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Uganda (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1968 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

Dr Roy Billington and Philippa Guillebaud at Gulu, 1971

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/33
Scope and Contents

112 x 75 mm. matt print with 35 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).
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Dr Roy Billington with staff outside the Dispensary and Midwifery Centre at Mboga, 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/31
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. glossy print.

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).
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Dr Roy Billington with the two medical assistants in charge of the Dispensary and Midwifery Centre at Mboga, 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/30
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. glossy print.

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).
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Drawing room [Government House, Entebbe], 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/89
Scope and Contents

A view looking across the drawing room at Government House, with two elephant tusks framing the curtained entrance in the background.

Dates: 1906 - 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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[Drawing room, Government House, Entebbe], 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/90
Scope and Contents

A view looking across the drawing room at Government House.

Dates: 1906 - 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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Dufile Camp 1898, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/2
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: 1898
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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Duhaga Junior Secondary School, Hoima, Bunyoro: Mr A.C. Oomen teaches two African boys, one Indian boy and one Sikh girl, 1956

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/115
Scope and Contents

154 x 111 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

Dates: 1956
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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Duhaga Junior Secondary School, Hoima, Bunyoro: Mrs Rebecca Oomen reads the Bible with Indian and African girls, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/116
Scope and Contents

154 x 111 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

Dates: 1956
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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[Dulcie Barron at the pool], 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/19
Scope and Contents

55 x 50 mm.

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).
 Fonds

Dulcie Barron Collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W
Scope and Contents

Album containing photographs of Entebbe and Kampala, colleagues and friends, travels around the country, and of the people of Uganda, including celebrations for the return of Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda.

Dates: 1955 - 1957
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).
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E. Sec. of Soudanese, with Soudanese Officer, Dufile 1898, 1898

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/14
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: 1898
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

‘Early European visitors to Bunyoro, 1862-1872’, 1952 - 1970

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/3/13
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: 1952 - 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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Early morning mist over Kampala from Lugard's Fort, 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/4/70
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm.

Dates: 1960
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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[Early morning mist over Kampala from Lugard's Fort], 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/4/71
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm.

Dates: 1960
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

East Africa, 1952 - 1955

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The prints listed were chiefly from the files of the Photo Bureau, the majority being mounted on sheets of paper with substantial descriptions, and in many cases the negative attached. Titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

Dates: 1952 - 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).
 File

[East Africa], 1933 - 1964

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/1
Scope and Contents

35 mm slides. Images of Owen Falls Dam in Uganda, hill farming, tea picking and general landscape views.

Dates: 1933 - 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).
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East Africa, 1949 - 1952

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3
Scope and Contents

Various sizes.

Dates: 1949 - 1952
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

East Africa, 1934 - 1950

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/4/27/21
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When the RES Headquarters was rebuilt in 1934-36, gifts of timber for panelling and furnishing were obtained from Empire Governments, companies and individuals. Many were destroyed during the bombing of 1941 and replacement gifts were received. This file coordinates pre and post-war correspondence.

Dates: 1934 - 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).
 Fonds

East Africa and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] during the 1940s

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468AA
Scope and Contents Collection of 248 photographs, chiefly amateur. Most captions are derived from the original album pages or the printed titles of postcards. Photographs without measurements are approximately 80 x 60 mm in size, and this suggests that they may have been taken by the collector, with the others acquired from colleagues or purchased.The photographs, housed in two albums, were found pushed through the letterbox of Woodspring Museum. They had clearly suffered from damp, the albums were...
Dates: 1940 - 1949
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).
 Fonds

'East Africa and Uganda 1912'

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 154
Scope and Contents This account (81 pages) describes a visit to East Africa from South Africa in 1912 by James Dick. He travelled by the Uganda railway from the coast to Kisumu, with stops on the way including Nairobi and a visit to the bamboo forest. Dick crossed Lake Victoria on the ‘Clement Hill’ to Entebbe, and thence went by rickshaw to Kampala. His journey ended at the Ripon Falls. There is a good deal of historical background and other information; the journey covered well-traversed ground, but the...
Dates: 1912
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).
 Sub-Fonds

East African papers of Sir Percy Anderson, 1892 - 1949

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/31
Scope and Contents

A proof copy, 12 September 1892 (9 pages), with manuscript comments, of Percy Anderson's confidential memorandum on Uganda that led to the British decision to retain the country. There is also p. 96 of 'United empire', vol. XL, which refers to the collection, and an undated photograph, presumably of Sir Percy Anderson. The papers are accompanied by a letter to D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, from H.B. Thomas, 16 July 1960.

Dates: 1892 - 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).
 Fonds

East African Railways and Harbours 1952 to 1964

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469L
Scope and Contents

13 photographs and 3 letters documenting Satwant Singh Suman's service with the East African Railways.

Dates: 1952 - 2008
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).
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Effie & Penny [at the governor's weekend-lodge at Makindye], 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/56
Scope and Contents

55 x 50 mm.

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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E.G. and tent, Gulu Gulu Camp, 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/1
Scope and Contents 90 x 112 mm Showing Gedge seated in a deckchair in front of his tent with a rifle leaning against his knee. The dating of this photograph is uncertain: Gedge was at Gulu Gulu from November 6th to December 11th 1888, December 15th to 20th 1888, February 1st to 2nd 1889 and May 24th 1889, but his diary makes no mention of photographic activities. The two middle dates can be discarded since Jackson was not then at Gulu Gulu and Y30468K LS3 shows a photograph of him evidently taken on the same...
Dates: 1888
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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E.G.’s house, Mengo, 1890-12-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/84
Scope and Contents

157 x 111 mm. This is probably the photograph mentioned by Gedge in his diary. The picture is certainly not up to Gedge’s usual standard. Gedge had arrived in Mengo on December 22nd 1890 and stayed until January 14th 1891.

Dates: 1890-12-29
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).