Nigeria (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1850 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36
Scope and Contents
Diaries, notebooks, letters, scrapbooks and publications. Titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.
Dates:
1889 - 1948
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
Sir W. Egerton's yacht 'Joy', 1906 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/102
Scope and Contents
103 x 77 mm. Showing Sir Walter Egerton's yacht 'Joy', moored offshore, probably at Lagos. Sir Walter Egerton was Governor of Southern Nigeria from 1906-1912.
Dates:
1906 - 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).
Fonds
Sir Walter Buchanan-Smith collection on Nigeria
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043U-Y
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums and loose prints, intermittently captioned. These albums relate to Buchanan-Smith's service in Nigeria.
Dates:
1909 - 1935
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
[Sleeping sickness education, c.1940], 1940
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/60
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Local officials are employed by the Sleeping Sickness Service in propaganda work in the village. They are expected to deal with health measures, the issue and cultivation of new or improved seeds, care of fruit and other trees, management of livestock and methods of soil conservation, animal health and hygiene. The head of a compound is here seen listening intently to two members of the Propaganda team'.
Dates:
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
[Sleeping Sickness Service clinic, c.1940], 1940
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/54
Scope and Contents
Showing patients queueing to be treated at an open-air clinic. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Curative treatment for Sleeping Sickness must go hand in hand with the attack on the breeding places of the tsetse'.
Dates:
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).
Sub-Series
[Sleeping sickness service survey in the Anchau Corridor, c.1940], 1940
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/34-62
Scope and Contents
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved) issued under the general title 'Sleeping sickness experiment is pattern for progress in rural Africa'. Each has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The British Government is carrying out a successful and interesting experiment in Nigeria, to beat that great menace to African life, Sleeping Sickness. The town of Anchau, centre of the experiment is in the middle of an area ravaged by the...
Dates:
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
[Small group of European men and women, all recognisable in the group in Y3043KK/14, probably at a garden party], 1916
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043KK/17
Scope and Contents
105 x 80 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
Small Salla at Birnin Kudu, 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/159
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
Social worker Maureen Olphin visiting in Port Harcourt with her co-worker Miss Kalio and the Leader of the St. Cyprian's Youth Fellowship, 1961
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/4/10
Scope and Contents
Glossy 56 mm. contact print with negative and three enlargements.
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
Soldiers halting on the march, 1908 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/43
Scope and Contents
102 x 59 mm. Showing a group of African soldiers of the Southern Nigeria Regiment resting beside a track through bush and woodland.
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
Soldiers' wives at Ogoja, 1908 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/65
Scope and Contents
101 x 59 mm. Showing a group of African women.
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).
File
South African Aid to Britain Fund Film 2, Nov. 1955-Jan. 1956
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/3/2
Scope and Contents
Part of 'South African Aid to Britain Fund Overseas travel parties for Youth. West Africa Tour. November 1955 - January 1956.' Intertitles include: 'Nigeria - the largest of Britain's colonial territories - four times the size of the United Kingdom - population thirty-two million equal to that of Canada, Australia and South Africa all put together', 'From village to university', 'Agege Experimental Farm near Lagos', Visit to the Bale of Isheri', 'University College, Ibadan - Trenchard Hall...
Dates:
Nov. 1955-Jan. 1956
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
South African Aid to Britain Fund Film 3, Nov. 1955-Jan. 1956
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/3/3
Scope and Contents
Part of ‘South African Aid to Britain Fund Overseas travel parties for Youth. West Africa Tour. November 1955 - January 1956’, and second part of the RCMS 219/3/2 film on Nigeria. Intertitles and shot list include: ‘Itu Leper Colony’, ‘Enugu - Boys’ Band Hilltop’, ‘Jos tin mines - tin and columbite’, ‘Famous hospital - Vom. Plateau - house and patients’, ‘Village crafts - Kudaru’, ‘Mock Police Riot. Police College, Kaduna’, ‘Northern House of Assembly’, ‘Compound of the Emir of Zaria’,...
Dates:
Nov. 1955-Jan. 1956
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
Southern Nigeria photographs 1908-1910
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints, each measuring approximately 110 x 55 mm. A number of photographs in the album relate to the Northern Hinterland Expedition and the compiler of the album was clearly connected with the Southern Nigeria Regiment of the West African Frontier Force.
Dates:
1908 - 1910
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
Fonds
Souvenir of the inauguration of the railway bridge over the South Channel of the River Niger by H.E. Sir Frederick Lugard ... January 31st 1916. At Jebba, Nigeria, West Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043Z
Scope and Contents
An album, with printed letterpress captions, containing prints, most measuring approximately 145 x 95 mm.The album contains general views of the bridge at Jebba, photographs taken during the opening and of the wreck of the 'Dayspring' which sank in 1857.The Jebba Bridge.Railway construction started in earnest in Nigeria in 1893 with the building of the Lagos Railway running north from Lagos to Ibadan. In 1907 work was started by the Northern Nigeria Administration on the...
Dates:
1916-01-31
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
Spectators at the Accession Proclamation of king George V, Ogoja, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/60
Scope and Contents
102 x 59 mm. Showing ranks of seated and standing African spectators gathered at the edge of the Ogoja parade ground.
Dates:
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
Spectators at the Accession Proclamation of King George V, Ogoja [1910], 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/59
Scope and Contents
102 x 59 mm. Showing a group of African spectators watching the Accession Proclamation, with a squad of the Southern Nigeria Regiment in the foreground.
Dates:
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
Spectators, etc. [Ogoja 1910], 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/64
Scope and Contents
102 x 59 mm. Showing a group of African spectators at the Accession Proclamation.
Dates:
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
Sr. David’s Sunday School: Yoruba girl dressed for Easter, 1957
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/15
Scope and Contents
112 x 155 mm. glossy print, with three copies.
Dates:
1957
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
[S.S. 'Elmina'], 1912 - 1913
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/15
Scope and Contents
213 x 167 mm. Showing the S.S. Elmina at anchor in an unidentified harbour.
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
St. Andrew’s Church, Easter Day, Onitsha, 1962, 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/38
Scope and Contents
101 x 101 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1962
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
St. Andrew’s Church, Easter Day, Onitsha, 1962, 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/39
Scope and Contents
101 x 101 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1962
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
St. Andrew’s Church, Easter Day, Onitsha, 1962, 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/40
Scope and Contents
101 x 101 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1962
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
St. Andrew’s Church, Easter Day, Onitsha, 1962, 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/41
Scope and Contents
101 x 101 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1962
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
St. Andrew’s Teaching Training College, Oyo: Principal Canon Kale (left) with C.R. Childerstone, 1957
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/167
Scope and Contents
156 x 108 mm. glossy print with two copies.
Dates:
1957
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).