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Kenya (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1507 Collections and/or Records:

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Dr Emin Pasha, taken in his camp at Bukoba. The last portrait taken of him prior to his murder a few months later, 1890-12-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/82
Scope and Contents

124 x 100 mm. A head and shoulders portrait of Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer) in three-quarters profile.

Dates: 1890-12-09
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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Dr Fisher and Ann Fisher with the Limuru Girls’ School Choir, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/2/30
Scope and Contents

202 x 153 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher and Peter Kariuki, cousin of Bishop Kariuki, at St. Paul’s United Theological College near Limura, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/2/24
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher at Limuru Girls’ School near Nairobi in procession headed by his niece, Anne Fisher, Headmistress of the school, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/2/29
Scope and Contents

201 x 153 mm. glossy print; Kenya Information Office. The Bishop of Mombasa, Rt. Rev. L.J. Beecher, and Fisher's personal chaplain, Rev. Gilbert Baker, also appear in the print.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher laying the foundation stone of the Fort Hall Memorial Church, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 18/7
Scope and Contents

Duplicate at CMS 12/2/33. Kenya Information Office.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher laying the foundation stone of the Fort Hall Memorial Church, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/2/33
Scope and Contents

206 x 153 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher met by the Acting Governor of Uganda, C.H. Thornley, and Bishop Festo Olang' on arrival at Entebbe Airport, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/2/1
Scope and Contents

154 x 204 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher talking to Rev. Samuel Mukoro, with the Principal of St. Paul's Theological College, Rev. Keith Cole, in the left of the picture, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/2/25
Scope and Contents

203 x 154 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher with Bishop Beecher and the Principal of St. Paul’s College, near Limura, Rev. Keith Cole, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/2/26
Scope and Contents

151 x 205 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher with Bishop Beecher and the Principal of St. Paul's College, near Limuru, Rev. Keith Cole, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 18/5
Scope and Contents

Duplicate at CMS 12/2/26. Kenya Information Office.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher with staff of St. Paul's College, near Limura, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 18/6
Scope and Contents

Duplicate at CMS 12/2/28. Kenya Information Service.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher with staff of St. Paul’s College, near Limura, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/2/28
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher with students at St. Paul’s College, near Limura, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/2/27
Scope and Contents

203 x 154 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher with the Rt. Rev. Obadiah Kariuki, whom he consecrated as Assistant Bishop for the Diocese of Mombasa, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 18/8
Scope and Contents

Duplicate at CMS 12/2/34.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr Fisher with the Rt. Rev. Obadiah Kariuki, whom he consecrated as Assistant Bishop for the Diocese of Mombasa, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/2/34
Scope and Contents

155 x 203 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1955
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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Dr [Lt] Anderson XI Hussars. Mumias 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/63
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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Dr Macpherson, Mumias, 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/89
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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Dr Pownall. Port Ugowe. Sept. 1899, 1899-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/66
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: 1899-09
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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Dried potatoes are dumped from the trays onto the packing troughs, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/354
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Rubber tyres prevent breaking the trays as they are turned over. Each tin is sealed, marked 'Spuds''.

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

Dulcie Barron Collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W
Scope and Contents

Album containing photographs of Entebbe and Kampala, colleagues and friends, travels around the country, and of the people of Uganda, including celebrations for the return of Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda.

Dates: 1955 - 1957
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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Earth augering; the auger holes are started with these small earth augers and then the banker drill augers go in afterwards, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/21
Scope and Contents

40 x 65 mm.

Dates: 1934
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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Earth Augering; the line of posts are the surveyed positions of the holes and the values are written down on these posts by a headman, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/22
Scope and Contents

40 x 65 mm.

Dates: 1934
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

East Africa, 1934 - 1950

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/4/27/21
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When the RES Headquarters was rebuilt in 1934-36, gifts of timber for panelling and furnishing were obtained from Empire Governments, companies and individuals. Many were destroyed during the bombing of 1941 and replacement gifts were received. This file coordinates pre and post-war correspondence.

Dates: 1934 - 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).
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East Africa, 1949 - 1952

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3
Scope and Contents

Various sizes.

Dates: 1949 - 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).
 Sub-Series

East Africa, 1952 - 1955

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The prints listed were chiefly from the files of the Photo Bureau, the majority being mounted on sheets of paper with substantial descriptions, and in many cases the negative attached. Titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

Dates: 1952 - 1955
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).