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Albert, Lake (lake)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

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[Bakongo girl], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/495
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait. The caption on the album page reads: 'Bakongo girl after [illegible word] near Mahagi Port on Lake Albert'.

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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[Bakongo girl], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/496
Scope and Contents

Full-length portrait. The caption on the album page reads: 'Bakongo girl after [illegible word] near Mahagi Port on Lake Albert'.

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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[Bakongo girl], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/497
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait. The caption on the album page reads: 'Bakongo girl after [illegible word] near Mahagi Port on Lake Albert'.

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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Butiaba - from the escarpment looking west over Lake Albert, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/36
Scope and Contents

135 x 110 mm.

Dates: 1925
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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Canon John V. Taylor, General Secretary of the CMS, on the shore of Lake Albert during a visit to Mboga and Bundigiri., 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/11
Scope and Contents

118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative. The boat behind Taylor bears the inscriptions 'Jesus first, money afterwards' and 'Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved', painted by its Christian owner.

Dates: 1971
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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Letters, 1907-01-12 - 1907-03-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/4/2
Scope and Contents

These letters record Bell’s tour of southern and western Uganda, including visits to the kingdoms of Ankole and Toro. They describe the terrain, natural history, African peoples and European missionaries he encountered during his travels (28 sheets).

Dates: 1907-01-12 - 1907-03-31
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).
 Sub-Fonds

Letters on the slave trade and Sir Samuel Baker, 1870

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/7
Scope and Contents

Letters to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton from Sir Samuel Baker and Sir Roderick Murchison. There is a covering letter from Mrs M.C. Ponsonby, 8 February 1939, presenting the letters to the R.C.S., and the Librarian's reply, 9 February 1939. The folder also includes 'Royal Commonwealth Society library notes', no. 19 (July 1958), comprising the article 'Sir Samuel Baker and the slave trade', which transcribes the letters and comments on them.

Dates: 1870
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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‘Lugard II’, c. 1960s, 1977

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/35
Scope and Contents

245 x 188 mm. Showing the paddle steamer transporting a barge on Lake Albert. It was a replacement for ‘Lugard I’ (1927-1948) and saw service on the lake from 1948-1964. It was the only side paddle steamer used by the Lake service.

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).
 Series

Miscellaneous photographs from Uganda, Northern Nigeria, the Caribbean and Mauritius 1899-1930s, 1899 - 1939

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G
Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints of various sizes (mainly snapshots) by various photographers. The prints are largely uncaptioned and are mainly duplicates of prints in the other parts of the collection. The prints have been grouped chronologically thus: Uganda (1-47), Northern Nigeria (49-68), Caribbean (69-88), Mauritius (89-111), miscellaneous (112-117). The collection also includes 10 original negatives which are listed with the prefix 'Y3011G/ON'. Two geographical anomalies have crept...
Dates: 1899 - 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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Near Lake Albert, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/78
Scope and Contents

Showing Bell and an unidentified figure, probably Frank Burton, standing on open land near a settlement of small thatched huts.

Dates: 1906 - 1909
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 Lake Albert, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/63
Scope and Contents

88 x 75 mm. Showing two sailing vessels near the shores of Lake Albert.

Dates: 1907
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 Lake Albert], 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/9
Scope and Contents

84 x 82 mm. Showing the steam launch Kenia on Lake Albert.

Dates: 1907
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 Lake Albert [1907], 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/16
Scope and Contents

Showing the steam launch Kenia on Lake Albert.

Dates: 1907
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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‘Robert Coryndon’, c. 1960s, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/36
Scope and Contents

245 x 188 mm. Showing the steamer moored on Lake Albert. Its career covered 1930-1964.

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 P.S.S. 'Samuel Baker' on Lake Albert after her launch on 10th August 1910, 1910-08-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/143
Scope and Contents

159 x 114 mm. Showing the P.S. 'Samuel Baker', dressed with flags, at anchor on Lake Albert.

Dates: 1910-08-10
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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Tonia [Tonya] Bay, Lake Albert, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/79
Scope and Contents

107 x 70 mm. A view looking across grassland towards Tonya Bay on the eastern shore of Lake Albert.

Dates: 1906 - 1911
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 and Northern Nigeria 1908-12, 1908-11 - 1912-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D
Scope and Contents

A scrapbook album containing prints by various photographers, including Alfred Lobo. The prints are of various sizes and the majority are captioned in Bell's hand. Captions composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. Among the scenes and events depicted in the album are the Kampala Exhibition of 1908, views of Government House, Entebbe, the visit of Winston Churchill to Uganda in 1907, sleeping sickness sufferers in Uganda and durbars in Northern Nigeria.

Dates: 1908-11 - 1912-03
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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Uganda Marine 'Samuel Baker' steam launch 'Kenia' and sailing cutter 'James Martin', 10th August 1910, 1910-08-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/144
Scope and Contents

125 x 91 mm. Showing the three vessels at anchor on Lake Albert

Dates: 1910-08-10
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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Visit of Canon John V. Taylor, General Secretary of the CMS, to Uganda: Congolese Christian on his boat on Lake Albert, 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/13/12
Scope and Contents

118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

Dates: 1971
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).