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Nigeria (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1850 Collections and/or Records:

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Train-ferry across Niger. Feb. 1912, 1912-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/153
Scope and Contents

103 x 75 mm. A view looking on to the ferry from the shore. Until the completion of the Jebba bridge in 1916 trains were transported across the Niger by ferry.

Dates: 1912-02
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).
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Translation of a Yoruba letter (three copies), 1872-05-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/35
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: 1872-05-13
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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Translation of a Yoruba letter to John Pope Hennessy, 1872-05-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/4/77
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: 1872-05-13
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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Translation of Yoruba letter, 1872-05-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/41
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: 1872-05-28
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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[Treating sleeping sickness, Takalafiya, c.1940], 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/55
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'At the Takalafiya dispensary this woman victim of sleeping sickness is given intravenous injections of tryparsimide by the sleeping sickness service attendant'.

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).
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Tree clinic, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/71
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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Tree under which the Gospel is said to have been preached for the first time in Nigeria, by Thomas Birch Freeman in 1842, 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/5/6
Scope and Contents

151 x 101 mm. glossy print.

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).
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Tributes, speeches etc, 1964 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/9
Scope and Contents Includes: press cuttings on AFB's peerage, 1964 and of his article on being in the House of Lords, 1965; notes for AFB's speech in Canada to the New Democratic Party on the work of Britain's Labour Government, the end of colonialism and securing peace in Vietnam, 1965; copy of a letter from [Robert] Michael Stewart, Foreign Secretary, on the difficulty of negotiations over Vietnam, 1965; article on Albert Einstein and the War Resisters' International, 1967; programme for Africa Freedom Day,...
Dates: 1964 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Trinity College, Umuahia: class in progress, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/179
Scope and Contents

80 x 79 mm. glossy print.

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).
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Trinity College, Umuahia: CMS Africa Secretary, Rev. J.V. Taylor, with students, 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/171
Scope and Contents

154 x 110 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. 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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Trinity College, Umuahia: comparative study of English and Igbo texts, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/175
Scope and Contents

110 x 106 mm. glossy print.

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).
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Trinity College, Umuahia: deacons being instructed in celebrating Holy Communion during course, with the Principal P.J. Ross in the background, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/180
Scope and Contents

102 x 103 mm. glossy print.

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).
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Trinity College, Umuahia: mission to children, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/173
Scope and Contents

103 x 102mm. 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).
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Trinity College, Umuahia: mission to children, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/174
Scope and Contents

103 x 102mm. 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).
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Trinity College, Umuahia: Procession of Witness arriving back at St. Thomas’ Church, Diobu, one of the churches cooperating in the college mission to Diobu, Apr. 1961, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/178
Scope and Contents

154 x 95 mm. glossy print with 240 x 175 mm. matt print.

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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Trinity College, Umuahia: reading at the lecture, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/181
Scope and Contents

153 x 154 mm. glossy print.

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).
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Trinity College, Umuahia: Rev. J.R. Harwood taking a class in Greek, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/172
Scope and Contents

102 x 102 mm. glossy print with 153 x 154 mm. enlargement and 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).
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Trinity College, Umuahia: Rt. Rev. R. Bara Hart, Bishop of the Niger Delta, rehearsing ordinands on the eve of their ordination, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/182
Scope and Contents

104 x 102 mm. glossy print.

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).
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Trinity College, Umuahia: staff and students, 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/169
Scope and Contents

131 x 76 mm. glossy print. Seated from left to right are: Rev. P.J. and Mrs Ross (Anglican), Rev. N.C. and Mrs Macrae (Presbyterian), Rev. E. and Mrs Igwe (Methodist), Dr. Macleod Bryan, and temporary staff from T.E.F and I.M.C. New York.

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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Trinity College, Umuahia: student offering tract to a Diobu worker, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/177
Scope and Contents

239 x 154 mm. matt print.

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).
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Trinity College, Umuahia: students visiting families in Diobu, Port Harcourt, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/176
Scope and Contents

153 x 108 mm. matt print with glossy 202 x 135 mm. enlargement.

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).
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Trinity College, Umuahia: visit of the Premier of Eastern Nigeria, Dr M.I. Okpara, 24 Aug. 1960, 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/170
Scope and Contents

156 x 108 mm. glossy print with copy.

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).
 Fonds

Trousdell Southern Nigeria Photographs, 1905-7

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043A-B
Scope and Contents A collection of albums of photographs taken by Trousdell whilst posted in Nigeria and on leave from that posting.Y3043B, a larger album of 201 prints, contains most of the photographs in this volume as well as later work. 56 captioned photographs record the period from January 3 - October 13 1907 during Trousdell's second tour of duty at Bonny. A few uncaptioned photographs have not been identified as to date or place. The prints in the earlier album are generally in a better...
Dates: 1905 - 1907
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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Trousdell Volume I, 1905 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043A
Scope and Contents An album containing prints neatly captioned in Trousdell's hand. All prints measure 102 x 77 mm unless otherwise stated, and are not detailed in the individual print catalogue: photographs in a portrait format are denoted by '(vertical)' after the caption. The album, dated December 1906, was given by Trousdell as a present to his mother, presumably on his return to Nigeria at the end of his first leave, scenes included show views in Calabar, photographs taken during a journey up the Cross...
Dates: 1905 - 1906
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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Trousdell Volume II, 1905 - 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043B
Scope and Contents

An album containing prints, measuring 102 x 77 mm unless otherwise stated, and the majority captioned in Trousdell's hand. Prints in a portrait format are denoted by '(vertical)' after the caption. Captions for the few untitled prints are enclosed in square brackets.

Dates: 1905 - 1907
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).