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Uganda (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1973 Collections and/or Records:

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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).
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E.G.’s tent Gulu Gulu Camp, 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/2
Scope and Contents

155 x 113 mm. Showing Gedge’s tent (stamped ‘IBEAC’ on the side) with a chair saucepans, bedding and other equipment in front of it.

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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‘Eighteenth century charts of the East African Coast’, 1952 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/5/4
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Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.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: 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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Elephant, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/71
Scope and Contents

99 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: 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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Elephant grass in Uganda, 1907, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/141
Scope and Contents

112 x 157 mm. A view showing Cuthbert Christy and a band of porters standing in elephant grass from twelve to fifteen feet high.

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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Elephant grass in Uganda, 1907, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/142
Scope and Contents

74 x 100 mm. A view showing Cuthbert Christy and a band of porters standing in elephant grass from twelve to fifteen feet high.

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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Elephant grass in Uganda, 1907, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/143
Scope and Contents

74 x 100 mm. A view showing Cuthbert Christy and a band of porters standing in elephant grass from twelve to fifteen feet high.

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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Empango drum ceremony, Bunyoro, Uganda, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/24
Scope and Contents

'73-9-22' 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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Encampment in a glade of mimosa trees, c 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/191
Scope and Contents

151 x 109 mm. Similar to the preceding but without Dorothy Westgate.

Dates: 1910
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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Entebbe, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/23
Scope and Contents

70 x 100 mm. Aerial view of Entebbe.

Dates: 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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Entebbe, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/24
Scope and Contents

70 x 100 mm. Aerial view of Entebbe.

Dates: 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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Entebbe, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/25
Scope and Contents

80 x 50 mm. Showing a marching band.

Dates: 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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Entebbe, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3/60-65
Scope and Contents

Groups of family and friends.

Dates: 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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Entebbe Church, 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/83
Scope and Contents A view showing the mud and thatch church (the first in Entebbe) before its replacement was completed: '30th November ... Another milestone in the growth of Entebbe is the building of an Anglican church. I laid the foundation stone of it some time ago and the walls are rising rapidly. It is rather surprising that we should have waited so long for this and, when looking at the imposing proportions of the Government House that I am building, I confess that I have felt rather ashamed when I...
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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Entebbe Club, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/3
Scope and Contents

198 x 141 mm. A view from the garden looking towards the entrnce of the single storey brick building, opened in August 1905.

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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Entebbe, general view of, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/1
Scope and Contents

204 x 142 mm. A view from Nasamuze Hill looking over the township of Entebbe, with Lake Victoria, Bendigere and Tende Bay in the background. The town, laid out by Sir Harry Johnson, fits Sir Henry Hesketh Bell's description (Bell 1946 pp. 110-111) of the spot on his arrival as Commissioner in 1906.

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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Entebbe Hockey team starting for Kampala, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/148
Scope and Contents

140 x 82 mm. Showing the members of the hockey team seated in, or standing beside a Government of Uganda lorry. Members of the team have not been identified.

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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Entebbe - landing ground site, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/152
Scope and Contents

101 x 78 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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Entebbe - landing ground site, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/153
Scope and Contents

111 x 78 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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[Entebbe - landing ground site], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/40
Scope and Contents

83 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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[Entebbe - landing ground site], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/41
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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Entebbe Pier, with Ry. [Railway] Steamers alongside, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/11
Scope and Contents

196 x 142 mm. A view looking along the pier at Entebbe with SS 'Clement Hill' (in service 1906-1936) moored at the left and the SS 'Sybil' (in service 1904-1967) at the right. Firewood for the steamers is piled on the pier in the foreground and groups of passengers can be seen leaving the 'Clement Hill'.

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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Enthronement of Bishop Leslie Brown as Bishop of Uganda: receiving the pastoral staff from Bishop Balya, 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/73
Scope and Contents

115 x 155 mm. glossy print with copy.

Dates: 1953
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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Entries from the Uganda land register, 1902 - 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 150/6/3/3
Scope and Contents

Copies of entries from the Register for 1895-1899, with supporting descriptive information. The papers are undated.

Dates: 1902 - 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).
 Fonds

Ernest Gedge Collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K
Scope and Contents A collection of photographs by Ernest Gedge comprising:(1) 81 prints, probably made in the 1920s. All these prints relate to the Jackson/Gedge Expedition of 1888-91 (see below). 80 are from negatives in the Royal Geographical Society and one from the negatives now in RCS (iii). Some new prints were obtained from the Royal Geographical Society in place of originals which had been stolen.(2) 1 print not in the above collection and taken from the RGS negative.(3) 11 glass...
Dates: 1880 - 1902
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).