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Lesotho (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 231 Collections and/or Records:

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Maseru Winter, 1964, 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30547A/7
Scope and Contents

205 x 153 mm. Showing the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Maseru in a landscape of snow.

Dates: 1964
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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Maseru Winter, 1964 - the heaviest snowfall in living memory, 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30547A/9
Scope and Contents

205 x 155 mm. Showing the snow covered driveway entrance to a house in Maseru.

Dates: 1964
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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Men's craft in Basutoland [i.e. Lesotho]. Students of the Mission Morija are being taght to make trays of fibres and grasses, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/503
Scope and Contents

Photograph by Margot Lubinski.

Dates: 1940 - 1949
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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Modern Basuto hut, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/105
Scope and Contents

202 x 144 mm. The photographer is unknown. An identical photograph is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album D34/001-197.Basutoland Customs.BRN 310846.

Dates: 1950
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).
 Fonds

Modern Commonwealth photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC
Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...
Dates: 1936 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Mohlesi : showing barrier fences, Basutoland-Natal border, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/21
Scope and Contents

121 x 96 mm. Showing a group of trek horses grazing on a slope in the pass, with the barrier fence visible at the right of the print.

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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'Mosehanah's Village', road to Qache's [i.e. Qacha's] Nek from Lehlabalhabe's Camp, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/28
Scope and Contents

Showing horses grazing in the foreground with a few huts rather indistinctly visible on the rocky hillside beyond.

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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Mountain road, 1965-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham S/21
Scope and Contents From the File:

Kodachromes and Kodak Ready mounts arranged by processing number relating to the visit described above.

Dates: 1965-12
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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Mountain village in the Leribe District of Basutoland [i.e. Lesotho], 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/497
Scope and Contents

View looking across a river towards the village, with cliffs in the background. Photograph by Margot Lubinski.

Dates: 1940 - 1949
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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[Mounted Mosuto boy], 1965-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham S/20
Scope and Contents From the File:

Kodachromes and Kodak Ready mounts arranged by processing number relating to the visit described above.

Dates: 1965-12
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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Mt Aux Sources in the Drakensberg, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/12
Scope and Contents

134 x 81 mm (loosely mounted on foolscap paper with notes beneath the photograph). 10, 763 feet above sea level. A view looking towards the flat topped peak of Mount Aux Sources, in fact 10, 822 feet above sea level.

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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Native huts in Basutoland [i.e. Lesotho] surrounded by windshelters, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/158
Scope and Contents

156 x 114 mm. Showing a group of thatched huts surrounded by circular reed windbreaks. Exact location unidentified.

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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Officers' patrol : on the border. A snow blizzard, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/25
Scope and Contents

121 x 97 mm. A slightly blurred view showing pack horses grazing on snow covered land, with a tent and two figures at the left of the print.

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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[Old Basuto grain basket], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/98
Scope and Contents

15 x 106 mm. The caption reads: 'This is an old, nearly worn-out grain basket covered with clay to make it usable. The three legged pot against the wall is European made. These are sold in the trading stores'. Although uncredited in this album, an identical photograph credited to Killie Campbell is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album D34/001-197. Basutoland Customs.BRN 310846.

Dates: 1930 - 1950
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 Basuto woman outside her porch. A good example of this style of hut, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/95
Scope and Contents

190 x 147 mm. Although uncredited in this album, an identical photograph credited to Killie Campbell is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album D34/001-197. Basutoland Customs.BRN 310846.

Dates: 1950
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 Basuto women, 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/103
Scope and Contents

106 x 153 mm. Although uncredited in this album, an identical photograph credited to Killie Campbell is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album D34/001-197.Basutoland Customs.BRN 310846.

Dates: 1950
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 type of Basuto hut showing the porch entrance, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/101
Scope and Contents

149 x 101 mm. The caption continues: 'The window is modern of course. 1950.' Although uncredited in this album, an identical photograph credited to Killie Campbell is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album D34/001-197.Basutoland Customs.BRN 310846.

Dates: 1950
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 type of Basuto hut, with the porch and rough thatching, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/93
Scope and Contents

203 x 154 mm. Although uncredited in this album, an identical photograph credited to Killie Campbell is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album D34/001-197. Basutoland Customs.BRN 310846.

Dates: 1950
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 types of Basutos, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/159
Scope and Contents

110 x 156 mm. Showing two men wearing hide cloaks and straw hats, seated in front of a reed windbreak.

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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On an officers' patrol : [illegible] Rock at the foot of Nomahadi Pass, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/24
Scope and Contents

122 x 96 mm. Showing two Africans of the Basutoland Mounted Police standing with a group of pack horses in front of a large split domed rock.

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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On the Drakensberg, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/1
Scope and Contents

81 x 138 mm (loosely mounted on foolscap paper with notes beneath the photograph). Showing a sheer cliff face in the Drakensberg Mountains in south-eastern Basutoland.

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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One of three slides of Bushman's Pass, 1967-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham S/13C
Scope and Contents From the File:

Kodachromes and Kodak Ready mounts arranged by processing number relating to the visit described above.

Dates: 1967-07
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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One of three slides of Bushman's Pass, 1967-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham S/13A
Scope and Contents From the File:

Kodachromes and Kodak Ready mounts arranged by processing number relating to the visit described above.

Dates: 1967-07
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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One of three slides of Bushman's Pass, 1967-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham S/13B
Scope and Contents From the File:

Kodachromes and Kodak Ready mounts arranged by processing number relating to the visit described above.

Dates: 1967-07
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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One of three slides of mountain road, 1967-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham S/16A
Scope and Contents From the File:

Kodachromes and Kodak Ready mounts arranged by processing number relating to the visit described above.

Dates: 1967-07
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).