Ghana (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1719 Collections and/or Records:
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Tour IV. Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1914-15, 1914-07-29 - 1915-08-29
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043C/333-400
Scope and Contents
An album of views at Accra, Dodowah; Kroo game 'like draughts'; mosquito breeding places; specimens of diseased animals.
This tour sailed from Liverpool on R.M.S. 'Falaba' on July 29 1914 and landed at Accra on August 13 1914. The return journey, on R.M.S. 'Apapa', sailed from Accra on August 14 1915 and landed at Liverpool on August 29 1915.
Dates:
1914-07-29 - 1915-08-29
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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Tour of West Africa, 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/17/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diary and report.
Dates:
1936
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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Tour V. Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1915-16, 1915-12-01 - 1916-12-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043C/401-441
Scope and Contents
An album of views at Accra, Christianborg, Sekondi; refuse in Accra; young malaria victims.
This tour sailed from Liverpool on R.M.S. 'Karine' on December 1 1915 and arrived at Accra on December 18 1915. The return journey, on R.M.S. 'Abinsi', sailed from Accra on November 30 1916 and arrived at Plymouth on December 18 1916.
Dates:
1915-12-01 - 1916-12-18
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).
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Tour VI. Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1919-20, 1919-04-30 - 1920-06-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043C/442-482
Scope and Contents
An album of views at Accra, Nsawan; medical patients (Guinea worm); insect breeding haunts.
This tour sailed from Liverpool on R.M.S. 'Mandingo' on April 30 1919 and arrived at Accra on May 14 1919. The return journey, on R.M.S. 'Exani', sailed from Accra on May 17 1920 and arrived at Liverpool on June 5 1920.
Dates:
1919-04-30 - 1920-06-05
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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Tour VII. Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1920-21, 1920-10-20 - 1921-08-22
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043C/483-516
Scope and Contents
An album of views at Accra, Elmina; medical patients; insect breeding haunts.
This tour sailed from Liverpool on R.M.S. 'Abinsi' on October 20 1920 and arrived at Accra on November 4 1920. The return journey, on R.M.S. 'Appam', sailed from Accra on August 7 1921 and landed at Liverpool on August 22 1921.
Dates:
1920-10-20 - 1921-08-22
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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Tour VIII. Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1922, 1922-01-25 - 1922-11-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043C/517-566
Scope and Contents
An album of views at Accra, Akuse, Kasunya; medical patients; tsetse fly haunts.
This tour sailed from Liverpool on R.M.S. 'Appam' on January 25 1922 and arrived at Accra on February 22 1922. The return journey, on R.M.S. 'Aba', sailed from Accra on November 11 1922 and arrived at Liverpool on November 26 1922.
Dates:
1922-01-25 - 1922-11-26
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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Tours, 1964 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/4/1/7
Scope and Contents
Reports of Smedley’s tours through the Northern and Upper Regions; Cape Coast and Takoradi; the Western Region; the Volta Region; Keta; Pretsea; and Kumasi, Brong Ahafo and Abidjan (circa 100 sheets).
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).
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Towards drying ground, Akim Oda, 1966. This was a swamp in 1962, 1966
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/212
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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[Tower of the Administration Building seen through an archway], 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/10
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of prints and negatives chiefly taken by Frank E. Joselin while on the staff of Achimota College, Ghana, between Jan. 1930 and Nov. 1947. This material falls into five groups: aerial views of Achimota taken in Jan.1931, later views including some taken from the tower, scenes following the Accra earthquake of 23 June 1939, the visit of the Asantehene in 1946, and portraits of the college’s first principal Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser and Assistant Vice Principal J.E.K. Aggrey. ...
Dates:
1931
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Town of Accra, W.C. of Africa, 1884-02-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/30
Scope and Contents
205 x 137 mm. A view looking across the rooftops of Accra towards the sea with a square in the foreground. The view shows James Town, the European residential quarter.
Dates:
1884-02-25
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
/
Sydney Tyers album
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Traditional African Woodcarving, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/212
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'A wooden figure being roughed out from the solid with an adze'.
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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Tuareg at Bawku, 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/132
Scope and Contents
The negative envelope is numbered '39'.
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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Turton to Glover, 1873-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/121
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:
1873-12-31
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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Turton to Luke, 1874-01-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/7/29
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:
1874-01-18
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).
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Twelve year old Hamadu Perisi in the blacksmith shop, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/228
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Students are taught to make and repair their own farm implements'.
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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[Two robed Africans], 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/3
Scope and Contents
155 x 115 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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Typical Ashanti girl, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/53
Scope and Contents
The negative envelope is numbered '22'.
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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Typical Ashanti girl, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/54
Scope and Contents
The negative envelope is numbered '22'.
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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Typical 'best' clothes of Ashanti girls, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/57
Scope and Contents
The negative envelope is numbered '52'.
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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Typical rest house. Banda, N. Ashanti, 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/197
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of 197 negatives and 6 modern prints. The negatives measure 60 x 60 mm, save for 160-163 which are 35 mm. Apart from nos. 60-112 which are in a negative album, they are all in small envelopes with the subject written on by Mr Cansdale, some have also been numbered by Cansdale. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions...
Dates:
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).
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Typical savannah woodland, Bawku, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/24
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).
Fonds
Under many flags: my pilgrimage
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 15
Scope and Contents
An account of a journey undertook in 1953-1954 to Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Manila, North Borneo, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and the U.S.A. The volumes are undated, but the last entry in the epilogue is dated 1957.
Dates:
1957
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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[Unidentified boy sitting outside white, domed building], 1966
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/183
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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[Unidentified building], 1966
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/189
Scope and Contents
See also Y3043UU/183.
Dates:
1966
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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Unidentified European, Zanzibar Exhibition, August 1905, 1905-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468D/36
Scope and Contents
94 x 79 mm.
Dates:
1905-08
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).