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Uganda (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1964 Collections and/or Records:

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Wandegeya Mosque, Kampala, 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/33
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. This image was submitted to the Caltex Star Photographer Competition in 1960.

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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Ward in Mengo (?) hospital, 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 27/27
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions from K.H. Buxton, who is probably Kathleen Hannah Buxton (1905-1999), daughter of Reverend Leonard Buxton, the Vicar of North Mimms, Hertfordshire.

Dates: 1937
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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Was here bitten by Tsetse fly in country infected by sleeping sickness, 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/22
Scope and Contents

Showing a waterfall set among deep forest, with a silhouetted figure standing in the foreground.

Dates: 1908
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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Watch tower, Acholi Village, N. Province standing on top of a wooden platform, with the huts of the village in the background., 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/98
Scope and Contents

76 x 100 mm. Showing an Acholi man standing on top of a wooden platform, with the huts of the village in the background.

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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Waterbuck, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/76
Scope and Contents

110 x 86 mm. One of several prints. Showing the body of animals lying where they were shot

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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We were the first white people these folk had ever seen, 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045S/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A collection of 18 glass slides and 38 photographs. The slides were used by Hogbin to illustrate talks on her work when on furlough (leave of absence), and their captions were provided by her niece. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.

Dates: 1931
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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Wedding of Dr. Reford - April 1909. Group taken in the grounds of Judge Ennis's house, 1909-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/42
Scope and Contents 198 x 144 mm. Showing Bell and Dr. Reford standing in the centre of a large group of wedding guests. His wife Grace, nee Parker, is seated at the front of the group. Dr. John Hope Reford C.M.G. (1873-1957) was a Medical Officer in Uganda from 1907 until his retirement as Director of Medical Services in 1928. Judge George Francis Macdaniel Ennis (1868-1933) who practised as a judge in East Africa between 1899-1912 and in Ceylon between 1912-1925 is probably the figure standing behind...
Dates: 1909-04
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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Weighing the produce of experimental plots, 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/1/13
Scope and Contents

205 x 160 mm. Showing two men weighing produce in a field. The caption continues: 'in research into sweet potato breeding.'

Dates: 1952 - 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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West Nile District, 1949 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 362/4/1
Scope and Contents Papers relating to Lanning's service in the district. Subjects include native courts, African local government employees, county councils, hawking licenses, land regulation, District Commissioner’s circulars, place names, and tours of the district. The file also contains transcripts of two interviews with Lanning on the subject of caves and ancient occupation sites, forming part of the ‘Uganda’s Past’ series, and a paper by Lanning entitled ‘Kibengo: an Iron Age fort on Lake Albert’ (circa...
Dates: 1949 - 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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Wheelwright's shop P.W.D. Entebbe, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/40
Scope and Contents

198 x 143 mm. Showing Ugandan carpenters at work making wheels under the supervision of S. Waite ( -1944) of the Public Works Department.

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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Whitewashing rubber trees, Uganda, 1901 - 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/98
Scope and Contents

73 x 96 mm. A view showing African labourers white-washing the trunks of Nectra Funtumiae trees as a protection against canker.

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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Wiggins, Jervoise, Ormsby, Hutchinson, Burton [1906], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/5
Scope and Contents

Showing the five men grouped around a pair of elephant tusks. All the figures seen here, with the exception of Jervoise, are named as accompanying Bell on his 1906 tour. See Bell (1946), page 131.

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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[Wilson and students], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/30
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Group photograph. Wilson is seated third from the right.

Dates: 1952 - 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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[Wilson and students], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/30A
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Group photograph. Wilson is seated third from the right.

Dates: 1952 - 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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[Wilson and students], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/31
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Group photograph. Wilson is seated third from the right.

Dates: 1952 - 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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[Wilson and students], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/32
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Group photograph. Wilson is stood fourth from the right.

Dates: 1952 - 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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[Wilson and students], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/33
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Group photograph. Wilson is stood fourth from the right.

Dates: 1952 - 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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Winning the Marathon Race. 26 miles in 3 hrs 3 mins, 1908-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/5
Scope and Contents 118 x 101 mm. A slightly blurred print showing Kapere crossing the finishing line of the marathon race run on November 8 1908 in conjunction with the Kampala Exhibition. The race is described in a clipping from an unidentified newspaper pasted into this album: 'There were 48 competitors, representing the fleetest runners in each of the four kingdoms comprised in the Protectorate, and an intense spirit of rivalry animated all the tribes concerned. The course measured exactly 26 miles, and...
Dates: 1908-11
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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Winston Churchill addressing Chiefs, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/17
Scope and Contents 88 x 70 mm. Showing Churchill seated at the right while a European interpreter addresses a group of chiefs. Sir Apolo Kagwa can be seen in the right foreground. This is presumably the occasion described by Bell: 'About five miles from Kampala we found the little Kabaka, the Regents and all the big Uganda chiefs. They had built a very pretty banda on a hillock overlooking the road and, when they all advanced towards us in the bright sunlight, they made a very imposing spectacle in their...
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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Winston Churchill and myself addressing the Regents and Chiefs at Kampala, 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/23
Scope and Contents 88 x 86 mm. Showing Churchill seated at the right while a European interpreter addresses a group of chiefs. Sir Apolo Kagwa can be seen in the right foreground. This is presumably the occasion described by Bell: 'About five miles from Kampala we found the little Kabaka, the Regents and all the big Uganda chiefs. They had built a very pretty banda on a hillock overlooking the road and, when they all advanced towards us in the bright sunlight, they made a very imposing spectacle in their...
Dates: 1908
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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[Winston Churchill and myself addressing the Regents and Chiefs at Kampala, 1908], 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/24
Scope and Contents Showing Churchill seated at the right while a European interpreter addresses a group of chiefs. Sir Apolo Kagwa can be seen in the right foreground. This is presumably the occasion described by Bell: 'About five miles from Kampala we found the little Kabaka, the Regents and all the big Uganda chiefs. They had built a very pretty banda on a hillock overlooking the road and, when they all advanced towards us in the bright sunlight, they made a very imposing spectacle in their handsome gala...
Dates: 1908
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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[Winston Churchill at the Ripon Falls], 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/21
Scope and Contents

87 x 86 mm.

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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Winston Churchill in Kampala. 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/22
Scope and Contents 84 x 78 mm. Showing Winston Churchill and Bell addressing the Regents and Chiefs at Kampala. Churchill is seated at the right while a European interpreter addresses a group of chiefs. Sir Apolo Kagwa can be seen in the right foreground. This is presumably the occasion described by Bell: 'About five miles from Kampala we found the little Kabaka, the Regents and all the big Uganda chiefs. They had built a very pretty banda on a hillock overlooking the road and, when they all advanced...
Dates: 1908
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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[Winston Churchill in Kampala 1908], 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/25
Scope and Contents

88 x 86 mm. Showing Churchill, Daudi Chwa and Hesketh Bell seated among a European group, with Uganda dignitaries, including Sir Apolo Kagwa, standing at the left. The group appear to be spectators at an unidentified event.

Dates: 1908
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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[Women carrying gourds to market, Northern Uganda], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/48
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm.

Dates: 1952 - 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).