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Uganda (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1973 Collections and/or Records:

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Uganda peasants' home, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/59
Scope and Contents

Showing a small circular thatched hut set in a clearing in a banana plantation.

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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Uganda Premier Speaks at Independence Conference in London, 1962-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/606
Scope and Contents

105 x 206 mm. Uganda Prime Minister, Mr. Milton Obote, Leader of the Uganda People’s Congress (U.P.C.), speaking to the Uganda Independence Conference in Marlborough House, London.

Dates: 1962-06
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

Uganda Railway, 1966

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 155/7/2/18
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Biographical notes compiled by D.H. Simpson.

Dates: 1966
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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Uganda railway, 1900 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 26/26
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1900 - 1929
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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Uganda railway, 1900 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 26/27
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1900 - 1929
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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Uganda railway, 1900 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 26/28
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1900 - 1929
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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Uganda Railway employees tents (Indians), 1900-02-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/29
Scope and Contents

'Red Cross flag over hospital. Zarchas (ie branches of trees) round tents to keep off lions and leopards.

Dates: 1900-02-27
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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[Uganda railway locomotive]

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/301
Scope and Contents

100 x 75 mm. A view showing a locomotive steaming through forest land (possibly the Mau Forest). Photograph by Coutinho and sons, Zanzibar.

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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Uganda Railway superior staff, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 155/7/3/17
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Biographical notes compiled by H.B. Thomas. Due to the disorder of the notes prior to their cataloguing there may be some overlap between series.

Dates: 1966
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

Uganda Railway Survey diaries, 1964

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/45
Scope and Contents

Typescript copies by A.T. Matson of the diaries of Sir James Macdonald and Sir John Pringle, 1891-1892.

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).
 Sub-Series

[Uganda scenes], 1955

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/22-33
Scope and Contents

Monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Uganda scenes. Published by the Department of Information, Kampala.

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).
 Sub-Series

[Uganda scenes], 1900 - 1904

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/34-42
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous monochrome postcards. Photographers and/or publishers unknown, apart from no.40, issued by the White Fathers.

Dates: 1900 - 1904
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

Uganda Sisal, 1940 - 1949

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/306-320
Scope and Contents

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).
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Uganda staff lists, 1968

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 155/7/2/29
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Biographical notes compiled by D.H. Simpson.

Dates: 1968
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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Uganda - the young musician, 1900 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Uganda/42
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Miscellaneous monochrome postcards. Photographers and/or publishers unknown, apart from no.40, issued by the White Fathers.

Dates: 1900 - 1904
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

Uganda Tobacco, 1945

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/294-305
Scope and Contents A series of Official photographs (Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Tobacco is grown almost entirely by African smallholders. Government supervises the crop, from the establishment of the seed-beds to the marketing of the leaf, and a high standard has been reached. Some tobacco, about one sixth of the total exports, is manufactured in Uganda, and the rest is exported for manufacture abroad. The total exports in 1944 were worth...
Dates: 1945
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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[? Ugandan African 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/51
Scope and Contents

155 x 110 mm. A view showing an African man, possibly a sleeping sickness sufferer, seated on the ground in front of his hut (probably on the island of Buvuma).

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).
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[Ugandan chiefs, (n.d.)]

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/280
Scope and Contents

103 x 77 mm. A group photograph of Ugandan chiefs standing on a lawn. Occasion unidentified.

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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[Ugandan countryside], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/154
Scope and Contents

74 x 47 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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[Ugandan countryside], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/155
Scope and Contents

59 x 47 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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[Ugandan countryside], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/159
Scope and Contents

76 x 50 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).
 Fonds

Ugandan Independence

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045V
Scope and Contents

Fourteen captioned 152 x 103 mm. colour photographs taken by Michael Lee illustrating celebrations held in Kampala to mark Uganda's independence. They include views of the procession, independence shields, Makerere College, Kampala City Hall, and the ceremony at Kololo stadium attended by the Duke and Duchess of Kent.

Dates: 1962-10-09
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).
 Series

Ugandan papers, 1902-06-10 - 1903-04-15

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4
Scope and Contents Diaries, notes and reports recording Christy's research for the first Royal Society Sleeping Sickness Commission in Africa. The medical expedition was a response to the spreading Uganda Sleeping Sickness epidemic of 1901. Its aim was to elucidate the role of the Filaria perstans parasite in causing the disease. Christy travelled widely in Uganda, British and German East Africa, and the upper Sudan to map the distributions of the parasite and the disease. His findings were important in...
Dates: 1902-06-10 - 1903-04-15
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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[? Ugandan village scene, ? 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/59
Scope and Contents

156 x 113 mm. A view showing a group of Africans seated around cooking pots and a fire in front of a grass hut. Probably a Ugandan scene.

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).
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Ugogo Plain showing Baobab trees, circa 1902, 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/73
Scope and Contents

151 x 58 mm.

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).