Tanzania (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2081 Collections and/or Records:
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A Chigogo dwelling in course of construction (Mvumi?), 1900s, 1900 - 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/162
Scope and Contents
115 x 119 mm. View of a large circular hut with side wall, but unroofed. Two copies.
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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A clove shamba, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/15
Scope and Contents
239 x 189 mm. A view showing a shamba, or plantation, of clove trees. By the end of the nineeenth centry, due largely to the foresight of Seyyid Barghash in expanding the spice industry, Zanzibar and Pemba were prodicing nearly ninety percent of the world supply of cloves.
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 coffee seller, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/9/10
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm. The caption continues: 'No matter what time of day or night it is the rattling sound of the coffee seller's hand announce that he is constantly on the lookout for a prospective customer. The deep brass pot of conical shape is kept constantly heated by a small charcoal fire which burns beneath. The coffee is served without sugar or milk and whilst a customer drinks his cup of coffee he is informed of the news of the day by the vendor who stands by.'
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 coffee seller, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/9/11
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'With two coffee cups rattling in the right hand and a large coffe (sic) pot in the left, these picturesque vendors seek customers in the streets of Zanzibar. The coffee is kept hot by means of a small charcoal fire which is kept burning underneath.'
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 coffee seller], 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/9/11A
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 coffee vendor, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/9/10A
Scope and Contents
160 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 company of askaris or native soldiers with their German officer, Hauptmann von Hirsch, Kiboriani, 1905, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/78
Scope and Contents
162 x 118 mm. Showing the askaris on parade in front of the stockade at Kiboriani, with Hauptmann von Hirsch in front of the group. A note accompanying the print reads: 'Captain von Hirsch at Kiboriani at the time of the Maji-Maji Rebellion. He was the Commanding Officer at Fort Mpapua. He defended the C.M.S. missionaries at Kiboriani. With Captain Nigmann ?Niemann he started out for the relief of Captain Hassel who was surrounded by 10,000 rebels at Fort Mahenge with all his ammunition...
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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A critical assessment of the Tanzanian model of development, 1977
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 162/2/1/2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Papers by Fergus Wilson and others, including four articles by Dr G. Rangaswami, Vice-Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
Dates:
1977
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 dhow], 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/32
Scope and Contents
110 x 160 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 dhow at sea], 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/42
Scope and Contents
130 x 85 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 dhow from Cutch, 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/2
Scope and Contents
200 x 215 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 dhow from Muscat, 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/3
Scope and Contents
160 x 210 mm. The caption continues: 'This picture gives some idea of the beautifully ornamented poops of the Arabian dhows which visit East Africa each year with the monsoon.'
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 dhow from Oman], 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/6
Scope and Contents
215 x 165 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 dhow from Oman, 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/8
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'This picture shows typical rigging of a Muscat dhow. The main mast is about sixty feet high whilst the overall length is about one hundred feet.'
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 dhow in sail at sunset], 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/35
Scope and Contents
200 x 160 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 dhow in sail at sunset], 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/36
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 dhow sailing by the shore], 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/43
Scope and Contents
85 x 135 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 dhow sailor from Muscat, 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/20
Scope and Contents
130 x 130 mm. Head and shoulders portrait.
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 dhow under repair], 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/18
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 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 dhow under repair, 1933 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/19
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 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 drying ground in Pemba, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/17
Scope and Contents
201 x 152 mm. A view showing women carrying sacks of cloves which are about to be spread on the mats in the foreground for drying.
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 drying ground in Pemba, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/18
Scope and Contents
237 x 190 mm. A view showing Swahili labourers gathering the drying piles of cloves on straw mats. The individual small mats allow the cloves to be taken indoors at sunset or at the approach of rain.
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 field is being cleared for planting new sisal, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/422
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Numbers 419, 428, 434 and 439 all have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Sisal in Tanganyika.At the outbreak of World War II the important continental market of the Tanganyika sisal growers fell away and the industry found itself a 'surplus producer'. To preserve the industry and the only source of sisal in the Empire the British government decided at the end of 1942 to purchase a stockpile of...
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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A field of young sisal planted out in single rows, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/425
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Numbers 419, 428, 434 and 439 all have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Sisal in Tanganyika.At the outbreak of World War II the important continental market of the Tanganyika sisal growers fell away and the industry found itself a 'surplus producer'. To preserve the industry and the only source of sisal in the Empire the British government decided at the end of 1942 to purchase a stockpile of...
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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A game of 'Bao', 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/10/4
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'This is almost the African equivalent of draughts. The board has thirty-two saucer shaped depressions and the game is played with large round seeds the size of a bean.'
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).