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Uganda (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1892 Collections and/or Records:

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Interior of Government House, 1908 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/36
Scope and Contents

88 x 87 mm. A view of a drawing room.

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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[Interior of Government House, Entebbe], 1908 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/32
Scope and Contents

87 x 86 mm. Showing a hallway and staircase in Government House, Entebbe.

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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[Interior of Government House, Entebbe], 1908 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/33
Scope and Contents

88 x 86 mm. A view looking from one drawing room, through an archway flanked by elephant tusks, to a second room furnished with wicker chairs.

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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[Interior of Government House, Entebbe], 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/27
Scope and Contents

84 x 82 mm. A view looking across a drawing room towards an archway flanked by elephant tusks.

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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[Interior of Government House, Entebbe], 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/28
Scope and Contents

82 x 84 mm. A view of a drawing room.

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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[Interior of Makerere library], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/4/59
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing a long winding staircase above a subject catalogue card index.

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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Interior of Mtesa’s Tomb near Mengo, Uganda, 1891-01-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/88
Scope and Contents

111 x 157 mm. A view looking along the double row of wooden columns leading up to the tomb which is guarded by a wall of upright spears.

Dates: 1891-01-12
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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Interior of Nabumali Church, pulled down and rebuilt in 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 30/58
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 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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Interior of Namirembe Cathedral, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/70
Scope and Contents

128 x 77 mm. glossy print with 77 x 46 mm. negative.

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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Interior of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Mengo, 1892 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 28/18
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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Invitation for Governor Sir Andrew Cohen's garden party, 1955-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/44
Scope and Contents

155 x 120 mm.

Dates: 1955-09
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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Invitation to the annual ball of the Caledonian Society of Uganda, 1956-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/130
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: 1956-07
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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Invitation to the farewell party of Miss Chandler, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/131
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: 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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Ivory being sorted for export at Kampala, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/149
Scope and Contents

140 x 80 mm. Showing three European officials supervising the sorting of elephant tusks at Kampala. At the left of the group stands (Sir) Alexander George Boyle (1827-1943), a Sub-Commissioner and later Acting Governor (1909-1910) after the departure of Sir Henry Hesketh Bell; the central figure standing beaneath an arch of tusks supported by Africans, is unidentified, as is the figure at the right of the photograph.

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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Ivory from the Congo, 1908 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/60
Scope and Contents

88 x 86 mm. Showing rows of elephant tusks laid out on the roadside.

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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[Ivory from the Congo], 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/42
Scope and Contents

80 x 80 mm. Showing rows of elephant tusks laid out on the roadside.

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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Ivory from the Congo [1907], 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/68
Scope and Contents

Showing rows of elephant tusks laid out in the street of an unidentified village.

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).
 File

J . F. Charpentier de Cossigny, ‘Memoir regarding the East African Coast’, 1955

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/9/4
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: 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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[Jackson and tent, Gulu Gulu Camp, Nov/Dec 1888], 1888 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)1/3
Scope and Contents

A photograph of Jackson seated in front of a tent at Gulu Gulu. This picture was taken on the same occasion as Y30468K/1.

Dates: 1888 - 1891
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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[Janet and Barron at the Royal Birthday garden party], 1955-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/50
Scope and Contents

55 x 50 mm.

Dates: 1955-10
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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Janet, John, Norman & I at the [Royal birthday] garden party, 1955-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/49
Scope and Contents

55 x 50 mm.

Dates: 1955-10
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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[Jersey cows], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/1/14
Scope and Contents

240 x 180 mm. Showing cows in long grass. The caption reads: 'Part of the Jersey milk herd in one of the permanent pastures.'

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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Jesse Ndahura, Chief Medical Assistant at Ongino Leprosy Settlement, 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/155
Scope and Contents

112 x 154 mm. glossy print with copy and 56 mm. negative. Ndahura received the British Empire Medal in 1957.

Dates: 1957
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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Jetty at Sesse Island. People meeting the Commissioner of sleeping sickness, May 1909, 1909-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/128
Scope and Contents

107 x 77 mm. Showing a group of Ugandans crowded on the small wooden jetty at Sesse Island. The Sesse Islands, in north west Lake Victoria, was one of the areas most heavily attacked by sleeping sickness, but the inhabitants for some time resisted Sir Henry Hesketh Bell's attempts at evacuation.

Dates: 1909-05
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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Jetty (native built) at Sesse Island. Site of old Boma [stockade] just out of picture on left. This is a crowd of chiefs and people meeting the Commissioner of sleeping sickness in May 1909 to discuss evacuation of islands., 1909-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/129
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints of various sizes, with handwritten captions beneath the prints. It has a varied collection of excellent photographs illustrating scenery, trade, customs, agriculture and rural life in the young protectorate. The album contains the following list of people who supplied prints for inclusion: H. Batley, L.E. Caine, C.C. Gowdey, C.W. Hattersley, Captain Hutchinson, F.A. Knowles, A. McClure, Alison Russell, J.C.R. Sturrock, F. Spire, A.E. Weatherhead. It does not indicate...
Dates: 1909-05
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).