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Sese Islands (island group)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Canoe, Sese Island, Victoria Nyanza, 1894 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/38/3/5
Scope and Contents

105 x 74 mm. A long Ugandan canoe crowded with Africans and beached on Sese Island. The boat has a Uganda prow surmounted by a pair of antelope horns.

Dates: 1894 - 1912
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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Jetty at Sesse Island. People meeting the Commissioner of sleeping sickness, May 1909, 1909-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/128
Scope and Contents

107 x 77 mm. Showing a group of Ugandans crowded on the small wooden jetty at Sesse Island. The Sesse Islands, in north west Lake Victoria, was one of the areas most heavily attacked by sleeping sickness, but the inhabitants for some time resisted Sir Henry Hesketh Bell's attempts at evacuation.

Dates: 1909-05
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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Jetty (native built) at Sesse Island. Site of old Boma [stockade] just out of picture on left. This is a crowd of chiefs and people meeting the Commissioner of sleeping sickness in May 1909 to discuss evacuation of islands., 1909-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/129
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints of various sizes, with handwritten captions beneath the prints. It has a varied collection of excellent photographs illustrating scenery, trade, customs, agriculture and rural life in the young protectorate. The album contains the following list of people who supplied prints for inclusion: H. Batley, L.E. Caine, C.C. Gowdey, C.W. Hattersley, Captain Hutchinson, F.A. Knowles, A. McClure, Alison Russell, J.C.R. Sturrock, F. Spire, A.E. Weatherhead. It does not indicate...
Dates: 1909-05
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).