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Guyana (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:

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British Guiana Independence Conference, 1965-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/133
Scope and Contents

202 x 156 mm. Picture shows: Mr. P.S.D. D’Aguiar, leader of the United Force, making his opening speech to the conference.

Dates: 1965-11
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).
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British Guiana Independence Conference, 1965-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/140
Scope and Contents

Delegates at the British Guiana Independence Conference seated round the table in Lancaster House.

Dates: 1965-11
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).
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British Guiana Independence Conference Ends, 1965-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/134
Scope and Contents

205 x 152 mm. Mr Anthony Greenwood, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, makes his final speech at the British Independence Conference at Lancaster House in London, England.

Dates: 1965-11
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).
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British Guiana Independence Conference Ends, 1965-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/135
Scope and Contents

147 x 205 mm. Watched by Mr. Anthony Greenwood, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. P.S.D D’Aguiar leader of the United Force in British Guiana, signs the report at the end of the Independence Conference held at Lancaster House in London, England.

Dates: 1965-11
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).
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British Guiana Independence Conference Ends, 1965-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/136
Scope and Contents

205 x 152 mm. Mr. L.F.S. Burnham, Prime Minister of British Guiana and leader of the People’s National Congress, makes his final speech at the Independence Conference held at Lancaster House in London, England.

Dates: 1965-11
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).
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British Guiana Independence Conference Ends, 1965-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/137
Scope and Contents

155 x 201 mm. Watched by Mr. P.S.D. D’Aguiar, leader of the United Force in British Guiana, Mr. Anthony Greenwood, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, signs the report at the end of the Independence Conference held in Lancaster House, London.

Dates: 1965-11
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).
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British Guiana Independence Conference Ends, 1965-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/138
Scope and Contents

155 x 201 mm. Mr. Anthony Greenwood, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, hands the report of the Independence Conference to Mr. L.F.S. Burnham, Prime Minister of British Guiana and leader of the People’s National Congress, for this signature at Lancaster House, London England.

Dates: 1965-11
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).
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British Guiana Independence Conference Ends, 1965-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/139
Scope and Contents

181 x 152 mm. Mr. P.S.D. D’Aguiar, leader of the United Force in British Guiana, makes his final speech at the Independence Conference held at Lancaster House in London.

Dates: 1965-11
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).
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British Guiana’s Premier at London talks, 1962-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/120
Scope and Contents

155 x 203 mm. The Prime Minister of British Guiana, Doctor Cheddi Jagan (right), talking with Mr. B.H. Benn, Minister of Natural Resources, before the opening of the British Guiana Independence Conference at Lancaster House, London.

Dates: 1962-10
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).
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Camp at Alexandra Island, Comocho 19 April, 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3079C/9
Scope and Contents

204 x 139 mm. View looking across the river towards the party’s camp on the sandy foreshore of the island. The name Alexandra was given by the travellers themselves to this island just south of the junction of the Essequibo and Potaro Rivers.

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).
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Camp at Yukaris ? 16 April, 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3079C/6
Scope and Contents

200 x 138 mm. View from the river shallows looking towards the moored boats and the camp beyond, with Europeans and porters posed among the hammocks at the water’s edge.

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).
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Caribbean tour, 1954 - 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/1/3
Scope and Contents

Albums of black and white photographs from the tour of 1954 interleaved with typescript details of the itinerary and inserted press cuttings, postcards, maps and other items.

Dates: 1954 - 1958
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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Cataract of Amalu, and opening of the valley which receives the Kaieteur Falls 25-26 April, 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3079C/15
Scope and Contents

204 x 138 mm. View looking along the Potaro River towards the cataract, with jungle covered mountains in the distance. Poor condition.

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).
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Cataract of Moyowa Seeyna 23 April, 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3079C/14
Scope and Contents

138 x 104 mm. General view looking along the River Potaro towards the cataract.

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).
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Central Office of Information photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI
Scope and Contents The collection comprises twenty-three boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. The majority of photographs are of Heads of Government, meetings and other conferences held in the U.K; conferences leading to constitutional progress and, in most cases, independence, of individual countries; visitors from overseas including those training in the U.K; and organisations, exhibitions etc., in the U.K. relating to the Commonwealth. Most were taken by COI...
Dates: 1948 - 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).
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Changes in British Guiana, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/4/24
Scope and Contents

Series of off prints and cuttings by Davis from the 'Weekly Argosy', Georgetown, published during 1908.

Dates: 1908
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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[Commonwealth Universities], 1946 - 1991

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/1-434
Scope and Contents

Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations. Many, though not all, of the slides were taken by Ian Maxwell.

Dates: 1946 - 1991
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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[Commonwealth Universities], 1946 - 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2
Scope and Contents

Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations.

Dates: 1946 - 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).
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Cotton planting in British Guiana in old times, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/12/15
Scope and Contents

Two-part article by Davis in 'The Argosy', 27 August and 3 September 1904.

Dates: 1904
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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Cotton planting in British Guiana in olden times, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259/6/9
Scope and Contents

Reprinted from 'The Argosy'; 7 sheets.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
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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Demarara Georgetown, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/71
Scope and Contents

240 x 188 mm. A view looking south west over the Georgetown roof tops from the Cathedral. The Town Hall and St Andrews Kirk can be seen on the skyline. The road at the right of the photograph is King Street.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
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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Demarara Georgetown Market Square, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/73
Scope and Contents

242 x 192 mm. A view looking south from the Market Square, with the open square, pedestrians and a horse tram in the foreground and Lombard Street beyond. The Demerara River can just be seen in the distance at the right of the photograph.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
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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Demarara Victoria Lilies, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/72
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248 x 195 mm. A view looking south along Camp Street. The street is divided in two by a wide canal in which are growing the huge pads of the Victoria Lily.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
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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Demerara Field and Rusk’s Camp, Chinese Creek, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/82
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243 x 193 mm. A view showing a gold prospectors’ camp in a forest clearing with European and native workers grouped for the photographer in front of tents slung over branches between the trees. One man at the rear of the group displays a Union Jack. Unsigned, but probably by Julio Siza.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
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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Demerara Gold Prospecting, Chinese Creek, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/80
Scope and Contents

243 x 193 mm. A view showing prospectors at work panning for alluvial gold beside a river. Unsigned photograph.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
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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