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Kenya (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1502 Collections and/or Records:

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'Somali' bull, Kismayu, Kenya, 1933 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/53
Scope and Contents

220 x 160 mm. The caption reads: 'This fine example is typical of the long-horned, humped cattle which come from the dry semi-desert country of north east Kenya and Somaliland (Mogadishu).'

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).
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'Somali' bull, Kismayu, Kenya, 1933 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/54
Scope and Contents

230 x 180 mm. Detailed view of a white bull.

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).
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Some of Emin Pasha’s troops taken at Bukoba, Victoria Nyanza, 1890-12-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/83
Scope and Contents

156 x 112 mm. Showing a contingent of Emin’s African troops posed with rifles at the ready. Sergeant Küne (1893), who had served under Stühlmann in the march round the lake to meet Emin at Bukoba, kneels behind a machine gun at the left of the print; Lieutenant (Dr) Franz Stühlmann (1863-1928) in command of the force himself stands at the right of the print.

Dates: 1890-12-09
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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[Some Turkana hairstyles], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/145
Scope and Contents

A caption on the page reads: 'Turkana or the barbers paradise'.

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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[Some Turkana hairstyles], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/146
Scope and Contents

A caption on the page reads: 'Turkana or the barbers paradise'.

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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[Some Turkana hairstyles], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/147
Scope and Contents

A caption on the page reads: 'Turkana or the barbers paradise'.

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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[Some Turkana hairstyles], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/148
Scope and Contents

A caption on the page reads: 'Turkana or the barbers paradise'.

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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[Some Turkana hairstyles], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/149
Scope and Contents

A caption on the page reads: 'Turkana or the barbers paradise'.

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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[Some Turkana hairstyles], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/150
Scope and Contents

A caption on the page reads: 'Turkana or the barbers paradise'.

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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[Some Turkana hairstyles], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/151
Scope and Contents

A caption on the page reads: 'Turkana or the barbers paradise'.

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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Somewhere on the lake, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/59
Scope and Contents

55 x 82 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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Sorting cotton into grades before taking it to the local buying post, 1933 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/41
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing two women and a child seated on the floor sorting baskets of cotton.

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).
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Sotik natives, 1889-10-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)1/10
Scope and Contents

Showing a group of Sotik men, women and children posing in a row for Gedge. His diary for that day records: 'The people of the villages near came in with food. The men danced a v. pretty dance and sang really musically. Some of the young women were naked, others had only an apology for an apron in the way of strings of beads and leather. Took a couple of photos'. Gedge also records that the plates were developed on October 4th. Duplicate of Y30468K/24.

Dates: 1889-10-02
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).
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Southern African tour, 1948 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/1/1
Scope and Contents

Forty-five black and white photographs relating to the Aid tour of 1950. There are 27 captioned portrait photographs of the members of the tour party taken c. 1948-1950. The remaining images comprise group pictures and scenes from the schoolboys' time in Africa, some labelled and dated, including two mounted on card. There is an accompanying manuscript list of names.

Dates: 1948 - 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).
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Spears are never far away in this country where you can't afford to be caught unawares, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/400
Scope and Contents

Showing a group of Borans resting with their camels, with their spears stuck in the ground in the foreground.

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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"Spot" & "Tinker", Mumias 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/13
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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St. James’, Naro Moru, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/163
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 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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St. James’, Naro Moru, showing farmer and lay reader, Mr C. Platt, evangelist R. Mwangi, and Josehat Wange, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/164
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 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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St. John’s Church, Pumwani, 1968 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/190
Scope and Contents

212 x 141 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1968 - 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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St. John’s Community Centre, Pumwani: visit to a suburban family at Ribera, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/182
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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St. John’s Old People’s House, Pumwani: elderly couple outside their home built of tins, before being housed by the Church, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/191
Scope and Contents

153 x 107 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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St. Paul’s United Theological College, main building, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/95
Scope and Contents

103 x 105 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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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St. Peter’s, Kisumu, 1976

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/91
Scope and Contents

79 x 81 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1976
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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St. Philip’s Bible School, Maseno: congregation outside chapel, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/101
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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St. Philip’s Bible School, Maseno: Rev. J.C. Riddelsdell and students, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/102
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).