Nigeria (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1850 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Emir of Ilorin in a group, 1930 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/115
Scope and Contents
Negative.
Dates:
1930 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Emir of Zaria, 1908 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/160
Scope and Contents
59 x 103 mm. A three-quarter length portrait of the Emir standing in front of a decorated mud wall.
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).
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[?Emir of Zaria], 1911 - 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/17
Scope and Contents
112 x 85 mm. Showing the Emir (not positively identified) and two other figures (possibly also Emirs) seated on the verandah of Government House, Zaria. A group of children is seated on the steps in the foreground.
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).
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[Emir saluting me at Kano], 1909 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/67
Scope and Contents
97 x 74 mm.
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).
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Emir's palace, Tudan Wada, 1951
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/98
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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Emmanuel College: Bishop of Ibadan and his Chaplain on their way to the Inauguration Service, 1958
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/97
Scope and Contents
155 x 110 mm. glossy print with copy.
Dates:
1958
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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Emmanuel College: Bishop of Ibadan speaking after the Inauguration Service, 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/98
Scope and Contents
155 x 112 mm. glossy print with copy.
Dates:
1958
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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Emmanuel College: CMS Africa Secretary, Rev. J.V. Taylor, with students, 1960, 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/99
Scope and Contents
56 mm. glossy contact print with 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).
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Emmanuel College: procession to the Inauguration Service, 14 Feb. 1958, 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/96
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. glossy print. Figures from left to right are: Prof. A.D. Galloway, Rev. J.W.D. Simonson, Rev. F. Foulkes, Rev. M. Williamson, Rev. D. Anderson, Rev. Idowu, Rev. C.T. Day.
Dates:
1958
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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Emmanuel College: Rev. J.W.D. Simonson with students in the grounds, 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/100
Scope and Contents
154 x 110 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).
Item
Entering Lagos lagoon, 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/7
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
Enthronement of the Rt. Rev. S.O. Odutola as Bishop of Ibadan at St. James’ Pro-Cathedral, Ibadan, 1960
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/2/31
Scope and Contents
155 x 108 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).
Item
Entrance to ‘Bethlehem’ junior boarding house, Wusasa School, 1950 - 1969
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/190
Scope and Contents
153 x 102 mm. glossy print with two 109 x 153 mm. copies. A. Parker.
Dates:
1950 - 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).
Item
Entrance to Government House from Marina, Secretariat straight ahead, 1936 - 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/21
Scope and Contents
195 x 145 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).
Item
Entrance to Iyi Enu Hospital, 1908 - 1940
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/34
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
Dates:
1908 - 1940
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
Essays on Nigerian topics
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 149
Scope and Contents
A volume presented to R.E. Ellison in February 1961 by the Executive Committee on behalf of members of the Kaduna-Zaria branch of the Historical Society of Nigeria in appreciation of Ellison's services to the Society. On the inside spine is a letter to Ellison from S.S. Waniko, 4 July 1961, with a photograph showing Ellison at the branch's Annual General Meeting. The titles of the essays are 'Some traditions of warfare in Northern Nigeria', 'The Islamic Brotherhoods in Nigeria', 'Nigeria -...
Dates:
1961 - 1984
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
EvN 1a-36 Bookbinding lesson at the Holy Cross School at Lagos, Nigeria, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/95
Scope and Contents
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
EvN 6-12 A Yoruba mask worn at the traditional festival of Egugun, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/100
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse continues 'and representing according to Nigerian belief, the spirit of an ancestor'. 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).
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EvN 8-9 A painting exhibited in the school museum of the Government School at Ilorin, Nigeria, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/116
Scope and Contents
Painting of a chief and his entourage. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The painting was done by the Court Painter of the Emir of Ilorin'. 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).
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EvN 9-37 The head of the most beautiful of the seven holy figures of Tada, Nigeria, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/97
Scope and Contents
Close-up view of the head of one of the bronzes. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'We can see clearly the perfect art of the scuptor [sic] who made the statue in copper bronze centuries ago. It is not known who is represented by the statue, not waht [sic] people made it'. 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).
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EvN 11-18 [The stone figures of Esie, 1940s], 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/102
Scope and Contents
Close-up view of some of the statues. The typewriten caption on the reverse reads 'Another view of the holy stone figures of Esie, which stand in a clearing amidst a grove of oil palms and others [sic] trees about 31 miles south of Ilorin, Nigeria. The figure to the right is covered all over with chicken's blood whichhas been sacrificed ti [sic] it'.
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).
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EvN 11-36 A Yoruba council house with carved door posts in the old traditional style at Omu, Nigeria, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/108
Scope and Contents
The building itself is in European style - a single storey stone house with corrugated-iron roof. The traditional carved posts support the verandah. 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).
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EVN 14-32 A students [sic] of the Chief of the Brasscasters of the Oba of Benin [i.e. Benin City], working at a figure in wax for casting, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/98
Scope and Contents
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
EvN 20-6 A kiln for firing clay at Uyo School in Nigeria, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/103
Scope and Contents
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
EvN 24-33 A carving showing a native Christian priest, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/104
Scope and Contents
The carving is in the form of a candle-holder. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'done by a pupil of 'Christ the King', the Roman Catholic Secondary School at Onitsha, 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).