Uganda (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1973 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Sir Bernard de Bunsen, Principal of Makerere 1949-62, 1952 - 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/4
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. A view of the Principal reading, pipe in hand, at his desk. The caption continues: 'Vice Chancellor, University of East Africa 1962.'
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).
Fonds
Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C-N
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints by various photographers. Bell makes mention several times in his letters and diaries of taking photographs and many of the prints in the collection are evidently snapshots taken by him or by someone using his camera. Some professional work is included in the albums, the two most prominent photographers being Alfred Lobo (Uganda) and Jose Anjo (Dominica). In addition, Y3011F contains work by such well-known London photographers as Elliot and Fry, Maull and Fox,...
Dates:
1866 - 1940
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36
Scope and Contents
Diaries, notebooks, letters, scrapbooks and publications. Titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.
Dates:
1889 - 1948
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
‘Sir John Kirk and Mutesa’, 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/3/7
Scope and Contents
Modified version of the text published in 'Uganda Journal' 15, (1951), 1-16.
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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Sir William Gowers, Governor of Uganda, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/30
Scope and Contents
50 x 80 mm. A view of Sir William stood on a lawn with a dog. Sir William Gowers was Governor of Uganda 18 May 1925 - 23 Nov 1932.
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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Sisal after crushing emerges as fibre, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/315
Scope and Contents
Showing a row of African workers unpacking sisal after the crushing process from which it emerges as fibre.
Dates:
1940 - 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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Sisal entering the crushing mill, 1940 - 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/316
Scope and Contents
Showing harvested sisal being fed into the crushing mill.
Dates:
1940 - 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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Sisal estate Government Plantations, Kampala, 1906 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/56
Scope and Contents
153 x 104 mm. Showing a Ugandan worker digging an irrigation ditch in a field of young sisal plants in Kampala. Introduced into German East Africa around 1893, the plant thrived in Kenya but little successful commercial exploitation was achieved in 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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Sisal fibre on the drying lines, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/314
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:
'Today about 10,620 acres are devoted to sisal growing including one big European estate of 7,200 acres in Bunyro. Sisal rope almost entirely replaced manila rope during the Japanese occupation of so many Far East territories and much of the sisal needs were supplied by East Africa'.
Dates:
1940 - 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).
Item
Sisal fibre ready for packing or manufacturing, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/313
Scope and Contents
Showing coils of sisal fibre laid out in the factory yard ready for packing or further manufacture.
Dates:
1940 - 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).
Item
Sister Dora Candlin in the Dispensary at the Kapeka Outstation Maternity Hospital, 1960
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/166
Scope and Contents
163 x 110 mm. glossy print. Nurse Florence Mukasa stands to the right of Candlin.
Dates:
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).
Item
Site of Government House. Entebbe. 1907, 1907
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/10
Scope and Contents
87 x 86 mm. A view showing the mud and thatch buildings of the old police lines on the site of the new Government House.
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).
Item
Site of Govt. House in 1906, 1906 - 1907
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/19
Scope and Contents
86 x 78 mm. A view showing the mud and thatch buildings of the old police lines on the site of the new Government House.
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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[Site of Govt. House in 1906], 1906 - 1907
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/20
Scope and Contents
81 x 81 mm. A view showing the mud and thatch buildings of the old police lines on the site of the new Government House.
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).
File
Sitwell and patrol fording a stream, 1895 - 1898
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/11
Scope and Contents
217 x 162 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).
Sub-Series
Six photogravure postcards of Uganda specially taken for the British Empire Exhibition 1924. Series I, 1924
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/1-6
Scope and Contents
Monochrome photogravure postcards of Uganda scenes, taken for the British Empire Exhibition 1924. The copyright statement on the reverse of the photographs reads: 'Copyright Uganda Government. Series 1. Printed in England. Raphael Tuck and Sons, Ltd., London'. The captions have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1924
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-Series
Six photogravure postcards of Uganda specially taken for the British Empire Exhibition 1924. Series II, 1924
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/7-12
Scope and Contents
An envelope containing monochrome photogravure postcards of Uganda scenes, taken for the British Empire Exhibition 1924. The reverse of the envelope reads: 'Uganda Protectorate. Uganda is the foremost cotton producing country among the new cotton fields of the Empire, and the production is rapidly expanding. The cotton is of a high quality. During 1923, 35,218,400 pounds of cotton was exported valued at £2,026,820.The Uganda coffee industry is of considerable and...
Dates:
1924
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).
Item
Sixth encampment, Kariandus, 6320 ft above sea, 12 miles from Gilgil River, 1900-03-05
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/37
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
66 watercolours, 150 x 200 mm in size. The captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Notes provided by H.B. Thomas have been incorporated into the description.
Dates:
1900-03-05
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Mombasa to Mengo
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Sleeping sickness, 1908 - 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/24
Scope and Contents
168 x 120 mm. Showing patients seated or lying in a village banana plantation.
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).
Item
[Sleeping sickness and starvation, Buvuma Island 1902], 1902
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/33
Scope and Contents
157 x 112 mm. View showing a large group of Africans suffering from a combination of sleeping sickness and starvation on Buvuma Island at the northern end of Lake Victoria. Dr. Christy was a member of the 1902 Commission sent to investigate outbreaks of sleeping sickness in Busoga.
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).
File
Sleeping Sickness Commission notes, 1902-09-04 - 1903-01-18
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/7
Scope and Contents
Nineteen loose leaves recording the distribution of filariae in the places Christy surveyed.
Dates:
1902-09-04 - 1903-01-18
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).
Item
[Sleeping sickness sores, Buvuma 1902], 1902
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/43
Scope and Contents
110 x 155 mm. A rear view of an African showing the deep sores which develop in the later stages of the disease.
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).
Item
[Sleeping sickness sores, Buvuma 1902], 1902
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/44
Scope and Contents
111 x 155 mm. A rear view of two emaciated Africans showing the deep sores which develop in the later stages of the disease.
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).
Item
[Sleeping sickness sores, probably at Buvuma 1902], 1902
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/45
Scope and Contents
109 x 154 mm. A view showing an emaciated African seated on the ground, his body covered with the deep sores developed in the later stages of the disease.
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).
File
'Snakes, burrs and birds', 1912
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/9/6
Scope and Contents
Article published in the journal Knowledge, Jan. 1912, 13.
Dates:
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).