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Nairobi Area (special area)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:

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A picnic near Nairobi, PH, [illegible word], (Robinson, Hastings and Knox), 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/106
Scope and Contents

Showing six people having a picnic.

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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Bathing party at Clairmont near Nairobi, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/26
Scope and Contents

84 x 59 mm. The bathers are identified on the back of the photograph as Carberry, Mrs Carberry, Bentell, Miss Thomas (a friend of Gladstone's) and Tony Gladstone.

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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[Bathing party at Clairmont near Nairobi], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/68
Scope and Contents

76 x 52 mm. The bathers are Carberry, Mrs Carberry, Bentell, Miss Thomas (a friend of Gladstone's) and Tony Gladstone.

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 20/2/8/1/27
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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Christian Industrial Training Centre: Colin Randle demonstrates calculation of specific gravity, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/179
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 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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Christian Industrial Training Centre, Pumwani: carpentry class, 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/186
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 56 mm. negative with 152 x 109 mm. copy

Dates: 1958
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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Christian Industrial Training Centre, Pumwani: Colin Randle demonstrates calculation of specific gravity, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/180
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 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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Christian Industrial Training Centre, Pumwani: dress making class learning to pleat a skirt, 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/185
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 56 mm. negative with two copies.

Dates: 1958
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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Christian Industrial Training Centre, Pumwani: interviewing boy applying for bursary, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/181
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 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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Christian Industrial Training Centre, Pumwani: Mr Geoffrey Sykes instructing boys in sign writing, 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/188
Scope and Contents

155 x 108 mm. glossy print with copy and 70 x 47 mm. negative.

Dates: 1958
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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Christian Industrial Training Centre, Pumwani: R.A. Elliot of New Zealand demonstrating use of the set square, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/178
Scope and Contents

79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 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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Christian Industrial Training Centre, Pumwani: Rev. Charles Tett instructing in car mechanics, 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/189
Scope and Contents

110 x 110 mm. glossy print with two 153 x 110 mm. copies and 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1958
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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Close-up of the elderly couple’s home, Pumwani, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/192
Scope and Contents

152 x 107 mm. glossy print. Close-up of CMS 14/191.

Dates: 1962
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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Elderly couple housed by St. John's Church, Pumwani, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/193
Scope and Contents

108 x 152 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1962
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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Feeding destitute children, Pumwami, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/196
Scope and Contents

155 x 205 mm. glossy print.

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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Feeding scheme for the destitute, Pumwani, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/195
Scope and Contents

154 x 205 mm. glossy print.

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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[Government House - Nairobi], 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/3
Scope and Contents

89 x 62 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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Government House - Nairobi, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/47
Scope and Contents

80 x 50 mm. A view of Government house still being built (although the structure itself looks finished) to judge from the presence of piles of rubble and general building materials.

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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Hospital training in Kenya, 1952-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/52
Scope and Contents

115 x 132 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'Lack of Higher Education Is Not a Complete Barrier to African Girls. (See Feature Set Intro. No. 731). Janet Ndoti, during her training in King George V Hospital, Nairobi, has a wide variety of duties. One of her jobs is to sterilise the instruments in the operating theatre. 1/52'.

Dates: 1952-01
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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Maia Carbery - Nairobi, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/64
Scope and Contents

127 x 79 mm. Maia Carbery standing in front of the plane 'Miss Propaganda', with a man making an adjustment to the front of the plane.

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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Meal time at the Old People’s House, Pumwani, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/194
Scope and Contents

205 x 154 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1962
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 Jean Besgrove with children, Pumwani, 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/187
Scope and Contents

155 x 100 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1958
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 and Kenya scenes, 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/3/2
Scope and Contents A 16mm, black-and-white and colour cinefilm, without sound. According to a note kept with the cinefilm (which appears to have been written subsequently, in 1986 by the cataloguer), the first 4min 38sec of the film is probably set in Nairobi, and the mountain seen in subsequent parts of the film is Mt. Kenya. The writing on the film can says 'Kenya 1940, Nairobi, Nyeri, Rift Valley, Karema 13'.0 - 5sec. [Black-and-white] Man seated at a desk positioned ouside by a road.5sec -...
Dates: 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: With the exception of RCMS 20/3/1, the cinefilms may be viewed online with the University of Cambridge Streaming Media Service at: http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1532657 For copyright reasons, researchers wishing to view RCMS 20/3/1, (Colonial Cinemagazine 29, Colonial Film Unit, 1950) should make an appointment with the RCS Librarian to view the film in Cambridge University Library. Email: rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk.
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Nairobi from Kikuyu Road, 1902 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/23
Scope and Contents

150 x 209 mm. A view looking across meadowland towards the flat plain on which the bungalows of the settlement can be seen. Before railhead reached Nairobi in May 1899 there was no permanent population in the area, but with the decision to make Nairobi the headquarters for railway engineer work the town quickly grew. Photograph by William D Young.

Dates: 1902 - 1904
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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