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Uganda (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1973 Collections and/or Records:

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Lake Bunyoni - Kigezi (SW Uganda), 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/1
Scope and Contents

140 x 100 mm. A general view of the lake and surrounding countryside, taken from a high aspect.

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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Lake Bunyoni - Kigezi (SW Uganda), 1925

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

75 x 50 mm. Showing three men in a canoe on the lake.

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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Lake Bunyonyi, Kigezi, Uganda, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/30
Scope and Contents

'137-35-12' 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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[Lake Bunyoyi, south west Uganda], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/86
Scope and Contents

110 x 150 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).
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Lake end of same canal, 1909, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/114
Scope and Contents

102 x 77 mm. Showing the debouchment of the canal into Lake Victoria.

Dates: 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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Lake Kikerongo, Toro [1907], 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/58
Scope and Contents

A general view of part of the crater lake Kikerongo, near where Bell and Burton each shot a hippopotamus.

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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Lake Kioga [i.e. Kyoga] - floating sudd, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/40
Scope and Contents

140 x 80 mm. Showing an impenetrable mass of floating vegetable matter on Lake Kioga.

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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Lakeshore evacuated. Elephant grass in the foreground will grow 12 feet in one year., 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/14
Scope and Contents

148 x 105 mm. A view from the shore looking towards Lake Victoria with tall elephant grass in the foreground; exact location unidentified. The evacuation referred to was Sir Henry Hesketh Bell's decision to depopulate an area two miles wide and several hundred miles long on the shores of Lake Victoria in a largely successful attempt to eradicate the sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda which in some years previous to 1908 was killing 30 000 people a year.

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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[Landscape], 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/17
Scope and Contents

75 x 50 mm. Showing a parked automobile, with the sea visible in the background.

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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[Landscape], 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/18
Scope and Contents

75 x 50 mm. A general view of the landscape. Trees and bushes in the foreground, and the sea in the distance.

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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Landscape, 1895 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/31
Scope and Contents

215 x 166 mm. View of tall grass, shrubs and trees.

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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Lango dance, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/76
Scope and Contents

An underexposed photograph showing a group of Lango men and women dancing.

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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Lango war-dance, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/77
Scope and Contents

Showing a group of Lango warriors, their bodies painted with white markings.

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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Lango women carrying babies, 1908 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/27
Scope and Contents

87 x 87 mm. Showing a group of Lango women (a Nilotic people inhabiting the Lango District in the Northern Province of Central Uganda) carrying their children on their backs in containers shaped like snails' shells.

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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Large group of missionaries at farewell party for Miss Stella Purchas, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/218
Scope and Contents

104 x 102 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1963
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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Laterite road and bridge, Toro, 1895 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/22
Scope and Contents

216 x 166 mm.

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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Laterite road opened by troops, 1895 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/30
Scope and Contents

215 x 166 mm.

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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Launch of S.W.S. 'Speke' at Kakindu, 28 March 1910, 1910-03-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/139
Scope and Contents

99 x 80 mm. A view looking down the slipway as the steamer 'Speke' slides on to Lake Kioga, with crowds watching the event at the left of the print.

Dates: 1910-03-28
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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Lawn Plantins, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/4
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. A view from a lawn at high altitude, of mountains in the distance.

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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[Lawn Plantins], 1925

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

82 x 58 mm. A view of hills from a lawn.

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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Lendu woman and baby, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/66
Scope and Contents

91 x 113 mm. A full-length profile of a Lendu woman standing in front of a row of mud huts with conical thatched roofs; her baby, strapped to her back, wears a curious conical hat as a sunshade. The Lendu, a Sudanic race, inhabit the Bunyoro country of Uganda.

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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Leopard shot at Wadelai on the Upper Nile (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/243
Scope and Contents

59 x 42 mm. A view showing Africans gathered round the corpse of a leopard waving spears at the body: 'The villagers are dancing and vilifying him and all his relations'.

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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Leprosy research, Soroti Diocese, showing Miss Mary Stone and Dr. Kinnear Brown, 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/45
Scope and Contents

Glossy 56 mm. contact print with negative.

Dates: 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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[Lethargy. The last stage. Buvuna [?Buvuma] Island 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/35
Scope and Contents

150 x 110 mm. A view showing a sleeping, emaciated man in the terminal stage of sleeping sickness. Christy (1903) describes how this man was carried from his hut without awakening and how all the other members of his family were in a similar condition.

Dates: 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).
 Sub-Fonds

Letter from Sir Samuel Baker, 1866-04-21

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/8
Scope and Contents

A letter to an unnamed correspondent concerning adding 'Victoria Nile or' before 'Somerset River' on a map shortly to be published, presumably in Baker's 'The Albert N'Yanza', originally published in 1864. The map in the original volume is marked 'R Somerset or Victoria Nile'. The recipient may have been Stephen William Silver (1819-1905), a friend of Baker's, to whom other letters given by Sir Harry Wilson to the R.C.S. in 1916 were addressed.

Dates: 1866-04-21
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).