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Botswana (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

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Baobab tree - Bech. Protect, 1910 - 1911

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/70
Scope and Contents

140 x 84 mm. Showing a large baobab tree growing in a lightly wooded scrubland.

Dates: 1910 - 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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Bogali School - Bech. Protect, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/64
Scope and Contents

140 x 83 mm. A group portrait showing a row of girls with 'whitewash' decorations on faces, arms and legs and wearing what looks like fat bundles of sticks around their midriffs. Probably an initiation ceremony.

Dates: 1910 - 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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Gorge - Lobatsi - Bech. Protect, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/68
Scope and Contents

140 x 83 mm. A view from above looking down into the Lobatsi Gorge south of Serowe and showing a railway locomotive drawing freight trucks along the side of the valley. Beneath the railway is the Lobatsi Dam.

Dates: 1910 - 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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Junction of Linyanti and Zambesi, Bech. Protect, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/67
Scope and Contents

140 x 83 mm. A view from the riverbank looking towards the junction of the two rivers.

Dates: 1910 - 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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Linyati River - Bech. Protect, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/65
Scope and Contents

140 x 83 mm. A view looking across the Linyanti River, with a figure seated on a rock in the foreground and forest on the farther bank. The Linyanti (also known as the Kwando) runs for part of its course along the southern section of the Angola-Zambia border. The negative has written on it the caption 'above the rapids.'

Dates: 1910 - 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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Lobatsi Dam - Bech. Protect, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/69
Scope and Contents

140 x 83 mm. A view from the riverbank showing water pouring over the dam with the reservoir in the background.

Dates: 1910 - 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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Rapids - Linyanti River, Bech. Protect, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/66
Scope and Contents

140 x 82 mm. A view looking along the Linyanti towards white water and rapids.

Dates: 1910 - 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).