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Mombasa (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

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Mombasa and Uganda railway construction

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J
Scope and Contents

Album of mounted images photographed by William D. Young. Inside the front cover reads: 'Presented by the Commonwealth Institute 1971.' 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.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Mombasa, Bishop's Court in distance early 1900s, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/8
Scope and Contents

105 x 75 mm. View looking along the street towards Bishop's Court, with the Grand Hotel (built circa 1902) in the right foreground.

Dates: 1900 - 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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Mombasa [from Fort Jesus?], c. 1890-1895, 1975

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/7
Scope and Contents

120 x 80 mm. View looking over thatched huts and houses, with a larger unidentified house in the foreground.

Dates: 1975
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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Mombasa from the Fort, 1975

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/2
Scope and Contents

129 x 80 mm. A view looking over thatched rooftops towards more substantial building. Good condition. A portion of the harbour, with Frere Town beyond, can be seen in the right background. A note on the reverse states that the area is now the rebuilt junction of Ndia and Vasco da Gama Street, taken during IBEA occupation.

Dates: 1975
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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Mombasa from the Fort, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/16
Scope and Contents

207 x 149 mm. A view looking north from Fort Jesus and showing part of the town and Older Harbour. Photograph by William D Young.

Dates: 1900
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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Mombasa from the Fort, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J/4
Scope and Contents

199 x 156 mm. An almost identical print to Y30468G/6. This print shows slightly more of the town and less of the harbour. Duplicate at Y304A/16.

Dates: 1900
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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Mombasa from the mainland, pre-1900, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/1
Scope and Contents

153 x 97 mm. A view looking across the entrance to Mombasa Harbour from English Point and showing the south-eastern tip of Mombasa Island.

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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Mombasa Harbour, 1901, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/11
Scope and Contents

102 x 72 mm. View looking towards the narrows at the entrance to the harbour.

Dates: 1901
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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‘Mombasa in 1667’, 1952 - 1970

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/5/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

Dates: 1952 - 1970
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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Mombasa Kenya seminar, Oceanic hotel, 1973-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/5/1
Scope and Contents

150 x 85 mm.

Dates: 1973-11
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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Mombasa Old Town from Fort Jesus, late 1897 or early 1898, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/4
Scope and Contents

244 x 82 mm. A panoramic view originally composed of two joined prints looking over the battlements of Fort Jesus and along Ndia Kuu and Vasco da Gama Street. A section of harbour can be seen at the right, with thatched huts at the left, and the station and rolling stock on the Mombasa trolley line in the foreground. The partially built police station is in the centre. Photograph possibly by William D. Young.

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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Mombasa (?Or Freetown), about 1901 or 1902, 1901 - 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/4
Scope and Contents

150 x 102 mm. Mounted on card. Group portrait of missionary men and women. Identified on the reverse are: Eddie Crawford, Henrietta Westgate (nee Malone), Miss Brewer, Mr Hamshere.

Dates: 1901 - 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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‘Mombasa past and passing’, 1952 - 1970

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/5/5
Scope and Contents

Includes J.B. Emery, 'Remarks upon British Settlement at Mombasa 20 Aug. 1824 to 10 July 1825' and ‘A Journal of the British Establishment at Mombasa from 11 July to 26 July 1826’.

Dates: 1952 - 1970
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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Mombasa Station on the Uganda Railway, Kenya

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/15
Scope and Contents

76 x 50 mm. View looking along the line, with a locomotive on the track on the right.

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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Mombasa, Theodore Roosevelt’s departure up, country, 1909-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/93
Scope and Contents

138 x 73 mm. Showing Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Frederick Jackson, F.C. Selous and C. Sandiford (Uganda Railway employee) seated above the cowcatcher on a railway locomotive about to depart from Mombasa. Sidney Hinde stands at the left of the print.

Dates: 1909-04
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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Mombasa workmen early 1900s, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/6
Scope and Contents

161 x 117 mm. Group portrait of African labourers posed with axes, picks, baskets and other tools.

Dates: 1900 - 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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Ndia Kuu, Mombasa, 1900 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/17
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Monochrome postcard views of Mombasa. Published by D. Evaristo Coutinho and the Swift Press.

Dates: 1900 - 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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No. 19. Nairobi to Mombasa, 1928

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/19
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.

Dates: 1928
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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Old Portuguese fort on east coast of Africa, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/13
Scope and Contents

213 x 150 mm. A view showing the ramparts of Fort Jesus, Mombasa from the sea.

Dates: 1900 - 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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Old Town from Fort Jesus, c. 1897-1898, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/3
Scope and Contents

153 x 112 mm. Indistinct print better photographed in Y30468/4.

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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On Mombasa Harbour, 1900 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/13
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Monochrome postcard views of Mombasa. Published by D. Evaristo Coutinho and the Swift Press.

Dates: 1900 - 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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On Mombasa Harbour, 1900 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/14
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Monochrome postcard views of Mombasa. Published by D. Evaristo Coutinho and the Swift Press.

Dates: 1900 - 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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On Mombasa Harbour, 1900 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/15
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Monochrome postcard views of Mombasa. Published by D. Evaristo Coutinho and the Swift Press.

Dates: 1900 - 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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P. B. de Rezende, ‘Description of the Fortress of Mombasa’, 1950 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126/9/7
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

Dates: 1950 - 1970
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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Panorama of Mombasa from English Point, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/15
Scope and Contents

406 x 152 mm (two prints joined). Photograph by William D Young.

Dates: 1900
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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