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Kumasi (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:

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Kumasi train, Obuasi, 1938 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/57
Scope and Contents

143 x 90 mm., sepia.

Dates: 1938 - 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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Licensed letter writer and client, Kumasi, Gold Coast [Ghana], 1900 - 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 24/22
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions. The slides appear to have been gathered for lecture purposes and are not necessarily on the work of the CMS. They relate to various parts of the continent.

Dates: 1900 - 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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Mahogany, Kumasi, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/36
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

Dates: 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).
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Mahogany logs, Kumasi. The truck is a Ford V8 Pickup, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/31
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

Dates: 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).
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Making sun dried bricks. Kumasi, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/192
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of 197 negatives and 6 modern prints. The negatives measure 60 x 60 mm, save for 160-163 which are 35 mm. Apart from nos. 60-112 which are in a negative album, they are all in small envelopes with the subject written on by Mr Cansdale, some have also been numbered by Cansdale. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions...
Dates: 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).
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[Making sun dried bricks. Kumasi], 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/193
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of 197 negatives and 6 modern prints. The negatives measure 60 x 60 mm, save for 160-163 which are 35 mm. Apart from nos. 60-112 which are in a negative album, they are all in small envelopes with the subject written on by Mr Cansdale, some have also been numbered by Cansdale. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions...
Dates: 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).
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[Making sun dried bricks. Kumasi], 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/194
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of 197 negatives and 6 modern prints. The negatives measure 60 x 60 mm, save for 160-163 which are 35 mm. Apart from nos. 60-112 which are in a negative album, they are all in small envelopes with the subject written on by Mr Cansdale, some have also been numbered by Cansdale. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions...
Dates: 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).
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[Making sun dried bricks. Kumasi], 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/195
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of 197 negatives and 6 modern prints. The negatives measure 60 x 60 mm, save for 160-163 which are 35 mm. Apart from nos. 60-112 which are in a negative album, they are all in small envelopes with the subject written on by Mr Cansdale, some have also been numbered by Cansdale. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions...
Dates: 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).
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Marionette show in the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/37
Scope and Contents

125 x 116 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'The show is on. Pupils of Kumasi Presbyterian Senior School in the Gold Coast rehearse ther play 'Blood Money' before the rest of the school'.

Dates: 1940 - 1959
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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Notes to accompany itinerary from Cape Coast Castle to Coomasie, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1873
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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Our semi-detached bungalows, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/18
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm.

Dates: 1938
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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Post Office and War Memorial, Kumasi, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/31
Scope and Contents

'No. 21' printed on bottom left corner.

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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Rain flowers, Kumasi, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/15
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

Dates: 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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Rain flowers, Kumasi, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/86
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

Dates: 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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Signpost on road leaving Kumasi, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/49
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '14'.

Dates: 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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Sketches of Bantama, 1873 - 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/124
Scope and Contents

Three sketches of the suburb of Kumasi.

Dates: 1873 - 1874
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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South African Aid to Britain Fund Film 1, 1955-11 - 1956-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/3/1
Scope and Contents ‘South African Aid to Britain Fund Overseas travel parties for Youth. West Africa Tour. November 1955 - January 1956.’ Includes a list of the personnel of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister in 1948 to administer the sum allocated from the South African Aid to Britain Fund to encourage youth travel overseas. 'The tour was to give a representative group of British youth experience of conditions of life and work in the Gold Coast and Nigeria, to bring them into contact with the...
Dates: 1955-11 - 1956-01
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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Souvenir Group Photograph of Councillors and Officers of the Kumasi Town Council for Triennial Period 1947/50, 1950-10-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448P/23
Scope and Contents 215 x 160mm. Back row, standing: Osie Kofi; (Chief Clerk); N.S. Elliot (San. Supt); E. Gross (Asst. Town Clerk); Councillor J.A Opoku (Asantehene’s Representative)Middle row, standing: Councillors. A.W. Davies (Official member); S. Prempeh (Zongo Ext. Ward); W.W. Taylor (Old Town Ward); A. Coromah (Zongo Ward); C. Kessie (Asante Ward); G. Kadai (Fante Ward)Front row, sitting: Councillor Hon. B.D Addai (Ahensie Ward); F.W. Beecham (Town Clerk); R.H. Canham...
Dates: 1950-10-27
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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Staff: Kobina, Kobina and Kofi, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/21
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm.

Dates: 1938
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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Suburbia, 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/28
Scope and Contents

130 x 90 mm., sepia. Group of Africans outside hut.

Dates: 1938
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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[Telecommunications Branch, Kumasi College, Ghana], 1940 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/36
Scope and Contents

153 x 116 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'Students watch a demonstration of the working of the Automatic Telephone system at the Tele-communications Branch of the Kumasi College of Technology'.

Dates: 1940 - 1959
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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The Fort, Coomassie, Gold Coast [i.e. Kumasi, Ghana], 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/11
Scope and Contents The caption on the reverse reads: 'The Fort at Coomassie. This fort is the one which was held by a handful of Europeans and African troops for over 100 days during the Ashanti War of 1900; the Garrison being ultimately relieved by the forces under the command of Sir James Willcocks'.Guggisberg stated: 'Leaving the Colony, we come to Ashanti where the oil painting of the old Fort at Coomassie nestling amongst its palms and brightly coloured shrubs and looking a very different place...
Dates: 1924
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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The Gold Butte and Pendant. ‘Pithirius Pubis’. Liberated from Kumasi in 1884, 1938 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448P/1
Scope and Contents

100 x 122 mm. The writing on the reverse of the photograph is not in Canham’s handwriting. The object has not been identified.

Dates: 1938 - 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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The Governor is welcomed by the Chiefs at the Durbar, 1938 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/101
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. Sir Arnold Weinholt Hodgson.

Dates: 1938 - 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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The Governor takes the salute at the Durbar, 1938 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/100
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. Sir Arnold Weinholt Hodgson.

Dates: 1938 - 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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