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Morogoro (region)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

3. Tanganyika Territory [i.e. Tanzania]. A scene in Kisaki District, 1924

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC GEA/31
Scope and Contents

The caption on the reverse continues 'Kisaki is a sub-district of the Morogoro District where cotton is an extensive crop. It is full of splendid scenery; the Uluguru Mountains run through it; and elephants abound'.

Dates: 1924
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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Indiscriminate clearing of vegetation, Turiani, Morogoro, Eastern Tanganyika (i.e. Tanzania), 1949-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/9
Scope and Contents

215 x 160 mm. Showing an area cleared of trees. The caption continues: 'Note the careless way in which all the large trees have been felled.' Photograph by H. J. Van Rensburg.

Dates: 1949-12
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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Rock pool, Morogoro River, 1900 - 1935

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/416
Scope and Contents

129 x 178 mm. 'Spot near which the Governor was said to have been kept.'

Dates: 1900 - 1935
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

Shaw collection on Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania]

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469I
Scope and Contents

Collection of loose sepia photographs, all but one measuring 212 x 132 mm. The photographs were formerly the property of, and may have been taken by, John Verrinder Shaw, the brother of Professor Thurstan Shaw, and relate to road construction, probably in Morogoro in the 1940s. Though they do not show the same portion of road, numbers 3-10 all depict the same type of road, made by cutting away part of a slope and levelling a wide enough area for limited traffic. There are no captions.

Dates: 1940 - 1949
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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View up to Provincial Headquarters, Morogoro, Tanganyika, 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469K/216
Scope and Contents

210 x 150 mm. Morogoro was the headquarters of the Morogoro district of the Eastern Province, situated 1,628 feet above sea level - the township being set at the foot of the Uluguru Mountains. It was also the headquarters of the Agricultural and Labour Departments and had the Tanganyika Police Force's training depot. This is where the negatives were found in the 1950s.

Dates: 1958
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).