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Uganda (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1973 Collections and/or Records:

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[Students wearing masks], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/74
Scope and Contents

165 x 215 mm. Showing a professor and three students, two of whom are wearing painted masks, ascending some steps.

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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Sudanese Company, probably Fort Gerry, 1895 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/9
Scope and Contents

215 x 165 mm. Caption on back, possibly by Oswald Sitwell reads, 'Claude Sitwell's influence prevented his company from mutiny'.

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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Sufferers from sleeping sickness, 1908 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/22
Scope and Contents 170 x 123 mm. Showing sleeping sickness victims seated in a village clearing. Sleeping sickness reached epidemic proportions in Uganda in the early years of the century, and in May 1902 Colonel (later, Sir) James Sadler reported that 20,000 people had died in Busoga alone. In 1902 a Royal Society Commission consisting of Drs. Low, Christy and Castellani arrived to investigate the problem and in 1903 Colonel (later, Sir) David Bruce discovered that the tsetse fly was the source of...
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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Sufferers from sleeping sickness, 1908 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/23
Scope and Contents

172 x 122 mm. Showing sleeping sickness sufferers seated or lying in a village square.

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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(Sulimani) Boy with one of my lion cubs, 1908 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/35
Scope and Contents

85 x 80 mm. Showing Sulimani, one of Bell's servants, holding one of the pet lion cubs up towards the camera.

Dates: 1908 - 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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Sultan Sultana, 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/75
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Wilson is in the centre.

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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Sunday School class at Bugiri, about 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/31A
Scope and Contents

158 x 108 mm. Showing Miss Thwaites seated in the centre of a large group of African children.

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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Sunday School class at Bugiri, about 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/31B
Scope and Contents

158 x 108 mm. Showing Miss Thwaites seated in the centre of a large group of African children.

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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Sunday School class at Bugiri, about 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/31C
Scope and Contents

158 x 108 mm. Showing Miss Thwaites seated in the centre of a large group of African children.

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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Superintendent of Marine, laying keel plate of S.W.S. 'Speke', at Kakindu, 19th Octr 1910, 1910-10-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/136
Scope and Contents

105 x 81 mm. Showing the keel plate being laid by Commander H. Hutchinson ( - 1920), Captain of the S.S. 'William Mackinnon' and in charge of the Uganda Marine Department.

Dates: 1910-10-19
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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Survey Caravan, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/16
Scope and Contents 148 x 104 mm. Showing a survey caravan about to set off. Two Europeans stand in the foreground followed by drum beaters, porters loaded with supplies and an armed guard. The European on the left is J.H.W.S. MCGREGOR ( -1918) who worked in the Uganda Survey Department from 1903-1917. His companion remains unidentified but is possible Harry BOAZMAN ( -1958) who was employed in the Uganda Survey Department from 1903-1913. On his resignation he set up a private surveying practice 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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Susan in the pool, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/18
Scope and Contents

55 x 50 mm.

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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S.W.S. 'Speke' and steam launch 'Victoria', Lake Kioga flotilla, 1st July 1910, 1910-07-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/140
Scope and Contents

104 x 79 mm. Showing the 'Speke' and the smaller launch 'Victoria' moored on the shore of Lake Kioga.

Dates: 1910-07-01
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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S.W.S. 'Speke' ready for launching, 28 March 1910, 1910-03-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/138
Scope and Contents

104 x 79 mm. Showing the completed steamer dressed with flags on the slipway, ready for launching on Lake Kioga (seen in background).

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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Synopsis of diaries, 1899-08-01 - 1925-01-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/2/2
Scope and Contents

These notes cover Bell’s service as Administrator of Dominica and Acting Governor of the Leeward Islands (1899-1905), Commissioner (Governor) of Uganda (1906-1909), Governor of Northern Nigeria (1909-12), Governor of the Leeward Islands (1912-1916) and Governor of Mauritius (1916-24). Prominent subjects include Bell’s official duties, colleagues, travels, social life and personal affairs (circa 180 sheets).

Dates: 1899-08-01 - 1925-01-01
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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Tame wart hogs, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/26
Scope and Contents

Showing two wart-hogs tethered to a tree beneath a thatched sunshade.

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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Tanganyika: young girl; Uganda: Murchison Falls, Masaka, Entebbe swimming pool, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/242-49
Scope and Contents From the File:

Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

Dates: 1943
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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Tapping in Uganda

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/107
Scope and Contents

72 x 99 mm. A view showing a Swahili on climbing slings using a Funtumia knife to score tapping lines in a rubber tree using the D.H.S. system (the Double Half Spiral) with alternate spiral lines running into a central vertical line which leads down to the collection cup.

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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Tapping in Uganda

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/108
Scope and Contents

74 x 95 mm. A view showing a Swahili on climbing slings using a Funtumia knife to score tapping lines in a rubber tree using the D.H.S. system (the Double Half Spiral) with alternate spiral lines running into a central vertical line which leads down to the collection cup.

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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Tapping telephone line on the road to Hoima [1909], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/75
Scope and Contents

Showing figures grouped round a pruned tree which is acting as a telegraph pole.

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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Tapping the wires, 1909-01 - 1909-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/53
Scope and Contents

88 x 87 mm. Showing four unidentified figures standing at the base of a telegraph pole.

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-03
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

T.B.R. Westgate Collection on German East Africa

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F
Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints, lantern slides and glass negatives. The prints mostly relate to Westgate’s earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Many of the lantern slides and glass negatives are uncaptioned and...
Dates: 1899 - 1936
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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T.B.R. Westgate, probably at Bugiri, 1908 or 1909, 1908 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/262
Scope and Contents

123 x 175 mm. Full length portrait of Westgate in tropical uniform standing in front of a house.

Dates: 1908 - 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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Tea growing in Uganda, 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/61
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Tea plucking in progress on an estate in Western Uganda.'

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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Tea growing in Uganda, 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/65
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Children plucking the leaves as they walk between the rows. This method of carrying the basket enables the picker to use both hands'

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).