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Uganda (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1973 Collections and/or Records:

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‘Victoria’ at Entebbe, c. 1900, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/30
Scope and Contents

201 x 144 mm. Showing the small steam launch at anchor.

Dates: 1977
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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Victoria Nile below Murchinson Falls, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/78
Scope and Contents

195 x 144 mm. A view looking across the fast flowing 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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View across Entebbe Golf Links, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/147
Scope and Contents

140 x 83 mm. A view looking across the golf course towards rolling wooded hills.

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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View along the front verandah of the Mission House (C.M.S.), Bugiri, German East Africa, burnt by the Hun [German], 1914 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/53A
Scope and Contents

107 x 152 mm. View looking along the verandah, with the remains of the corrugated iron roof lying on the ground in the foreground.

Dates: 1914 - 1915
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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View along the front verandah of the Mission House (C.M.S.), Bugiri, German East Africa, burnt by the Hun [German], 1914 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/53B
Scope and Contents

107 x 152 mm. View looking along the verandah, with the remains of the corrugated iron roof lying on the ground in the foreground.

Dates: 1914 - 1915
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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[View from a Kopje], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/4/73
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. A view of the landscape taken from on top of a Kopje. Other Kopjes can be seen in the distance. Probably in Kampala.

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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View from Chief Secretary's Garden, overlooking Lake Victoria, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/146
Scope and Contents

137 x 84 mm. A view looking through trees towards Tende Bay on Lake Victoria.

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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View from Entebbe, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/6
Scope and Contents

197 x 140 mm. A view looking along the Kampala Road from Entebbe with crowds of pedestrians in the middle distance.

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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View of River Nile from Dufile Camp, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/17
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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View of snows, Rwenzori Mountains from west, 1895 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/3/35
Scope and Contents

216 x 166 mm. Shows a group of African men in the middle ground viewing the peaks.

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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View of the Ugogo Plain from Ibwijili (Bugiri), showing baobab trees and kayas or native dwellings, circa 1902, 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/75A
Scope and Contents

100 x 73 mm. General view of the plain.

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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View of the Ugogo Plain from the Mission Station, Bugiri, circa 1909-10, 1909 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/57
Scope and Contents

103 x 77 mm. View looking across the plain, with a thatched mission building in the foreground.

Dates: 1909 - 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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View of the Ugogo Plain from the Mission Station, Bugiri, circa 1909-10, 1909 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/58
Scope and Contents

99 x 73 mm.

Dates: 1909 - 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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Views of the post office, cathedrals, market and street scenes, King George V Memorial Gardens, the Imperial Hotel, 1950-01

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3/33-52
Scope and Contents From the File:

Various sizes.

Dates: 1950-01
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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Village on Banks of Nile between Wadelai & Dufile 1898, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/21
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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Village teacher with some of her children, 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045S/1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A collection of 18 glass slides and 38 photographs. The slides were used by Hogbin to illustrate talks on her work when on furlough (leave of absence), and their captions were provided by her niece. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.

Dates: 1931
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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Violet Gwendoline Hogbin. CMS Mbarara, 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045S/19
Scope and Contents

A black and white photograph, measuring 60 x 84 mm, of Gwen Hogbin seated with two young schoolgirls.

Dates: 1931
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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Visit of Canon John V. Taylor, General Secretary of the CMS, to Uganda: Congolese Christian on his boat on Lake Albert, 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/12
Scope and Contents

118 x 80 mm. glossy 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).
 Fonds

Visit of H.M. The Queen Mother to Uganda

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045R
Scope and Contents

The Queen Mother's visit included Kenya (5-18 February) and Uganda (18-27 February).

Dates: 1959
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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[Visit of Sultan Sultana], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/76
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 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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[Visit of Sultan Sultana], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/77
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Wilson is on the far right.

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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[Visit of Sultan Sultana], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/78
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 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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[Visit of Sultan Sultana], 1952 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/79
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Wilson is stood beside the Sultan.

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

Visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Uganda 1925

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045I
Scope and Contents Collection of loose mostly uncaptioned prints, chiefly relating to the visit of Duke and Duchess of York (later H.M. King George VI and H.M. Queen Elizabeth) to Uganda in February-March 1925. An attempt has been made to identify the photographs from the published programme of the visit, and cuttings relating to it, which were presented with the photographs, and also other printed works such as 'King George VI: his life and reign' by John Wheeler-Bennett (1958). It seems likely that...
Dates: 1925
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).
 File

W. Grant to George Wilson, Acting Commander and Consul General, Uganda, 1898-01-01

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/2/1
Scope and Contents

Letter concerning the armed attempt to regain his throne by Mwanga II, Kabaka of Buganda, who had been deposed in 1897.

Dates: 1898-01-01
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).