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Nigeria (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1850 Collections and/or Records:

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Crossing a swamp, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043L/10
Scope and Contents

159 x 111 mm. Showing a pith helmeted and pipe smoking European being carried across a swamp on the shoulders of African bearers.

Dates: 1900
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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Crossing the lagoon, African canoe, 1936 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/54
Scope and Contents

105 x 60 mm.

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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Crowd at Health Week, Jos, April 1955, 1955-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/51
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.
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Crowd listening to loud speaker, Health Week, Jos, April 1955, 1955-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/73
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.
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[Crowd scene], 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/100
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: 1951
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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Crown bird, 1936-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/16
Scope and Contents

80 x 54 mm. View of the bird with the Residency in the background.

Dates: 1936-10
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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Crowther to Willoughby, 1873-01-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/6
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: 1873-01-20
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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C.S.M. Cobbina, 1 S.N.R, 1908 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/24
Scope and Contents

59 x 102 mm. Showing Colour Sergeant Major Cobbina standing alone in front of a thatched hut.

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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D.A. Compound after health sister's visit, 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/28
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: 1953
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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Dance of the Iziraga women, Ogoja Division, 1947 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/2/46-48
Scope and Contents From the File: Photographs of masks, dress, dances, musical instruments and prospecting work, accompanied by descriptive captions and notes (82 x 57 mm). Benson introduces the album by writing, 'The photographs and notes which follow were collected during a prospecting trip covering 700 miles mainly in the north of Abakaliki Division, part of the west of Ogoja Division and along the Ogoja-Idoma boundary. The notes etc. refer to the natives, who have not come under the European or outside influence. The...
Dates: 1947 - 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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Dance of the Ndubia Girls, 1947 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/2/26-45
Scope and Contents From the File: Photographs of masks, dress, dances, musical instruments and prospecting work, accompanied by descriptive captions and notes (82 x 57 mm). Benson introduces the album by writing, 'The photographs and notes which follow were collected during a prospecting trip covering 700 miles mainly in the north of Abakaliki Division, part of the west of Ogoja Division and along the Ogoja-Idoma boundary. The notes etc. refer to the natives, who have not come under the European or outside influence. The...
Dates: 1947 - 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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Dance of the young women of Agbaga Obassi, Abakaliki Division, 1947 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/2/49-51
Scope and Contents From the File: Photographs of masks, dress, dances, musical instruments and prospecting work, accompanied by descriptive captions and notes (82 x 57 mm). Benson introduces the album by writing, 'The photographs and notes which follow were collected during a prospecting trip covering 700 miles mainly in the north of Abakaliki Division, part of the west of Ogoja Division and along the Ogoja-Idoma boundary. The notes etc. refer to the natives, who have not come under the European or outside influence. The...
Dates: 1947 - 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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Dancers, Prize giving, health Week, Jos, April 1955, 1955-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/70
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.
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D.E. Smith with leopard club bought at Ridau, now in Edinburgh Zoo. (Douglas Edward Smith, Surveyor), 1928 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/107
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...
Dates: 1928 - 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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Declaration by representatives of the African Commercial Association concerning their visit to Ibadan, 1864-01-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/1/69
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: 1864-01-09
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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Dennis Memorial Grammar School: exterior view, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/159
Scope and Contents

160 x 113 mm. glossy print with copy and 35 mm. negative.

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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Denton and staff, Lagos Gov, 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/7
Scope and Contents

195 x 130 mm. There are seventeen men in this open air group, taken near a hut. Some are identical with individuals in Y3043PP/6, but wearing different clothes.

Dates: 1891
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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Departure from Zungeru. Feb. 1911, 1911-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/156
Scope and Contents

193 x 132 mm. Showing Bell and other officials walking past a guard of honour on the platform of Zungeru Station on his departure on leave.

Dates: 1911-02
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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Departure from Zungeru. Feb. 1911, 1911-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/157
Scope and Contents

192 x 131 mm. Showing Bell (now dressed in civilian clothes) talking to a group of officials on Zungeru Station, with a locomotive at the left and a guard of honour in the background..

Dates: 1911-02
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

Derek Holt West African photographs

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP
Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints and one modern copy print. These photographs presumably relate to the activities of John Holt and Co. They fall into three main groups: mounted photographs (1-3), unmounted photographs (4-31), and carte de visite photographs (32-67). In the first category are the important Mary Kingsley groups (1-2) and the Morel family photograph (3). Included in the second are a number of prints (9, 11-17, 24-25) which appear to have been removed from an album or other...
Dates: 1890 - 1986
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).
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Despatch from Glover to Baron Didelot explaining British action with respect to Porto Novo, 1863-08-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/1/41
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: 1863-08-10
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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Despatch from Glover to Duke of Newcastle regarding the depression caused by the continued hostility of the Egbas and his advice for a more firm response, 1863-09-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/1/50
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: 1863-09-10
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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Despatch from Glover to Earl Russell on the depressed state of trade and hostility with the Egbas, 1863-09-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/1/49
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: 1863-09-09
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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Despatch from Glover to Earl Russell reporting his efforts to resolve conflict among neighbouring peoples, 1863-06-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/1/6
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: 1863-06-09
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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Despatch from Glover to the Duke of Newcastle summarising recent conflicts with the French and the King of Porto Novo and the improvement in relations, 1863-08-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/1/40
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: 1863-08-09
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).