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Victoria Nile (river)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

Below Ripon Falls, 1928

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/54
Scope and Contents

76 x 55 mm.

Dates: 1928
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-Fonds

Letter from Sir Samuel Baker, 1866-04-21

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/8
Scope and Contents

A letter to an unnamed correspondent concerning adding 'Victoria Nile or' before 'Somerset River' on a map shortly to be published, presumably in Baker's 'The Albert N'Yanza', originally published in 1864. The map in the original volume is marked 'R Somerset or Victoria Nile'. The recipient may have been Stephen William Silver (1819-1905), a friend of Baker's, to whom other letters given by Sir Harry Wilson to the R.C.S. in 1916 were addressed.

Dates: 1866-04-21
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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Murchinson Falls on Victoria Nile, 1906 - 1911

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/77
Scope and Contents

161 x 113 mm. A view from a boat on the lower Victoria Nile looking back towards the narrow cleft of the Murchinson Falls 22 miles east of Lake Albert.

Dates: 1906 - 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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Ripon Falls, 1928

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/55
Scope and Contents

79 x 55 mm.

Dates: 1928
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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Ripon Falls [1906], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/1
Scope and Contents

A view from the east bank of the Nile looking across the Ripon Falls, seen by Bell for the first time when he visited Jinja in August 1906.

Dates: 1906
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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Ripon Falls, Birth of the Nile, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/2
Scope and Contents

MISSING

Dates: 1906 - 1909
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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Ripon Falls from Buganda side, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/67
Scope and Contents

189 x 140 mm. A view looking south towards the falls from the western bank of the Victoria Nile.

Dates: 1906 - 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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Ripon Falls from Buganda side, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/68
Scope and Contents

199 x 140 mm. A view looking across the narrow channel of the Ripon Falls from the eastern (Jinja) bank of the Victoria Nile.

Dates: 1906 - 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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Ripon Falls - Jinja, 1928

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/53
Scope and Contents

139 x 86 mm.

Dates: 1928
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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[Ripon Falls - Jinja], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/23
Scope and Contents

85 x 62 mm.

Dates: 1928
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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Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/16
Scope and Contents 87 x 72 mm. Showing Winston Churchill standing at the edge of the Ripon Falls and holding a large box camera. Churchill, at this period, Parliamentray Under-Secretary for the Colonies, made an East African tour in the latter part of 1907. His trip, which is described in Churchill (1908), started at Mombasa and continued through British East Africa (now Kenya) and the Uganda Protectorate to Jinja; from there the Nile was followed north through the Sudan and Egypt to Alexandria. Churchill...
Dates: 1907
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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Source of the Nile, leaving Lake Victoria at Jinja, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/118
Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
Dates: 1934
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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The Nile just below Ripon Falls [1906], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/3
Scope and Contents

A view looking north along the Nile from the east (Jinja) bank.

Dates: 1906
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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Victoria Nile below Murchinson Falls, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/78
Scope and Contents

195 x 144 mm. A view looking across the fast flowing Victoria Nile

Dates: 1906 - 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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[Winston Churchill at the Ripon Falls], 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/21
Scope and Contents

87 x 86 mm.

Dates: 1907
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).