Nigeria (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1850 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Blaize Memorial Institute: using a concrete mixer to wash oranges, 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/4
Scope and Contents
159 x 114 mm. glossy print with two copies.
Dates:
1949
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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Blind man, Wusasa, taught to read Braille by Mrs Smith, the wife of Bishop A.W. Smith, 1951
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/52
Scope and Contents
157 x 113 mm. matt print with 35 mm. negative.
Dates:
1951
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
Bob at Atlas Bay, 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/29
Scope and Contents
55 x 80 mm.
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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Bob taking his own passport photograph, 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/31
Scope and Contents
55 x 80 mm.
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).
Item
Bodyguard of Emir of Yola, 1911 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/12
Scope and Contents
105 x 78 mm. Showing a group of the Emir's bodyguard.
Dates:
1911 - 1912
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
[Bodyguard of the Emir of Yola], 1909 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/62
Scope and Contents
100 x 73 mm. An indistinct print showing a group of the Emir's bodyguard.
Dates:
1909 - 1912
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
Bodyguard of the Emir of Yosa, 1908 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/154
Scope and Contents
101 x 82 mm. An indistinct print showing a group of the Emir's bodyguard.
Dates:
1908 - 1912
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
Bodyguard of the Emir of Zaria, 1912, 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/150
Scope and Contents
101 x 74 mm. Showing a large troop of the Emir's bodyguard, on horseback and wearing armour.
Dates:
1912
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
Books, periodicals and news cuttings, 1938 - 1979
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/3
Scope and Contents
‘The cultivated resources of the Gold Coast: crops and livestock’ (London, 1938)‘New Commonwealth: trade and commerce, focus on Nigeria’, No. 8, 1970‘West Africa’ Nos. 3037-39, 8-22 Sept. 1975‘Zambia newsbrief 3’ (1974?)‘Zamibia 1964-1974: ten years of achievement’ (Lusaka: 1974)News cuttings from the ‘Sunday telegraph’, 16 Sept. 1979, featuring a story on the experience of women in the colonies, and from ‘The daily telegraph’, 12 Dec. 1979, on the...
Dates:
1938 - 1979
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
Boy washed with sunlight soap, Health Week, Jos, April 1955, 1955-04
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/75
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:
1955-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Y3043UU/134 is missing.
Item
Boys’ Brigade relay runner presenting message from the Protestant Church to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Independence Day, 1 Oct. 1960, 1960
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/29
Scope and Contents
109 x 109 mm. glossy print with copy and 56 mm. negative.
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).
Item
Boys collecting books inside the CMS Bookshop, Lagos, 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/153
Scope and Contents
153 x 109 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1949
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
Bread seller, 1955
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/91
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:
1955
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Y3043UU/134 is missing.
Item
Breakfast verandah, Mr Davidson's house, Lagos, 1946-12 - 1947-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK(GS)23
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.
Dates:
1946-12 - 1947-01
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
Bridge over the Niger between Onitsha and Asaba temporarily repaired, summer 1970, 1970
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/46
Scope and Contents
112 x 75 mm. glossy print with 210 x 138 mm. enlargement.
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).
Item
Bridge over Volta, Adome. Soon after opening, 1930 - 1947
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/75
Scope and Contents
150 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Bringing in fuel for sale in town, East Nigeria, 1933 - 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/40
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing two donkeys loaded with cut wood.
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
Buchanan-Smith album of active service in World War I
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469D
Scope and Contents
Album of various sized prints, concerned with Sir Walter Buchanan-Smiths service with the Nigeria Regiment in the Cameroons (plates 1-8) and in German East Africa (plates 159-201). The captions are difficult to read as they are written on dark brown paper in black ink.
Dates:
1914 - 1930
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
Fonds
Buchanan-Smith glass plates of Nigeria and the Cameroons
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043ZZ
Scope and Contents
A collection of uncaptioned glass plates relating to Buchanan-Smith's service in Nigeria, showing his official residence, duties and travel, and Nigeria’s people and landscape. Y3043ZZ/29 appears to be a Yoruba Oba (chief) from southern Nigeria. It may be possible to identify the images with reference to Buchanan-Smith's Nigerian photographs at Y3043U-Y.
Dates:
1909 - 1935
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
Item
Bugler Ogunleye, 'A' Coy. 1 S.N. Regt, 1908 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/39
Scope and Contents
103 x 61 mm. Showing Bugler Ogunleye standing on the parade ground in front of the military lines at Okigwi.
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).
Item
Building a round-house, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/49
Scope and Contents
102 x 59 mm. Showing a group of Africans constructing the circular wooden framework for the roof of the house.
Dates:
1908
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
Building new lines, Ogoja, 1908 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/51
Scope and Contents
102 x 59 mm. Showing Africans constructing the wooden frameworks of military quarters at Ogoja.
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).
Item
Bull given to me by the Chief of Wukari, 1911 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/8
Scope and Contents
76 x 103 mm. Showing a large hump-necked bullock.
Dates:
1911 - 1912
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
[Bungalow], 1909 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/50
Scope and Contents
96 x 73 mm. A view of an Islamic style bungalow.
Dates:
1909 - 1912
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
[Bungalow], 1909 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/51
Scope and Contents
100 x 74 mm. A view of an Islamic style bungalow.
Dates:
1909 - 1912
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).