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Victoria, Lake (lake)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:

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Our second landing on the shores of Victoria Nyanza, 1900-03-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/62
Scope and Contents

'Showing fishing baskets (on principle of lobster pots) and canoes. Green awning (made from one of our tent ground sheets). Archie (Mrs Lloyd's boy bailing)'. Notes from a previous page, perhaps intended for a missing watercolour, describe the initial voyage, 'Groundsheet for awning, at first lay on bare boards with bed bags as bolsters, afterwards got our pillows, mattresses etc., got on board at midnight, rowed out to it in dugouts, on dhow seven English passengers, twelve boys.'

Dates: 1900-03-25
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).
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Our view from the cottage over Lake Victoria, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/3
Scope and Contents

55 x 50 mm.

Dates: 1955
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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Port Bell, Lake Victoria, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3/53-59
Scope and Contents

Includes views of the arrival of ‘The Solent’ Flying Boat and the Regional Director's Office, Kampala.

Dates: 1949
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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Port Victoria 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/20
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...
Dates: 1899
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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Port Victoria 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/21
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...
Dates: 1899
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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Ripon Falls from West, c. 1890-1906, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/16
Scope and Contents

202 x 140 mm. A rather dark print looking across the falls to the far bank of the Victoria Nile. Photograph by Benjamin Whitehouse.

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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Scientists help Lake Victoria's fishermen. Researchers plumb the depths of Africa's biggest lake, 1953-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/50
Scope and Contents 141 x 116 mm. Showing P.H. Greenwood and a colleague examining a specimen. The caption reads: (See Feature Set Intro. No. 716). (10). Mr P.H. Greenwood (right) the latest member of the team of experts, is a Fishery Research Officer. His studies centre around the vast number of fish of all species found in the Lake. The Tilapia is one of the commonest families found off shore and form the greatest proportion in the fishermen's catches. Experiments at Jinja have shown that other types...
Dates: 1953-03
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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Shores of Victoria Nyanza, S. Kavirondo, 1889-10-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/32
Scope and Contents

155 x 113 mm. A view looking along the rock strewn lake shore. Gedge records in his diary: ‘In the afternoon I took a photo of the shores of the lake.’ LS/12.

Dates: 1889-10-28
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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[Sleeping sickness and starvation, Buvuma Island 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/33
Scope and Contents

157 x 112 mm. View showing a large group of Africans suffering from a combination of sleeping sickness and starvation on Buvuma Island at the northern end of Lake Victoria. Dr. Christy was a member of the 1902 Commission sent to investigate outbreaks of sleeping sickness in Busoga.

Dates: 1902
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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[Sleeping sickness sores, Buvuma 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/43
Scope and Contents

110 x 155 mm. A rear view of an African showing the deep sores which develop in the later stages of the disease.

Dates: 1902
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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[Sleeping sickness sores, Buvuma 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/44
Scope and Contents

111 x 155 mm. A rear view of two emaciated Africans showing the deep sores which develop in the later stages of the disease.

Dates: 1902
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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[Sleeping sickness sores, probably at Buvuma 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/45
Scope and Contents

109 x 154 mm. A view showing an emaciated African seated on the ground, his body covered with the deep sores developed in the later stages of the disease.

Dates: 1902
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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Small Fleet of Canoes. Port Victoria 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/23
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...
Dates: 1899
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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[Source of the Nile, leaving Lake Victoria at Jinja], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/122
Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
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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Steel Boat leaving Port Victoria for Entebbe 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/24
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...
Dates: 1899
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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Storks on Lake Victoria, 1933 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/29
Scope and Contents

165 x 195 mm. A view of two storks stood in shallow water.

Dates: 1933 - 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 dhow, 1900-03-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/63
Scope and Contents

'The dhow (with green amateur awning constructed from one of the tents) anchored in the rushes while we landed for lunch. On third day, becalmed. Got on to shore on two Masai hide shields. Boys made fire in bow of boat.'

Dates: 1900-03-26
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 end of the ‘Clement Hill’, ‘Winifred’, and ‘Hussein’, Bukakata Causeway, Sesse Islands, Lake Victoria, after 1936, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/27
Scope and Contents

204 x 154 mm. Showing the scrapped hulls of these steamers lined along the waterfront as a breakwater. The ‘Winifred’ was launched in 1904 and the ‘Clement Hill’ two years later (the date for the ‘Hussein’ is unknown). These boats, in company with the ‘Winifreds’ sister ‘Sybil’, played a major part in cargo and passenger transport on Lake Victoria until they were scrapped in 1936.

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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The lake steamer arriving from the Tanganyika side, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/4
Scope and Contents

55 x 50mm.

Dates: 1955
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 ‘Vice Admiral’, c. 1898, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/24
Scope and Contents

199 x 135 mm. Showing the ship under sail with a crew of Africans and a European (Benjamin Whitehouse?) at the helm.

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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Uganda: Lake Victoria, Bob Edwards and Drakes, Kiwala Hotel, Masaka, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/234-41
Scope and Contents From the File:

Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

Dates: 1943
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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Uganda: Lake Victoria, Bob Edwards, calling Lutembe the crocodile, old gun overlooking Kampala, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/226-33
Scope and Contents From the File:

Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

Dates: 1943
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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[? Ugandan African 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/51
Scope and Contents

155 x 110 mm. A view showing an African man, possibly a sleeping sickness sufferer, seated on the ground in front of his hut (probably on the island of Buvuma).

Dates: 1902
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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Usoga Canoe. Port Victoria 1899, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/25
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...
Dates: 1899
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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‘Vice Admiral’ before the wind, c. 1898, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/25
Scope and Contents

200 x 148 mm. View looking along the ship from the stern, taken while sailing on Lake Victoria and showing the African crew resting beside their oars. Photograph by Benjamin Whitehouse.

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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