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Nigeria (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1850 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Miscellaneous Nigerian Photographs 5, 1909 - 1935

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043Y
Scope and Contents

Y3043Y/35 is the work of Adenaike Brothers and Y3043Y/37 is the work of Fransisco Eugenie Ade Pereira.

Dates: 1909 - 1935
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).
 Series

Miscellaneous photographs from Uganda, Northern Nigeria, the Caribbean and Mauritius 1899-1930s, 1899 - 1939

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G
Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints of various sizes (mainly snapshots) by various photographers. The prints are largely uncaptioned and are mainly duplicates of prints in the other parts of the collection. The prints have been grouped chronologically thus: Uganda (1-47), Northern Nigeria (49-68), Caribbean (69-88), Mauritius (89-111), miscellaneous (112-117). The collection also includes 10 original negatives which are listed with the prefix 'Y3011G/ON'. Two geographical anomalies have crept...
Dates: 1899 - 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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Miscellaneous slides, 1950 - 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU
Scope and Contents

Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

Dates: 1950 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: Y3043UU/134 is missing.
 Fonds

Miscellaneous views in Calabar, Opobo and Sierra Leone, circa 1912-1913

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O
Scope and Contents

A collection of prints by various photographers including the Lisk-Carew Brothers of Freetown, Sierra Leone (prints 22-27). All of the photographs are uncaptioned and the majority measure approximately 200 x 150 mm. The geographical locations of the prints breaks down thus: 1 - 8 Calabar; 9 - 13, 16-17 Opobo; 22 - 27 Sierra Leone.

Dates: 1912 - 1913
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).
 Item

Miss Jane Blackhouse visiting in the village, Kujara, 1961

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/28
Scope and Contents

154 x 103 mm. glossy print with two copies.

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).
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Mission lorry at Aba, 1920 - 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/47
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1920 - 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).
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Missionary work during the Biafran War, 1967 - 1970

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/1
Scope and Contents

This file includes two sets of 80 x 118 mm. glossy prints depicting the World Council of Churches activities during the conflict. They are listed and captioned in an accompanying letter.

Dates: 1967 - 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).
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Mixed plantation, Ibadan State, Southern Nigeria, 1903 - 1910

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/76
Scope and Contents

78 x 99 mm. A view showing Cocoa, palm-oil trees, hevea and Funtumia elastica growing in a mixed plantation.

Dates: 1903 - 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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Model town, Jos, health Week, April 1955, 1955-04

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/78
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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Model town, Jos, Health Week, April 1955, 1955-04

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/46
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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Model town, Jos, Health Week, April 1955, 1955-04

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/47
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

Model town, Jos, Health Week, April 1955, 1955-04

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/48
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

"Modern Africa", Calabar, 1939-04-02

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/172
Scope and Contents

39 x 47 mm. Miss Seville, Government Telephone Operaor from Lagos going on leave to Calabar. The modern African Miss is only a few steps behind her London 'sisters' when it comes to fashions.

Dates: 1939-04-02
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

Modern Commonwealth photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC
Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...
Dates: 1936 - 1980
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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Morning assembly at the Higher College, 1947

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/74
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Each has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Nigeria has in hand development plans involving the expenditure of £40,000,000 during the next 11 years. It is essential that the government should have at its disposal first class doctors, engineers, surveyors, agriculture, forestry and voluntary officers and teachers - and, that so many as possible should be Africans. The work of the 13-year-old Higher...
Dates: 1947
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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Mosquito lava, 1951

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/101
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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[Mother and baby], 1951

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/105
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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[Mother and baby], 1956

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/150
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: 1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Y3043UU/134 is missing.
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[Mother and child, unidentified], 1955

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/66
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.
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Mother getting prizes, Jos, Health Week, April 1955, 1955-04

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/49
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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[Motorcars], 1951

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/113
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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[Moving to Takalafiya, c.1939], 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/39
Scope and Contents

Showing a line of men, their belongings on their heads, walking along the path from Anchau to Takalafiya. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The dispossessed people of Anchau migrate to the newly planned town at Takalafiya'.

Dates: 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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Mr. A. Odita, District Clerk of Udi Division, Nigeria, 1944

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/64
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait of Mr. Odita, one of the volunteer teachers in the literacy scheme. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'He has given much spare time to helping to organise mass education in the Division'.

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).
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Mr. A.G. Taylor explains the use of a microtome to students at the Higher College, 1947

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/86
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Each has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Nigeria has in hand development plans involving the expenditure of £40,000,000 during the next 11 years. It is essential that the government should have at its disposal first class doctors, engineers, surveyors, agriculture, forestry and voluntary officers and teachers - and, that so many as possible should be Africans. The work of the 13-year-old Higher...
Dates: 1947
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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Mr Benjamin to Foresythe, 1872-06-29

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/61
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: 1872-06-29
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).