Kenya (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1507 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Common scenes in one of Kenya's vegetable producing areas. A Kikuyu family wash their carrots in a nearby stream before bagging them for sale, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/353
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A series of Official photographs (Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'One doesn't associate the middle of Africa with green peas, asparagus and new potatoes, but in the highlands of Kenya most English vegetables grow as well as they do at home. This was a useful factor in wartime when vegetables were urgently needed for thousands of troops in both the East Africa Command and the Middle East. Previously, potatoes had been the only...
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).
Fonds
Commonwealth in Focus Slides
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011GGG
Scope and Contents
Collection of 35mm colour slides of countries of the Commonwealth. When the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition was being prepared it was felt that the strong emphasis on the historical aspect, and the fact that the only section on the contemporary Commonwealth dealt with broad issues and organisations rather than individual countries, made some additional material on contemporary developments desirable. Accordingly it was decided to have a continuous slide projection of contemporary...
Dates:
1982
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
Series
[Commonwealth Universities], 1946 - 1986
Series
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).
Series
[Commonwealth Universities], 1946 - 1991
Series
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).
Item
Communal water tap, Naro Moru, 1969
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/171
Scope and Contents
117 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.
Dates:
1969
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
Communications in East Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints, 240 x 195 mm., showing various aspects of transport and communications, taken by staff photographers. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1950 - 1967
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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Completed Officers Quarters. Mumias 1899, 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/94
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...
Dates:
1899
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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Compost heap, 1948 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/1/10
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. Showing piles of compost with a tall crop behind.
Dates:
1948 - 1950
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
Congregation outside Kisii Church, 30 July 1961, 1961
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/85
Scope and Contents
157 x 115 mm. glossy 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).
Item
Congregation outside new Church on Opening Day, Kabete, 3 Apr. 1961, 1963
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/62
Scope and Contents
116 x 78 mm. glossy coloured print.
Dates:
1963
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
Consecration of the Church of Christ the Healer, with the congregation outside, 1 Feb. 1963, 1963
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/46
Scope and Contents
152 x 109 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1963
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
Consecration service in the Church of Christ the Healer, 1963
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/47
Scope and Contents
109 x 152 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1963
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
Constructing contour ridges at the Kapenguria school farm to prevent soil erosion, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/364
Scope and Contents
Showing labourers at work.
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).
File
Contrasts in Kenya: Nairobi and the Highlands. The Times, Tuesday, Oct 2, 1928, 1924 - 1930
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 178/3
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook with a newspaper cutting showing Government House, Nairobi, pasted on the front cover. The book contains newspaper cuttings, two loose letters (from Misso wa Rapeshemwa 14 July 1924 and Nguyo s/o Kimaru 1 May 1929) and a telegram to Arnold Paice.
Dates:
1924 - 1930
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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Papers of Arnold Paice
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Coryndon Museum Fete, 1950-05
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3/121-28
Scope and Contents
Views of the ceremony.
Dates:
1950-05
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
Cotton in Nyanza, 1948 - 1950
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/1/3
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm. Showing a line of women carrying baskets on their heads. The caption continues 'Off to market with baskets of seed cotton.'
Dates:
1948 - 1950
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
Cotton in Nyanza, 1933 - 1950
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/1/13
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing cotton being weighed. The caption continues: 'An agricultural instructor at a buying post. Scales and weights and measures are checked regularly whilst a careful watch is kept to maintain standards,'
Dates:
1933 - 1950
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
Cotton in Nyanza, 1933 - 1950
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/1/14
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing a long line of women and children carrying baskets of cotton on their heads. The caption continues: 'Women and children converging upon a buying post to sell their cotton by weight.'
Dates:
1933 - 1950
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
Cotton in Nyanza (A), 1948 - 1950
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/1/1
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing people working in a cotton field. The caption continues: 'One of a number of experimental plots in which new varieties of cotton are tested for yield, resistance to disease, and other qualities, in areas typical of African production.'
Dates:
1948 - 1950
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
Cotton in Nyanza (B), 1948 - 1950
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/1/2
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing people working in a cotton field. The caption continues: 'The same experimental plot some four months later. Observations are being taken on flower and boll production. The produce from each variety is harvested and kept separately pending the final weighing and analysis for quality.
Dates:
1948 - 1950
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
[Countryside], 1928
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/147
Scope and Contents
75 x 49 mm. Possibly in Kenya.
Dates:
1928
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
[Countryside], 1928
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/149
Scope and Contents
73 x 50 mm. Possibly in Kenya.
Dates:
1928
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
Cow buffalo shot by E.G., Turquell, 1890-01-20
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/60
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. Showing the dead cow buffalo lying on its side. Gedge’s diary for the day records photographing the animal: 'a herd of buffalo crossed my path about 50 yds off; let drive the 8 bore and knocked a cow which went a short distance and then fell dead on her knees. Photographed her as she lay . . . '
Dates:
1890-01-20
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
/
Ernest Gedge Collection
Item
Cow Hippo; shot by E.G.R. Mzoia, Kavirondo, 1889-11-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/35
Scope and Contents
152 x 108 mm. Modern print from RGS negative. Showing the dead hippopotamus on the bank of the river.
Dates:
1889-11-02
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Ernest Gedge Collection
Item
Cutting a line through the break; Forest Edge Prospect, 1934-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/1
Scope and Contents
65 x 40 mm.
Dates:
1934-10
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).