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Tanzania (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2029 Collections and/or Records:

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Speeches and lectures, 1972 - 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/19
Scope and Contents Includes: notes for AFB's speech to the Indian Law Association, June 1973, on the recognition of citizenship and the rights of immigration; notes for the debate in the House of Lords, June 1973, on capitalism versus socialism, including a Labour Party papers on reforming capital taxation and economic equality; summary and conclusions of a report on Zanzibar [Tanzania], particularly relating to the assassination of Abeid Karume, President of Zanzibar, in 1972 [see also FEBR 2/15]; Labour...
Dates: 1972 - 1973
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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Spirit offerings, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/1/65
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Every cave in Zanzibar contains one or more 'Mzimu' or spirits who must be treated with great respect by those who use the cave, to fetch water etc. The picture shows offerings of one kind and another made to the spirit of a cave.'

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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Splitting nuts, 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/49
Scope and Contents

135 x 78 mm. A view showing an African at work splitting coconuts (out of focus), with piles of split coconuts in the foreground.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
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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SS ‘Europa’ leaving Dar es Salaam Harbour, 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/26
Scope and Contents

246 x 192 mm. Showing the Lloyd Triestino Line vessel ‘Europa’ being escorted out of Dar es Salaam Harbour by the tug ‘Nyati’.

Dates: 1950 - 1967
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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SS ‘Usoga’ at Bukoba, Lake Victoria, Tanzania, 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/30
Scope and Contents

247 x 175 mm. Showing the moored steamer with a dhow in the foreground.

Dates: 1950 - 1967
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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Stacking bundles beside the railway track., 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3/10
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing a man at work on a sisal estate.

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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[Stacking bundles of sisal], 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/3/7
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm. Showing a man stacking bundles of freshly cut sisal beside the plantation.

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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Staff at Tanga Locomotive Shed, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469L/1/2
Scope and Contents

180 x 115 mm. Group portrait including from left to right: locomotive drivers Satwant Singh Suman and Karnail Singh, locomotive inspector Yunge Mwansale, locomotive driver M.J. Din, and firemen Lazaro Kimangu and William Mandioro.

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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Stalagmite formations, location unknown, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468D/64
Scope and Contents

154 x 108 mm. A view showing stalagmite formations at the entrance to an unidentified cave.

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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Storage urns, Ugogo, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/347
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints, lantern slides and glass negatives. The prints mostly relate to Westgate’s earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Many of the lantern slides and glass negatives are uncaptioned and...
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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Storage urns, Ugogo, 1900s, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/347
Scope and Contents

105 x 75 mm.

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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[Storing cloves in baskets], 1933 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/3/8
Scope and Contents

155 x 200 mm.

Dates: 1933 - 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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Strasse in Dodoma, 1910 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/79
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of miscellaneous monochrome postcards of scenes in German East Africa (now Tanzania). The cards are issued by Walther Dobbertin, Dar es Salaam and Tanga (76-79, 81-87), C. Vicenti, Dar es Salaam (88, 90), The Standard P. and P. Works, Nairobi and Mombasa (91), the remainder unknown.

Dates: 1910 - 1920
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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[Street in Dar es Salaam], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/67
Scope and Contents

135 x 78 mm. A view looking along a street lined with residential houses in Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
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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[Street in Dar es Salaam], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/68
Scope and Contents

135 x 78 mm. A view looking along a street in Dar es Salaam with a rickshaw man in the foreground.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
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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[Street in Dar es Salaam], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/69
Scope and Contents

135 x 78 mm. A view looking along a tree-lined Avenue (?Acacia Avenue) in Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
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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Street in Zanzibar, 1929 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 25/23
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.

Dates: 1929 - 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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[Street leading to Usagara House], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/3
Scope and Contents

77 x 130 mm. Underexposed. A view looking along a narrow street in the west part of Zanzibar Town. The road leading to Chandler's house is marked by a cross. With a brief letter to his son Michael on the back of the print.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
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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Street scene, Zanzibar, 1901 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468B/46
Scope and Contents

212 x 151 mm. A view looking along a road in Zanzibar and showing Swahili women carrying water cans and other loads on their heads.

Dates: 1901 - 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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[Street sellers], 1930 - 1950

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

Images of roadside stores selling fruit, pots, furniture and paints, and a man selling coffee from a portable canteen.

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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Suahili-Frau, Mbaruks-Stamm, Deutsch-Ost-Afrika [i.e. Tanzania], 1910 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/88
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of miscellaneous monochrome postcards of scenes in German East Africa (now Tanzania). The cards are issued by Walther Dobbertin, Dar es Salaam and Tanga (76-79, 81-87), C. Vicenti, Dar es Salaam (88, 90), The Standard P. and P. Works, Nairobi and Mombasa (91), the remainder unknown.

Dates: 1910 - 1920
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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Sudi, office boy, 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/16
Scope and Contents

59 x 102 mm. A view showing Sudi, a Swahili, wearing his Leslie and Anderson uniform and fez. His jacket is monogrammed L and A over the breast.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
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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Sultan and A.S. Rogers at the Zanzibar Exhibition, August 6th 1905, 1905-08-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468D/27
Scope and Contents

68 x 52 mm. A view showing A.S. Rogers and the Sultan standing along a uniformed group at the Exhibition.

Dates: 1905-08-06
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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Sultan arriving at the Athletic Sports, Cooper’s Institute Ground, Monday June 26th 1905, 1905-06-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468C/42
Scope and Contents

221 x 177 mm. A view showing the Sultan’s carriage and mounted escort arriving at the Sports Ground for the two-day event which marked the end of the coming of age celebrations. The order of events and the results can be found in the ‘Zanzibar Gazette’ for June 28th 1905.

Dates: 1905-06-26
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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Sultan driving along the Creek Road (to the opening of the Zanzibar Exhibition), 1905-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468D/25
Scope and Contents

77 x 103 mm. An indistinct view showing the Sultan’s carriage on the Creek Road with crowds lining the pavement and the Creek in the background.

Dates: 1905-08
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).