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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

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Anfo game trap (Oda?), 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/1
Scope and Contents

Showing a man stood beside a trap holding a dead rodent.

Dates: 1946
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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Anfo game trap (Oda?), 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/1a
Scope and Contents

A view of the trap.

Dates: 1946
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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Bamboo grove, Oda, 1938 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1938 - 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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Boys on parade, Kibbi [i.e. Kibi] Trade School, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/20
Scope and Contents The caption on the reverse reads: 'Boys on Parade, Kibbi Trade School, Gold Coast. Kibbi is one of the four trade schools recently opened and designed to teach the 'dignity of labour'. The discipline of these schools is based upon Boy Scout principles'.Guggisberg stated: ' - a Trade School of Boy Scouts at Kibbi [i.e. Kibi]. I must confess that I was sorry for Miss Cheesman having to tackle a subject so lacking in artistic possibilities as a tidy well-swept school-ground, but this...
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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[Bus arriving at Odumasi, c.1945], 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/153
Scope and Contents Showing passengers alighting with their belongings. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The State of Manya Krobo has shown great enterprise by starting its own bus service. The buses bought with funds from the Native State Treasury brings in more revenue. The cost is two shillings for 40 miles. The buses run at regular times to parts of the State that are off the track of transport and brings in people and produce to the market and State capital. In the picture the bus has...
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).
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Buttresses of Dahoma tree, Oda, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/5
Scope and Contents

Swaine provides the note: 'Dahoma = Piptadeniastrum africanum.'

Dates: 1946
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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Clergy outside St. Peter’s Church, Okrika, Eastern Nigeria, 1900 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/30
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1900 - 1940
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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First Bagishu Christian wedding, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 30/63
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 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).
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First Bagishu Christian young women, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 30/64
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 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).
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Four idols, Okpare (Sobo), Isoko, 1900 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/52
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1900 - 1940
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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He [the Konor of Manya Krobo] often holds council with his Elders on the balcony of his residence, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/143
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The Gold Coast Colony is divided up into seventeen Administrative Districts. In the Volta River District in the Eastern Province, it consists of five native states with a total population of about 860,000 and spread over an area of some 1,258 square miles. One of these states is Manya Krobo. Manya Krobo has a population of 84,797 and covers an area...
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).
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Headquarters of the West African CACAO Research Institute at Tafo, Gold Coast, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/3/51
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing a large building with '1949, W.A.C.R.I.' above the entrance.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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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In the market the women sell Peto, a native beer made from maize, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/151
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse continues 'revenue for the Native Treasury is obtained by taxing the petol'.

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).
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Koforidua Station, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/27
Scope and Contents The caption on the reverse reads: 'Koforidua Station, Gold Coast. The scene depicts Koforidua during the cocoa season and clearly demonstrates the manner in which the bulk of the 198,000 tons shipped from Gold Coast ports in 1923 is handled while en route for the Coast. Koforidua is the headquarters of the Eastern Province of the Colony and the centre of one of the main cocoa-producing areas'.Guggisberg stated: '...the early morning sun at Koforidua Station with the perfect...
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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Loading logs on rail, Oda, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/29
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1946
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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Loading logs on rail, Oda, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/34
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1946
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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[Lorry park, Odumasi, c.1945], 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/149
Scope and Contents

Showing traders unloading a van in the lorry park outside the market at Odumasi. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Yet another source of revenue for the Native Treasury is the lorry park outside the market place at Odumasi. The charge for parking is sixpence per day per vehicle'.

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).
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Miss Pilgrim in Nabumali Dispensary, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 30/2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1905
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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Moving logs into position for rail loading, Oda, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/32
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1946
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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Mr. Kofi Yankey runs the Information Bureau in the state capital of Odumasi, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/161
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The Gold Coast Colony is divided up into seventeen Administrative Districts. In the Volta River District in the Eastern Province, it consists of five native states with a total population of about 860,000 and spread over an area of some 1,258 square miles. One of these states is Manya Krobo. Manya Krobo has a population of 84,797 and covers an area...
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).
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Mr. R.P. Djabanor is the principal of the Akro State School at Odumasi, the State capital, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/163
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The school has 278 pupils ranging from 6 to 18 years of age. School fees are six shillings per year for infants, fifteen shillings per year for juniors and one pound four shillings for seniors. All teachers are paid by the State Treasury and the estimate given for this year for the school is nine hundred and nine pounds. The school has one Principal and thirteen other teachers'.

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).
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Nabumali Dispensary, run by Miss E.L. Pilgrim, 1900 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 30/1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1900 - 1920
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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Native Administration - State of Manya Krobo, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/138-176
Scope and Contents A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The Gold Coast Colony is divided up into seventeen Administrative Districts. In the Volta River District in the Eastern Province, it consists of five native states with a total population of about 860,000 and spread over an area of some 1,258 square miles. One of these states is Manya Krobo. Manya Krobo has a population of 84,797 and covers an area...
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).
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Onesimus (?) Scoutmaster, 1920 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/11
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1920 - 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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Onesimus (?) Scoutmaster, 1920 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/12
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Dates: 1920 - 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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