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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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Wagogo children playing ‘buffalo horns’, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/341
Scope and Contents

Showing a group of children gathered in a circle on their knees beneath a tree. See ‘Mission World’, Mar. 1919, p. 119.

Dates: 1919
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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Wagogo children playing ‘chameleon’, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/342
Scope and Contents

Showing two pairs of boys playing the game, with one boy lying back to back with the other, who crawls on his hands and knees. See 'Mission World', Mar. 1919, p. 118.

Dates: 1919
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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Wagogo children playing the game of ‘little goat’, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/339
Scope and Contents

Showing two rows of children lining up to play the game.

Dates: 1919
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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Wagogo children playing the game of ‘little goat’, 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/340
Scope and Contents

Showing children lined up in a row during the game, with a group of three to one side. A note refers to ‘Mission World’, Mar. 1919, p. 118.

Dates: 1919
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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Wagogo Christian women, Ugogo, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/221
Scope and Contents

Open air portrait of three women, one seated.

Dates: 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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Wagogo elders, Bugiri, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/334
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Showing two elders seated in the open air. The figure on the left, Chief Magunga, smokes a calabash pipe.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
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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Wagogo prisoner chained by the Germans, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/256B
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: 1914 - 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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Wagogo prisoner chained by the Germans, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/257
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: 1914 - 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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Wagogo prisoner chained by the Germans, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/256B
Scope and Contents

115 x 165 mm.

Dates: 1914 - 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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Wagogo prisoner chained by the Germans, 1914-18, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/257
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120 x 160 mm. Full length study of a chained man.

Dates: 1914 - 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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Wagogo prisoners chained by the Germans, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/256A
Scope and Contents

Full length study of four men in chains.

Dates: 1914 - 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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Wagogo prisoners chained by the Germans, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/256A
Scope and Contents

150 x 115 mm. Full length study of three men in chains.

Dates: 1914 - 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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Wagogo prisoners chained by the Germans, 1914-18, 1914 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/256
Scope and Contents

120 x 158 mm. Full length study of three men in chains. Two copies.

Dates: 1914 - 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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Wagogo warriors on their way to attend a trial for witchcraft, 1909-10, 1909 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/286
Scope and Contents

157 x 113 mm. Group of warriors posed in scrubland.

Dates: 1909 - 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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Wagogo warriors on their way to attend a trial for witchcraft, 1909-10, 1909 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/291
Scope and Contents

164 x 120 mm. Duplicate of print 286. An accompanying note reads ‘Wagogo Warriors - such as would execute a witch at a witchcraft trial. These have beautifully made assegais (spears), shields made from either rhinocerous [sic], elephant or bull-hide, feathers of ostrich or eagle, jingling bells at ankles and knees.' Photo by T.B.R. Westgate about 1907 in Ugogo.

Dates: 1909 - 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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Wagogo workmen, Kiboriani, (?)circa 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/107
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160 x 115 mm. Group portrait of Wagogo youths and young girls armed with spades. A note accompanying the print reads: 'A group of young Wagogo men and women who had come to the mission to work. This particular group helped to build the mission's sanatorium on the top of Chibolyani Mountain, at an altitude of 6300 feet. It was at this sanatorium that Wilfred and Maureen Westgate were born'.

Dates: 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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Wagogo youth in European attire, 1900 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/298
Scope and Contents

Full length portrait of a young boy in European clothes.

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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Wagon ferry ‘Uhuru’ off-loading at Mwanza South Port, 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/29
Scope and Contents

246 x 191 mm. View similar to Y30468M/18.

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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Waha children, Kigoma, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/71
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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Wakwari, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/46
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A head and shoulders portrait of a Wakwari woman.

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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[Wakwari], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/49
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A view showing five Wakwari women.

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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Wakwari near Mnazi, N. Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/43
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A head and shoulders portrait of two Wakwari women.

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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Wakwari near Mnazi, N. Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/44
Scope and Contents

A view showing three Wakwari women.

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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Wanyakyusa women, 1916 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/17
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection comprises black and white photographs, mostly 125 x 75 mm or 75 x 125 mm in size, film negatives and glass negatives. Some of the prints from glass plates are smaller, approximately 85 x 65 mm. The prints are good compositions, though some are rather dark, and were listed by Erica Ryan of the National Library of Australia, using, among other sources, the captioned envelopes in which the original negatives had been stored. The provenance of the collection is unclear,...
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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Wanyamweris, 1860-08-17 - 1860-09-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047C/4
Scope and Contents 105 x 50 mm (both sections of stereo print). Showing a group of enslaved persons from the Ruwenzori Mountains (Mountains of the Moon). Grant's note beneath the print reads: ''Wanyamweris' or natives from the Country of the Moon - heads shaved except a moon shaped and very short patch on top of the head - the centre one only wears a headdress (a ring of standing out zebra mane) very muscular, tall, fine men - a throatlet of 3 cornered or moon shaped ivory is suspended by thread round neck...
Dates: 1860-08-17 - 1860-09-25
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).