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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

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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 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 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 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 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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Morning shave on the roof of Government House, Faza, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/24
Scope and Contents

A view showing a man, presumably Powell, shaving on the roof of a building.

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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Most Rev. Leonard Beecher, Archbishop of Kenya, with Lay Reader outside Malindi Church, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/99a
Scope and Contents

152 x 110 mm. glossy print with copy.

Dates: 1963
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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Nairobi Railway Store, 1898, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/13
Scope and Contents

111 x 78 mm. The long thatched building which served as a Uganda railway store when Nairobi was selected as the half-way point of the line to Lake Victoria. Photograph by Benjamin Whitehouse.

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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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

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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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Our camp at Manda Island, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/20
Scope and Contents

A view showing a man sitting in a deckchair under a wooden construction with a canopy.

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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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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Patients at Rabai Hospital, 1900 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/198
Scope and Contents

240 x 184 mm. glossy print.

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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‘Percy Anderson’ at Kilindini [Mombasa], 1896, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/26
Scope and Contents

201 x 142 mm. Showing the steam tug resting on sand at low tide, with the old water condensers and a flour mill in the background. It was named after the first Chairman of the Uganda Railway Committee, and was the first steam tug in looking, arriving in 1895. After 1903, when construction work in the harbour had eased off, the boat was dismantled and taken to Lake Victoria, where it saw service until 1967, when it was scrapped after 72 years’ 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).
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Police contingent at Frere Town CMS Mission, 1880s, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/10
Scope and Contents

204 x 128 mm. A blurred print showing a contingent of police commanded by Captain Michael Dowman in a clearing with a group of Africans (probably formerly enslaved persons working at the mission) on the right. It is assumed that Michael Dowman is the husband of Harriet Dowman, an African Christian mentioned in W.S. Price, ‘My third campaign in East Africa’ (1890), p. 85.

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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