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Lagos (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 363 Collections and/or Records:

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James Cole to Glover, 1872-08-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/97
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1872-08-28
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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J.J. Hunter and Campbell Waide, 1936 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/57
Scope and Contents

82 x 55 mm. View of the two men standing in water, aiming shotguns above the bush.

Dates: 1936 - 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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J.J. Hunter and self on Lagos Lagoon, 1936 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/56
Scope and Contents

82 x 55 mm. View of Barnard and Hunter sitting in a boat holding shotguns.

Dates: 1936 - 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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John Edgar to Earl Granville, 1872-06-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/57
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1872-06-08
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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John Edgar to the Earl of Kimberley, 1872-07-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/59
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1872-07-25
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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John Johnson to Glover, 1872-10-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/5/137
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1872-10-19
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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Kenneth Robinson and Kenneth Younger at the Seventh Unofficial Commonwealth Relations Conference, Lagos 8-16 January 1962 , 1962-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304G/12
Scope and Contents

The Conference, sponsored by the Royal Institute of International Affairs and associated institutes in Commonwealth countries, was attended by delegates from eighteen countries, and the five from the United Kingdom included Kenneth Robinson and (Sir) Kenneth Younger (1908-1976), Director of the RIIA 1959-1971.

Dates: 1962-01
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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King's School, Lagos 17th April 1910, 1910-04-17

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043OO/40
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Collection of 91 glass negatives, 106 x 80 mm; 3 negatives on film, 90 x 60 mm; and 3 modern prints, 150 x 120 mm. Many of the negatives lack descriptive captions. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

Dates: 1910-04-17
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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Lagos, 1957 - 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/101
Scope and Contents

Harbour scene with nets in the foreground.

Dates: 1957 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access: Missing.
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Lagos, 1963

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/8/2/23
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These files include annual reports, accompanied in some cases by explanatory letters, reports of annual general meetings, statements of accounts and other papers.

Dates: 1963
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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Lagos Beach 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/21
Scope and Contents

152 x 110 mm. View of a warehouse and quayside, with timber in the water. Probably taken from a ship; a post is visible, but blurred in the left foreground.

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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Lagos Beach 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/22
Scope and Contents

130 x 110 mm. Copy of Y3043PP/21, printed lighter, and with the left side (showing the post) trimmed off.

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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Lagos Beach 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043PP/23
Scope and Contents

130 x 110 mm. Copy of Y3043PP/21, printed lighter, and with the left side (showing the post) trimmed off.

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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Lagos Harbour, 1957 - 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/100
Scope and Contents

Appears to be identical with Y30448G/68.

Dates: 1957 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access: Missing.
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Lagos harbour. Apapa in distance, 1930 - 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/68
Scope and Contents

200 x 140 mm.

Dates: 1930 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
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Lagos racecourse, 1928 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/11
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...
Dates: 1928 - 1939
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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Lagos. (Rest House nicknamed “Chest of Drawers”), 1928 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG/12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...
Dates: 1928 - 1939
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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Lagos street scene, 1946-12 - 1947-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK(GS)24
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.

Dates: 1946-12 - 1947-01
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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Lagos street scene near waterside, 1946-12 - 1947-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK(GS)26
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.

Dates: 1946-12 - 1947-01
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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Lagos View of river, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043UU/81
Scope and Contents From the File:

Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

Dates: 1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Y3043UU/134 is missing.
 Fonds

Lagos, westkuste von Africa den Juni 1859

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 398
Scope and Contents

n.d. Nat. gez. V. FJ Kellow, R.N.
Lith.Inst. V. Chi. Fuchs. Hamburg.
Cop. K. Gollin. Lagos. 1932

Pencil copy of a lithograph (175 x 680 mm) made for Sir Alan Burns, who was Deputy Chief Secretary to Government of Nigeria from 1929 to 1934.



Dates: 1932
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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Lagos Yacht Club, 1936 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/43
Scope and Contents

107 x 65 mm.

Dates: 1936 - 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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Learning the art of mechanical drawing at the Higher College, 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/89
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Each has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Nigeria has in hand development plans involving the expenditure of £40,000,000 during the next 11 years. It is essential that the government should have at its disposal first class doctors, engineers, surveyors, agriculture, forestry and voluntary officers and teachers - and, that so many as possible should be Africans. The work of the 13-year-old Higher...
Dates: 1947
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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Lecture on bridge building by Mr. W.S. Bickerstaff, Lecturer in Engineering at the Higher College, 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/87
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The model is of a 75 ft. Pratt truss road bridge'.

Dates: 1947
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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Letter from Abeokuta to Glover concerning the question of enslaved persons seeking sanctuary in Lagos and the particular case of Thomas Johnson, 1871-02-17

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/4/10
Scope and Contents

Two copies.

Dates: 1871-02-17
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).