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Freetown (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

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Dug-out canoes waiting for the boats, Freetown, 1905 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Sierra Leone II/3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone, particularly in Free Town. The majority are by the Lisk-Carew Brothers, number 14 is by the Sierra Leone Government, Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, and number 15 is by Ceylon Pictorials. Numbers 20 and 30 give no indication as to the photographer.

Dates: 1905 - 1953
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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Freetown - Waterloo excursion, 1905 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Sierra Leone II/13
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone, particularly in Free Town. The majority are by the Lisk-Carew Brothers, number 14 is by the Sierra Leone Government, Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, and number 15 is by Ceylon Pictorials. Numbers 20 and 30 give no indication as to the photographer.

Dates: 1905 - 1953
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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Interior St. George's Cathedral, Freetown, 1905 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Sierra Leone II/6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone, particularly in Free Town. The majority are by the Lisk-Carew Brothers, number 14 is by the Sierra Leone Government, Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, and number 15 is by Ceylon Pictorials. Numbers 20 and 30 give no indication as to the photographer.

Dates: 1905 - 1953
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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Law Courts, Freetown, 1905 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Sierra Leone II/20
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone, particularly in Free Town. The majority are by the Lisk-Carew Brothers, number 14 is by the Sierra Leone Government, Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, and number 15 is by Ceylon Pictorials. Numbers 20 and 30 give no indication as to the photographer.

Dates: 1905 - 1953
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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Laying the foundation stone of the new Law Courts, Westmoreland Street, Freetown, December 15, 1910, 1910-12-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446L/59
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. The ceremony was performed by H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught in the course of a one day visit to Sierra Leone. This is a duplicate of Y30446C/10, and the catalogue entry for this and Y30446L/11-12 give full details of the ceremony and the people shown.

Dates: 1910-12-15
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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Laying the foundation stone of the new Law Courts, Westmoreland Street, Freetown, December 15, 1910, 1910-12-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446L/60
Scope and Contents

210 x 150 mm. This is a duplicate of Y30446C/11 and shows the scene after the stone was lowered into position. Sir Crampton Smyly presided over a short ceremony and can be seen directly behind the Duke of Connaught.

Dates: 1910-12-15
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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[Official group, Government House, Freetown, Sierra Leone, circa April 28 1911], 1911-04-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/27
Scope and Contents

207 x 146 mm.

Dates: 1911-04-28
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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Out with morning appetiser - the 'Pap', Freetown, 1905 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Sierra Leone II/27
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone, particularly in Free Town. The majority are by the Lisk-Carew Brothers, number 14 is by the Sierra Leone Government, Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, and number 15 is by Ceylon Pictorials. Numbers 20 and 30 give no indication as to the photographer.

Dates: 1905 - 1953
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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Percival Street, Freetown, 1905 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Sierra Leone II/30
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone, particularly in Free Town. The majority are by the Lisk-Carew Brothers, number 14 is by the Sierra Leone Government, Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, and number 15 is by Ceylon Pictorials. Numbers 20 and 30 give no indication as to the photographer.

Dates: 1905 - 1953
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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[Railway line ?near Freetown, Sierra Leone], 1912 - 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/22
Scope and Contents

206 x 149 mm. A view looking along a railway track with a large enclosed settlement of neatly spaced circular thatched huts at the right (?possible police or military lines). Exact location unidentified, but presumably near Freetown.

Dates: 1912 - 1913
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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[Smyly’s House], 1895 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446L/53
Scope and Contents

207 x 147 mm. View of the same house as in Y30446L/50 and 41. The angle is similar to Y30446L/50, but more foliage has grown. The couple at the foot of the entrance stairs are probably Mr and Mrs Smyly.

Dates: 1895 - 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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St. George's Cathedral, Freetown, 1905 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Sierra Leone II/8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone, particularly in Free Town. The majority are by the Lisk-Carew Brothers, number 14 is by the Sierra Leone Government, Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, and number 15 is by Ceylon Pictorials. Numbers 20 and 30 give no indication as to the photographer.

Dates: 1905 - 1953
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).