Nigeria (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1850 Collections and/or Records:
Item
[Drawing water from the well, Approved Institute for Boys, Ishere, 1940s], 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/71
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'A well has been bored in the centre of the 'village'. One boy is seen drawing water while others are laying a cement gutter around the well to ensure cleanliness'.
Dates:
1940 - 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
Drinking water from polluted river, 1955
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/72
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
Dry season, Gawon, 1951, 1951
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/96
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.
File
Duplicate correspondence, 1867 - 1872
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/18
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:
1867 - 1872
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
[Durbar, Northern Nigeria], 1910-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/55
Scope and Contents
100 x 73 mm. Showing a group of chiefs seated on carpets on the ground, with a police guard of honour standing at the left. Location and date unknown.
Dates:
1910-02
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).
Item
[Durbar or regatta at Opobo], 1912 - 1913
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/16
Scope and Contents
165 x 118 mm. Mounted on card. Showing a large canoe decorated with flags (one of which reads 'Opobo') and with an unidentified chief standing beneath a large umbrella. The occasion has not been identified.
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).
Item
[Durbar or regatta at Opobo], 1912 - 1913
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/17
Scope and Contents
210 x 161 mm. Mounted on card. Similar to Y3043O/16 but a more distant view including several other canoes.
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).
Item
Dwellings – living canoes, 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/61
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).
Item
Dyeing cloth, Kano, 1933 - 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/46
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing a person laying out dyed cloth to dry in the sun. Behind him others are dyeing the cloth in holes in the ground.
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).
Item
Dyeing hand woven cloth in the old town of Kano, 1933 - 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/47
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm. Showing men dyeing cloth in holes in the ground.
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).
Item
[Dyeing hand woven cloth in the old town of Kano], 1933 - 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/47A
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm. Showing men dyeing cloth in holes in the ground.
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
E.A. Rothery Collection on Nigeria 1928-1939
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG
Scope and Contents
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:
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
E.A.R. Jos , 1930
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/39
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:
1930
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
Early morning on the Ossiomo, 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/59
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).
File
Early travelling in Nigeria, 1940 - 1964
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 134/7/5
Scope and Contents
An undated typescript description of a journey up the Niger March, 1906, 6 pages. Ward visited Forcados, Borutu, Lokoja, Wechisu and Barajuka before travelling by train to Zungeru and continuing her journey by rail. There is also a two-page manuscript fragment containing an account of part of this journey.
Dates:
1940 - 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).
Sub-Series
East Africa and Nigeria, 1900 - 1950
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29
Scope and Contents
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
Dates:
1900 - 1950
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
East Central State Visit, 1971-11-01 - 1971-11-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043G
Scope and Contents
An album of captioned prints, measuring 200 x 155 mm, covering the visit of Sir Cyril Pickard to East Central State.Many show Sir Cyril with State officials; The Administrator, Mr Ukpabi Asika (1-3, 5-6, 23-24, 26 and 31), and Mrs Asika (30); Commissioner for Trade and Industry, Dr Ukwu I. Ukwu (4, 10); Commissioner for Economic Development and Reconstructio, Mr S.G. Ikoko (7); Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr L. Obibuaku (8, 27); Permanent Secretary, Ministry...
Dates:
1971-11-01 - 1971-11-04
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
Eastern Region House of Assembly, 1959, 1959
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/19
Scope and Contents
155 x 100 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
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).
Sub-Series
Eastham Collection, 1946-12 - 1952
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/1 Eastham
Scope and Contents
A series of small snapshots which, according to a note on one envelope, were taken by Professor Eastham.Professor Eastham was a member of a delegation under the chairmanship of Sir William Hamilton Fyfe, whose other members were Professor H.H. Bellot, Professor T.H. Davey, and Mr Walter Adams, sent by the IUC to consider educational developments in West Africa. It left London at the end of December 1946, visited all four British territories, and returned in mid-January. 48 of the...
Dates:
1946-12 - 1952
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
Ediba, Cross River, 1908 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/42
Scope and Contents
102 x 59 mm. A view looking along the Cross River at Edina (east of Afikpo), with wooden dugouts moored at the waters edge 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).
Item
Effects of tapping, Calabar, Southern Nigeria
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/104
Scope and Contents
78 x 95 mm. A view showing the deep scars (two-and-a-half year old) caused by excision tapping with the old V-shaped knife.
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
Eke Village Clearing new village centre site, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/6
Scope and Contents
Showing a large group of labourers levelling a clearing. An annotation on the reverse reads 'See earlier Eke photos'.
Dates:
1940 - 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
Elders of the Ebute Metta Church to Glover, 1873-01-25
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/9
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:
1873-01-25
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).
Item
[Embroidery class for boys, Muslim School, Share, 1940s], 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/109
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse is torn but the following is legible 'vN 1o-22 [tear]upe boys doing traditional embroidery work [tear] the Mohammedan School at Share, Nigeria'. Photograph by Margot Lubinski.
Dates:
1940 - 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
Emir of Ilorin, 1930 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/116
Scope and Contents
Negative.
Dates:
1930 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.