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Kenya (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1507 Collections and/or Records:

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Locomotive drivers and staff in the farewell party in honour of Mechanical Engineer Mr Farmer and his wife, Nairobi, 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469L/1/4
Scope and Contents

195 x 127 mm. Portrait of staff grouped around Mr and Mrs Farmer.

Dates: 1952 - 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).
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Locomotive shed and yard, Nakuro [Nakuru], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/26
Scope and Contents

200 x 156 mm. A duplicate of Y30468I/1.

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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Lodwar, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/132
Scope and Contents

A panorama, consisting of two photographs, of Lodwar in the Turkana district of the Rift Valley, Kenya.

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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[Logging], 1939 - 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/152
Scope and Contents

110 x 80 mm. Showing a cart of chopped logs being drawn by at least five pairs of oxen.

Dates: 1939 - 1941
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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Londiani, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/38
Scope and Contents

204 x 154 mm. A duplicate of Y30468I/14.

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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Londiani-grass flat on Mau Plateau, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/131
Scope and Contents

75 x 51 mm.

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).
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Londiani River, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/35
Scope and Contents

201 x 157 mm. A duplicate of Y30468I/12.

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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Longboats off Lamu (c. 1901), 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/43
Scope and Contents

166 x 120 mm. A very blurred print showing two boats (one flying the Sultan’s flag from bow and stern) off Lamu. See Y30468A/16.

Dates: 1901
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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Longenot, 1939 - 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/163
Scope and Contents

130 x 60 mm. General landscape.

Dates: 1939 - 1941
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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Looking across the curve at Mile 503, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/39
Scope and Contents

203 x 155 mm. A duplicate of Y30468I/15.

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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Lt. Dugmore. D.S.O., Mumias 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/38
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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Lumbwa natives, 1889-10-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)1/11
Scope and Contents Showing a large group of Lumbwa seated in a semi-circle in front of the camera. James Martin, wearing a deerstalker and smoking his pipe, stands at the extreme left of the print. One of the men is presumably Menya Kisharia the chief with whom a treaty was made on this date, but he has not been identified. Gedge describes the event in his diary for the day thus: 'Chiefs came in and the ceremony of making peace was gone through after we had finished breakfast. This took 3 hrs. Two little...
Dates: 1889-10-13
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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Lumbwa natives coming in to make ‘amani’, 1889-10-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/27
Scope and Contents 155 x 113 mm. Showing a large group of Lumbwa tribesmen seated in a semi-circle in front of the camera. James Martin, wearing a deerstalker and smoking his pipe, stands at the extreme left of the print. One of the Africans is presumably Menya Kisharia the chief with whom a treaty was made on this date but he has not been identified. Gedge describes the event in his diary for the day thus: ‘Chiefs came in and the ceremony of making peace was gone through after we had finished breakfast. This...
Dates: 1889-10-13
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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Maasai Rural Training Centre, Isinya: controlled grazing, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/50
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 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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Maasai Rural Training Centre, Isinya: leather and skin goods for sale, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/49
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 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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Maasai Rural Training Centre, Isinya: leather and skin goods stall, 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/54
Scope and Contents

Glossy 56 mm. contact print with 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).
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Maasai Rural Training Centre, Isinya: Robin Slade in his office, 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/56
Scope and Contents

Glossy 56 mm. contact print with 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).
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Maasai Rural Training Centre, Isinya: Robin Slade with herdsmen, 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/52
Scope and Contents

Glossy 56 mm. contact print with 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).
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Maasai Rural Training Centre, Isinya: service in the chapel, 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/53
Scope and Contents

Glossy 56 mm. contact print with 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).
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Maasai Rural Training Centre, Isinya: the centre’s store, 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/51
Scope and Contents

Glossy 56 mm. contact print with 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).
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Maasai Rural Training Centre Store, 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/55
Scope and Contents

Glossy 56 mm. contact print with 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).
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Macadara Road, Mombasa, 1900 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/18
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Monochrome postcard views of Mombasa. Published by D. Evaristo Coutinho and the Swift Press.

Dates: 1900 - 1939
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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MacDougall examining our old Arab copper tray (note our beds), 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/41
Scope and Contents

A view showing MacDougall seated on a bed under a leaf canopy, with several people looking on.

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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Maesno School Jubilee, Nyanza, 18 Feb. 1956: scene from a play tracing the school history from 1906 to 1956, featuring Rev. W. Preston and his African pupils, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/235
Scope and Contents

202 x 153 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1956
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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Maesno School Jubilee, Nyanza: scene from a play tracing the school history from 1906 to 1956, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/236
Scope and Contents

202 x 153 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1956
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).