Uganda (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Fonds
W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M-O
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs on 125 brown loose album sheets, many with hand-written captions. The captions 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. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. There are two 'Title pages' which have been transcribed at Y304M and Y304N, dated 1934 and 1935-36. The album sheets which appear to...
Dates:
1930 - 1939
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
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Wa Kavirondo watching Caravan from the Bush 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/30
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:
1899
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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Wa Nyika, 1889-08-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)1/5
Scope and Contents
Duplicate of portion of Y30468K/3, which featured a row of 8 Nyika men and women standing in front of tents at Gulu Gulu. The men were armed with bows and arrows and one woman carried a calabash.
Dates:
1889-08-02
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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Wa Nyika natives, Gulu Gulu Camp, 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/3
Scope and Contents
155 x 111 mm. Showing a row of 8 Nyika men and women standing in front of tents at Gulu Gulu. The men are armed with bows and arrows and one woman carries a calabash. For dating see Y30468K/1. LS/5 (part of print only).
Dates:
1888
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
/
Ernest Gedge Collection
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Waganda Caravan dancing 1898, 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/27
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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Wagogo Christian women, Ugogo, c 1910, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/221
Scope and Contents
62 x 103 mm. Open air portrait of three women, one seated.
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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Wagogo elders, Bugiri, 1910-11, 1910 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/333
Scope and Contents
102 x 77 mm. Showing two elders seated in the open air. The figure on the left, Chief Magunga, smokes a calabash pipe. Four copies.
Dates:
1910 - 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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Wagogo elders, Bugiri, 1910-11, 1910 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/334
Scope and Contents
101 x 75 mm. Similar to the preceding print, but a closer view.
Dates:
1910 - 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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Wagogo elders, Bugiri, 1910-11, 1910 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/335
Scope and Contents
101 x 75 mm. Similar to preceding print.
Dates:
1910 - 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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Wandegeya Mosque, Kampala, 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/33
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. This image was submitted to the Caltex Star Photographer Competition in 1960.
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).
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Ward in Mengo (?) hospital, 1937
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 27/27
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions from K.H. Buxton, who is probably Kathleen Hannah Buxton (1905-1999), daughter of Reverend Leonard Buxton, the Vicar of North Mimms, Hertfordshire.
Dates:
1937
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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Was here bitten by Tsetse fly in country infected by sleeping sickness, 1908, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/22
Scope and Contents
Showing a waterfall set among deep forest, with a silhouetted figure standing in the foreground.
Dates:
1908
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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Watch tower, Acholi Village, N. Province standing on top of a wooden platform, with the huts of the village in the background., 1906 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/98
Scope and Contents
76 x 100 mm. Showing an Acholi man standing on top of a wooden platform, with the huts of the village in the background.
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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Waterbuck, 1906 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/76
Scope and Contents
110 x 86 mm. One of several prints. Showing the body of animals lying where they were shot
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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We were the first white people these folk had ever seen, 1931
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045S/3
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Hogbin collection
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Wedding of Dr. Reford - April 1909. Group taken in the grounds of Judge Ennis's house, 1909-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/42
Scope and Contents
198 x 144 mm. Showing Bell and Dr. Reford standing in the centre of a large group of wedding guests. His wife Grace, nee Parker, is seated at the front of the group. Dr. John Hope Reford C.M.G. (1873-1957) was a Medical Officer in Uganda from 1907 until his retirement as Director of Medical Services in 1928. Judge George Francis Macdaniel Ennis (1868-1933) who practised as a judge in East Africa between 1899-1912 and in Ceylon between 1912-1925 is probably the figure standing behind...
Dates:
1909-04
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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Weighing the produce of experimental plots, 1952 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/1/13
Scope and Contents
205 x 160 mm. Showing two men weighing produce in a field. The caption continues: 'in research into sweet potato breeding.'
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).
File
West Nile District, 1949 - 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 362/4/1
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Lanning's service in the district. Subjects include native courts, African local government employees, county councils, hawking licenses, land regulation, District Commissioner’s circulars, place names, and tours of the district. The file also contains transcripts of two interviews with Lanning on the subject of caves and ancient occupation sites, forming part of the ‘Uganda’s Past’ series, and a paper by Lanning entitled ‘Kibengo: an Iron Age fort on Lake Albert’ (circa...
Dates:
1949 - 1950
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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Wheelwright's shop P.W.D. Entebbe, 1906 - 1911
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/40
Scope and Contents
198 x 143 mm. Showing Ugandan carpenters at work making wheels under the supervision of S. Waite ( -1944) of the Public Works Department.
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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Whitewashing rubber trees, Uganda, 1901 - 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/98
Scope and Contents
73 x 96 mm. A view showing African labourers white-washing the trunks of Nectra Funtumiae trees as a protection against canker.
Dates:
1901 - 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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Wiggins, Jervoise, Ormsby, Hutchinson, Burton [1906], 1906
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/5
Scope and Contents
Showing the five men grouped around a pair of elephant tusks. All the figures seen here, with the exception of Jervoise, are named as accompanying Bell on his 1906 tour. See Bell (1946), page 131.
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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[Wilson and students], 1952 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/30
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Group photograph. Wilson is seated third from the 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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[Wilson and students], 1952 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/30A
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Group photograph. Wilson is seated third from the 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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[Wilson and students], 1952 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/31
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Group photograph. Wilson is seated third from the 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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[Wilson and students], 1952 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/5/32
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Group photograph. Wilson is stood fourth from the 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).