Tanzania (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2075 Collections and/or Records:
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'A street in old Zanzibar', 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/1/42
Scope and Contents
105 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Even the main street in Zanzibar city is so narrow that it is only possible for one car to pass at a time in certain parts.'
Dates:
1930 - 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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A street in the Bazaar Quarter, Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/50
Scope and Contents
85 x 144 mm. A view looking along a narrow street in the Bazaar Quarter with women carrying loads on their heads in the foreground. The Bazaar Quarter lies in the maze of alleyways off Main Street.
Dates:
1900 - 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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A street in the Bazaar, Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/54
Scope and Contents
142 x 85 mm. A view looking along a narrow street in the Bazaar Quarter with pedestrians in the foreground.
Dates:
1900 - 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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A street in Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/9
Scope and Contents
150 x 211 mm. A view looking along a narrow unidentified commercial street in Zanzibar town with merchants shop signs hanging over the street.
Dates:
1900 - 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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A Swahili Belle, Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/26
Scope and Contents
150 x 202 mm. A studio portrait of a pretty smiling Swahili girl wearing gaily patterned clothes, a headdress and a row of shirt buttons as earrings. 'Her gala costume consists of a head-dress of coloured silk made up into a kind of extravagant turban or mob-cap... Her body is decorously and elaborately clothed in patterned and coloured fabrics of varying qualities... ' (Pearce 1920).
Dates:
1900 - 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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A Swahili boy makes himself a boat, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/10/12
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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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A Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania] African school, 1940 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/55
Scope and Contents
152 x 116 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'The General Science Laboratory with a class in progress under Father Prina'.
Dates:
1940 - 1959
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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A Tanzania sisal estate, 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3/5
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing a man Stacking bundles of sisal beside the railway track.
Dates:
1948
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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A typical coastal village, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/1/52
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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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A typical Cutch dhow undergoing repairs in Zanzibar harbour, 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/1
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1933 - 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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A typical drying ground with sisal plantation in the background, 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3/13
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing rows of sisal strung out to dry.
Dates:
1948
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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[A typical drying ground with sisal plantation in the background], 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3/14
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing rows of sisal strung out to dry.
Dates:
1948
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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A typical 'Duka', 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/9/7
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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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A typical family, Wasyakuse, 1914 - 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/181
Scope and Contents
Caption taken from reverse.
Dates:
1914 - 1918
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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A typical family, Wasyakuse, 1914 - 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/GN/181
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection comprises black and white photographs, mostly 125 x 75 mm or 75 x 125 mm in size, film negatives and glass negatives. Some of the prints from glass plates are smaller, approximately 85 x 65 mm. The prints are good compositions, though some are rather dark, and were listed by Erica Ryan of the National Library of Australia, using, among other sources, the captioned envelopes in which the original negatives had been stored. The provenance of the collection is unclear,...
Dates:
1914 - 1918
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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A typical fishing village on the south east coast, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/1/31
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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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A typical homestead, Lake Province, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/19
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Showing a thatched building with two enclosures and a small construction enclosed by a ring of branches. The caption continues: '... near Shinyanga in the semi-arid country of Tanganyika where cattle are at least as important as crop sowing. The central 'boma' of thorns is for the protection of cattle at night.'
Dates:
1930 - 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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A typical 'Manga' Arab copra maker, 1952 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/11/2A
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 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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A typical scene in the shambas, Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/20
Scope and Contents
201 x 150 mm. A view looking a long a path towards a coconut shamba (plantation) with thatched native huts in the foreground.
Dates:
1900 - 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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A typical 'Shirazi' fisherman and cultivator from the east coast of Zanzibar, 1930 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/11/30
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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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A typical street, Zanzibar, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/51
Scope and Contents
86 x 143 mm. A view looking along a narrow street in Zanzibar lined with tall stone houses.
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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A venerable old Arab Sheikh, 1930 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/11/12
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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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A venerable old Arab Sheikh, 1930 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/11/12A
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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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A view of Funguni Spit, Zanzibar, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/1/5
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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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A Warusha girl wearing all her charms and wood ash to assure child birth, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/52
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
Dates:
1934
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).