Somalia (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:
Item
My visitor at Sheikh, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1038
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
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).
Fonds
Newscuttings on Africa and South East Asia
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 323
Scope and Contents
The principal part of the collection is a set of thirteen scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to East Africa, particularly Kenya and Tanganyika. The rest of the collection consists of a volume of cuttings relating to post-war trading opportunities in Nigeria and three scrapbooks concerning rubber and mining in South East Asia.
Dates:
1914 - 1953
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
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On the slopes of Wagga Mountain, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1051
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. Hankiduti Goot.
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).
Item
On the slopes of Wagga Mountain, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1052
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. Hankiduti Goot.
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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One of the four hot springs at Duba, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1084
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Near Berbera
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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Part of Commissioner's Camel Escort, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1072
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). Wagga Mountain in distance.
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).
File
Photographs, 1964 - 1972
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/4/1/14
Scope and Contents
Numbers 1-64 (205 x 155 mm) feature a reception given for the Smedleys by Kwesi Armah, Ghanaian High Commissioner in London, in Feb. 1964. Only the first two images are captioned.Numbers 65-66 (205 x 155 mm) were taken during a visit by the Smedleys to the Cocoa Institute in Kumasi in May 1964, and is accompanied by a newspaper articleNumbers 67-69 (128 x 80 mm) feature a ceremony at the Government Secondary Technical School, Takoradi, in July 1966Numbers 70-71 (205 x...
Dates:
1964 - 1972
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
Photographs of Egypt and the Sudan, 1870s-80s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B
Scope and Contents
A collection of albumen prints measuring approximately 210 x 280 mm, captioned either in the negative or in pencil on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The collection contains several duplicates and appears to contain photographs from several sources. Prints 1-10 show architectural and landscape views in Egypt (Cairo, the Pyramids and the Suez Canal), the remainder are...
Dates:
1870 - 1889
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
Rainbow over Haragot tirrh Mountain, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1043
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). To right of Suk Suthah plateau riding towards Wagga.
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).
Item
Rainbow over Haragot tirrh Mountain, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/1043
Scope and Contents
350 x 250 mm.
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).
Item
Reception, 1972
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/12/13
Scope and Contents
155 x 110 mm black and white photograph of Smedley attending a National Day party at the Somali embassy, probably during his tenure as Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the FCO.
Dates:
1972
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
Reception, 1972
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/12/14
Scope and Contents
120 x 80 mm colour photograph of Smedley attending a party at the Somali embassy.
Dates:
1972
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
Recollections of Jeremy Varcoe CMG, 2021
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 202
Scope and Contents
This is an edited version of a personal memoir which Jeremy Varcoe wrote for his family.
Dates:
2021
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
Item
Reservoir of Hot Water Spring at Duba, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1083
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Six miles from Berbera.
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).
Item
Somali Civil Police, Review Order, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1028
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). Terrible wind blowing. (Fisher).
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).
Item
Somali Civil Police, Review Order, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1029
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format).
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).
Item
Somali Hehraer, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1045
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Of the Moussa Gibreel Tribe.
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).
Item
Somali [i.e. Somalia] cattle dealer, 1933 - 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/3/297
Scope and Contents
130 x 185 mm. Three quarter length portrait.
Dates:
1933 - 1964
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
Somali lion cub, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1085
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. About 6 months old; and E. Power Esq.
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).
Item
Somali typical tribesmen, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1073
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). Names of tribes and subtribes represented in group : Habar Yunis Ishaak - Habar Yunis Rer - Habar Gehangis Aral - Habar Yunis Musa Ismail - Habar Yunis Musa Abdulla - Warsangeli - Habar Awaal Mohamed Essa - Habar Awaal Saad Musa - Habar Gehangis Eidegalla - Habar Tolgaala Ahmed Farah.
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).
Item
Somali typical tribesmen, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1074
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). [No print]. Missing.
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).
Item
Somali typical tribesmen., 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1075
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). [No print]. Missing.
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).
Item
Somali warrior in front of my tent at Sheikh, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/1039
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate.
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).
Item
(?) Somali woman travelling by ox, 1916
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/14
Scope and Contents
158 x 114 mm. A view showing a woman, probably Somali, seated on an ox with her belongings. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.
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
Somali women, 1870 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/33
Scope and Contents
279 x 216 mm Half length portrait of two Somali women seated outside a hut.
Dates:
1870 - 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).