Nigeria (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1850 Collections and/or Records:
Item
The bush plateau, home visiting, 1955
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/89
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
The Butcher (Chafe, Sokoto Province), 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/173
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).
Fonds
'The development of African road transport in Western Nigeria, 1919-1939': MA thesis
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 153
Scope and Contents
An M.A. thesis submitted to the Department of History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 119 pages.
Dates:
1977
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
The Eastern Aboyne River near Abakaliki, 1908 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043N/44
Scope and Contents
A view looking along the river, with thick forest on either bank.
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
The Emir of Kano, 1908 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/159
Scope and Contents
103 x 60 mm. Showing the Emir standing in the centre of a group of retainers and servants 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).
Item
The Emir of Kano, 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/607
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
Dates:
1934
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
The Emir of Kano, 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/612
Scope and Contents
Holding a crowned sceptre.
Dates:
1934
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
The Emir saluting me at Kano, 1909 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/65
Scope and Contents
97 x 74 mm. Showing a group of Hausa Chiefs charging on horseback towards the photographer.
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).
Item
[The Emir saluting me at Kano], 1909 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/66
Scope and Contents
97 x 74 mm. Showing a group of Hausa Chiefs charging on horseback towards the photographer.
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).
Item
The Emir (Staff of Office held in front of him), 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/143
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
The Emir with his body guard, 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/144
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
The Emir’s eldest son rides down to salute his father, 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/141
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
The Emir’s sons aged seven (snapped after saluting their father), 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/142
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).
Fonds
'The face in the mirror': autobiography of John Morley
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 44
Scope and Contents
The autobiography of John Morley, written during the 1970s, 122 pages.
Dates:
1970 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access:
The thesis may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the permission of the author.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
The following list of complaints... of robberies, &c., committed on the Lagoon between Badagry and Porto Novo, by subjects of the King of Porto Novo, 1871-09-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/4/72
Scope and Contents
This is a printed broadside.
Dates:
1871-09-09
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
The Gang (African workmen), 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/55
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
“The gang” (African workmen), 1928 - 1939
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/18
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
The inimitable Popoff, 1936
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/12
Scope and Contents
54 x 80 mm. View of a young African man standing beside the motor car featured in RCMS 363/4/11.
Dates:
1936
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
The innumerable stone figures of Esie, Nigeria, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/101
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'They were discovered in a clearing amidst a grove of oil palms and other trees, the clearing itself bordered by peregun trees, a kind of aloes planted round holy places. The grove is today an important centre of the fertility cult. Natives of Esie found the figures about 1773. The grove was kept secret until 1933, when an English missionary was told about it by one of his African mission teachers'. 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
The Lurike of Kudaru, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043L/14
Scope and Contents
159 x 113 mm. Showing the Lurike of Kudaru, dressed in Arab fashion and seated on a horse, with an attendant holding the animal's bridge. According to Arnett, E.J. (1920) the Chief of Kudaru was Tura-ki Kerami. Whether this is the same figure has not been determined.
Dates:
1900
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
The main figure of the seven holy bronzes of Tada, Nigeria, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/96
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'It is of dark bronze, 3 ft 8 inches high, and is called 'Gago'. Gago is a title still used by the village chiefs in Idah, below Tada on the Niger. The head-dress of the figure consists of a tigh [sic] fitting helmet. At the front of back of it medallions are attached with a horned and moustached face on them. The close-fitting gown is richly decorated with designs'. 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
The Nigeria Constitutional Conference in London, 1958-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/371
Scope and Contents
151 x 205 mm. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Rt. Hon. A. Lennox -Boyd (left) talks with the Prime Minister of the Federation of Nigeria and the Premiers of the Western, Northern and Eastern regions at Lancaster House, before the opening session of the resumed Nigeria Constitutional Conference. From Left to right are: The Hon. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Premier of the Western Region; Alhaji the Hon. Abubakar Tafawar Balewa, the Federal Prime Minister; Alhaji the Hon. Ahmadu,...
Dates:
1958-09
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
The Nigerian Constitutional Conference, Lancaster House, 1958-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/374
Scope and Contents
204 x 151 mm.
Dates:
1958-10
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).
Item
The Nigerian Constitutional Conference, Lancaster House, 1958-09-29
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/380
Scope and Contents
Colour transparency.
Dates:
1958-09-29
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).
Item
The Nigerian Constitutional Conference, Lancaster House, 1958-09-29
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/381
Scope and Contents
Colour transparency
Dates:
1958-09-29
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).