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Tanzania (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2081 Collections and/or Records:

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Fort at Neue Langenberg with German howitzer 4-1 and "Pipsqueak"., 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/12
Scope and Contents

The howitzer was captured by the British at Malangali, 24 July 1916 and brought back to Neue Langenberg.

Dates: 1916
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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Fort at Neue Langenberg with German howitzer 4-1 and "Pipsqueak", 1916 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/15
Scope and Contents

The howitzer was captured by the British at Malangali, 24 July 1916 and brought back to Neue Langenberg. This print appears to be identical to Y30469K/12.

Dates: 1916 - 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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Foundation stone ceremonies at the Sultan’s new bungalow at Chwaka, April 22nd 1900, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468D/86
Scope and Contents 284 x 215 mm. A view showing prayers being read by the Liwali of Chwaka (probably with Kadis of Chwaka and Unguja-ku on each side) during the foundation stone ceremonies at the Sultan’s new bungalow (see Y30468A/33). To the Liwali’s left stand T.J. Last, Dr Spurrier and three other Europeans (named as Messrs Buzzacott, Mackertich and Macintyre but not individually identified here). Photograph by J.T. Coutinho. The ceremonies are reported in detail in the ‘Zanzibar Gazette’ for 25 April...
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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[Four people at Zanzibar], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/69
Scope and Contents

77 x 54 mm.

Dates: 1930
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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[Four people at Zanzibar], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/70
Scope and Contents

75 x 52 mm.

Dates: 1930
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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[Four people at Zanzibar], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/120
Scope and Contents

76 x 52 mm.

Dates: 1930
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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[Four people at Zanzibar], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/122
Scope and Contents

76 x 53 mm.

Dates: 1930
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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Frau ----, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/105
Scope and Contents

112 x 88 mm. Showing Frau ----- standing on a branch half way up a small tree.

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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Frau ----- , Amani, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/48
Scope and Contents

112 x 81 mm. Showing Frau ---- seated beside a wooden dresser.

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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Frau ---- and baby, Amani, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/56
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70 x 111 mm. Showing a smiling Frau seated at a table with a baby on her lap. Whether this is the child Hellmut or another baby is unclear.

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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Frau ---- and baby, Amani, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/58
Scope and Contents

114 x 88 mm. Showing Frau ----- seated at a table with the baby in her arms.

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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Frau ----- and Hellmut, Amani, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/54
Scope and Contents

107 x 95 mm. Showing Hellmut with his mother and a dog standing on a bridge over the Sigi River at Amani.

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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Frau ---- and Hellmut, Amani, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/69
Scope and Contents

88 x 115 mm. Showing Frau ----- and Hellmut eating at a table on the verandah.

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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Frau ---- and Hellmut, Amani, 1909, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/55
Scope and Contents

111 x 83 mm. Showing Frau ---- and Hellmut standing on a road at Amani. A note on the reverse of the print reads 'Hellmut and his mother on the Amani [?] road in January '09'.

Dates: 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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Frau [illegible] Amani, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/47
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104 x 81 mm. Showing Frau ---- (perhaps Unger: see album description) seated at a piano.

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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Frau ---- under the Christmas tree, Amani, 1904, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/49
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112 x 81 mm. Showing Frau ---- and an unidentified European man seated on either side of a Christmas tree.

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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French Mission, Zanzibar, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468D/37
Scope and Contents

98 x 78 mm. A view from the sea showing the French Mission buildings. This print is a cropped section of Y30468C/40.

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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Fritz Sperling, Gerda Sauer, Heinz Sperling, Mpwapwa, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/285
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112 x 81 mm. Portrait of three young German children seated in wicker chairs on a balcony. The boys wear sailor suits from ‘Hohenzollern’ and ‘Brandenburg’.

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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[Front door, Usagara House], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/6
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77 x 136 mm. A dark view showing the carved Arab doorway of Chandler's house in Zanzibar. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'One effort at the front door'.

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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Fruit Market, Dar es Salaam, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/62
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1930 - 1939
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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Funeral of Sir Lloyd William Mathews, Saturday October 12 1901, 1901-10-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/39
Scope and Contents 236 x 174 mm. A view looking down from the temporary light house onto the square in front of the Beit-el-Ajait and the harbour beyond. The funeral procession is leaving Mathews’ house preceded by a double line of marines carrying reversed arms. Directly in front of the coffin walks a firing party of marines with British officials walking behind the gun-carriage. Mathews died of malaria on October 11th. See the ‘Zanzibar Gazette’ for October 16th 1901 which identifies the pall-bearers and...
Dates: 1901-10-12
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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Funeral of Sir Lloyd William Mathews, Saturday October 12th 1901, 1901-10-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A/40
Scope and Contents 236 x 173 mm. A view taken from the same viewpoint as Y30468A/39 but a few moments later. The gun carriage bearing the coffin is now in the foreground and the pall-bearers can be identified from the list in the ‘Zanzibar Gazette’ (16/10/01):Ten officials of the Zanzibar Government were the pall-bearers, on the right side in order being Captain Agnew [Port Officer], Mr Bomanjee Maneckjee [Minister of Public Works], Dr Macdonald [Government Medical Officer], Mr Wilson [Solicitor], Mr...
Dates: 1901-10-12
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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Funguni, 1933 - 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/12
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160 x 210 mm. The caption continues: 'On the little peninsular off Zanzibar town visiting Dhows Beach for repairs and most of the fisher folk live.'

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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Furniture display, Zanzibar Exhibition, August 1905, 1905-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468D/43
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229 x 170 mm. A view showing a display of finely carved tables, cabinets and chairs at the exhibition.

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).
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G. de Santo Bernardino, ‘Itinerario da India ate esto Reino de Portugal’, 1611, 1950 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/11/12
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).