Jamaica (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 404 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Chairman of Coop Council, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/536
Scope and Contents
Full length portrait of unidentified man.
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).
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[Chicken coop, 1940s], 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/543
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, 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. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...
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
Children listening to a schools broadcast at Highgate Government School, 1955-03
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/67
Scope and Contents
148 x 116 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'Two classes of children between 8 and 10 years of age are listening together. They particularly enjoy the nature study and music lessons. In this school there are three sets, one given by the Government and the others paid for by the school. At the rear of the class is Mr. R.S. Brooks, the Headmaster'. It also outlines, at length, Government broadcasting in Jamaica.
Dates:
1955-03
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
Christy collection of photographs on Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A
Scope and Contents
Contains loose photographs relating to various of Christy's travels; some photographs are his own and some are by professional photographers. Subjects include: scenes on the Nile including pyramids; railway views in Kenya; rubber trees and cultivation in Nigeria, Uganda and the Cameroons; scenes in the Congo including sufferers of sleeping sickness and ethnic groups of Central Africa of shorter than average height described as Pygmies; scenes in India; scenes from travels in Norway,...
Dates:
1880 - 1913
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
Climbing the maypoles (Agave Karatto), 1887
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073G/25
Scope and Contents
178 x 228 mm.
Dates:
1887
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Picturesque Jamaica
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[Co-operative farmers at work in the field, 1940s], 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/540
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, 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. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...
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).
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[Co-operative farmers at work in the field, 1940s], 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/541
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, 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. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...
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
[Co-operative group parade, with terraced hillside in background, 1940s], 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/542
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, 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. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...
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
Coast line near Port Antonio, 1952
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/135
Scope and Contents
137 x 98 mm, colour postcard.
Dates:
1952
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
Coco-nut avenue leading from wharf to lighthouse at Plum Point, Palisadoes, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073D/27
Scope and Contents
239 x 177 mm. A view looking along the railway line that stretches to the lighthouse between the avenue of palms.
Dates:
1879 - 1886
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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Cocoanut Walk, 1880 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307H/8
Scope and Contents
218x133mm. View showing labourers in a coconut plantation. Duplicate of Y307A/26.
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).
Sub-Fonds
Commission of Major Vernon Guise, 1928 - 1988
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240/17
Scope and Contents
The commission of Major Guise as Justice of the Peace for Kingston, Jamaica, 4 December 1928 (1 page), bearing the signatures of the Governor, Sir Reginald Stubbs, and the Colonial Secretary, A.S. Jelf, and the seal of the colony. There is an accompanying undated photocopy of a biographical entry on Guise, possibly produced when the collection was first catalogued in 1988.
Dates:
1928 - 1988
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Americas miscellanea
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Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 30 Apr. 1975: Bishop Muzorewa and Don Mintoff leaving their aeroplane, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/737
Scope and Contents
153 x 102 mm.
Dates:
1975
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
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975: arrival of Queen Elizabeth II at Kingston, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/728
Scope and Contents
113 x 163 mm.
Dates:
1975
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
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975: Daniel Arap Moi, Vice President of Kenya, welcomed by Dudley Thompson at the airport, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/736
Scope and Contents
143 x 115 mm.
Dates:
1975
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 Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975: delegates welcomed at the airport by Senator Dudley Thompson, Jamaican Foreign Minister, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/729
Scope and Contents
113 x 164 mm.
Dates:
1975
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 Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975: Harold Wilson with Lee Kuan Yew and his wife, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/747
Scope and Contents
185 x 124 mm.
Dates:
1975
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
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975: Indira Gandhi speaking, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/742
Scope and Contents
240 x 192 mm.
Dates:
1975
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 Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975: Indira Gandhi with security leaving the meeting, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/750
Scope and Contents
202 x 153 mm.
Dates:
1975
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 Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975: Julius Nyerere arriving by aircraft, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/732
Scope and Contents
114 x 173 mm.
Dates:
1975
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
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975: Julius Nyerere welcomed by P.N.J. Patterson, Jamaica’s Minister of Industry, Tourism and Foreign Trade, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/733
Scope and Contents
170 x 115 mm.
Dates:
1975
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
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975: Kenneth Kaunda and Mujibur Rahman leaving the meeting, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/749
Scope and Contents
153 x 202 mm.
Dates:
1975
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
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975: Makarios III speaking, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/744
Scope and Contents
241 x 193 mm.
Dates:
1975
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 Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975: march past of Jamaican troops, 1975
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/757
Scope and Contents
245 x 191 mm.
Dates:
1975
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).