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Uganda (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1892 Collections and/or Records:

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Botanical Gardens, Entebbe. Raphia Palms, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/59
Scope and Contents

191 x 134 mm. Showing a European women walkinh along a palm-shaded path in the Botanical Gardens.

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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Boy Martyrs’ Memorial, Namugongo, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/69
Scope and Contents

113 x 159 mm. glossy print.

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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Breakfast en route for Lake Kioga [i.e. Kyoga] 1907, 1906 - 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/7
Scope and Contents

Showing a group seated around a breakfast table in the bush. Probably 1906 rather than 1907.

Dates: 1906 - 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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Breaking down Podocarpus timber, Tero Forest. Site of new saw mill, May 1910, 1910-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/115
Scope and Contents

102 x 77 mm. Showing Ugandans at work sawing up recently felled timber at the edge of the Tero Forest.

Dates: 1910-05
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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Breaking off the flower-heads, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/302
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of Official photographs (Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Tobacco is grown almost entirely by African smallholders. Government supervises the crop, from the establishment of the seed-beds to the marketing of the leaf, and a high standard has been reached. Some tobacco, about one sixth of the total exports, is manufactured in Uganda, and the rest is exported for manufacture abroad. The total exports in 1944 were worth...
Dates: 1945
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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Bricklaying competition open to all natives, Feb 1909, Entebbe, 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/102
Scope and Contents

101 x 76 mm. Showing a European judge watching a competitor in action.

Dates: 1909-02
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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Bricklaying competition open to all natives, Feb 1909, Entebbe, 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/103
Scope and Contents

A general view of the competitors in action.

Dates: 1909-02
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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Bricks collected on the foundation of the new Church of St. Paul's at Mboga, built as a memorial to Canon Apolo Kivebulaya, whose grave cross appears in the background, 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/32
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. glossy print. Pictured on the left are Rev. Thomas Ndahura and the Rev. Nasanaeri Mukasa.

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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Bridge, 1895 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/37
Scope and Contents

92 x 62 mm. View of a bridge taken from the river which flows underneath.

Dates: 1895 - 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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[Bridge in Kigesi Province], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/163
Scope and Contents

77 x 51 mm.

Dates: 1928
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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[Bridge in Kigesi Province], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/43
Scope and Contents

82 x 56 mm.

Dates: 1928
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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Bringing a patient to Ngora Hospital, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 26/25
Scope and Contents

Colour.

Dates: 1922
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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Bringing in the crop, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/299
Scope and Contents

Showing African workers carrying bundles of harvested tobacco leaves in wicker baskets on their heads. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads '(Picture issued: 1945) 500/26'.

Dates: 1945
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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British officer and African soldiers, 1892 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 28/9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions documenting Arthur Fisher's service as a missionary in Uganda.

Dates: 1892 - 1914
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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Brochure from Travellers' rest safari camp, Kisoro, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/84
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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
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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Budo School library, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/111
Scope and Contents

205 x 139 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1961
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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Budo School: primary pupils passing dormitories on way to chapel, 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/110
Scope and Contents

156 x 113 mm. glossy print with matt copy.

Dates: 1951
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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Buffalo calf, 1908 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/57
Scope and Contents

87 x 69 mm. Showing an African orderly holding a buffalo calf and one of Bell's pet lion cubs on leashes.

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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Buffalo (present record head), 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/69
Scope and Contents

100 x 70 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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Buganda Talks, 1955-07-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/145
Scope and Contents

151 x 205 mm. The picture shows the two Buganda Lukiko delegations with the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd) at their final meeting with him at the Colonial Office, when an agreed communiqué on the results of discussion and the agreed texts of the new draft agreements for Buganda were initialled.

Dates: 1955-07-20
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).
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Buganda Talks, 1955-07-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/146
Scope and Contents

151 x 206 mm. The picture shows left to right: - Mr. L. Mpagi and Mr. M. Kintu during the final meeting between the two Buganda Lukiko delegations and the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox – Boyd) at the Colonial Office on Wednesday afternoon (July 20, 1955) when an agreed communiqué on the results of his discussion with them and the agreed texts of the new draft agreements for Buganda were initialled.

Dates: 1955-07-20
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).
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Buganda women, 1892 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 28/3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions documenting Arthur Fisher's service as a missionary in Uganda.

Dates: 1892 - 1914
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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Buganda women, 1892 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 28/4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions documenting Arthur Fisher's service as a missionary in Uganda.

Dates: 1892 - 1914
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).
 Series

Bugiri, 1902 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/17-76
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints, lantern slides and glass negatives. The prints mostly relate to Westgate’s earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Many of the lantern slides and glass negatives are uncaptioned and...
Dates: 1902 - 1915
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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(?)Bugiri, circa 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/60
Scope and Contents

106 x 81 mm. Slightly blurred. View of unidentified thatched houses, tentatively identified as Bugiri.

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).