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Uganda (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Research notes, 1950 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/14
Scope and Contents

This section includes copies of articles and notes that Gray assembled when researching his histories.

Dates: 1950 - 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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Research notes on the Uganda-Congo boundary Commission in relation to Lake Albert, 1970 - 1978

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 362/7
Scope and Contents

15 sheets.

Dates: 1970 - 1978
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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Research Project, Production of methane gas from elephant grass for use in power and lighting, 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/1/19
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing a man working in a laboratory.

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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Resettlement scheme, Buwasia: Stephen Carr and school leavers clearing bush for agriculture, 1964, 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/39
Scope and Contents

56 x 56 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. 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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Rev. Enosi Semuranga and teacher Patrick J. Brook in front of Holy Trinity Church, Bujumbure, 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/36
Scope and Contents

75 x 112 mm. matt print with 35 mm. negative.

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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Rev. F.J. Bedford and the Rev. E. Gacanja with Bible on the plane from Nairobi to Entebbe, 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/12/1/1
Scope and Contents

80 x 128 mm. matt print.

Dates: 1952
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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Rev. Frederick Henry Wright’s house in Nassa, 1895 - 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 26/3
Scope and Contents

He was in Uganda from 1895 until 1907, when he went to Kenya.

Dates: 1895 - 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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Rev. J.P. Nickisson’s (c1865-1896) grave at Nassa, Uganda, 1929 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 25/20
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.

Dates: 1929 - 1948
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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Reverend Ernest Millar collection

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045L
Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints most measuring approximately 100 x 75 mm., the majority captioned on the reverse, showing scenes in Uganda and portraits of personalities connected with Millar's career. Photographs by Charles William Hattersley and others. Many of the photographs are reproduced in Ham Mukasa's 'Uganda's Katikiro in England' (London 1904), edited and translated by Ernest Millar and hereafter referred to as 'Mukasa'. A few are also to be found in C.W. Hattersley's 'Uganda by...
Dates: 1900 - 1917
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).
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Revisions of portions of G. Birkbeck Hill, ‘Gordon in central Africa’, 1960 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/3/22
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: 1960 - 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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Richard Offor Library Adviser Inter-University Council 1947-1960, 1947 - 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/1 Offor
Scope and Contents Album with panel on cover with title, originally containing 20 photographs of ten libraries but with 7 missing. The following list of libraries represented gives the number of photographs now in the album, with the original number in brackets:Hong Kong 1 (2)Khartoum 1 (2)Malaya (Singapore) 2 (2)Malaya (Kuala Lumpur) 2 (2)Ghana 0 (2)Ibadan 1 (2)Makerere 0 (2)Rhodesia and Nyasaland 2 (2)West Indies 2...
Dates: 1947 - 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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Rickshaw travelling, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/15
Scope and Contents

149 x 104 mm. Showing George Wilson (1862-1943) seated in a rickshaw with four Ugandans in front and behind the vehicle. Wilson first came to East Africa in 1889, from 1890-1891 he was employed by the IBEA Co. and from 1902 until his retirement in 1909 was Deputy Commissioner, Uganda Protectorate.

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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Rickshaws at Entebbe, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/53
Scope and Contents

Showing three rickshaws, with European passengers drawn by Africans, standing on a lawn at the edge of Lake Victoria.

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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Ripon Falls, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/55
Scope and Contents

79 x 55 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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Ripon Falls [1906], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/1
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A view from the east bank of the Nile looking across the Ripon Falls, seen by Bell for the first time when he visited Jinja in August 1906.

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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Ripon Falls, Birth of the Nile, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/2
Scope and Contents

MISSING

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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Ripon Falls from Buganda side, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/67
Scope and Contents

189 x 140 mm. A view looking south towards the falls from the western bank of the Victoria Nile.

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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Ripon Falls from Buganda side, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/68
Scope and Contents

199 x 140 mm. A view looking across the narrow channel of the Ripon Falls from the eastern (Jinja) bank of the Victoria Nile.

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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Ripon Falls - Jinja, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/53
Scope and Contents

139 x 86 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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[Ripon Falls - Jinja], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/23
Scope and Contents

85 x 62 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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River Nile & Soudanese Camp at Dufile 1898, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/16
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...
Dates: 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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River scene in Toro, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/83
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73 x 99 mm. A view looking along a tree shaded river in Toro, western 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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Road across the Mpologoma, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/72
Scope and Contents 90 x 82 mm. Showing a road under construction beside the Mpologama River, visited by Bell in 1909: 'At the place where we crossed the Mpologoma, on our way to Mbale, the river is about a mile and a half wide ... A pontoon ferry boat is in course of construction and will soon be ready. Loaded waggons with their teams of oxen will then be able to cross easily, and much time which is now lost through the use of canoes will be saved. It is estimated that considerable revenue will acrue from...
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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Road construction near Kampala, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/3/31
Scope and Contents

110 x 110 mm. The caption continues: 'Heavy earth-moving equipment such as this scraper has greatly speeded up the creation of new road links.'

Dates: 1933 - 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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[Road round the Northern edge of the Ruwenzori going towards Bundibugyo], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/84
Scope and Contents

105 x 130 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).