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Zanzibar (region)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:

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[Doorway], 1930

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/124
Scope and Contents

54 x 76 mm. An doorway in a building, probably in Zanzibar.

Dates: 1930
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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[Expanse of water], 1930

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/123
Scope and Contents

76 x 54 mm. A view from a plane, probably over Zanzibar.

Dates: 1930
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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[Five Africans], 1930

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/126
Scope and Contents

77 x 54 mm. Possibly photographed in Zanzibar.

Dates: 1930
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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[Four people at Zanzibar], 1930

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/120
Scope and Contents

76 x 52 mm.

Dates: 1930
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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[Four people at Zanzibar], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/122
Scope and Contents

76 x 53 mm.

Dates: 1930
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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[Four people at Zanzibar], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/69
Scope and Contents

77 x 54 mm.

Dates: 1930
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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[Four people at Zanzibar], 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/70
Scope and Contents

75 x 52 mm.

Dates: 1930
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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Fruit Market, Dar es Salaam, 1930 - 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/62
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1930 - 1939
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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[Government House, Dar es Salaam], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/70
Scope and Contents

135 x 78 mm. A view showing the front façade of the British Governent House, built in 1920 to the design of J.H. Sinclair.

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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Government House, Dar es Salaam, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/58
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1930 - 1939
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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Group of Swahili girls, Dar es Salaam, 1930 - 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/67
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1930 - 1939
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).
 File

Guy and Norah Squire in Zanzibar 1930-55: the Planting Industries, Social Life of the European Communities, and Official Ceremonies of the Period, 1997-07-26

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 162/2/1/13
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Papers by Fergus Wilson and others, including four articles by Dr G. Rangaswami, Vice-Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.

Dates: 1997-07-26
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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In the market, Dar es Salaam, 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/51
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of five monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Dar es Salaam views. Published by Mahmood's Radio Service, Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1930
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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[Ivory traders], 1880 - 1889

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/83
Scope and Contents

279 x 214 mm. Showing two Europeans in white uniforms standing among piles of elephant tusks, with groups of Swahili labourers posed around them holding up tusks. Location unknown, possibly Dar es Salaam or Bagamoyo.

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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'Makonde carver', Dar es Salaam, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/60
Scope and Contents

'127' printed on the reverse.

Dates: 1960 - 1969
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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Market scene, Dar es Salaam, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/61
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1930 - 1939
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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[Military Band, Dar es Salaam], 1920 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/73
Scope and Contents

98 x 74 mm. A view showing the band (? of the 6th African Rifles) on the steps of a church in Dar es Salaam. Occasion unidentified.

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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Mosque Street, Dar es Salaam, 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/50
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of five monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Dar es Salaam views. Published by Mahmood's Radio Service, Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1930
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 street, Dar es Salaam, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/57
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1930 - 1939
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 woman pounding flour, Dar es Salaam, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/68
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.

Dates: 1930 - 1939
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 Dar es Salaam], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/82
Scope and Contents

535 x 202 mm. A panoramic view of Dar es salaam harbour from the waterfront, with the main dhow anchorage in the centre. The buildings in the left foreground are (left to right) the hospital, with the main magazine and depot beyond and, largely obscured, the timber yard and customs shed.

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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Part I: Colonial Agricultural Service, 1998

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 162/1/1
Scope and Contents

A description of Wilson's years working in Zanzibar, Kenya and Cambridge, 1933-1952.

Dates: 1998
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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[Prince of Wales at Dar es Salaam], 1928 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/84
Scope and Contents

51 x 76 mm.

Dates: 1928 - 1930
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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Prince of Wales at Dar [es Salaam] Golf Club, 1928 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/83
Scope and Contents

52 x 77 mm. A snapshot showing the Prince of Wales and party seated around a tea table in the open-air. Whether this photograph was taken during the 1928 or 1930 East African tour is unclear.

Dates: 1928 - 1930
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

[Recreation], 1930 - 1950

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/10
Scope and Contents

Showing general recreation activities, including those in celebration of the Sultan's Silver Jubilee 1936/7 (an Arab sword dance, a boat race, other painted dancers), boys with toy boats/cars, men playing 'Bao' (the African equivalent of chess) and cards, and a snake charmer in Pemba Island.

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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