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Zanzibar Island (island)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

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Near the Dhow Anchorage, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/1/15
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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Omari, rickshaw boy, 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/17
Scope and Contents

59 x 102 mm. A view showing Omari. His jacket is monogrammed L and A over the breast.

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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[Onboard a dhow], 1933 - 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/4/14
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 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).
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[Open air schooling], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/5/1
Scope and Contents

215 x 150 mm. Young men seated and stood around benches in the open air.

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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[Open air schooling], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/5/2
Scope and Contents

160 x 110 mm. Young men seated and stood around benches in the open air.

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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[Outrigger canoes], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/10/16
Scope and Contents

105 x 155 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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Outrigger canoes racing on the occasion of H.H. The Sultan's Silver Jubilee, 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/10/15
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm.

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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[Panorama of Zanzibar Town], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/1
Scope and Contents 1160 x 72 mm. A 360 degree panoramic view of Zanzibar Town composed of 12 joined prints. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'Circular view of Zanzibar taken from flagmast on Usagara House. Roof of bungalow in foreground'. Chandler's house, Usagara House, appears to have been situated at the western end of town behind Main Street. The prominent features in the panorama are the clock-tower of the Beit el Ajaib (section one), the spires of the Roman Catholic Cathedral (section...
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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[Parade in Zanzibar], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/84
Scope and Contents

269 x 210 mm. A view looking down on a group of Swahili parading through Zanzibar in front of a military procession. With thatched huts at the right and the sea beyond.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
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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Petrol tins - (An Indian trader0, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/1/57
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'The petrol tin or 'Debi' as it is called has a hundred other uses in Africa from roofing houses to transport of water, dates, coconut oil and many other commodities.'

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).
 Fonds

Photographs of Zanzibar by James Augustus Grant, 1860

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047C
Scope and Contents

A collection of loose prints copied from stereoscopic views.

Dates: 1860-08-17 - 1860-09-25
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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[Picked clove branch], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/9
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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Picking cloves, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/35
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm. The caption continues: 'The cloves are borne on the ends of the branches all up the sides of the clove tree. The bunches of cloves are picked and collected in palm leaf baskets.' Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

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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Picking cloves, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/37
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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Picking cloves, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/39
Scope and Contents

90 x 140 mm. Postcard.

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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Picking cloves, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/45
Scope and Contents

165 x 125 mm. Stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

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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[Picking coconuts, Zanzibar], 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/69
Scope and Contents

85 x 143 mm. A view looking up towards the top of a palm tree where an African is picking coconuts.

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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[Plantation scene, ?Zanzibar], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/92
Scope and Contents

194 x 144 mm. Showing a large group of plantation workers, or possibly road building teams, posed on the slope in front of a shed and a house raised on stilts.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
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).
 Sub-Series

[Portraits], 1930 - 1964

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/11
Scope and Contents

Mainly head and shoulder portraits of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar, Arab Sheikhs, Zanzibar farmers and fishermen, and children (two in Pemba Island). Only those captioned are listed here.

Dates: 1930 - 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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[Post Office, Zanzibar], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/22
Scope and Contents

136 x 78 mm. A view showing the colonnaded exterior of the Post Office in Main Street, built in 1906 on the site of the original Royal Stables.

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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Potter's yard, 1930 - 1950

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

210 x 160 mm. Showing many pots grouped outside thatched huts.

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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Preparing for a native dance, Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/63
Scope and Contents

142 x 88 mm. Showing a group of Swahili women gathered round sets of drums of various sizes and shapes.

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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Preparing nuts in one of the yards, 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/50
Scope and Contents

103 x 58 mm. A view showing an African, seated beneath a makeshift corrugated-iron sunshade, removing the shells from the coconut kernals.

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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[Preparing nuts in one of the yards], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/51
Scope and Contents

135 x 78 mm. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'Anolther yard'.

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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Preparing sacks for cloves, 1933 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/3/11
Scope and Contents

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