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Uganda (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

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A big Funtumia elastica, Uganda, 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/62
Scope and Contents

75 x 96 mm. A view showing a tall rubber tree growing in an open forest glade.

Dates: 1902
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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[African hut, ? Buvuma Island], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/61
Scope and Contents

152 x 110 mm. A view showing a large grass hut set among banana plants, probably on Buvuma Island. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

Dates: 1902
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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[African market girl, (?) Uganda], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/54
Scope and Contents

170 x 118 mm. A view showing an African girl seated in the open on a rush mat, with a few wares spread out on the ground in front of her. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

Dates: 1902
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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Cook's tent, Bukedi Country, Uganda, 1901, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/146
Scope and Contents

88 x 63 mm. A view showing Christy's cook sitting beside a fire outside his tent with the beehive shaped huts of a village in the background. A photograph taken north of Lake Choga.

Dates: 1901
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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Cuthbert Christy in his laboratory, Entebbe, 1901 - 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/55
Scope and Contents

151 x 107 mm. A view showing Cuthbert Christy seated at a table with a microscope in front of him. In the foreground a dog sits near Dr Christy's skinning table. The 'laboratory' is on the open verandah of a house.

Dates: 1901 - 1902
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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Elephant grass in Uganda, 1907, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/141
Scope and Contents

112 x 157 mm. A view showing Cuthbert Christy and a band of porters standing in elephant grass from twelve to fifteen feet high.

Dates: 1907
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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Elephant grass in Uganda, 1907, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/142
Scope and Contents

74 x 100 mm. A view showing Cuthbert Christy and a band of porters standing in elephant grass from twelve to fifteen feet high.

Dates: 1907
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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Elephant grass in Uganda, 1907, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/143
Scope and Contents

74 x 100 mm. A view showing Cuthbert Christy and a band of porters standing in elephant grass from twelve to fifteen feet high.

Dates: 1907
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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[Group of Europeans, ? Uganda, 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/56
Scope and Contents

157 x 115 mm. A view showing three men and a woman standing on the front steps of a house, possibly in Uganda. Cuthbert Christy is at the left of the group, other figures are unidentified. Photographer unknown.

Dates: 1902
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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Hindrances to tapping Funtumia elastica in Uganda, 1901 - 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/99
Scope and Contents

73 x 96 mm. A view showing saphrophytes and moss growing on the trunk of a rubber tree.

Dates: 1901 - 1902
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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Leopard shot at Wadelai on the Upper Nile (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/243
Scope and Contents

59 x 42 mm. A view showing Africans gathered round the corpse of a leopard waving spears at the body: 'The villagers are dancing and vilifying him and all his relations'.

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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[Lethargy. The last stage. Buvuna [?Buvuma] Island 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/35
Scope and Contents

150 x 110 mm. A view showing a sleeping, emaciated man in the terminal stage of sleeping sickness. Christy (1903) describes how this man was carried from his hut without awakening and how all the other members of his family were in a similar condition.

Dates: 1902
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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Maps of Africa, 1902 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/10
Scope and Contents

33 maps

Dates: 1902 - 1921
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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Nursery seedlings of Funtumia elastica, Uganda, 1903 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/81
Scope and Contents

72 x 95 mm. A studio photograph (with scale) showing newly germinated nursery seedlings.

Dates: 1903 - 1910
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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Nursery seedlings of Funtumia elastica, Uganda, 1903 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/82
Scope and Contents

72 x 95 mm. A studio photograph (with scale) showing nursery seedlings around nine months old.

Dates: 1903 - 1910
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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On the distribution of Filaria perstans and of enlarged glands (cervical and parotid) in equatorial East Africa, 1904-11-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/9
Scope and Contents

A report (46 leaves) by Christy discussing the findings of his research, including charts of data and a map.

Dates: 1904-11-04
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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On the distribution of Filaria perstans in Uganda and elsewhere in tropical Africa, 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/8
Scope and Contents

Two annotated copies of a report by Christy discussing the findings of his research, including charts of data and a map.

Dates: 1903
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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On the Entebbe-Kampala Road, 1906, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/147
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. A view showing an African at the top of a fig-tree telegraph post, 'alive and antproof'.

Dates: 1906
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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Roadside camp, Uganda, 1903, 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/148
Scope and Contents

133 x 54 mm. A view showing one of Christy's campsites while on the march, with a row of tents erected beside the road. The photograph was taken on the Kampala-Hoima Road and shows Christy's tent in the foreground, then his assistant's and beyond, a cluster of tents for cook and porters.

Dates: 1903
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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Rubber: ceara coming into its own, 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/9/5
Scope and Contents

Annotated paper (six leaves) advocating the production of rubber in Tanganyika, Nyasaland, and Uganda.

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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Rubber patch, Chagwe Forests, Uganda, 1903 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/74
Scope and Contents

100 x 72 mm. A view showing the edge of a young rubber patch from which the undergrowth has been recently cleared and the trunks of the trees whitewashed.

Dates: 1903 - 1910
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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Sleeping Sickness Commission notes, 1902-09-04 - 1903-01-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/7
Scope and Contents

Nineteen loose leaves recording the distribution of filariae in the places Christy surveyed.

Dates: 1902-09-04 - 1903-01-18
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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'Snakes, burrs and birds', 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/9/6
Scope and Contents

Article published in the journal Knowledge, Jan. 1912, 13.

Dates: 1912
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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Tapping in Uganda

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/107
Scope and Contents

72 x 99 mm. A view showing a Swahili on climbing slings using a Funtumia knife to score tapping lines in a rubber tree using the D.H.S. system (the Double Half Spiral) with alternate spiral lines running into a central vertical line which leads down to the collection cup.

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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Tapping in Uganda

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/108
Scope and Contents

74 x 95 mm. A view showing a Swahili on climbing slings using a Funtumia knife to score tapping lines in a rubber tree using the D.H.S. system (the Double Half Spiral) with alternate spiral lines running into a central vertical line which leads down to the collection cup.

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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