Kenya (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1507 Collections and/or Records:
Item
View across Muanza Bay, Usukuma, Victoria Nyanza, shows E.G’s camp under euphorbias, 1890-10-24
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/80
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. A view looking out over Lake Victoria from a hill with Gedge’s camp in the foreground among a cluster of euphorbias. See also Y30468K/79.
Dates:
1890-10-24
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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View from A.E.A's [Annie Emma Allen's] bedroom, Frere Town, 1900-02-17
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/21
Scope and Contents
'Bougainvillaea flowering under balcony, thermometer 90.'
Dates:
1900-02-17
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
Item
[View from the Minara], 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/12
Scope and Contents
A view, framed by the ornate window of the Minara, showing some buildings and the sea. The caption reads: 'taken from the Minara. looking down on is the village of Shella'.
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).
Item
View inside Northern rim of crater, Mt Elgon [amended caption: Descent to the Central Crater of Mt Elgon], 1890-02-17
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/64
Scope and Contents
155 x 115 mm. A view looking along the sloping ridge with the grassy slopes of the crater descent in the foreground. See note on Y30468K/63.
Dates:
1890-02-17
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
Item
View looking across Speke Gulf from my camp at Muanza, Victoria Nyanza, 1890-10-24
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/81
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. A view looking out from Gedge’s camp
Dates:
1890-10-24
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
View looking from cave into the forest, Mt Elgon, F.J.J. and native guide in foreground, 1890-02-20
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/68
Scope and Contents
157 x 111 mm. A view looking out from the mouth of the cave towards the dense forest with Jackson and the guide standing at the left of the print. This appears to be the same cave as the one seen in Y30468K/67.
Dates:
1890-02-20
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
View of fallen tree, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468X/1
Scope and Contents
210 x 153 mm. View looking along the double track of the narrow line towards a large baobab tree which has fallen across it.
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).
Item
View of fallen tree, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468X/2
Scope and Contents
151 x 212 mm. View of a large baobab tree showing its roots with labourers clambering among them.
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).
Item
View of Homa Bay, Lake Victoria, 1967
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/45
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).
Item
[View of Laikipia Escarpment?], 1902-10 - 1905-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/104
Scope and Contents
154 x 107 mm. A view looking across an expanse of flat grassland crisscrossed with unsurfaced roads with a steep valley and ridges in the distance.
Dates:
1902-10 - 1905-10
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Ernest Gedge Collection
Item
View of Maseno School: Bowers Hall, supervised by Headmaster Mr Bowers, which combined dining/assembly hall and kitchens, 1960 - 1969
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/104a
Scope and Contents
203 x 153 mm. glossy print with copy.
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).
Item
View of Maseno School: Bowers Hall, supervised by Headmaster Mr Bowers, which combined dining/assembly hall and kitchens, 1960 - 1969
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/104b
Scope and Contents
203 x 153 mm. glossy print with copy.
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).
Item
View of Maseno School: the oldest teaching block built by Dr Stansfeld, 1960 - 1969
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/104c
Scope and Contents
203 x 153 mm. glossy print with copy.
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).
Item
[View of Mombasa from Frere Town?], 1900-02-20
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/23
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
66 watercolours, 150 x 200 mm in size. The captions, 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. Notes provided by H.B. Thomas have been incorporated into the description.
Dates:
1900-02-20
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
/
Mombasa to Mengo
Item
View of old Mombasa, 1900 - 1934
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/16
Scope and Contents
This postcard is dated 'April 16 1934' and is addressed to Mrs Westgate in Manitoba, Canada. It is signed 'Moll' and contains a brief note describing activities and accommodation.
Dates:
1900 - 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).
Item
VII Coy having daily Wash. Mumias March 1899, 1899-03
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/45-46
Scope and Contents
Duplicates of Y3045A/75-76.
Dates:
1899-03
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
Village Polytechnic students helping to build St. James’ Church, 1967
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/166
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).
Item
Village scene Don dol (inhabited place), 1971
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/18
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1971
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
[Visit by MacDonald to the headquarters of the Kenya Meat Commission], 1963 - 1965
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 23
Scope and Contents
Album of uncaptioned photographs.
Dates:
1963 - 1965
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
[Visit of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia to Kenya, 1964], 1964
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 12
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).
File
Visit to Dr Owen , c 1977-78
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/41
Scope and Contents
Includes: rough notes for a visit to see David Owen [Foreign Secretary] on the political situation in Tanzania; speech notes, mainly on Tanzania; United Nations briefing note on the appointment of a representative to enable the transition to majority rule in Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; copy of AFB's article "What I learned in Africa", on Zimbabwe, political prisoners in Africa and the progress to socialism in Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania.
Dates:
c 1977-78
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Fonds
Visitors' book of Alice Hobley, 1987 - 1992
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/46
Scope and Contents
A photocopy of Alice Hobley's visitors' book from her time in East Africa, containing 38 pages of signatures and an inserted letter from Lord Kitchener to C.W. Hobley. Most of the signatures date from 1906-1919, but there are three from 1922-1923. There are accompanying manuscript and typescript notes made by A.T. Matson and T.H.R. Cashmore in 1987, regarding the identification of the names in the book (7 pages), and a manuscript letter to D.H. Simpson from Cashmore, 21 September 1987 (3...
Dates:
1987 - 1992
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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Africa miscellanea
Fonds
W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M-O
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs on 125 brown loose album sheets, many with hand-written captions. The captions 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. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. There are two 'Title pages' which have been transcribed at Y304M and Y304N, dated 1934 and 1935-36. The album sheets which appear to...
Dates:
1930 - 1939
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
Item
Wa Kavirondo. Crossing Stream between Mumias & Port Ugowe 1899, 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/72
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).
Item
Wa Kavirondo. Making Roads. 1899, 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/73
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).