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Kenya (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1502 Collections and/or Records:

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Our camp at Manda Island, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/20
Scope and Contents

A view showing a man sitting in a deckchair under a wooden construction with a canopy.

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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Ox team rescue, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/79
Scope and Contents

79 x 53 mm. The extraction of two vans from the Kajiado drift. The vans were travelling from Nairobi to Tanganyika. They were freed with the aid of twelve oxen and twenty men after being stuck for six hours.

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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P. B. de Rezende, ‘Description of the Fortress of Mombasa’, 1950 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/9/7
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

Dates: 1950 - 1970
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

[Paintings of Tanganyika Territory and British East Africa i.e. Tanzania and Kenya], 1924

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/35-46
Scope and Contents

Collection of coloured postcards of scenery in Tanganyika Territory (now Tanzania) and British East Africa (now Kenya), reproduced from paintings by Miss A.V. Hammond exhibited in the Tanganyika section of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924. A caption on the reverse of each reads 'Copyright picture by Miss A.V. Hammond. Reproduced in Great Britain by Valentine and Sons Ltd'. Captions have been recorded as found.

Dates: 1924
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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Panners at work, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/35
Scope and Contents

65 x 40 mm.

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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Panorama at mile 502, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/22
Scope and Contents

405 x 150 mm (two prints joined). Photograph by William D Young.

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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Panorama between Kibigori and Muhoroni, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/46-47
Scope and Contents

Two prints, 201 x 153 mm. and 200 x 155 mm. A panorama looking along the line towards distant hills, taken between Muhoroni (Mile 550) and Kibigori (Mile 561). Kibigori is the last station before the line ends at Port Florence (Mile 584, now named Kisumu).

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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Panorama from Chetubulu Camp, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/27
Scope and Contents

260 x 36 mm. Six-part panorama showing the kitchen, boys' hut, Equator Hill, Mission Woods and Hill, the Yala River Valley, Kakamega and other locations.

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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Panorama from Esikongo Camp, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/26
Scope and Contents

180 x 36 mm. Three-part panorama showing the labour camp, store, garage, kitchen, and Benson's house.

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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Panorama from Mile 414, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/22-23
Scope and Contents

Two prints, 202 x 160 mm. and 202 x 156 mm. A duplicate of Y30468J/18-19.

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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Panorama from Mile 502, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/36-37
Scope and Contents

Two prints, 207 x 155 mm. and 206 x 160 mm. A duplicate of Y30468I/18-19. Another duplicate at Y304A/22.

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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Panorama of a reverse on the Mau Escarpment, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/28-29
Scope and Contents

Two prints 202 x 156 mm. and 204 x 156 mm. Duplicates at Y30468I/4-5 and Y304A/21.

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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Panorama of a reverse on the Mau Escarpment, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/21
Scope and Contents

404 x 151 mm (two prints joined). Photograph by William D Young.

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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Panorama of Kedowa, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/44-45
Scope and Contents

Two prints, 200 x 155 mm. each A duplicate of Y30468I/22-23.

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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Panorama of Mombasa from English Point, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/15
Scope and Contents

406 x 152 mm (two prints joined). Photograph by William D Young.

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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Panorama of Mombasa from English Point, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/2-3
Scope and Contents

Two prints 200 x 155 mm. and 201 x 156 mm. A duplicate of Y30468G/4-5.

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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Panorama of Nakuro [Nakuru], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/24-25
Scope and Contents

Two prints, 202 x 160 mm. and 206 x 155 mm. A duplicate of Y30468J/22-23.

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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Panorama showing the curve at Mile 503, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/40-41
Scope and Contents

Two prints, 203 x 156 mm. and 206 x 157 mm. A duplicate of Y30468I/16-17.

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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Papers, 1965 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/4/1/4
Scope and Contents Papers, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, and postcards, mostly relating to Smedley’s time in Ghana, but also on affairs in other African countries such as Southern Rhodesia and Kenya.The file includes letters to Smedley from Dorothy Hodgkin (Institute of African Studies at University of Ghana), 9 December 1965; from S.A. Sykes (Deputy HC in Ghana), 4 February 1971; from Sir Edward Warner (British ambassador at Tunis), 24 March 1968; from F.H. Tate (business mission to Ghana), 18...
Dates: 1965 - 1972
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

Papers and photographs of Fergus Wilson

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 162
Scope and Contents

A memoir and photographs of Fergus Wilson's time in East Africa, papers concerning agricultural education, material relating to Makerere University College, the Food and Agriculture Organization and other organisations, and miscellaneous items. A file of papers regarding the collection is with RCMS 162/1.

Dates: 1933 - 1999
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).
 Fonds

Papers of Arnold Paice

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 178
Scope and Contents The collection includes letters from Arnold Paice to his mother, father and sister Muriel Paice, and the description of a journey from Durban to Nairobi. It also preserves his correspondence with the Royal Commonwealth Society regarding their donation.Paice’s time in Kenya coincided with almost the entire era of white settlement, and his papers form one of the richest documents of an ordinary settler's experience. His letters to his mother, written over an extended period of time,...
Dates: 1901 - 1963
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).
 Fonds

Papers of A.T. Matson

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 161
Scope and Contents

Published and unpublished writing by A.T. Matson, correspondence with D.H. Simpson, and extracts and cuttings from journals and newspapers.

Dates: 1929 - 1994
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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Part I: Colonial Agricultural Service, 1998

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 162/1/1
Scope and Contents

A description of Wilson's years working in Zanzibar, Kenya and Cambridge, 1933-1952.

Dates: 1998
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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Part of Camp of No. XVI Coy. Mumias 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/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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Part of the School farm at Kapenguris [?Kapenguria] ahowing[sic] the contour ridges on which are growing sweet potatoes, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/367
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...
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).