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Nigeria (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1776 Collections and/or Records:

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University of Ibadan, 1948 - 1991

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/182-221
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of the University of Ibadan. The University College of Ibadan was established in 1948 as the first of the IUC's completely new creations. It became the University of Ibadan in 1962.

Dates: 1948 - 1991
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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University of Ibadan, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 Nigeria/4
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs, postcards, a Christmas card and a copy of an illustrated booklet all related to the University of Ibadan. The University College of Ibadan was established in 1948 as the first of the IUC's completely new creations. It became the University of Ibadan in 1962.

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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University of Ife, 1946 - 1991

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/222-239
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of the University of Ife. The university was created in 1961.

Dates: 1946 - 1991
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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University of Ife, 1961 - 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 Nigeria/5
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs, postcards, a Christmas card and a booklet all related to the University of Ife. The university was created in 1961.

Dates: 1961 - 1986
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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University of Ilorin

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 Nigeria/6
Scope and Contents

A coloured card of a coat of arms. The University College of Ilorin was established in 1975 and became a university in its own right in 1977.

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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University of Lagos, 1962 - 1991

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/241-244
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of the University of Lagos, which was created in 1962.

Dates: 1962 - 1991
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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University of Lagos, 1962 - 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 Nigeria/7
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs, postcards, a Christmas card and a typescript all related to the University of Lagos, which was created in 1962.

Dates: 1962 - 1986
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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University of Nigeria, 1960 - 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 Nigeria/8
Scope and Contents

A series of items relating to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, which was established in 1960 but badly damaged during the Civil War (1967-70).

Dates: 1960 - 1986
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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University of Nigeria Nsukka and Enugu, 1960 - 1991

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/245-256
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Enugu campuses. The University was established in 1960 but the Nsukka campus was badly damaged during the Civil War (1967-70).

Dates: 1960 - 1991
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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University of Port Harcourt

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 Nigeria/9
Scope and Contents

A coloured card of a coat of arms. University College, Port Harcourt, was established in 1975 and became a university in its own right in 1977.

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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Unsigned letter to Postmaster Charles Turton regarding closure of the river road to Lagos, 1872-03-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/4/76
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: 1872-03-13
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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Unsuspecting Minnehaha awaits canoe paddler at 6 AM, 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/27
Scope and Contents

210 x 155 mm. View of Barnard and a male hunter sitting in a canoe armed with shotgun and rifle.

Dates: 1937
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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Vicar of Wusasa Church with villagers at Saulawa, 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/54
Scope and Contents

154 x 107 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1960
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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Victoria Beach, 1936 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/24
Scope and Contents

195 x 150. View of the sand, trees and surf.

Dates: 1936 - 1937
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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Victory College: carpentry class, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/106
Scope and Contents

111 x 122 mm. glossy print with two copies.

Dates: 1960 - 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).
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Victory College, Ikare: Archdeacon Lennon and student on way to chapel, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/105
Scope and Contents

113 x 155 mm. glossy print with copy and 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1960 - 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).
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[View at Takalafiya, c.1939], 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/40
Scope and Contents

Showing Africans posed in the open grass square at the centre of Takalafiya. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The town of Takalafiya was planned and built round a large grass square in the centre of which is a cement-lined well - one of the five new wells in the town. These new wells are a vast improvement on the old with adequate supplies which caused guinea worm infection. The photograph was taken from the top of a mosque'.

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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[View at Takalafiya, c.1939], 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/41
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View looking over the central grass square towards one of the residential compounds. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The newly planned town of Takalafiya, built to take the 600 inhabitants evacuated when wide streets were driven through the slums of Anchau. Compounds are spaced round a central grass square in the centre of which stands a cement-lined well'.

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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View from the top of Mt. Patti, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/111
Scope and Contents

206 x 148 mm. A view looking down on Lokoja.

Dates: 1910
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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[View in Calabar], 1912 - 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/4
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207 x 138 mm. A view from a grassy hillside looking down towards the Calabar waterfront and river.

Dates: 1912 - 1913
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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[View in Duke Town, Calabar], 1912 - 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/3
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207 x 141 mm. A view looking down a street in Duke Town (the African quarter of Calabar) with a row of thatched houses on the left and the waterfront and Calabar River visible in the background. The tower of the Duke Town Church can be seen projecting above a clump of trees at the right of centre.

Dates: 1912 - 1913
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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[View in the Anchau slums, 1930s], 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/38
Scope and Contents

Showing a woman spinning cotton in front of a mud and thatch hut in Anchau. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The hub of the resettlement scheme is the town of Anchau. In 1939 the foul and congested slums of the town were cleaned up. Three wide roads were driven through the town and the 600 people thus dispossessed were moved to a new site - Takalafiy, three-quarters of a mile away. The picture shows a woman of Anchau slums before the town was cleaned up'.

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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View of camp, Ishiago, 1908 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/1
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108 x 63 mm. A general view of rows of thatched huts and a few tents at Ishiago.

Dates: 1908 - 1910
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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View of Civil Station, Okigwi, 1908 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/30
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103 x 61 mm. A general view of the civil station of Okigwi, with three African women walking along the road in the foreground.

Dates: 1908 - 1910
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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View of CMS Bookshop in Lagos, 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/152
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80 x 54 mm. glossy print with 115 x 72 mm. copy.

Dates: 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).