pre-1930. The Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser (1873-1962) served with the C.M.S. in Uganda (1900-1903) and was Principal of Trinity College Kandy (1904-1924) before becoming first Principal of Achimota, 1924-1935. He was Principal of Friends‘ College, Jamaica from 1940 to 1943.
Dates:
1924 - 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Post Office, 1938 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/70
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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Post Office and War Memorial, Kumasi, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/31
Scope and Contents
'No. 21' printed on bottom left 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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Post Office staff, Accra, 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448B/10
Scope and Contents
200 x 149 mm. Portrait taken in the inner courtyard of the General Post Office, Accra, with European staff seated in the centre at the front, and African staff gathered around them. The two figures in the centre are probably Samuel Bucknell Gosling, Postmaster General, and Deputy Postmaster General and William Thomas Ewart Wallace.
Dates:
1915
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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Post Secondary Class in the Science lecture Theatre, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448H/32
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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[Postcard of Dixcove Fort, built by the Royal African Company in the 18th century], 1946
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/4
Scope and Contents
90 x 140 mm.
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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[Postcard of Dixcove Fort, built by the Royal African Company in the 18th century], 1946
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/5
Scope and Contents
140 x 90 mm.
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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[Postcard of Elmina Castle, built in the 15th century and rebuilt in the 17th century], 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/6
Scope and Contents
90 x 140 mm.
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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Potato Race, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/145
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. Empire Day.
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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Pottery, 1950 - 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/135
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
Pottery, 1950 - 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/136
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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Pouring hot water on cassava to obtain starch, 1950 - 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/132
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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Practising for Founder's Day; singers and drums, 1957 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/150
Scope and Contents
Including James Victor Gbeho, born 1925, later Deputy High Commissioner in London and, from 1980, Ghana's Representative at the United Nations.
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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Preparing for the exhibition, 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/203
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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Preparing material for matmaking, S.W. Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/181
Scope and Contents
The negative envelope is numbered '52'.
Dates:
1941
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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Presbyterian Senior School, 1938 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/74
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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President Senghor with Dr Nkrumah, 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I/14
Scope and Contents
A picture taken at the reception given by Dr Nkrumah for delegates to the conference of the World Assembly of Youth (possibly not at Achimota).
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).
File
Press cuttings and magazine articles, 1964 - 1967
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/4/1/16
Scope and Contents
This is a large file, largely relating to the Nkrumah era, and does not concern Smedley personally.
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).