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Khartoum (region)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 184 Collections and/or Records:

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Funeral of the Hon. Hubert Howard, 1898-09-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/128
Scope and Contents

153 x 133 mm. A view showing officers standing by the body of a victim of Omdurman. Howard was a Times Correspondent killed by British shell in Omdurman. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman, September 3rd'.

Dates: 1898-09-03
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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Gateway to Khalifa's house; bodies of dervishes killed by shells, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/154
Scope and Contents

152 x 107 mm. A view showing the entrance to the Khalifa's house which stands next to the Mahdi's iron mosque. Several corpses lie among the rubble outside the entrance. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

Dates: 1898
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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General view: ruins of Austrian Mission Church, 1898-09-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/132
Scope and Contents

155 x 89 mm. A blurred and indistinct view from the Blue Nile looking towards the bank. The mission church lay to the west of Gordon's palace. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Khartum, September 4th'.

After the occupation of Omdurman, during which there were a few minor skirmishes, and the freeing of the Khalifa's prisoners, Kitchener sailed down to Khartoum the following day to perform the ceremony seen in Y3042C/137-139.

Dates: 1898-09-04
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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'God save our Gracious Queen', 1898-09-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/138
Scope and Contents

167 x 132 mm. A view showing the English and Egyptian flags being raised over the palace. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Khartum, September 4th'.

Dates: 1898-09-04
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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Gordon College, Khartoum, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Egypt/70
Scope and Contents From the File:

Packet containing loose monochrome postcards showing scenes in Khartoum. The packet is 'Set III' of four sets issued by the Sudan Government Railways and Steamers.

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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Gordon's garden, 1898-09-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/141
Scope and Contents

155 x 113 mm. A view showing a portion of the overgrown palace gardens at Khartoum. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Khartum'.

Dates: 1898-09-04
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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Gordon's glass candle sconces, held up by Lieut Murray-Threipland, Grenadier Guards, 1898-09-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/149
Scope and Contents

185 x 115 mm. A view showing Lieut William Murray-Threipland holding the candle sconces in a rubble-strewn palace courtyard. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Khartum'.

Dates: 1898-09-04
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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Gordon's telescope, held up by a trooper of 21st Lancers and by Private George Barnfield, Queen's Company, Grenadier Guards, the Colonel's Orderly, 1898-09-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/148
Scope and Contents

111 x 166 mm. A view showing the two soldiers holding up the telescope for the camera. Gordon in the last days of the siege spent many hours alone on the palace roof, watching both his own fortifications and the movements of the Mahdi's army. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Khartum'.

Dates: 1898-09-04
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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Grave of Captain Guy Caldecott, Warwickshire Regiment, and of 21st Lancers, 1898-09-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/130
Scope and Contents

159 x 107 mm. A view showing the grave of Captain Caldecott and two 21st Lancers with lines of soldiers in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman, September 3rd'.

Dates: 1898-09-03
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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Graves of Seaforth Highlanders, 1898-09-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/131
Scope and Contents

154 x 133 mm. A view showing two graves. The nearer grave is that of a private soldier, D. Johnstone. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman, September 3rd'.

Dates: 1898-09-03
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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Greek families from Khartum [i.e. Khartoum], 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/174
Scope and Contents

79 x 79 mm. A view showing two Greek families in Omdurman after their release. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

Dates: 1898
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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Greek family, prisoners from Khartum [i.e. Khartoum], 1885, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/173
Scope and Contents

78 x 79 mm. A view showing a man and wife and their three children in Omdurman after their release. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

Dates: 1885
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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Grenadier Guards 1st Batt. Officers' Mess waiters and cook, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/189
Scope and Contents

161 x 112 mm. A view showing a group of five private soldiers standing beside a pile of crockery in the Omdurman camp. They are named as: 'Private E.S. Howe, Queen's Coy. Private J. Packham, Queen's Coy. Private H. Tallant, No. 6 Coy. Private M. Allen, No. 8 Coy. Private W. Gallier, No. 6 Coy'. The Nile can be seen in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

Dates: 1898
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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Grenadier Guards 1st Battalion, cooks, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/190
Scope and Contents 154 x 88 mm. A group portrait of 17 private soldiers in the Omdurman camp. With the Nile in the background. The soldiers are named as: 'Lieut. G. Powell, Quartermaster. Privates T. Williams, No. 2 Coy. C. Hughes, No. 8 Coy. J.C. Smith, No. 6 Coy. H. Clothier, No. 5 Coy. A Florence, No. 4 Coy. W. Ball, No. 3 Coy. T. Young, No. 5 Coy. Privates J. McKenna, No. 7 Coy. H. Edwards, No. 6 Coy. P. Malony, No. 8 Coy. Sergt. J.C. Brooke, Master Cook. Privates J. Dunne, No. 7 Coy. ...
Dates: 1898
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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Grenadier Guards landing; ruins of Government buildings in background, 1898-09-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/136
Scope and Contents

A view showing a unit of Grenadier Guards marching towards Gordon's Palace for the flag-raising ceremony.

Dates: 1898-09-04
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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[Group outside house], 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/485
Scope and Contents

60 x 60 mm. Showing a group of women all crouched around something on the grass not visible to the camera.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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[Group watching Polo], 1937 - 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/2/4
Scope and Contents

90 x 45 mm. On the reverse of the print are two words, one of which may be 'Khartoum', with the date '1937/8'.

Dates: 1937 - 1938
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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Gunboat 'Melik': Disembarkation of the Sirdar, 1898-09-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/135
Scope and Contents

152 x 121 mm. A view showing the gunboat 'Melik', carrying Kitchener to Khartoum, about to moor at the riverbank next to Gordon's palace. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Khartum, September 4th'.

Dates: 1898-09-04
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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[Hebbert's Garden], 1930 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/517
Scope and Contents

130 x 135 mm. View of a flowerbed and stone steps in the garden.

Dates: 1930 - 1937
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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[Hebbert's garden], Khartoum, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/502
Scope and Contents

115 x 115 mm. View of the Hebbert's landscaped garden.

Dates: 1935
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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[Hebbert's garden], Khartoum, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/503
Scope and Contents

115 x 115 mm. View of the Hebbert's landscaped garden.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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[Hebbert's garden], Khartoum, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/505
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. View of a flowerbed.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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[Hebbert's garden, Khartoum], 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/515
Scope and Contents

155 x 50 mm. (Three prints joined). Showing a large landscaped garden.

Dates: 1937
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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[Hebbert's house], Khartoum, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/504
Scope and Contents

150 x 60 mm. (Three prints joined). Showing Hebbert's spacious lounge/dining area.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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[Hebbert's house], Khartoum, 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/511
Scope and Contents

180 x 130 mm. A large white building with an automobile parked beside it.

Dates: 1937
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).