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Tanzania (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2081 Collections and/or Records:

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Cactus trees, Mvumi, c 1936, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/179
Scope and Contents

99 x 75 mm. Possibly near Mrs Briggs’ grave.

Dates: 1936
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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'Camp at Kilometre 6', 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/7
Scope and Contents

119 x 81 mm. A view looking along a path in a jungle clearing with a figure on a mule in the background. Beside the path are piled stocks of timber. The caption is taken from the partially illegible writing on the reverse of the print.

Dates: 1900 - 1909
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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Camp in 'Hell's Bush', 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/68
Scope and Contents

A view showing four people sitting round a camping table laden with food and drink. A tent can be seen in the background at the edge of the clearing.

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).
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Camp scene, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/9
Scope and Contents

118 x 83 mm. Showing a tent pitched beneath a tree with a donkey tethered beside it and a hut in the background.

Dates: 1900 - 1909
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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Camp scene, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/13
Scope and Contents

117 x 86 mm. Showing two Europeans on a verandah, with a dead leopard lying at the feet of the seated figure. Photograph probably taken at the hut seen in Y30469A/14. There is a brief note in German (illegible to the cataloguer) on the reverse of the print.

Dates: 1900 - 1909
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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Camp scene, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/14
Scope and Contents

115 x 82 mm. Showing a group of Africans standing in front of a tent with a more substantial corrugated-iron building in the background. With a brief illegible caption pencilled on the reverse of the print.

Dates: 1900 - 1909
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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Camp scene, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/15
Scope and Contents

116 x 81 mm. Showing steps leading up from a cleared piece of land towards a thatched and verandahed hut on slightly higher ground. With thick forest in the background.

Dates: 1900 - 1909
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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Camp scene, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/16
Scope and Contents

116 x 81 mm. Showing the hut next door to the one seen in Y30469A/15.

Dates: 1900 - 1909
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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Camp scene, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/17
Scope and Contents

118 x 84 mm. Showing a group of Europeans gathered round a table placed beneath a thatched, wall-less hut.

Dates: 1900 - 1909
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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Camp scene, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/18
Scope and Contents

113 x 88 mm. Showing three Europeans reclining in a tent open at both ends, with forest in the background beyond the clearing.

Dates: 1900 - 1909
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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Canoe building, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/19
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Canoes for the large fishing industry of Zanzibar are all constructed from the hollowed trunk of the mango tree. In this illustration the canoe builder is shaping the outer hull with an adze.'

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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[Canoe building], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/20
Scope and Contents

200 x 165 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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[Canoe building], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/21
Scope and Contents

200 x 165 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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[Canoe building], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/22
Scope and Contents

200 x 165 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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[Canoe building], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/24
Scope and Contents

180 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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Canon Bewes with interned Kikuyu at Uramba, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/15/1
Scope and Contents

115 x 113 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1954
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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Capt. Playfair's Report to the Bombay Government on the Wanika country, 3 Apr. 1864, including descriptions of the CMS and UFMC Missions, 1950 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/10/17
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

Dates: 1950 - 1970
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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Captain A.E.H Raikes, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468D/59
Scope and Contents

109 x 153 mm. A full length portrait of Arthur Raikes (1867-1915) wearing the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar and a uniform probably of his own design and worn in connection with his work in Zanzibar. Raikes held the local rank of Brigadier General. He commanded the Sultan’s forces from 1894-1906 and was First Minister to the Sultan from 1906-1908.

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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Card players, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/10/2
Scope and Contents

65 x 65 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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Caretaker, old Mtoro, at Kiboriani, 1936, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/109A
Scope and Contents

78 x 56 mm. Portrait of Mtoro standing outside his hut.

Dates: 1936
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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Caretaker, old Mtoro, at Kiboriani, 1936, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/109B
Scope and Contents

78 x 56 mm. Portrait of Mtoro standing outside his hut.

Dates: 1936
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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Carriage and mounted escort leaving the Beit el Ajaib, June 7th 1905, 1905-06-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468C/39
Scope and Contents

229 x 170 mm. A view looking down from the temporary lighthouse next to the Beit el Ajaib. Basil Cave and A.S. Rogers are seated in an open carriage as they leave the Baraza at the Beit el Ajaib while spectators line their route.

Dates: 1905-06-07
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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Carriage and mounted escort, location unknown, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468C/15
Scope and Contents

216 x 153 mm. A view showing an empty carriage and mounted escort parked outside an unidentified house. Possibly taken during the bridge opening ceremonies seen in Y30468C/14.

Dates: 1904
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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Carriage arriving at the British Residency, 1904 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468C/38
Scope and Contents

231 x 172 mm. A view showing a mounted escort and a guard of honour on the driveway in front of the British Residency. The carriage can just be seen in the background. The occasion is unidentified, but is probably the same gathering seen in Y30468C/37.

Dates: 1904 - 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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Carrying produce to market, Zanzibar, 1901 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468B/28
Scope and Contents

103 x 75 mm. A view showing Zanzibaris carrying produce to market 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).