Kenya (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1507 Collections and/or Records:
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Masai warrior, Equator camp, 1900-03-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/48
Scope and Contents
'A man belonging to the Wandroba Tribe, a hunter with an elephant spear, and the bow and arrow he uses for bringing down monkeys (colobus monkey with long hair only found here). The man has nothing on but a skin over his shoulder. The lobes of his ears are all pulled out of shape by his heavy ear rings. We gave him some biscuits as a reward for standing and he was vastly pleased. He would not have known what to do with money. His tribe have no kraal but live in the wood, in no settled...
Dates:
1900-03-09
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Mombasa to Mengo
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Masai Women of a Somali Caravan, Mumias 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/52
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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Maseno Boys’ School, 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/103
Scope and Contents
79 x 81 mm. glossy print with 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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Maseno Boys’ School, 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/104
Scope and Contents
79 x 81 mm. glossy print with 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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Maseno Church, built 1908, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/105a
Scope and Contents
204 x 156 mm. glossy print with copy. The caption reads 'now (1962) slightly lengthened and rethatched - photograph taken from the fig tree (Luseno Tree) under which Willis first preached the Gospel in this area in 1905.
Dates:
1962
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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Maseno Diocese Dental Unit, Kisumu, 1960 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/113
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1960 - 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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Maseno Hospital clinic at Ng’na, 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/112
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print with 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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Maseno Hospital: Dr B. Wright, 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/108
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print.
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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Maseno Hospital: Dr Chase with young patient, 1960 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/107
Scope and Contents
110 x 112 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1960 - 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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Maseno Hospital Nurses’ Home, 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/106
Scope and Contents
155 x 107 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1957
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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Maseno Hospital nurses in the compound, 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/110
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print with 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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Maseno Hospital Pathology Laboratory, 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/109
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print with 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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Maseno School Jubilee, Nyanza: Canon J. Awuoi giving the final prayer in Swahili, 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/234
Scope and Contents
202 x 153 mm. glossy print. Pictured from left to right are: Rt. Rev. L.J. Beecher, Bishop of Mombasa, Mr Bertram Bowers, Headmaster, and Canon Awuoi.
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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Maseno School Jubilee, Nyanza: scene from a play tracing the school history from 1906, featuring Roy Stafford as the harassed headmaster of 1956, 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/237
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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Mau Forest, 1889-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/16
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. A view looking across thickly wooded hills in the Mau Forest. No precise reference to the taking of this photograph has been found in Gedge’s diary.
Dates:
1889-09
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Ernest Gedge Collection
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Mau Forest scene, 1889-10-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)1/8
Scope and Contents
A view looking across a river and makeshift bridge with Jackson standing on the farther side at the edge of thick forest holding a butterfly net. Gedge’s diary for the day records: ‘Went down in the morning with J to the river. Took my butterfly net and camera. Caught some new butterflies and took a photo’. Duplicate of Y30468K/22, F.J. J[ackson] ‘collecting’, Mau Forest.
Dates:
1889-10-01
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).
Fonds
Mau Mau papers and photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 183
Scope and Contents
Pamphlets, reports and photographs on the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya. CONTENT ADVISORY: the photographs (RCMS 183/4) are graphic in nature in the depiction of violence against individuals, and have been housed in a separate envelope in the main folder.
Dates:
1954 - 1960
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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[Mau Plateau], 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/57
Scope and Contents
77 x 55 mm. A group of Africans, probably on the Mau Plateau.
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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[Mau Plateau], 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/58
Scope and Contents
79 x 56 mm. A crowd of people and a boat, probably on the Mau Plateau.
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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Meal time at the Old People’s House, Pumwani, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/194
Scope and Contents
205 x 154 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1962
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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Mechanical handling, Kipevu and Kilindini deep water berths, 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/6
Scope and Contents
190 x 245 mm. Showing cranes transferring produce from the fork lift trucks to steamers moored alongside the wharves.
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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Mechanical trainees, Railway Training School, Nairobi, 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/21
Scope and Contents
191 x 244 mm. Showing a demonstrator explaining a diagram on a blackboard to a group of trainees.
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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Mechanical trainees, Railway Training School, Nairobi, 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/22
Scope and Contents
192 x 245 mm. Showing a demonstrator explaining the work of a lathe to a group of trainees.
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).
Item
Mechanical trainees, Railway Training School, Nairobi, 1950 - 1967
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/24
Scope and Contents
190 x 142 mm. Showing a demonstrator measuring a piece of metal in a lathe with a micrometer.
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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Mechanical trainees, Railway Training School, Nairobi, 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/23
Scope and Contents
190 x 245 mm. Showing rows of trainees at their lathes with two instructors explaining.
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).