Uganda (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1968 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Coronation of Kabaka Mutesa II (King Freddie of Uganda), Budo, 1940
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045J
Scope and Contents
One loose print measuring 204 x 150 mm, showing Kabaka Edward Frederick Mutesa II seated on a throne wearing his coronation robes and the crown which the Rt, Revd. Cyril Edgar Stuart (1892 - ?), Bishop of Uganda 1934-53, has just placed on his head:'Finally, dressed in the royal robes, which had been designed for the occasion and were splendidly golden, if a little heavy, I returned to the Church and received the crown and ring of Buganda from Bishop Stuart. Although it had been...
Dates:
1940
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
Fonds
Correspondence and papers of Robert Walker
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 339
Scope and Contents
Letters from Robert Walker in Uganda to his family, letters to the Walker family from other correspondents and miscellaneous items connected to Walker's missionary work in Uganda.
Dates:
1888 - 1995
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
Sub-Series
Correspondence regarding Uganda, 1950 - 1969
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 150/3/3
Scope and Contents
Letters concerning the Uganda Museum and Ugandan independence.
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).
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Cotton market at Kumi in Bukedi, 1906 - 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/84
Scope and Contents
104 x 77 mm. Showing traders and porters grouped around baskets of cotton in the town of Kumi. The Kumi District, some eighty miles north of Lake Victoria, is more properly part of Teso rather than Bukedi.
Dates:
1906 - 1911
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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Cotton research at Namulonge, 1952-12
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/49
Scope and Contents
142 x 117 mm. The caption on the reverse reads '(See Feature Set Intro. No. 736). Commonwealth Studies Centres On Uganda Station. Dr. J.B. Hutchinson, C.M.G., Director of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation's Research Station at Namulonge, Uganda, examining cotton plants for wilt disease, aided by an African assistant. 12/52'.
Dates:
1952-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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[Crater Lake], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/176
Scope and Contents
Near Fort Portal. The caption reads: 'and a crater lake near there'. This is a reference to the adjacent photograph and caption.
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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Crater lake, Rwenzori Mountains, 1895 - 1898
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/32
Scope and Contents
216 x 166 mm.
Dates:
1895 - 1898
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Crater lake, Rwenzori Mountains, 1895 - 1898
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/33
Scope and Contents
216 x 166 mm.
Dates:
1895 - 1898
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Crater lake, Rwenzori Mountains, 1895 - 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/34
Scope and Contents
216 x 166. View from the shore showing fishermen.
Dates:
1895 - 1898
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Item
Crocodile, 1906 - 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/72
Scope and Contents
100 x 72 mm. One of several prints. Showing the body of animals lying where they were shot
Dates:
1906 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Crocodile eggs, Semliki [1909], 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/69
Scope and Contents
Showing an unidentified figure, probably Bell, inspecting a nest of crocodile eggs: 'That evening, by the side of the river near the camp, we found a crocodile's nest and unearthed 61 eggs. They were about twice the size of a hen's egg and the young crocs. in them were already breathing. We, of course, slaughtered the lot.' (Bell 1907-1909, March 1909).
Dates:
1909
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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Crossing flooded stream, Madi country, by suspension pulley seat, 1906 - 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/95
Scope and Contents
77 x 101 mm. A view looking down on a European official being transported by pulleys over a stream, with Indigenous men holding the rope taut at the farther bank. The Madi are a Sudanic people who live in the district of the same name in north west Uganda.
Dates:
1906 - 1911
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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Crowd outside Namirembe Cathedral, Consecration Service, 15 May 1955, 1955
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/2/9
Scope and Contents
208 x 145 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1955
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
Item
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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Cutting sisal, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/318
Scope and Contents
Showing an African worker harvesting sisal leaves.
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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Daudi Chwa II (1897-1939), Kabaka of Buganda, 1905 - 1925
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
Dates:
1905 - 1925
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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Daudi Chwa, Kabaka of Buganda with his umbrella of state., 1906 - 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/85
Scope and Contents
86 x 105 mm. An indistinct view showing Daudi Chwa standing beneath the state umbrella, which is held over him by an attendant. Beside him stand his four regents Sir Apolo Kagwa, Nuhu Mbogo, Kakarie Kisingiri, and Stanislas Mirgwanya.
Dates:
1906 - 1911
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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Daudi, King of Uganda, 1908 - 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/4
Scope and Contents
119 x 94 mm. Showing the young Kabaka seated on a pony.
Dates:
1908 - 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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Dawn on the River Nile near Murchison Falls [i.e. Kabalega Falls], Uganda, 1955
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/31
Scope and Contents
'163-20-25' printed on bottom right corner.
Dates:
1955
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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Dedication of St. Martin’s Church, Ongino, 12 July 1959: view of congregation, 1959
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/85
Scope and Contents
157 x 114 mm. glossy print with copy. Bishop of the Upper Nile, L.C. Usher-Wilson, preaches and the Pastor of Ongino and a Nursing Orderly interpret.
Dates:
1959
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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Dedication of St. Martin’s Church, Ongino, 12 July 1959: view of the service showing Bishop of the Upper Nile, the Rt. Rev. L.C. Usher-Wilson, at the altar and Assistant Bishop, Rt. Rev. S. Tomusange, kneeling beside the altar rail, 1959
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/86
Scope and Contents
155 x 100 mm. glossy print with two copies.
Dates:
1959
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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Democratic Party Representatives at the Uganda Independence Conference in London, 1962-06
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/614
Scope and Contents
156 x 203 mm. Marlborough House in London was the setting for the Uganda Independence Conference and among the delegates were Mr. D.A. Patel and Mr. B.K. Bataringaya of the Democratic Party.
Dates:
1962-06
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
Designs for postage stamps, 1940 - 1970
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 162/8/4
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
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:
1940 - 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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Dhow ‘Winifred’ in Buvuma Channel, c. 1900, 1977
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/28
Scope and Contents
202 x 152 mm. This boat, which flies the Union Jack, is not the same as the ‘Winifred’ of the preceding print.
Dates:
1977
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
Diary, 1906-01-22 - 1909-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/2/3
Scope and Contents
The diary records Bell's years as Commissioner (later Governor) of Uganda, notable for his efforts to combat a sleeping sickness epidemic, develop cotton cultivation among other economic initiatives, and to improve the protectorate's transportation network. Bell describes his official duties and colleagues, Uganda’s peoples and landscape, and his social life and personal affairs. The diary contains one photograph (circa 150 sheets).
Dates:
1906-01-22 - 1909-03
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).