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Northern (region)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

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[Ploughing lessons, Tamale School, Northern Territories, c.1945], 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/232
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Farming is the main object of the school. The special farm manager instructing Akamjambudai, son of the chief of Kanjarga, to plough with a bullock team'.

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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Savelugu Dam, N. Ts [?Northern Territories], 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/106
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '64'.

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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Savelugu Dam, N. Ts [?Northern Territories], 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/107
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '65'.

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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The potters art is not forgotten. Alhassan Yakubugoa of Wa at the potters wheel, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/229
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 Government believes in rooting its education in the life of the people. Key institutions in the education system of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are at Tamale and include a senior boarding school for boys and a training college for teachers. The people of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are first and foremost...
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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The Principle [sic] of the school, Mr. W.T. Marbell, is an all-round sports-man and his prowess at cricket is known all over the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/233
Scope and Contents

The typwritten caption on the reverse reads 'Three times picked to represent the Colony, he is the subject of much hero worship from the boys. Here he is giving a few tips in batting to some of the senior boys'.

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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Twelve year old Hamadu Perisi in the blacksmith shop, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/228
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Students are taught to make and repair their own farm implements'.

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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Wumbei Bimbila, son of the chief of Bimbila, is already a skilled mason, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/231
Scope and Contents

Showing Wumbei Bimbila constructing a masonry house wall.

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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