Kenya (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1507 Collections and/or Records:
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Goods train in the Rift Valley, 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/14
Scope and Contents
192 x 246 mm. View from a rise looking down onto a freight train crossing the Rift Valley. The mountain in the distance is the extinct volcano Longonot.
Dates:
1950 - 1967
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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Government House, 1951-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3/327-30
Scope and Contents
External views including one of a band playing.
Dates:
1951-07
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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Government House and other residences, Mombasa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/13
Scope and Contents
76 x 57 mm. General view looking along the headland towards Government House and other residences in the area. With the sea on the left.
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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Government House - Nairobi, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/47
Scope and Contents
80 x 50 mm. A view of Government house still being built (although the structure itself looks finished) to judge from the presence of piles of rubble and general building materials.
Dates:
1925
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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[Government House - Nairobi], 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/3
Scope and Contents
89 x 62 mm.
Dates:
1925
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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Grant’s Antelope, Turquell, 1890-01-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/49
Scope and Contents
152 x 108 mm. (modern print from RGS negative). Showing a recently shot antelope. See Gedge diary for 6th January 1890.
Dates:
1890-01-06
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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Ernest Gedge Collection
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Group at Port Ugowe. Serg. Maj. Greenwood. H. Galt. Capt. Collard, Dr Powman [Pownall] & Knowles, 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/67
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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Group of Discharged Swahili Soldiers about to return to Coast. Mumias 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/34
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).
Sub-Series
Grown in Kenya, 1940 - 1949
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/343-360
Scope and Contents
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).
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Guard Mounting No. 7 Coy. Mumias 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/49
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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Guyo Dajisa is a typical Boran from Kenya's arid north, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/399
Scope and Contents
Three-quarter length portrait. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Stock are his greatest treasure, water and grazing for them his main concern'.
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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H. Galt. Port Ugowe. Sept 1899, 1899-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/65
Scope and Contents
With mare and foal.
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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Handrearing a calf, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/381
Scope and Contents
Showing a calf being fed from the bottle by two African agricultural instructors.
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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'Heathen Kikuyu village', 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/230
Scope and Contents
153 x 115 mm. glossy print with 74 x 52 mm. negative.
Dates:
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
Henry Muoria Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 405
Scope and Contents
Nine unpublished manuscripts written by the Kenyan journalist Henry Muoria.
Dates:
1944 - 1985
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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Hill top camp; my kitchen in the foreground and my tent in the centre of the photo; the camp from behind, 1935 - 1936
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/57
Scope and Contents
82 x 55 mm.
Dates:
1935 - 1936
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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Hippos shot in R. Lisumu on boundary of Lower Kavirondo, 1889-11-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/36
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. Showing four dead hippopotami lying on the river bank. The photograph in fact almost certainly shows animals killed on the River Iyala, as described by Gedge on November 1st: ‘The River (Iyala) runs just below the village where we are encamped. 4 hippos were seen in a large pool by our men, so J[ackson] the Dr [Mackinnon] and I went after them and bagged the lot. The last one gave us a good bit of sport …’ And the following day Gedge records: ‘Went down in the morning to the...
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
File
History of the Kenyan Survey Department, 1931 - 1969
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 150/6/3/2
Scope and Contents
A photocopy of J.H. Williams, 'Historical outline and analysis of the work of the Survey Department, Kenya Colony' (1931), and two accompanying letters of 1969.
Dates:
1931 - 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).
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H.M. Customs and landing stages, Mombasa, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/5
Scope and Contents
207 x 156 mm. A duplicate of Y30468G/8.
Dates:
1900
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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Hospital training in Kenya, 1952-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/52
Scope and Contents
115 x 132 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'Lack of Higher Education Is Not a Complete Barrier to African Girls. (See Feature Set Intro. No. 731). Janet Ndoti, during her training in King George V Hospital, Nairobi, has a wide variety of duties. One of her jobs is to sterilise the instruments in the operating theatre. 1/52'.
Dates:
1952-01
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
House at Chebutubu Camp, 1935
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/28-32
Scope and Contents
From the File:
An album containing images illustrating Benson's prospecting work, complementing his letters in RCMS 364/1/3. His captions have been reproduced.
Dates:
1935
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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House at Kibiri; back, 1935-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/52
Scope and Contents
65 x 40 mm.
Dates:
1935-10
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).
Item
House at Kibiri; front, 1935-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/51
Scope and Contents
65 x 40 mm.
Dates:
1935-10
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).
Item
House in Mombasa in which Hobley lived, 1977
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/8
Scope and Contents
203 x 152 mm. View looking across a garden towards a verandahed house. The note on the reverse states that it was occupied by a company employee, John Robert Wilson Pigott (1850-1928), during IBEA Co. times and by Charles William Hobley (1857-1947) when he was Provincial Commissioner of Seyidieh Province (appointed 1912). The house was built on the site of the Katherine Bibby Hospital.
Dates:
1977
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
[Houses and countryside], 1928
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/148
Scope and Contents
76 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).