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Zanzibar Island (island)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

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Clove harvest, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/3/10
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing a man making a basket. The caption continues: 'An African clove picker starts the day's work by making himself a large basket, called a 'Pakacha', out of the fronds of a nearby palm tree.'

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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Clove harvest [Young girl picking cloves], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/44
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm.

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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Clove industry of Zanzibar, 1933 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/3/3
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Marking matting bags for export. More than 10,000 tons of cloves are exported annually to all parts of the world.' These cloves are destined for London.

Dates: 1933 - 1948
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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Clove inflorescences, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/3
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm. The caption continues: 'These are borne at the ends of the branches and the clove of commerce is the dried unopened bud.'

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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[Clove plantation], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/7
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm.

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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[Clove plantation], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/8
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Roadside clove trees.

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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[Clove plantation], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/16
Scope and Contents

195 x 120 mm.

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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[Clove plantation], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/24
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. A road, or path, lines with clove trees.

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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Clove plantation, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/25
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. A road lined with clove trees.

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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Clove plantations, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/1
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Men walking along a tree lined road. There is a truck some way behind them. The caption continues: 'The clove tree attains a height of thirty to forty feet in Zanzibar and considerably more in Pemba Island. Many of the roads pass through fine clove plantations and afford the visitor a very good view of the industry.'

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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Clove shambas on the road between Zanzibar Town and Chwaka, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/66
Scope and Contents

84 x 107 mm. A view looking along a road lined with the clove trees of a plantation (shamba). Chwaka lies on the east coast of Zanzibar on almost the same line of latitude as Zanzibar Town.

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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Cloves, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/17
Scope and Contents

120 x 165 mm. There is a Dorien Leigh Limited 'Photograph on loan' stamp on the reverse.

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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Cloves, 1933 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/2/2
Scope and Contents

160 x 120 mm. The two captions on the reverse read: 'After the buds are all separated from the stems the produce of each picker is measured and he receives wages accordingly to the amount of his work.' and: ' The brass measure employed is called a 'Pishi' - a full pish of green clvoe buds weighs about four pounds.' Photograph stamped on the reverse (twice) with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

Dates: 1933 - 1948
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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Cloves drying on a 'Sakafu', Zanzibar 1933-48, 1933 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/2/6
Scope and Contents

165 x 105 mm.

Dates: 1933 - 1948
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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Cloves drying on mats and also on a large concrete drying floor, 1933 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/2/11
Scope and Contents

215 x 165 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

Dates: 1933 - 1948
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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Cloves drying on mats and also on a large concrete drying floor, 1933 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/2/12
Scope and Contents

215 x 165 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

Dates: 1933 - 1948
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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Cloves drying on mats and also on a large concrete drying floor, 1933 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/2/17
Scope and Contents

205 x 165 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

Dates: 1933 - 1948
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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Cloves export, 1933 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/3/1
Scope and Contents

165 x 175 mm. The caption continues: ' When dry the cloves are brought to town for sale and export. For this latter purpose they are packed in large bags made from the fibre of the date palm. The man in this picture stencils ports of destination in all parts of the world almost every week.' The cloves in this image are destined for London.

Dates: 1933 - 1948
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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[Cloves export to London), 1933 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/3/2
Scope and Contents

160 x 215 mm. The man in the picture is stencilling 'London' as the port of destination for this batch of cloves.

Dates: 1933 - 1948
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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[Cloves market and Beit el Ajaib], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/30
Scope and Contents

62 x 40 mm. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'Cloves market and Govt offices. Ordinary trolley used for all produce'.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
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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Cloves ready for shipment outside Smith Mackenzie's office, 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/59
Scope and Contents

102 x 60 mm. A view showing sacks of cloves stacked next to rowing boats on Zanzibar beach, with Smith Mackenzie's offices (formerly the English Consulate) in the background.

Dates: 1920 - 1927
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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Cloves spread out to dry, 1933 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/2/20
Scope and Contents

160 x 120 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'From Photo-Union Studio house, 8, Berwick Street, London W.1.'

Dates: 1933 - 1948
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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Coastal dhows in Zanzibar harbour, 1933 - 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/37
Scope and Contents

165 x 215 mm.

Dates: 1933 - 1947
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).
 Series

[Coconut farming], 1933 - 1948

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/2
Scope and Contents

From 90 x 80 mm to 210 x 155mm. Images showing the growing, picking, husking, drying and baling of coconuts.

Dates: 1933 - 1948
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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Coconut palms on the Makunduchi road, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/12/3
Scope and Contents

160 x 190 mm.

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).