Skip to main content

Tanzania (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2075 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

Women making mats at Kizimicazi, 1930 - 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/11
Scope and Contents

130 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).
 Item

[Women making mats at Kizimicazi], 1930 - 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/12
Scope and Contents

85 x 80 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).
 Item

Women picking cloves from the ground (the higher branches are usually harvested by men and boys), 1930 - 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/42
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).
 Item

Women teachers at Mvumi. The two with babies are the daughters of Andereya., 1900 - 1935

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/208
Scope and Contents

103 x 76 mm. Showing a group of female teachers seated at forms in a classroom.

Dates: 1900 - 1935
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).
 Item

Wooded valley, 1914 - 1918

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/162
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: 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).
 Item

Woodland scene, 1900 - 1909

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/86
Scope and Contents

113 x 82 mm. A view looking towards thickly wooded hillside.

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).
 Item

Woodland scene, 1900 - 1909

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/91
Scope and Contents

80 x 115 mm. A view from a clearing looking towards dense forest.

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).
 Item

Woodland scene, 1900 - 1909

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/93
Scope and Contents

81 x 117 mm. Showing a woodland clearing with what appears to be a row of railway sleepers in the foreground.

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).
 Item

Woodland scene, 1900 - 1909

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/94
Scope and Contents

81 x 117 mm. Very blurred.

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).
 Item

Working it off next day, 1934

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/335
Scope and Contents

Showing Powell's car stuck in the mud after leaving Kahama. Several people are attempting to dig the vehicle out.

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).
 Item

Workmen at Kiboriani, 1903, 1903

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/89A
Scope and Contents

161 x 116 mm. Showing a group of African labourers posed for their photograph in front of T.B.R. Westgate's hut at Kiboriani during the rebuilding of the sanatorium at Kiboriani.

Dates: 1903
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).
 Item

Workmen at Kiboriani, 1903, 1903

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/89B
Scope and Contents

161 x 116 mm. Showing a group of African labourers posed for their photograph in front of T.B.R. Westgate's hut at Kiboriani during the rebuilding of the sanatorium at Kiboriani.

Dates: 1903
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).
 Series

World War I in German East Africa, 1914 - 1918

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/232-258
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).
 Item

Wreck of the 'Kurfürst', 1903, 1903

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/102
Scope and Contents

99 x 68 mm. Showing the German East African line steamer 'Kurfürst', broken in half at the foot of high cliffs. Location unknown. Caption taken from reverse of print.

Dates: 1903
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).
 Item

Yohana Malecela of Bugiri, a teacher, 1908

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/GN/228
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait of one of the teachers, Huron College, Kongwa.

Dates: 1908
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).
 Item

Yohana Malecela of Bugiri, a teacher, c 1908, 1908

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/228
Scope and Contents

70 x 93 mm. Head and shoulders portrait of one of the teachers, Huron College, Kongwa.

Dates: 1908
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).
 Item

[Young girl picking cloves], 1930 - 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/43
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).
 Item

[Young girl picking cloves], 1930 - 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/49
Scope and Contents

225 x 170 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).
 Item

Young helpers at clove harvest, 1933 - 1948

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/2/1
Scope and Contents

205 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Women and children all help in the urgent business of clove harvest. Here are some children sitting on the concrete drying floor separating cloves from stems.'

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).
 Item

Young immature sisa is cleaned (weeded) by women and old men, 1945

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/426
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'These women have migrated from Portuguese East Africa from distances as far as six hundred miles. They are all members of the Wamawia tribes. This tribe is to be found working throughout the sisal estates of Tanganyika, the women have their faces carved into elaborate designs and wear ornaments thrust through their lips'.

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).
 Item

[Young woman], 1930 - 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/35
Scope and Contents

165 x 210 mm. A head and shoulders portrait of a young woman.

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).
 Item

Young woman with fishing basket, 1916 - 1918

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/71
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).
 Item

Zanzibar, 1925

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/58
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. A view of a man standing next to a pond in cultivated grounds. There are two large pillars in the background.

Dates: 1925
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).
 Item

Zanzibar, 1925

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/59
Scope and Contents

55 x 75 mm. A view looking through an ornate square doorway.

Dates: 1925
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).
 Item

Zanzibar, 1925

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/60
Scope and Contents

80 x 55 mm. Showing people swimming and in boats.

Dates: 1925
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).