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Rift Valley (province)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 140 Collections and/or Records:

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Berea Farm: view across the tea field, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/135
Scope and Contents

118 x 81 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

Dates: 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).
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Berea Farm: water storage tanks above bore-hole, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/144
Scope and Contents

79 x 81 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 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).
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Berea Farm: wedding between tea plants, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/131
Scope and Contents

118 x 81 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

Dates: 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).
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Berea Farm: women farm workers, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/141
Scope and Contents

118 x 81 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

Dates: 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).
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Bishop Olang’ at St. Philips, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/161
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1960 - 1969
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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Boat section caravan at Nandi, 1898, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/23
Scope and Contents 157 x 110 mm. Showing a caravan of mule carts with the stockade of Nadi fort in the background. It carried sections of the ‘Vice Admiral’, a small sailing vessel used in conjunction with the ‘William Mackinnon’ for survey work on Lake Victoria. It was constructed at Port Victoria and ready for use in late 1898. Whitehouse supervised the transport from Nadi to Port Victoria. The large survey group under J.W. Blackett, which was exploring the route between Lake Nakuro and Port Florence, split...
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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[Cars on road], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/27
Scope and Contents

157 x 106 mm. Two cars, one of which is being worked on, probably on the Nairobi-Ngong Road.

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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[Cars on road], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/73
Scope and Contents

79 x 54 mm. Two cars, one of which is being worked on, probably on the Nairobi-Ngong Road.

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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Constructing contour ridges at the Kapenguria school farm to prevent soil erosion, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/364
Scope and Contents

Showing labourers at work.

Dates: 1940 - 1949
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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Diary of visit to Mount Elgon, 1915 - 1916

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 150/2/3/1/1
Scope and Contents

'A fortnight's holiday in Uganda, the summit and foothills of Mt Elgon', a diary account for 29 December 1915 to 12 January 1916, with a map.

Dates: 1915 - 1916
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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East Africa. 91 - Kilimanjaro from Amboseli, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/35
Scope and Contents

'Africa in Pictures' printed on the reverse.

Dates: 1960 - 1969
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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[Fishing], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/109
Scope and Contents

Showing a man, possibly Ray Scholes, standing on a river bank fishing. Near Naivasha, Kenya.

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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Five years later Arap Kipkoske has a fine plantation, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/392
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'He is going to build a new house, cuts building poles'.

Dates: 1940 - 1949
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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Flamingoes, Lake Nakuru - Kenya, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/43
Scope and Contents

'107' printed on the reverse.

Dates: 1960 - 1969
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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G.B. Kettle collection on East Africa 1921-1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468O
Scope and Contents Three albums containing 638 photographs mostly taken by G.B. Kettle. The photographs are capable amateur work, mostly in good condition, and most have substantial descriptive captions. Album 1, 1921-1923 (plates 1-247) shows scenes at Lake Magadi including aspects of the soda factory, and also visits to other parts of East Africa.Album 2, 1923-1931 (plates 248-513) consists of an unused 1929 diary with photographs stuck in. There are a few (248-251) of Magadi, but most...
Dates: 1921 - 1935
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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Goods train in the Rift Valley, 1950 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468M/14
Scope and Contents

192 x 246 mm. View from a rise looking down onto a freight train crossing the Rift Valley. The mountain in the distance is the extinct volcano Longonot.

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).
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In a reverse on the Mau Escarpment, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/18
Scope and Contents

205 x 159 mm. 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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In Bukedi - Mt. Elgon [1909], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/73
Scope and Contents

101 x 78 mm. Showing Bukedi huts on the wooded slopes of Mt. Elgon.

Dates: 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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Installing a new font in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Isinya, 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/59
Scope and Contents

Glossy 56 mm. contact print with negative.

Dates: 1973
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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Kajiado, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/74
Scope and Contents

130 x 76 mm. The town viewed from the distance.

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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[Kajiado], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/28a
Scope and Contents

83 x 57 mm. The town viewed from the distance.

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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[Kajiado], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/28b
Scope and Contents

137 x 86 mm. The town viewed from the distance.

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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Kajiado drift, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/78
Scope and Contents

127 x 78 mm. Two vans stuck in a drift at Kajiado on the way from Nairobi to Tanganyika. The vans were freed with the aid of twelve oxen and twenty men after being stuck for six hours.

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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[Kajiado drift], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/29
Scope and Contents

150 x 107 mm. Two vans stuck in a drift at Kajiado on the way from Nairobi to Tanganyika. A note on the back of the photograph states that the vans were freed with the aid of twelve oxen and twenty men after being stuck for six hours.

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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[Kajiado drift], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/30
Scope and Contents

155 x 108 mm. The extraction of two vans from the Kajiado drift. The vans were travelling from Nairobi to Tanganyika. They were freed with the aid of twelve oxen and twenty men after being stuck for six hours.

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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