Kenya (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1502 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Porters waiting for Loads, Mumias 1899, 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/48
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).
Series
Portraits, 1900 - 1935
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/259-285
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of loose prints, lantern slides and glass negatives. The prints mostly relate to Westgate’s earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Many of the lantern slides and glass negatives are uncaptioned and...
Dates:
1900 - 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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Post-graduate training of professional engineers, Railway Training School, Nairobi, 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/25
Scope and Contents
242 x 192 mm. Showing Omar Al-Kazin preparing a strobe-scopic flaw detector in the electrical work shop.
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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Post Office Sports Day, 1950-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3/223-29
Scope and Contents
Views of the control tower, events and prize giving.
Dates:
1950-10
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).
Sub-Series
[Postcards of Kenya], 1950
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/1-5
Scope and Contents
Monochrome postcards (original photographs) showing Masai tribesmen and scenes in Kenya. Photograph by S. Skulina. On the reverse of each postcard is printed 'Edition : 'Africa in Pictures'.
Dates:
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).
File
[Postcards of Kenya], 1900 - 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/6-10
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous monochrome postcards issued by various publishers, largely unknown.
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).
Sub-Series
[Postcards of Mombasa], 1900 - 1939
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/11-18
Scope and Contents
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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Potatoes this time. Mrs. Kikuyu watches her sack hoisted onto the scales, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/360
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'There are numbers of these vegetable buying centres, serving these two hydrating factories. They function on different days and word is sent round as to which type of vegetable is required for the next buying day'.
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).
Sub-Series
Precious manure, 1940 - 1949
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/322-342
Scope and Contents
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'At first when African farmers saw European devoting time and labour to manuring their lands they regarded it as another instance of white man's folly. But they began to notice that the white men's fields grew more and better produce and for years the Agricultural Officers of the Government patiently explained to the Africans how the land must be fed...
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).
Item
Principal Rev. O. Welsh, probably taken at Alliance High School, Kikuyu, 1950 - 1969
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/225
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1950 - 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).
File
[Prize-giving at Kaptagat Preparatory School, Kenya, 1964], 1964
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 13
Scope and Contents
Album.
Dates:
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).
Item
[Produce stomping], 1933 - 1950
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/35
Scope and Contents
155 x 110 mm. Showing men stomping on produce in large stone wells.
Dates:
1933 - 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).
File
[Professional album], 1890 - 1905
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468G
Scope and Contents
An album of professional collodio-chloride photographs showing scenes of Mombasa.
Dates:
1890 - 1905
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
Progress in the Colonies, 1940s-1950s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints produced by the Central Office of Information. The prints measure approximately 165 x 115 mm and have typewritten captions pasted onto the reverse. A sheet of paper with the prints gives the title: 'Progress in the Colonies. Rejected photographs'. This selection appears to be part of a larger series of prints -the captions are often numbered and frequently make references to 'Feature Sets'. The photographs illustrate post-war developments in agriculture,...
Dates:
1940 - 1959
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
File
Projects and ideas, 1901 - 1935
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/12
Scope and Contents
A file containing notes, sketches, newspaper cuttings, correspondence and photographs related to non-literary projects Bell envisaged (circa 40 sheets).
Dates:
1901 - 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).
Series
Publications, 1891 - 1953
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/1
Scope and Contents
1. Sixth Coronation Safari 1958 Official Programme.2. Pamphlet issued by Ruargh Findlay Development Corporation advertising planned Ruargh Hill development near Johannesburg (published c. 1950).3. Small informational booklet for Braemar Castle ship passengers, ‘Ports of Call and Places of Interest on the Voyage round Africa’, marked ‘H. Dobinson Cabin No. 50.’4. Capt. Chas Slack, ‘Introduction to Swahili’ (London 1891), marked J. Henry Vanstone.5. B.J....
Dates:
1891 - 1953
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
/
Dobinson Collection
File
Published articles, 1950 - 1970
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/13
Scope and Contents
Offprints, drafts and research notes of articles Gray published in ‘Uganda Journal’, ‘Tanganyika notes and records’ and other periodicals.
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).
Item
Punitive Expedition Halted, Kavirondo 1899, 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/97
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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Pupils digging in farmyard manure on the School Farm, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/369
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).
File
‘Purcras - His Pilgrimes II: Account of the capture of a Mombasa frigate by the Richard’, 1950 - 1970
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/10/14
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).
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Putting the trays in the oven, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/343
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'They are kept there for three and a half hours at a temperature of 160°F'.
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).
Item
Quality please. Kenya Government Agricultural Instructor inspects native grown carrots, at a buying centre for one of the dehydration factories, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/348
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
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).
Item
R. Angolul at entrance to Canon, 1890-01-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/52
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. Showing the River Angolul entering the steeply sided rocky gorge with a small group of Suk warriors standing at the water’s edge, ‘Went down again to the river and walked along its bed in the water until it finally enters a deep rocky gorge which stopped us for good. Camped on its right bank among some trees.’
Dates:
1890-01-09
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
/
Ernest Gedge Collection
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R. Angolul, Turquell, 1890-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/57
Scope and Contents
113 x 155 mm. A view looking along a gorge in the river with woodland on either bank.
Dates:
1890-01
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Ernest Gedge Collection
Item
R. Ngare Davash in flood, Mau Forest, 1889-09-29
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/18
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. A view looking along the flooded river with thick forest on either bank. After a wearisome march through dense undergrowth Jackson and Gedge reached the river and ‘the sun coming out went and took a couple of photos of the river and gorge.’ LS/9.
Dates:
1889-09-29
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