Victoria, Lake (lake)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:
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Victoria Nyanza, 1889-10-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)1/12
Scope and Contents
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.’ Duplicate of Y30468K/32.
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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Victoria Nyanza [i.e. Victoria Lake], 1939 - 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/185
Scope and Contents
185 x 90 mm. A view of Victoria Lake.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
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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View across inlet of Victoria Nyanza, looking towards Sendege and Bourganese, taken during a ‘scrap’ with the natives of S. Kavirondo, 1889-10-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/33
Scope and Contents
155 x 113 mm. A view looking over scrubland towards Lake Victoria. The caption refers to trouble with the inhabitants of the area who harassed the expedition for several days: ‘From summit took photo across inlet of lake looking SE over the Bourganese country . . . Soon after passing round the base of a hill, natives assembled in numbers and tried to steal cattle. Failing to do this they commenced stone throwing. . . Fired some shots at them on which they retreated to the summit of the...
Dates:
1889-10-30
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Ernest Gedge Collection
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Wa Kavirondo. Port Victoria 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045B/16
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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Wagon ferry the m.v. ‘Uhuru’ at Kisumu, 1950 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/18
Scope and Contents
246 x 192 mm. Showing a locomotive and freight trucks leaving the rail ferry at Kisumu on Lake Victoria.
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).