Nigeria (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1850 Collections and/or Records:
Item
[Mary Kingsley Group, Calabar, 1895], 1895
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/1
Scope and Contents
210 x 150 mm., mounted 290 x 230 mm. The group shows eight Europeans, of whom Mary Kingsley, Sir Claude and Lady Macdonald, and Roger Casement are identified. For a discussion of the picture, and its dating, see Donald Simpson, ‘Mary Kingsley: a West African Group’ (‘African Affairs’, v 86, no 342, 1987, p 5-6) copies of which are filed with this catalogue and with the plate.
Dates:
1895
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
[Mary Kingsley Group, Calabar 1895], 1986
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/2
Scope and Contents
252 x 202 mm. Modern print of Y3043PP/1.
Dates:
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).
Fonds
Mary Ward collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 134
Scope and Contents
Letters, reminiscences, printed items, photographs and medals relating to Mary Ward. The collection also includes material concerning Ward's brother Leonard, the Cossey, Voysey and Sargent families and Bishop Walmsley.
Dates:
1840 - 1987
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
Mary Ward in nursing uniform, c. 1917, 1917
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043KK/5
Scope and Contents
105 x 145 mm. on mount. Three-quarters length photograph by W.E. Wright, Forest Gate.
Dates:
1917
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
Mary Ward on the steps of her bungalow showing her garden, 1916
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043KK/13
Scope and Contents
100 x 130 mm.
Dates:
1916
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
[Mary Ward with another European woman and two men on bungalow steps], 1916
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043KK/18
Scope and Contents
115 x 85 mm.
Dates:
1916
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
Masks of Nkpume Arwuokuku, 1947 - 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/2/1-4
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).
Item
Mass dances, Idoma Division, 1947 - 1948
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/2/22-25
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).
Item
Mass Education, 1944-10-17
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/62
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The Sleeping Sickness Service fully realises that half the battle against disease and ignorance is literacy. Here is a class in progress in the Muslem Elementary School at Takalafiya'.
Dates:
1944-10-17
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
Mass education in Nigeria, 1946 - 1954
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/98-106
Scope and Contents
Photographs, from a full set of at least fifteen (reference numbers DW 5058-5072), relating to Udi Division. There are some ambiguities in the spelling of place names, but those given in captions on the photographs have been followed.In the Udi Division of Onitsha Province of Nigeria, there is in progress a mass education campaign which is likely to be taken as a model for similar campaigns in other parts of Africa. In Udi, mass literacy is not regarded as an end in itself but is...
Dates:
1946 - 1954
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
Mass Literacy experiment in Southern Nigeria, 1944
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/63-67
Scope and Contents
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Each has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Africans have a great desire to learn; in Southern Nigeria, with a population of about 9 millions, only some 276,000, children attend infant and primary schools and only a fraction of these can ever become really literate. Most of the population are entirely illiterate in both English and their own languages. In the Udi Division of South Eastern Nigeria,...
Dates:
1944
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
Material regarding the seizure by the Collector of Customs, Lagos, of gin from the French brig 'Conception', 1867 - 1868
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/3
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 - 1868
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
Material relating to Glover's comments upon Hennessy's recent despatch to Kimberley, 1872-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/159
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:
1872-11
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
Maternity Home at Ogwofia, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/16
Scope and Contents
A long single storey brick building with corrugated-iron roof. The typescript caption on the reverse reads 'Built by voluntary labour. Village subscribed about £160 and Co-operative shop £65. N.A. [Native Administration] gave £100 for roof, £30 for roof, and wages of carpenters and bricklayers'. The pencilled annotation on the reverse reads 'See earlier note'.
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
Maureen Olphin at Diobu with leaders of Youth Fellowship branches of Port Harcourt and Diobu, 1961
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/13
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print with copy, 6 enlargements and 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1961
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
Maureen Olphin in Diobu with co-worker Miss Kalio, 1961
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/11
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print with four enlargements and 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1961
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
Maureen Olphin with co-worker Miss Kalio and Pastor on sight of proposed Community Centre, Diobu, 1961
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/12
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print with 2 copies and 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1961
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
Maureen Olphin with co-worker Miss Kalio visiting Port Harcourt Prison, 1961
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/14
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print with copy, 6 enlargements and 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1961
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
Mbabu Ozou Owa, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/2
Scope and Contents
A typewritten caption (which is a duplicate of a pencilled annotation) on the reverse reads 'Bridge erected by voluntary labour. Timber and cement given by N.A. [Native Administration] River formerly crossed by walking on a tree trunk. The road - about 9 miles long - was made by voluntary labour to Mbabu Owa where, in 12 months, the people erected - a temporary village hall, a stone-built sub-dispensary, a Maternity Home and preparations were made to build a Reading Room and a Co-op...
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
Meade to Glover, 1872-12-19
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/161
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:
1872-12-19
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
Meat market, 1953
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/24
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.
Item
Medical queue at a district centre, 1900 - 1940
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/46
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
Dates:
1900 - 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).
Item
Medicine stall in market, 1950 - 1969
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/105
Scope and Contents
156 x 152 mm. glossy print. Location unidentified.
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
Memo on Ibadan military appointments, 1872
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/165
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
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
Memoir, 1872-06-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/51
Scope and Contents
Neither the writer nor recipient are identified.
Dates:
1872-06-10
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).