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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2081 Collections and/or Records:

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African Visit, 1978 - 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/45
Scope and Contents Press cuttings, correspondence and other materials relating to AFB's visit to Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania, December 1978-January 1979. Correspondents include: Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania; Lombe Chibesakunda, Zambian High Commissioner to Britain; [Anthony] Tony Benn, Secretary of State for Energy; Justus Mugo Muratha.Also includes: a press statement from Liberation on AFB's 90th birthday, with a note from Lord Willis on arrangements for his birthday party; statement by...
Dates: 1978 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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African wild life - Giraffe with Mt. Kilimanjaro in background, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/38
Scope and Contents

'443' printed on the reverse.

Dates: 1960 - 1969
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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African workmen preparing lime and sand for roofing of sanatorium, Kiboriani, circa 1905, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/80
Scope and Contents

161 x 118 mm. As captioned.

Dates: 1905
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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After decortification the fibre is laid out in the sun to dry and be bleached, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/433
Scope and Contents

View looking down on rows of sisal drying on wires. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Providing conditions are favourable during the dry season the fibres is dried [sic] in twelve hours'.

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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After decortification the fibre is laid out in the sun to dry and be bleached, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/434
Scope and Contents

Showing African workers laying the sisal out on the drying lines. The typewritten caption continues 'if conditions are favourable during the dry season the fibre is dried in twelve hours'.

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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[After-effects of a storm, Zanzibar, 28.3.1923], 1923-03-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/33
Scope and Contents

240 x 188 mm. A view from the harbour wharf showing crowds of Swahili labourers working among the chaos of overturned lighters and other craft washed onto the shore during a storm. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'Even the floating copra in the right foreground was salved'. The harbour wall can be seen in the background with the Beit el Ajait and the Sultan's Palace at the right of the print.

Dates: 1923-03-28
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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[After-effects of a storm, Zanzibar, 28.3.1923], 1932-03-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/34
Scope and Contents

207 x 152 mm. A view from the harbour wharf showing crowds of Swahili labourers working among the chaos of overturned lighters and other craft washed onto the shore during a storm.

Dates: 1932-03-28
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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After planting the first cutting [takes] place after a growth of between three and four years, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/428
Scope and Contents

Showing a labourer cutting leaves from a mature sisal plant. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'An average of fourteen leaves are left on the plant after cutting'.

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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Album 4, 1891 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042H
Scope and Contents

An album of photographs with captions, the later ones more detailed.

1-27 are of Egypt and the Sudan, 28-55 of East Africa.

Dates: 1891 - 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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Albums of Lt. Col. R.E. Thorne

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468DD-EE
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two albums relating to the career of Richard Everard Thorne (see Y30468DD/13), who was born in 1901, educated at Haileybury, and joined the Tanganyika Police in 1925. After returning home to get married in 1930, he served in Iringa (twice) and Dar-es-Salaam during the period 1930-1939. During the Second World War he was seconded from Tanganyika Police to the Somalia Gendarmerie. He returned to Tanganyika 1949-1952, then after attending the Senior Officers'...
Dates: 1941 - 1956
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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An African cannibal showing how they file their teeth, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/303
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait of a young man with pointed teeth.

Dates: 1900 - 1917
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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[An African making a fish trap], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/25
Scope and Contents

155 x 155 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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[An African making a fish trap], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/27
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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[An African making a fish trap], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/28
Scope and Contents

120 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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[An African making a fish trap], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/29
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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[An African making a fish trap], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/30
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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An African medicine man, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/5/5
Scope and Contents 200 x 250 mm. The caption continues: 'This photograph and those which follow show an African ‘doctor’ (Swahili: ‘Mganga’) performing the operation of cupping or blood letting upon a client. Briefly, the method is to extract blood by the powerful sucking action formed by the partial vacuum created in cows horns which are affixed to various parts of the body (the temples and along the backs).After shaving off any hair superficial criss-cross cuts are made and then the blood...
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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An African medicine man, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/5/6
Scope and Contents

230 x 200 mm. The caption continues: 'Fixing one of the horns. The 'doctor' is about to suck out the air through a small hole in the end which he will then seal with wax.'

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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An African medicine man, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/5/7
Scope and Contents

205 x 245 mm. The caption continues: 'A client undergoing the operation of 'cupping.' In this photograph the shaving of the hair and the beeswax tips to the horns can be clearly seen.'

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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An African medicine man, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/5/8
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200 x 250 mm. The caption continues: 'The cupping horns must be carefully chosen to fit each client. The 'doctor' has about a score from which to make his selection. The spear is more a badge of office than anything else and has no part in the actual operations of the 'doctor.'

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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An African medicine man, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/5/9
Scope and Contents

235 x 200 mm. The caption continues: 'After the sucking of air from the horn and final sealing with beeswax it is very tightly attached to the skin. Removal is only made possible by piercing the wax plug with a needle (shown here).'

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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An African medicine man, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/5/10
Scope and Contents

235 x 200 mm. The caption continues: '"I am sure my client will quickly recover!" Despite the absence of modern psychology this 'doctor' believes in checking his patients and giving them an optimistic outlook.'

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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An African medicine man, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/5/11
Scope and Contents

205 x 250 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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An African medicine man, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/5/12
Scope and Contents

230 x 200 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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An African policeman, 1930 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/11/24
Scope and Contents

125 x 185 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).